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SONOIO


A sonic departure from his eponymous material as well as his collaborative work with Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails and How to Destroy Angels, Sonoio is the alternative electronic project from Italian musician and songwriter Alessandro Cortini. The project is known for traversing various aspects of indie rock and synth pop, delivered on albums such as 2011's Red and 2018's Fine. Cortini debuted the project in the summer of 2010 with four tracks online, which would appear on his debut LP, Blue, released later that fall. Explaining that the project name stems from the Italian phrase sono io (it's me), Cortini also announced that the effort was recorded entirely with one of his favorite instruments, the Buchla modular synthesizer. He put out a remix album of the record in December of 2010 titled Non (Blue), which featured reinterpretations of Blue's tracks from the likes of Big Black Delta and Ladytron. Sonoio's sophomore effort, Red, arrived six months later and featured one of the project's definitive tracks, Enough, as its lead single. Another companion remix album arrived later that December and, in keeping with the theme of previous efforts, was titled Non (Blue). The release featured remixes from Telefon Tel Aviv, Drumcell, and erstwhile Jane's Addiction bassist Eric Avery. Several years of inactivity followed while Cortini focused on working and touring with Nine Inch Nails and creating a string of instrumental records under his own name. He returned with new Sonoio mat...

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