"Let not the name of God tame my free soul."
Singer-songwriter Ilaria Porceddu and composer, producer, and musician Emanuele Contis have teamed up to create their new album LÙMIA, available digitally from today and on vinyl from June 5th.
The meeting point between two trajectories that recognize each other before even explaining themselves: a sonic place where the singer-songwriter expands and dissolves, becoming landscape, vision, matter.
It's music that seems to emerge from a dark, intermittently lit room: on one side, the emotional, layered electronics of Apparat, on the other, the rarefied, luminous drifts of Sigur Rós ; in between, a subtle balance in which the sensual, cinematic atmospheres of Goldfrapp sit at the same table as Air, while observing—with typically Italian curiosity—the singer-songwriter tradition transform, lose shape, and then rediscover itself.
Acoustic and electronic don't alternate: they seek each other out, overlap, and contradict each other. The voice doesn't lead, but passes through. The instruments don't accompany, but open spaces. Stories, instrumental fragments, and improvisation coexist in a constantly changing flow, like a soundtrack without images, or perhaps like images yet to happen.
LÙMIA is a crossing: between light and shadow, between rootedness and escape. A stubborn—and necessary—attempt to exist Elsewhere.
The album is co-produced with Altrove Publishing, the publishing platform and management of Luca Zoccheddu's Altrove.
Ilaria Porceddu, as a songwriter and performer, has released three albums, developing an increasingly essential and distinctive style of writing. Emanuele Contis, as a film composer, has developed a keen sensitivity to the relationship between sound and image, between form and space, which is also reflected in his artistic output.
(Unioneonline)
