Alio Die, the stage name of Stefano Musso, is an Italian
ambient-music composer and producer. Stefano Musso studied art and electronics in
Milan
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, Italy, and began performing music in 1989.
Overview
His music is a fusion of acoustical elements, samples, echoing percussion, and deep, atmospheric sound design with elements of entropic formlessness. Alio Die's style has a lot in common with traditional Indian
raga
A ''raga'' or ''raag'' (; also ''raaga'' or ''ragam''; ) is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music akin to a melodic mode. The ''rāga'' is a unique and central feature of the classical Indian music tradition, and as a ...
music in building an entire song from a simple, continuous starting tone.
''Label Press'' wrote the following about him:
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Discography
Solo albums
* 1991, Introspective
* 1992, Under An Holy Ritual
* 1996, Suspended Feathers
* 1997, The Hidden Spring
* 1998, Password For Entheogenic Experience
* 1999, Le Stanze Della Transcendenza
* 2001, Incantamento
* 2001, Leaves Net
* 2003, Il Tempo Magico Di Saturnia Pavonia
* 2003, Khen Introduce Silence
* 2004, Angel's Fly Souvenir
* 2004, Sol Niger
* 2006, The Flight Of Real Image
* 2008, Aura Seminalis
* 2008, Tempus Rei
* 2010, Tripudium Naturae
* 2010, Horas Tibi Serenas
* 2011, Honeysuckle
* 2012, Deconsecrated & Pure
* 2014, Sitar Meditations
* 2015, Standing In A Place
* 2016, Imaginal Symmetry
* 2016, An Unfathomable Convergence
* 2016, Seamlessly Bliss
* 2017, They Grow Layers of Life Within
* 2017, Time Zone Portal
* 2018, Kalisz Concert
* 2019, Allegorical Traces, Pt.1
Collaboration albums
* 1997, Fissures
A fissure is a long, narrow crack opening along the surface of Earth. The term is derived from the Latin word , which means 'cleft' or 'crack'. Fissures emerge in Earth's crust, on ice sheets and glaciers, and on volcanoes.
Ground fissure
A ...
(with Robert Rich)
* 1999, Healing Herb's Spirit (with Antonio Testa)
* 1999, Echo Passage
''Echo Passage'' is a collaborative album by ambient musicians Alio Die (Stefano Musso) and Vidna Obmana ( Dirk Serries). The album was originally released in 1999 on the Italian label ''Musica Maxima Magnetica'' and was reissued on Projekt Rec ...
(with Vidna Obmana
Vidna Obmana (stylized vidnaObmana on many album covers) is a pseudonym used by Belgian composer and ambient musician Dirk Serries. The name ''Vidna Obmana'', a phrase in Serbian, literally translates to "optical illusion" and was chosen by Serr ...
)
* 2000, Aquam Metallicam (with Nick Parkin)
* 2001, Apsaras (with Amelia Cuni)
* 2002, Expanding Horizon (with Mathias Grassow)
* 2002, Prayer For The Forest (with Antonio Testa)
* 2003, The Sleep Of Seeds (with Saffron Wood)
* 2003, Sunja (with Zeit)
* 2004, Angel's Fly Souvenir (with Francesco Paladino)
* 2005, Il Sogno Di Un Piano Veneziano A Parigi (with Festina Lente)
* 2005, Aqua Planing (with Werner Durand)
* 2005, Mei-Jyu (with Jack Or Jive)
* 2006, Corteggiando Le Messi (with Saffron Wood)
* 2007, End Of An Era (with Luciano Daini)
* 2007, Sospensione D'Estate (with James Johnson)
* 2007, Raag Drone Theory (with Zeit)
* 2008, Eleusian Lullaby (with Martina Galvagni)
* 2009, Private History Of The Clouds (with Aglaia)
* 2010, Circo Divino (with Parallel Worlds)
* 2010, Il Giardino Ermeneutico (with Zeit)
* 2010, Praha Meditations (with Mathias Grassow)
* 2011, Vayu Rouah (with Aglaia)
* 2012, Otter Songs (with Lingua Fungi)
* 2012, Rêverie (with Antonio Testa)
* 2013, A Circular Quest (with Zeit)
* 2014, Amidst The Circling Spires (with Sylvi Alli)
* 2014, Elusive Metaphor (with Parallel Worlds)
* 2015, Holographic Codex (with Lorenzo Montanà)
* 2017, Lento (with Lingua Fungi)
* 2017, Opera Magnetica (with Aglaia)
* 2018, Amitabha (with Aglaia)
* 2019, Tempus Fugit (with Indalaska)
References
External links
Alio Die
on Bandcamp
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Alio Die's former official site
Ambient musicians
Italian electronic musicians
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