Aperture is a current studio and live project created by Italian born/Berlin based siblings Emanuele and Elisabetta Porcinai. This is their 2nd album following up from the outstanding debut “Threads” from 2018, released on Other/other (Subtext Recordings), which was followed in 2020 with an EP collection of live recordings taken during the Aperture Threads Tour 2019-20 in Germany and Italy, released by Stray Signals. Their music explores tension between hushed intimate spoken vocals and singing amidst detailed soundscapes of guitars, bass and percussion soaked in electronically derived detailing, working with a reduced brittle instrumentation that at first calls to mind the more subdued moments of Sonic Youth’s 1st album and the quiet tension of the dreamy parts of Sister, the non-bombastic and tense... more credits released February 10, 2023 Written in Berlin and Milan by Elisabetta and Emanuele Porcinai, 2020-22. Recorded and mixed by Emanuele Porcinai and Alfred Brooks at Studio Distante in Berlin, 2021. Bass, Drums, Electronics and Production on Everyone, Paper Cities and Read Me a Poem by Alfred Brooks. Drums on Everyone by Andrea Belfi. Flute on Read Me a Poem by Martina Brandorff Mastered by Loop-O Cover photo and Design: Elisabetta Porcinai P & © Aperture | Stray Signals 2021