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Sens Contraire

‘Sphinx Nouvelle’ (A New Sphinx, A Sphinx Tale) is Francesca Heart’s fourth solo album following LP Bird Bath. After different musical works dedicated to mercurial underwater epics, electrical biomass sagas, moist demigoddesses’ grottoes, labyrinthine gardens and somber yet alluring feminine muses, the artist crafts ten new tracks inspired by aerial architectures, legendary superhuman creatures and music as the key to open magic portals. 

Produced between Thailand, Italy and Mallorca, and thus reflective of the geographic collages offered by memory and experience, the work’s sibylline title opens up two layers touching upon both the imaginative and emotional growth of the Italian artist. While on one level the tracks non-narratively delineate the hazy story of a sphinx figure unfurling and fleshing out as the musical compositions progress, a second perspective sheds light on how Heart’s expression and explorations have matured generating new ways to empowerment from within the field of musical playfulness and creative intuition. 

Informed by speculative mythologies offered by hidden earthly geographies such as  Atlantis and Lemuria, Heart crafts a new powerful adventure by dwelling on how promethean real-life projects such as the Qatar Raffle Doha and Fairmont Hotels (the Katara Towers) could be reinterpreted as molochian present-day results of human imagination.  Empires of artificial waters that challenge the limits of the possible. These monumental entities are treated as fictional objects becoming important encounters on the Sphinx's journey, through which Heart blurs the lines between reality and fantasy. 

In A Sphinx Nouvelle sound and music are a cocooning background vessel for a vague cinema for the ear; a moving image playing in the theater of the listeners’ mind. As the aesthetic feeling emanating from the album confirms, once again we are not in front of a world built by adult power fantasies. By casting these real-life architectural visions into the background of pop culture’s productions like movies Magic In The Mirror, The Abyss and Nadia The Secret Of Blue Water, Sphynx Nouvelle lets us look at architectures, stories and mythologies with a kaleidoscopic mind. 

Mixing real and fictive histories, worlds and dimensions collide and superimpose like mirages of seashore mists and waterspouts. In the album, the character itself, a mythical anthropozoomorphic creature-monument defies conventional narrative expectations and categorisations, hence becoming the passage to weave together different dimensions and sonic territories.  Despite still consistently resorting to soft synth lines and the organic acoustic timbres of marimbas and bells, differently from previous albums, percussive arpeggios and angular melodies feel more pronounced, making the ten tracks the most dynamic and uptempo productions in the artist’s discography. Despite maintaining most of her musical tropes - multivocal synth progressions as counterpoints of singing creatures, lullaby-inspired pentatonic harmonies and pads filtered through the noise of waves crashing ashore or the filters of underwater listening - the moonlight tide ambiences and sonatas feels like a background on which more stable rhythmical explorations take over to reveal subtle but galvanizing outbursts of musical energy. New age meets seapunk and shoegaze. A dive into a hallucinatory expedition on winged eyes leads to a primordial space via the call of the conch shell.

Credits
All music written, produced and recorded by Francesca Heart
3. ‘Essence Nouvelle’ Conch Shell by Francesca Heart
4. In Alto Mare (Loredana Bertè Cover)
10. BONUS TRACK ‘Water Passages’ Produced by Splash Blade
Cover Art Serena Scozzafava
Liner Notes Luigi Monteanni
Mixing Francesca Mariano
Mastering Polonius
Photography Matteo Strocchia, Marco Servina 
Recorded between January and June 2024 in Thailand, Italy and Mallorca


1. Lemuria Shore Party

I'm gonna put on an iron shirt

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Experience the high strangeness of plant music—plants that “sing.” For years musician Nico Georis has used biofeedback instruments to connect a variety of flora to analog synthesizers, letting their biodata create music that is strange and existentially gorgeous.

Nico’s work in plant music happened during a six year span, and was set in motion by a simple desire to find a fresh supply of long-form ambient music for relaxing to at home. After a chance encounter with an obscure technology dating back to the 70’s allowing plant electricity to be converted to MIDI data, Nico began experimenting with using his house plants to generate endlessly evolving ambient music. “I was looking for music that I couldn’t find, and I realized the plants & I could make it.”

Here was an opportunity for another type of ambient music, one not born of the human brain, to emerge. A music that moves beyond human thought forms all together, and leans deeply into the green. Culled from hundreds of plant songs recorded between 2016 - 2022 both at home and in the wild Plant Music Vol. 1 and 2 represent the “greatest hits” of Nico’s plant music years.

Plant music Vol. 3 marks the newest installation, showcasing music generated from psilocybin mushrooms, known by many as “Golden Teachers”.

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"This music is created via an artistic translation of electrical biodata into musical data. Two mushrooms and the mycelium connecting them are hooked-up to sensors, and their fluctuating electrical conductivity is translated into an equivalent flow of music notes (MIDI). These notes are then filtered into musical scales and routed into synthesizers that generate tones.

These recordings have been arranged into a variety of solos, duets and trios. They reflect what we feel are the most fascinating and beautiful examples of psilocybin mushroom music, straight from the tub."

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Nico Georis is a keyboard player, producer & songwriter from California. He produces music from his studio at Granny's Dancehall in a ghost town amidst the wilderness. His music, a unique amalgamation of global influences, presents an imposing total aesthetic that is all his own.

Made with the help of Bob Otis and Lovelle Femme.
Special thanks to Matt Baldwin who helped conceive and organize this recording while also co-editing a few songs.
Cover photo by Matt Baldwin and Gabe Georis.
Artwork and layout by Victoria Stöcker.
Mastered by Will Smith.

Mycelium Tub

From their "s/t" debut, out on July 10th, 2015 on Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

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Crystallise 
Leave There 
Cord 
Dull 
Beacon

Dull_Garden

Rhythm and sound  jah cotton

Four Tet - Plastic People (Audiocut Remakeabeat)

Official Audio from BALTHVS second single. Out this 03/27 on all streaming platforms.

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Hooked (Hazy Nights)

Hooked (Hazy Nights)

The Goods Lockdown Series Part 2

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