Alessandro Cortini has announced a brand new album, VOLUME MASSIMO – his first for Mute – will be released September 27 on vinyl, CD and digital formats. Listen to the first track, “AMORE AMARO,” and pre-order the album here. Alessandro Cortini’s music – both in his solo work and as a member of Nine Inch Nails – casts the listener into an intricately rendered vortex of emotive dynamics where he expertly maximizes the boundaries of contemporary electronic music. The new album, VOLUME MASSIMO, combines his fondness for melody with the rigor of experimental practice that strikes a balance between analog composition and cathartic dissonance, creating a momentous continuation of the aching electronics that he’s renowned for. Cortini’s acclaimed 2017 album, Avanti, was supported by a series of lauded live audio-visual performances structured around an intimate presentation from his family’s private film archive. VOLUME MASSIMO picks up directly from its predecessor – the whisper of their voices slip to the surface on the album’s opener, “Amore Amaro,” rendering an echo of the previous release, a coda detached and adrift. From here, VOLUME MASSIMO takes flight, journeying into a meditative process that gently twists time and memory in its wake with a deftly arranged ensemble of synthesizers saturated with sonic artifacts. Often the foreground is luscious, and hints at Cortini’s pop sensibilities, as the background takes us down a vast melancholic maze. Perhaps surprisingly, his latest work is interspersed with guitar motifs that act as a subtle punctuation for the oneiric landscapes that shimmer before us. “BATTICUORE” is an exquisite and dizzying carousel that folds some of Cortini’s bolder guitar work into a glorious pop epic, while “LA STORIA” ascends the same heights via a different route, pitch-shifting and layering a synthetic lead with a finely tuned noisescape before giving way to the mournful grind of “SABBIA.” Presented with richly saturated imagery by Emilie Elizabeth and Raki Fernandez, VOLUME MASSIMO is a work as confident as it is tender, as shown on its cover. Never falling prey to needless elaboration or digression, Cortini composes with a determined will to take what is felt through music as a map for life’s journey. It is in this sense that VOLUME MASSIMO departs from a conceptual hierarchy and aims for the heart with a minimalist’s arrow.
VOLUME MASSIMO TRACKLISTING
1. AMORE AMARO
2. LET GO
3. AMARO AMORE
4. BATTICUORE
5. MOMENTI
6. LA STORIA
7. SABBIA
8. DORMI
ALESSANDRO CORTINI LIVE
August 30 – Berlin, Germany – Atonal
September 8 – Białystok, Poland – Up to Date Festival
September 14 – Tilburg, Netherlands – Draaimolen
September 22 – Tokyo, Japan – TBA
September 28 – Ljubljana Slovenia – Sonica
October 19 – London, England – Barbican
October 20 – Madrid, Spain – LEV Matadero
October 21 – Athens, Greece – St Paul’s Sessions
October 25 – Braga, Portugal – Semibreve
November 6 – Stockholm, Sweden – Slaktkyrkan
November 8 – Barcelona, Spain – Mira Digital Arts Festival
November 30 – Copenhagen, Denmark – TBA
December 6 – Rome, Italy – Monk
December 7 – Venice, Italy – Argo 16
December 11 – Brussels, Belgium – Bozar Electronic Series
April 11 – Bruges, Belgium – Concertgebouw
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