Italian musician, instrument-builder, producer and composer ALESSANDRO CORTINI has released Nati Infiniti, on Mute. Nati Infiniti is Italian for “born infinite”, a concept mirrored in the release’s art, and will be available on vinyl (featuring an embossed silver mirror board sleeve), CD (with a clear varnished gatefold mirror board sleeve), and digitally.
Watch the video, with imagery by Marco Ciceri, to the penultimate piece of Nati Infiniti, ‘IV’, which cascades and surges towards the album’s finale:
Nati Infiniti originally debuted as an immersive audio installation that ran across four floors of the Museu de Lisboa’s Fábrica da Moagem, a disused flour mill and on the release, the hypnotic work evolves across 40 minutes, mixed and mastered by Marta Salogni (Björk, Depeche Mode, Lucrecia Dalt) into five movements.
The release utlilises the Strega instrument that Cortini co-designed with Make Noise, capturing the ambience of the original piece – commissioned by Sónar Lisboa 2022 – where each of the four floors of the cavernous mill evoked a different state through Cortini’s sound design. Constantly unfolding as the listener travelled through the building, it harnesses the movement of the piece, highlighting the interconnectedness of all things.
Cortini debuted the live audio-visual performance of Nati Infiniti at Berlin’s Atonal Festival resulting in high praise and the live dates – each showcasing an improvised version of Nati Infiniti with no two concerts ever the same – continue through North America this month, before two shows in Europe in December, and a series of newly announced dates in 2025 – full details below.
Alessandro Cortini is one of the foremost figures of contemporary electronic music, best known for his haunting, atmospheric work. A longstanding member of Nine Inch Nails (his tenure has stretched from 2005 to the present day), he is a highly prolific artist, releasing a steady stream of his own heady music on luminary labels including Mute, Hospital, and Important Records for the past decade. Throughout his shadowy rise to fame, he has collaborated with the likes of Lawrence English, Daniel Avery, and Merzbow. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – the only Italian musician ever honoured – and found time to create the Strega (used on his previous album, Scuro Chiaro, which Pitchfork described as “pitched somewhere between purgatory and the planetarium… consistently managing to thrill and surprise”) and the forthcoming module, Bruxa, with Make Noise. Additionally, he has soundtracked catwalk shows for fashion giants Alexander McQueen, Dior, and Fendi, composed for Disney/Hulu’s hit show The Bear, and remixed tracks for Depeche Mode, Mogwai, Death Cab For Cutie, Yann Tiersen, and Vatican Shadow. Balancing dark ambience with smoky, pulsing rhythms, his compositions are perfectly restrained, textured, and mesmeric. His vast and expansive work spans across genres, showcasing his versatile talent and innovative approach to music.
Side A
I
II
Side B
III
V
Alessandro Cortini Live
- 4 Oct 2024 – Queens, NY, The Ruins at Knockdown Center (US)
- 6 Oct 2024 – Boston, MA, Sonia (US)
- 7 Oct 2024 – Minneapolis, MN, The Cedar (US)
- 9 Oct 2024 – Chicago, IL, Empty Bottle (US)
- 10 Oct 2024 – Austin, TX, Central Presbyterian Church (US)
- 11 Oct 2024 – Seattle, WA, Age of Reflections at Seattle First Baptist (US)
- 12 Oct 2024 – Portland, OR, Age of Reflections at Trinity Cathedral (US)
- 13 Oct 2024 – Los Angeles, CA, Teragram Ballroom (US)
- 20 Nov 2024 – Brussels, Bozar (BE)
- 6 Dec 2024 – Berlin, Silent Green (DE)
- 17 Jan 2025 – Paris, Trabendo (FR)
- 23 Jan 2025 – Helsinki, Savoy Teatteri (HI)
- 24 Jan 2025 – Warsaw, Niebo (PL)
- 31 Jan 2025 – Athens, Arch Club (GR)
- 21 Feb 2025 – London, Heaven (UK)
Ticket links and full details HERE
