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Alessandro Ambrosi : The River in The Sky (to be released on 16th May, 2026)
Superb ambient music from the vibrant fusion of accordion and Japanese beauty.
On May 16th, we will release a new album 'The River in The Sky' from Alessandro Ambrosi, an accordionist and composer from Italy.
His talent as a music composer was admired by internationally critics by his release'Eco', for accordion and string orchestra, premiered in Florence. As well as his new arrangements of Vivaldi and Piazzolla for 'Seasons' recorded in Copenhagen, and 'Sogni', his first solo album, weaving accordion with self-composed soundscapes and acoustic and digital instruments. This album exhibits his outstanding gift for playing an accordion. First picking up the instrument at the age of seven and going on to train with Fabio Rossato at the Conservatory of Trento and Geir Draugsvoll at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. This background has made it possible for him to express not only in the genres of classical and contemporary music, but also of ambient and electronica.
This album 'The River in The Sky' was created based on the sounds which Alessandro Ambrosi recorded whilst in Japan in 2025, alongside four Japanese musicians; Ayako Kanisasare, one of the foremost international performers of the shō, a Japanese free reed musical instrument, Kenji Azuma, multi-instrumentalist and field recorder of ambient music, Takahiro Kido, a music composer from Anoice and his bandmate and pianist, Yuki Murata. They added sometimes gentle and mysterious sounds to Alessandro Ambrosi's beautiful but ephemeral melodies.
The title of the album 'The River in The Sky' takes its name from the Japanese word '天の川' for the Milky Way, and it expresses a river that crosses the sky temporarily, as sound crosses space, as the traveller inhabits places that become home only in the act of passing through them.
This is the ambient music masterpiece without boundaries in all senses, which incorporates Bashō Matsuo's poetics of travel, Taikan Yokoyama's dissolving contours, the animistic thresholds of Hayao Miyazaki's cinema, and the Buddhist philosophy of impermanence and non-duality.
'The River in The Sky' will be released in digipack format. It is on production now and will be shipped out at the beginning of August, 2026.
| 1. 誘い (Izanai) feat. Ayako Kanisasare, Takahiro Kido | Alessandro Ambrosi: Accordion, Bells, Electronics, Field Recordings | |
| 2. 木霊 (Kodama) feat. Ayako Kanisasare | ||
| 3. 水月 (Sui-getsu) feat. Kenji Azuma | Guest Players | |
| 4. 幽玄の森 (Yūgen no Mori) feat. Takahiro Kido, Yuki Murata | Ayako Kanisasare: Shō, Biwa, Voice | |
| 5. Little Friends | Takahiro Kido: Singing Bowls, Guitar, Synthesizer | |
| 6. Wandering Spirit | Kenji Azuma: Gekkin, Ritual Taiko, Electronics | |
| 7. The River in the Sky | Yuki Murata: Piano |
| Composed by Alessandro Ambrosi |
| Recorded by Alessandro Ambrosi |
| Additional Field Sounds Recorded by Kenji Azuma, Masanori Satoh |
| Mixed and Mastered by Alessandro Ambrosi |
| Photo by Alessandro Ambrosi |
| Art Direction and Design by Alessandro Ambrosi |
| Produced by Alessandro Ambrosi, Ricco Label |
| BandCamp | https://riccolabel.bandcamp.com/album/the-river-in-the-sky | |
| Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, etc. | https://linkco.re/8EuHvEmn |
