Italian sound artist and musician Enrico Coniglio has released a new album called Alpine Variaitions which is out now via Russian label Dronarivm. It was recorded and mixed in Venice and San Vito di Cadore in 2020-2021. According to the press release, Enrico Coniglio leads us once again among his loved ones mountains: an epic landscape in which enchantment and fear are deeply intertwined. He chooses to do so offering us the sound as a sensory canvas of an imaginary enterprise with deliberately indefinite contours.
“Alpine variations” is a further step in the sound research carried out by the author in a long and complex path built over time inspired by environmental and atmospheric sounds.
A bewitching narrative emerges from the intersection of bright harmonic textures and dense ambient vapors crossed by restless shadows. The individual parts of this narration represent the stages of an ascent that is at the same time physical and spiritual. It is a nostalgic plot that in the partial roughness of its resonances returns the sense of precariousness of a bumpy path, poised between quiet contemplation and impending danger.
The cinematic approach constantly reveals the genesis of an album originally built on a series of recordings dedicated to the creation of a film sound commentary that finally become an autonomous itinerary.
Listen below.