SPIRALIS AUREA, by STEFANO PILIA

SPIRALIS AUREA

by STEFANO PILIA

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sylvain-levier Both disturbing and appealing with the feeling that you have never heard anything like it before. A deep dive into the unknown. From another world. Favorite track: CRUX.

raytheotter An extraordinary, beautiful work. A high point in contemporary electroacoustic music Favorite track: SPIRALIS.

DJJJS I do not know what this is, but it is wonderful.

lamb of gold this song make you think god exist Favorite track: SPIRALIS.

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1.	CRUX 06:09	info	buy track
2.	CODEXIII(+) 06:27	info	buy track
3.	IMAGO 05:54	info	buy track
4.	ASCENSIO 08:04	info	buy track
5.	SPIRALIS 07:28	info	buy track
6.	AUREA Pt I 05:11	info	buy track
7.	CODEXIII(O) 06:46	info	buy track
8.	OUROBOROS 06:24	info	buy track
9.	HANNAH 04:46	info	buy track
10.	CODEXIII(()) 06:00	info	buy track
11.	AUREA Pt II 05:02	info	buy track
12.	XIII 06:22	info	buy track
13.	AUREA Pt III 03:22	info	buy track

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Venturing into untapped realms of creative exploration, the Genoa born, Bologna based, guitarist and electroacoustic composer, Stefano Pilia, returns to Die Schachtel with a double LP of material that intertwines traces of sacred geometry, collective experience and elusive connections between nature and human kind. “Spiralis Aurea” encounters the composer venturing into unchartered waters, exploring notions of spirituality via a body of thirteen compositions, recorded in various combinations with a cast of all-star instrumentalist; Alessandra Novaga, iosonouncane, Silvia Tarozzi, Mattia Cipolli, Ensemble Concordanze, Elisa Bognetti, Enrico Gabrielli, Valeria Sturba, Giuseppe Franchellucci, Adrian Utley, and Cecilia Stacchiotti.

The roots of “Spiralis Aurea” rest within Pilia’s longstanding, personal engagement with the spiritual and an epiphany had during a visit to the Futa Pass cemetery, the resting place for German soldiers killed in Italy during the Second World War. Deeply moved, he reflected on the profound meanings laying below geometry of its design; “a place "crossed" by thoughts about the landscape, history, symbols, rituals. A work (…) offering a reflection on life and death. A prayer for the living and the dead.”

Drawing its title from the Golden Spiral - also known as the golden ratio, golden section, golden mean, or divine proportion - a mathematical formula and geometric form that has maintained both mystical and creative significance for millennia, each of the 12 works that comprise “Spiralis Aurea” began with a figure or process that is both geometric and symbolic, drawn by Pilia, that slowly translated into tangible organizations of sound.

Displaying a deep resonance with works by La Monte Young, Arvo Pärt, Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Terry Riley, that have witnessed trajectories of experimental music delving toward the spiritual, divine, and metaphysical, Pilia’s “Spiralis Aurea” culminates as a series of sonic meditations, leaving room within their spacious forms to encourage active listening. Calling up echoes of ancient musics within their optimistic, forward thinking tones, across various arrangements of instrumentation - double cello quartet and bass, horns quartet and bass organ, string quartet, string quartet and organ, cello quartet, solo organ, cello solo and synthesizer, electric guitar quartet, guitar quartet and synthesizer, piano and violin - Pilia sculpts a striking intersection between acoustic and electroacoustic process, drone, and chamber music, harnessing the literal and abstract in search of order and higher meaning within a chaotic and uncertain world.

Overwhelmingly beautiful, conceptual rich, and marked by a profound sense of emotive tension, Stefano Pilia’s “Spiralis Aurea” is issued as a pure gold double vinyl LP in a limited deluxe edition of 250 copies, housed in a beautiful sleeve designed by Bruno Stucchi-Dinamomilano, painstakingly letterpress printed with a 1915 German press machine with a hand-painted and applied gold foil shining on a rust-coloured materic paper of Franciscan inspiration.

