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An avid music collector since his childhood Gianluigi started his own music experiments in 1995, with a basic instrumentation, trying to explore the shores of deep space-ambient. His first album "Three Lights At The End Of The World", composed in 1995, has been released in 1996 by italian ambient artist Alio Die's own label, Hic Sunt Leones (Alio Die himself played for a minute in a track of this album). His live album "The Spirals Of Time", released in 1998 by Hic Sunt Leones, has been voted as one of the best ambient albums of all times. Oophoi uses traditional instruments as synths and sampling machines, but also singing bowls, flutes, special percussions (woodchimes, stones, shells, crystal chimes) and processed voices; all his music is recorded using analog-only devices in Hic Sunt Leones, his studio, which used to be a stall in a XV Century stone country house in the hills of central Italy. In 2002 he has founded the experimental ambient group Nebula, along with Klaus Wiese, Mauro Malgrande, Lorenzo Pierobon and Tau Ceti. He has released 20+ CDs for many international labels (Hic Sunt Leones, Hic Sunt Leones, Hic Sunt Leones, Hic Sunt Leones, Hic Sunt Leones, Skean Dhu, Hic Sunt Leones, Aplaus, Hic Sunt Leones), and he run his own label Hic Sunt Leones, devoted to the music of new Italian ambient artists.
(26 March 1958 – 12 April 2013)
2022
Databloem
CDr, Album
2015
Databloem
CD, Comp, RM
2015
Databloem
CD, Comp, RM
2015
Databloem
CD, Comp, RM
2015
Databloem
CD, Comp, RM
2013
Practising Nature
CDr, Album
2013
Practising Nature
CDr, Album
2013
2011
Practising Nature
7xCDr, Comp, RE, RM + Box, Comp, Ltd, Num
2011
Databloem
CD, Album
2011
Hypnos
CD, Album
2011
Nextera
CD, Album, Ltd
2008
Glacial Movements Records, Glacial Movements Records
CD, Album, Ltd
2008
2007
Faria Records
CD, Album, Ltd
2007
Nextera
2xCD, Album, Ltd
2007
2006
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2006
Umbra
CDr, Album
2006
Hypnos
CD, Album
2006
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2006
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2006
Faria Records
CD, Album, Ltd
2006
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2006
Umbra, Umbra
CDr, Album
2006
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2006
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2006
Faria Records
CD, Album, Ltd
2006
Faria Records
CD, Album, Ltd
2006
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2006
Penumbra
CDr, Comp
2006
Penumbra
CDr, Comp
2006
Penumbra
CDr, Comp
2006
Penumbra
CDr, Comp
2006
Penumbra
CDr, Comp
2006
Penumbra
CDr, Comp
2006
Penumbra
CDr, Comp
2006
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2006
Umbra, Umbra
CDr, Album
2006
2005
Prikosnovénie
CD, Album, Ltd
2005
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2005
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2005
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2005
Penumbra
CDr, EP, RM
2005
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2005
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2005
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2005
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2005
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2005
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2005
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2005
Nextera
CD, Album, Ltd
2005
Umbra, Umbra
CDr, Album
2005
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2005
2005
2005
2005
2004
2004
2004
2003
Nextera, Nextera
CD, Album, Ltd
2003
Harmonie (2)
CD, Album
2003
2003
2002
Electroshock Records
CD, Album
2002
Hypnos
CD, Album
2001
2001
2001
2001
2001
2001
2000
1999
1999
1998
1998
1998
1996
1996
2011
2009
2006
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2005
Umbra
CDr, Album
2005
Penumbra
CDr, EP
2004
Umbra
CDr, Album
2002
Stella Maris
CD, Album
2021
2013
gterma
CD, Album
2011
2008
Umbra
CDr, Album, Ltd
2008
Umbra
CDr, Album
2008
2007
Umbra
CDr, Comp
2007
Umbra
CDr, Album, Ltd
2007
Umbra
CDr, Comp
2007
Umbra
12xCDr, Comp, Ltd
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