Grand River
All Above
On her third album, Berlin-based Dutch-Italian composer and sound designer Aime'e Portioli, aka Grand River, asks what guiding forces might be driving us, enticing us, and affecting us. 'All Above' is rooted in her deeply personal philosophy as an artist, blurring the boundaries between electronic music and acoustic music and sculpting familiar ambient forms into personal themes painted with rich emotional colors. Written painstakingly over the last two years, the album is the most ambitious and divergent set of music Portioli has assembled so far, put together with a wide variety of instrumentation (including voices, strings, organs, guitars, and synthesizers) and focused around the piano.