On their first collaborative album, released last year via Caterina Barbieri's light-years label, Grand River and Abul Mogard joined forces for a journey into the abyss, capturing atemporality, splendor and tranquility with confident, impressionistic sonic strokes. Dynamic and poignant, In uno spazio immenso balanced on a knife-edge between booming grandeur and soft-focus simplicity, casting as much light on the subtle outlines and illusory rhythms as it does its dense textures. 

Berlin-based, Dutch-Italian composer and sound designer Aimée Portioli, aka Grand River, has been evolving her unique musical language since she released Crescente on Donato Dozzy and Neel's Spazio Disponibile imprint in 2017. A trained linguist, she uses her instrumentation and advanced processes to challenge cultural perceptions, portraying emotions and moods rather than fixed, visual images. Abul Mogard meanwhile is just one of veteran Italian producer Guido Zen's many aliases, and over a series of acclaimed albums for labels like Ecstatic, Houndstooth and VCO, he's muddled fiction with stark reality, shaking kosmische synth fantasies into post-industrial ambience and blissful shoegaze memories.

Working together, Portioli and Zen find unity in intensity, freezing their discrete concepts and techniques into a glacial emotional expanse. As with their album, their live show promises an invitation to listen to an inner voice that's different for each listener. Space is whatever we want it to be, and how we decide to fill it is a choice that's dependent on the depth of the imagination.