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released March 15, 2022

CRUX
(for double cello quartet and bass)
Mattia Cipolli / cellos

CODEXIII (+)
(for horns quartet and bass organ)
Elisa Bognetti / horns
Stefano Pilia / bass organ

IMAGO
(for string quartet)
Ensemble Concordanze
Alessandro Di Marco / violin
Elena Maury / violin
Alessandro Savio / viola
Mattia Cipolli / cello

ASCENSIO
(for organ)
Enrico Gabrielli / organ

SPIRALIS
(for string quartet and organ)
Valeria Sturba / violins
Giuseppe Franchellucci / cellos
Stefano Pilia / organ samples

AUREA parte I
(for cello quartet) Mattia Cipolli / cellos

CODEXIII (O)
(for cello solo and synth)
Giuseppe Franchellucci / cello
Stefano Pilia / modular synth

OUROBOROS
(for organ)
Stefano Pilia / organ samples

HANNAH
(for el.guitar quartet)
Adrian Utley / 12 strings guitar
Alessandra Novaga / el guitar
Stefano Pilia / baritone and el. guitar

CODEXIII (())
(for el. guitar quartet and synth)
Alessandra Novaga / el. guitars
Stefano Pilia / baritone and el. guitars
IOSONOUNCANE / synth

AUREA parte II
(for cello quartet)
Mattia Cipolli / cellos

XIII
(for piano and violin)
Cecilia Stacchiotti / piano
Silvia Tarozzi / violin

AUREA parte III
(for cello duo)
Mattia Cipolli / cellos

written and composed by Stefano Pilia
CRUX recorded and mixed by S. Pilia at BlindSun, Bologna
CODEXIII (+) and IMAGO recorded and mixed by Bruno Germano at Vacuum studio, Bologna
ASCENSIO recorded by Claudio Tortorici at Tempio Valdese, Torino, mixed by Diego Castioni at Cabot Cove, Bologna SPIRALIS and AUREA recorded and mixed by Diego Castioni at Cabot Cove
CODEXIII (O) and OUROBOROS recorded and mixed by S.Pilia at BlindSun, Bologna
HANNAH recorded by T J Allen, S.Pilia and Giovanni Isgrò, in Bristol, Bologna and Milano, mixed at Blindsun CODEXIII (()) recorded by IOSONOUNCANE, S.Pilia and Giovanni Isgrò in Bologna and Milano, mixed at Blindsun AUREA recorded and mixed by Diego Castioni at Cabot Cove
XIII recorded and mixed by Gianluca Turrini at Teatro San Leonardo Bologna
Produced by Fabio Carboni and Bruno Stucchi, Die-Schachtel with the support of Bologna Unesco city of music
Mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi
Photographic documentation by Matilde Piazzi
Artwork by Bruno Stucchi, DYNAMOMILANO
Special Thanks to all the musicians and sound engineers who participated and contributed to the realization of this work, to Miguel Bermejo and the Valdese Temple of Turin, Luciano Ardiccioni and The German Futa Pass Cemetery, Matilde Piazzi, Alessandro Kostis, Valentina Lanzetti, Matteo Gharehbaghian, Bruno Stucchi, John Duncan, Fabio Carboni, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Rossella Merighi, Jonathan Clancy, Mike Watt, Gup Alcaro, Oliver Mann, Paolo Fiore Angelini, Emidio Clementi, Enrico Croci, Paolo Spaccamonti, Laura Agnusdei, Valerio Maiolo, Anthony Pateras, Edoardo Marraffa, Manuele Giannini, Giacomo Pilia, Tiziana Viviani, Stefano Piazzi, Silvia Morselli for their support and help.

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Stefano Pilia is a guitar player and electro-acoustic composer. His work has become progressively concerned with researching the sculptural properties of sound as well as sound’s relationship with space, memory and the suspension of time. Pilia explores these points of focus through instrumental practice and investigations into the recording and production process. ... more

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