Renowned UK producer Daniel Avery and acclaimed experimental musician and Nine Inch Nails synth artist Alessandro Cortini announce their debut full-length collaboration, Illusion of Time, will be released March 27. The record will be available on Mute/Phantasy in the United States and Canada and via Phantasy worldwide.
To coincide with the announcement, the pair have shared a video for the album’s title track directed by Sam Davis and Tom Andrew, the latter of which has previously received two UK Music Video Award nominations for his work with Avery. Watch the video and pre-order Illusion of Time, including the limited edition heavyweight transparent magenta vinyl, here.
Speaking about the video, Andrew explains, “We were keen to capture a visual representation of the tempo and atmospheric emotion of the track and make a video exploring the notion of collaboration. A super-motion approach allowed us to explore details of motion shared between two people, in tactile actions of aiding and supporting.” Cortini adds, “The video embodies the volatility and hidden nature of the music’s subject and meaning. A meaning that is ultimately personal and unique to the listener/spectator.”
Beginning as a collaborative experiment before the pair had even met, Avery and Cortini worked remotely and free of concept or deadline over several years. The result, finally completed when both artists were touring with Nine Inch Nails in 2018, is a quietly powerful album rooted in trust, process and experimentation. The first fruits of their labor were unveiled last year when “Water” and “Sun” appeared online, having previously been released as a very limited 7-inch run that was sold at 2017’s FYF Festival, at Mount Analog in Los Angeles, and at Phonica Records in London. Both tracks are included on the album.
“It was very much a shared process”, notes Avery. “I would like to credit Alessandro with his belief that music has a life of its own, as well as the importance he places on the first take... That even something that may be considered out-of-step by some should be respected. Some of the tracks were borne simply out of a tiny synth part, or a bit of tape hiss that we had recorded. And that approach taught me a lot. It’s a record that’s been worked on hard, but not labored over.”
“I was a big fan of Daniel’s, and his work always spoke to me in a certain way,’’ explains Cortini. “Then, when we started working together, it just clicked. It’s very hard to explain, but I can always hear the love in his work, and that is true on this record. After our first collaboration, we just kept sending each other music and maintaining that dialogue. Next thing you know, we’re sitting in a hotel room in New York and had finished the record in three hours.”
The collaborative album follows Avery’s second record, Song For Alpha, released in early 2018, and last year’s expanded edition B-sides & Remixes. Pitchfork called the sophomore LP “a confident step forward in redefining [Avery’s] sound on his own terms,” while The Guardian hailed its “majestic, cavernous techno.”
New arrangements of the London-based producer’s work will be performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra at BBC Radio 3’s Unclassified Live on April 3, part of a new series of concerts in the Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall presented by Unclassified host and presenter Elizabeth Alker and conducted by André de Ridder. Later that month, he curates a line-up at Manchester’s White Hotel featuring Cortini alongside Mor Elian, Richard Fearless and more.
Cortini released his most recent solo album, Volume Massimo, on Mute in July 2019. The record followed Fine, the Italian artist’s final album under his SONOIO alias, which came out the previous year. The New York Times called the former “a set of darkly pulsating instrumentals that march toward desolation, ” while Exclaim hailed it “an instrumental masterpiece.”
Illusion of Time Tracklisting
1. Sun
2. Illusion of Time
3. CC Pad
4. Space Channel
5. Inside The Ruins
6. At First Sight
7. Interrupted By The Cloud of Light
8. Enter Exit
9. Water
10. Stills
Daniel Avery 2020 Tour
January 31 – Leeds, England – Wire
February 7 – Razzmatazz, Barcelona – The Loft
February 8 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Shelter
February 21 – Paris, France – Dehors Brut
March 7 – Graz, Austria – Elevate Festival
March 21 – Grenoble, France – La Belle Electrique
April 3 – London, England – Unclassified Live @ Southbank (radio show feat. BBC Concert Orchestra performance of Daniel Avery catalog)
April 4 – London, England – Re-Textured Festival
April 10 – Manchester, England – Daniel Avery Curates @ The White Hotel (w/ Alessandro Cortini)
April 17 – Tokyo, Japan – Vent
April 18 – Shizuoka, Japan – Rainbow Disco Club Festival
May 21 – Lyon, France – Nuits Sonores
May 23 – Dublin, Ireland – Life Festival
June 5 – London, England – Wide Awake Festival
June 21 – Barcelona, Spain – Innervisions, Off-Sonar
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