Giulio Aldinucci - Materia (2026)

Italian sound artist GIULIO ALDINUCCI returns with his 5th album on KARL: „Materia” is unsurprisingly a truly masterfully composed and sound-designed ambient masterpiece that adds perfectly to a series of critically acclaimed albums like “Disappearing In A Mirror” (2018) or “Shards Of Distant Times” – some of which made it onto several year’s best lists.

With now his 5th album for KARL, the sound artist from Siena / IT has proved a steady and prolific artist on the label roster. And each time, GIULIO ALDINUCCI delivers a new ambient masterpiece that clearly carries his signature as composer / producer and yet reveals a slightly different approach to his modus operandi. ALDINUCCI’s massive layers of sound, built from field recordings and an array of electronic gear, blend droney ambient with heavenly voices / sacred music that create an atmosphere of a consolatory melancholy – alien, but with a graspable presence of human souls. And as each album before, „Materia“ too deals with a topic that ALDINUCCI came across in his observations of and reflections about today’s society.

In the words of Giulio himself:
„Materia focuses on the idea of sound as a matter, which can be shaped into complex forms by removing excess material from the sound mass.
The album originates from the dichotomy between accumulation and subtraction, creating compositions out of frequency-dense audio material in order to unearth what is “hidden” inside the raw sound mass.
Unlike sculpture, in music time can be matter too by shattering sounds into milliseconds and recompose them with a different fragments order, going beyond the traditional notions of rhythm and duration.“