Embrace The Darkness

by ?Alos

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Beautiful Deluxe album with Vinyl color (Red and Black, LAVA, Color) + Artist’s Book (36 pages / English) on recycled paper.
Limited Edition 300 Copies.

Alos has further expanded the research into an edition that combines sound, visuals, and texts, and consists of a 12-inch vinyl color record and of an artist’s book.
All sounds in the record, both acoustic or electronic, were registered live by Marcello Batelli in various, mainly natural locations on the Stromboli island, like Sciara del Fuoco and the cave of Aeolus.
Batelli’s work with sound donates outstanding depth and life to the first claustrophobic, then liberatory atmospheres created by Alos’ on-site performance.
The artist’s book is the visual counterpart of the record, featuring photos and videostills shot by Giulio di Mauro, and expands the narration in a polyphonic direction thanks to text contributes by Marcello Baltelli, Francesca R.Y.F Morello, Alice Cannavà, Giulio Di Mauro, and Naresh Ran among others.

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2.	Grotta Di Eolo 04:57		buy track
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Twenty years after her apparition as artistic identity, Alos has completed her most intimate and complex project: Embrace the Darkness.
During 2021, Stefania Alos Pedretti went through the darkness, first struggling with serious illness, then going through a hard physical rehabilitation involving also the recovery of her lost voice.
Only six months after a long hospitalization, the idea of elaborating the experience with a performance was born. The volcano emerged as the chosen symbolic system to create a synthesis and a narration before and beyond the human, tracing a path that could lead from darkness to light. In June 2022, the invitation by the dance festival Marosi in Stromboli promptly enabled the incubation of the new vision on the slopes of the most active Italian volcano, and the development of a practice-based artistic research that was also a healing journey: Ritual II – Embrace the Darkness.
Embrace the Darkness is a new land emerging from the collision of matter, a fertile and overwhelming experience for all its participants, audience included. One year after the residency in Stromboli, and
having already presented the ritual on several occasions (Marosi Festival in Stromboli, Lenz Foundation in Parma, Teatro Rasi in Ravenna), Alos has further expanded the research into an edition
that combines sound, visuals, and texts, and consists of a 12-inch vinyl color record and of an artist’s book (36 pages / English ).
Printed in 300 copies, it’s co-produced by three independent realities that got together for the very first time: the labels Archaeological Records and Dio Drone, and the publisher Occulto. While the primary
experience is the performance itself, where Alos acts in an immersive space created by the video shot on location during the recordings, the narration of the experience lives and grows further in the
edition.
All sounds in the record, both acoustic or electronic, were registered live by Marcello Batelli in various, mainly natural locations on the Stromboli island, like Sciara del Fuoco and the cave of Aeolus.
Batelli’s work with sound donates outstanding depth and life to the first claustrophobic, then liberatory atmospheres created by Alos’ on-site performance.
The artist’s book is the visual counterpart of the record, featuring photos and videostills shot by Giulio di Mauro, and expands the narration in a polyphonic direction thanks to text contributes by Marcello Baltelli, Francesca R.Y.F Morello, Alice Cannavà, Giulio Di Mauro, and Naresh Ran among others.
The release date of the Embrace the Darkness edition is November 25th, 2023, the 680th anniversary of a tsunami caused by a volcanic eruption in Stromboli in 1343.

credits

released November 25, 2023

ALOS: vocals, modular synthesizers, artistic glass objects, bells and volcanic stones.

Performed live by ALOS aka Stefania Pedretti in various locations in Stromboli (Italy), during an artist residency at Marosi 2022.
Recordings and mixing by Marcello Batelli.
Mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi.

Photography and visuals by Giulio Di Mauro.
Illustrations by Gio Pistone.
Layout by Naresh Ran.
Artist’s book
Designed and edited by Alice Cannavà.

Released by DIO DRONE and ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDS, Artist’s Book published by OCCULTO, 2023.

DIO DRONE diodrone.bandcamp.com
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDS www.archaeologicalrecords.online
OCCULTO www.occultomagazine.com

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?Alos Ravenna, Italy

Alos
(queer-pagan-doom-avant-metal)
Alos is this and much more: music, performance, dance, political activism, social critic, history, feminism, queerness, anarchy. Active since 2003
She is co-founder of the noise duo OvO and involved in collaborations with artists such as Kawabata Makoto, Alan Dubin, Xabier Iriondo. With her bands, she has played in Europe, US, UK, Canada, China, Vietnam. ... more

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