{"id":29867,"date":"2025-05-13T01:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T01:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/?post_type=product&#038;p=29867"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:25:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:25:23","slug":"arc00341","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/product\/arc00341\/","title":{"rendered":"Aglaia: Essences referable to nothingness (Digital)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 307px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album= 877274151\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless> <a href=\"https:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/essences-referable-to-nothingness\"> Aglaia: Essences referable to nothingness<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"hideme\">\n1 Archaic echoes<br \/>\n2 The nature of light<br \/>\n3 Evening meadows<br \/>\n4 The grace and the three essences<br \/>\n5 Hidden levels<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"410\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Pjm_1au-Rc?si=F6941m44wPwAbwm8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<IMG SRC=https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/assets\/images\/DigitalOnly.png width=400><\/p>\n<p><BR>Genres: Meditative, Sleep, Ambient, Electroacoustic Ambient<br \/>\nRIYL: Alio Die, Nobuhiro Okahashi, Tim Hecker<br \/>\n<BR>Aglaia is the musical project of Italian electro-acoustic sound sculptor Gino Fioravanti, begun around the turn of the century.\u00a0His\u00a0fifth Projekt release (and\u00a079th\u00a0album in all) reveals 90 minutes of peaceful and hypnotic deep ambient meditations.\u00a0Mixing processed acoustic instruments like the harp and zither with subtle electronics, Aglaia utilizes the essence of Zen and Tantrism to weave musical fragments into a textural, mysterious mandala.<\/p>\n<h4>Expos\u00e9, writing about Aglaia\u2019s previous album:\u00a0\u201c[this type of music] typically comes off as \u2018space music,\u2019 in this case it&#8217;s far closer to forward-reaching world music\u2026\u00a0the only space here is the inner space one finds in deep meditation as the mind relaxes and the spirit wanders free.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n<BR>Gino reflects:<br \/>\n<BR>The philosophical reference is to \u201cemptiness,\u201d the container of all reality. Zen proposes a simple, empty, sudden, sometimes delicate vision, always aware of the illusory nature of reality. In these pieces\u00a0no sound remains too long. As if the musical events were all diluted in a substance, in a solvent.<br \/>\n\u00a0<BR>The essences are the sensitive forces, the sounds and notes that flow from emptiness and return to emptiness.\u00a0Everything, however, is also a praise to kundalini, the Tantric goddess who animates nature. Nature harks back to Pan and Siva, deities of forests and remote natural places. I sought inspiration from those woods and places animated by lights and short sound events.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<BR>In the first track, &#8220;Archaic echoes,&#8221;\u00a0after a brief minimal and acoustic\u00a0opening, I introduce classic electronic sounds, echoes and spatial reverbs. 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