Alessandro Cortini- Risveglio

Though known as a touring and recording musician associated with Nine Inch Nails, Alessandro Cortini has really come into his own via his forse trilogy, and his 2014 Hospital Productions debut, sonno. For his Hospital follow-up, he maintains the grittiness and intimacy introduced on his debut, but expands upon it, offering a wider spectrum of emotion and depth.

With Risveglio, Cortini implores and emphasizes the imperfections and visceral textures of electronics vacant from so much contemporary solo synthesizer music. Furthermore Cortini carves out a similar space to what Kevin Drumm’s Hospital releases have done for the worlds of drone and noise by finding the emotional and ultimately human voice within synthesis.