In uno spazio immenso, light-years, 2024
"It’s potent, it’s immersive and the sheer force of it is maybe even a little scary, but it’s also quite beautiful. Pulverization rarely sounds this lovely." - First Floor
"Unashamedly epic and earth-shatteringly dynamic, Grand River and Abul Mogard's collaborative debut is an attempt to bring sonic splendour to meditative emptiness." - Boomkat
"In uno spazio immenso strives to reach a haunted beauty beyond a scale that either Portioli or Zen has ever before. The album is testimony to just how forceful and attention-grabbing drone can be. " - Resident Advisor
Blink A Few Times To Clear Your Eyes, Editions Mego, 2020
"As with everything she does, the LP displays an intense attention to detail, but here, her ethereal mists, hovering drones, and electro-acoustic textures coalesce into a pleasantly immersive space, blurring the boundaries between the organic and the electronic." - First Floor
"Many albums have been described as "balanced", and this one thoroughly earns the description" - Inverted Audio
"Multi-instrumentalist Aimée Portioli continues to create utterly unique music. Portioli's music as Grand River occupies its own space in today's electronic landscape. It has an acute musicianship which is too often obscured. On Blink A Few Times To Clear Your Eyes, it's front and centre." - Resident Advisor
"Grand River’s work integrates a large variety of sound structures and symphonic calculations in which she crafts absorbing experimental and ambient narrations combining traditional composition with contemporary sound research." - The Wire
All Above, Editions Mego, 2023
"Aimée Portioli's most orchestral album to date is filled with unexpected beauty at every turn." - Resident Advisor
"The vision Peter Rehberg championed is reality today, thanks to artists such as Grand River, who sacrifice linear narrative in an attempt to reach something higher and greater, perhaps even divine. - The Letter
"Portioli’s expression is different, she’s forcing a level of engagement that perceives the negative space as just as important as the saturated positive, and what could be more haunting and emotionally resonant than that?" - Boomkat
Pineapple, Spazio Disponibile, 2018
"She crafts absorbing film scores, experimental and ambient projects and takes in symphonic calculations that blur the lines between traditional composition and research-based modernism." - XLR8R
Crescente, Spazio Disponibile, 2017
"Filled with rippling textures, grainy found sound, frayed rhythms, and poignant melodies, the four tracks on Crescente play out like a score to lost sci-fi epic, one that leaves you utterly enchanted and dumbfounded." - XLR8R
Light Index Opening, Longform Editions, 2019
"A hybrid world in which articulations of all sorts joust and blend, from the dull shocks of what might be rasped guitar and plummy piano to the up-ramping of enigmatic reversals, all set with surprising ease against a droning backdrop. The rhythmic interjections become orchestral and part of the fun is guessing where they might land on the soundstage before the low-register beats change the entire rhythmic landscape of this extraordinary environment." - Dusted Magazine
This Was Us, Ghostly International, 2019
(from Thousands of Eyes in the Dark)
"Grand River's contribution, "This Was Us," was improvised on a Yamaha DX7 and references the dissolution of a relationship. "I just sat with the instrument and started to play," she said.
"I kind of needed a moment to myself." - Resident Advisor
"Grand River's brief but lovely "This Was Us" is simple and sparkling, with just enough strangeness around the edges." - All Music
Tuning the Wind, Umor Rex, 2025
"Portioli makes the most of the stereo field, electronic notes whipping around like gusts in a forest. Wallace Stevens writes, “one must have a mind of winter… not to think of any misery in the sound of the wind. By Tuning the Wind, Portioli has brought the poet’s words to life." - A Closer Listen
"Complex yet bold beauty in simplicity. Transforming the movement of air particles into plucks from a seemingly unreal guitar to a wealth of overlapping motifs and evoking atmospheres has produced a wonderfully crafted piece of explorative music by the composer Aimée Portioli." - Magazine Sixty
Our Circadian, Melantónia, 2023
"No less subtle and yet insistent, the EP Our Circadian claims a place and a time just for itself. The Copenhagen-Berlin collaboration between Sofie Birch and Grand River remains minimal in form, small and delicate in sound, yet manages to hint at something big, possibly transcendent, without having to play it out. One of the most advanced artistic skills possible in and through ambient." - Groove