Fortunale [Transparent Blue LP]

Italian composer and trumpeter Marco Baldini, a co-founder of the ensemble Blutwurst, wrote Fortunale for string quartet between 2024 and 2025. The Turin-based Quartetto Maurice recorded it at Okum Studio near Turin in October 2025, and a storm that broke outside during the session made it onto the tape. Across seven linked sections and about 38 minutes, this slow lament draws on early music, quotes from Bartók, the Japanese shō, spectral harmony and the harmonics of Dhrupad.

Pressed on transparent light blue vinyl in an edition of 200 copies, with liner notes by James Rushford and Bradford Bailey.

• A1. Fortunale (Part I)
• B1. Fortunale (Part II)