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

Temporary, Editions Mego, 2026

Berlin-based Dutch-Italian composer and musician Aimée Portioli aka Grand River presents the new album Temporary, returning to the renowned Editions Mego label with her most expansive and focused LP yet.

Rooted in existential ideas of impermanence and flux, Temporary is a deeply emotive work centred on the rich interplay between resonant guitar work and innovative electronics. Written in the wake of profound personal grief and loss, the album sees Portioli infuse her music with a raw, expressive intensity anchored in this experience. Across eight strikingly melodic and affecting soundscapes, Portioli powerfully embodies a dramatic encounter with mortality.

The awareness that our time is limited sharpens the value of what remains. Each encounter, each gesture, each fleeting moment becomes more vivid. Temporary lingers in the space where presence and disappearance coexist, where everything is already passing away and therefore becomes infinitely precious. Things matter because they do not last. Mortality does not diminish life; it intensifies it. In confronting these ideas, Temporary feels irrepressibly alive.

Selected Releases

Tuning the Wind, Umor Rex, 2025

"Unexpectedly commanding... singed synthesizer tones that stutter and soar between barren aural valleys... the grandeur of a fluctuating storm." - Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp

"Portioli’s composition, divided roughly into two halves, crackles with energy. In the first, an undulating swell is riven by crystalline, tonal periodicity. In the second, an arpeggiated dazzle dances amongst a percussing whisper." - Thoughts of a Certain Sound

"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