Aglaia is an ambient project from Italy. Started in 2003 as a duo of Gino Fioravanti and Gianluigi Toso (both has worked together and released album just as "Gino Fioravanti & Gianluigi Toso" from 1998 to 2003).
In 2012 Gianluigi Toso left, and Aglaia became a solo project of Gino Fioravanti.
Gino Fioravanti is a therapist, writer, painter and musician whose touch with electronic music makes it human and cosmic/amniotic at the same time. His writings and inspiration, research in different spheres like alchemy, mythology, and ortho-bionomy. Gianluigi Toso is a musician and back-school teacher. He moves through different musical styles, with Gino Fioravanti has released many CDs for mind and spirit.
Label: self released Format: 7xFiles Country: Italy Released: May 3, 2024 Genre: Electronic Style: Ambient
Tracklist
1. Snowy forest 04:45 2. Magic coral 10:39 3. Float 09:45 4. Volcanic dust 07:46 5. At the source 09:35 6. Beyond time 12:51 7. Immortal presence 09:27
From the upcoming 6x CDs Box 3: Hidden Phenomenology
Aglaia’s music is produced only from keyboards. No manipulation or correction of sound is made on DAW, used only for recording Electronics and sounds programmed and played by Gino Fioravanti composed and recorded in Lissone between 2017 and 2019.
Label: self released Format: 5xFiles Country: italy Released: July 10, 2024 Genre: Electronic Style: Ambient
Tracklist
1. First code 09:42 2. Second event 16:58 3. Third ceremony 17:26 4. Fourth window 20:20 5. Fifth way 19:48
In “Pure essence” every single aspect of the creative process has been taken care of down to the smallest detail. I paid more attention to the choice and programming of sounds, recording and musical ideas. I wanted to construct a personal sound universe. Each track I wanted to become a meditation on sound, on silence, on vibrations. In the dictionary, the term “essence” is defined as follows: "In philosophy, the proper and unchanging reality of things, understood especially as the general form, the universal nature of individual things belonging to the same genus or species". The term "essence", according to Aristotle's conception, means "that by which a certain thing is what it is, and not another thing". In recent months my meditations have explored the fields of Zen intransitivity, in this way I have constructed a sound that includes many micro elements, all of which are destined to end quickly. Nothing lasts. I have become interested in kabbalistic sephirot and shivaite concepts of non-dualism. So the music remained conditioned by these forces. Mind and emotions are coming together. Eternal and transitory, sound and silence. Instead of playing music to make people listen, I put myself into listening, and tried to renew my sensory universe. This is like my first album. “First code” is the track that opens the album. The codes for entering the new sound streams are presented. Crystalline and metallic sounds are the waves rippling through the also fluctuating background. Meditation arises when the gates of the mind are opened by bodily awareness. Space for memories, futures, expansion into the present. Thus there is no lack of emotion, and a kind of nostalgic evocation. “Second event” comes from further away, it is like a point coming closer. Second event is a progression, a development that generates matter. Change takes place within. It vibrates. “Third ceremony” from the meditative and contemplative point of view is my favorite track. It has no time. There is a touch of transcendence. The sound is perennial, the vision is purified. Perhaps the pure essence is contained here. Fourth window. The windows are our inner rooms. They blow influences from many directions. There are creaks, cloud passages, shapeless traces. One stays with a mystery because nothing is realized. The four windows bless precariousness. “Fifth way”. Each track is assigned the number of the set list. The last one, this one, is the most dramatic. Existential. Voices attributed to each of our "always." To meditate, at times, is to "recognize," to acknowledge oneself. To look into the folds, to open the curtain. Five is the symbol of man in the ancient Samkhya traditions. All the ancient traditions considered man divisible by five. Five senses, five organs of the will, five elements, etc.
