why we love this

A falling droplet has never sounded so fascinating. Francesca Heart's 'Eurybia' is a whimsically detailed study of micro-sounds amplified on a macro scale.

about the cassette

Eurybia is the second solo album by Italian artist Francesca Heart. The result of a compositional process that began in summer 2020. It is the product of a series of intimate imaginary projections and aural engagements with a number of geographical sites scattered across the Italian landscape. Places which have resonated with Francesca during various personal travels and pilgrimages, due to their extramundane and often even mystic significance. The most outstanding and iconic being the cloisters and gardens of San Gregorio Armeno’s monastery in Naples and the Nympheum of Villa Giulia in Rome.

The whole record seems to bring the listener constantly together with the overwhelming, tender presence of the surrounding environment. Seemingly permeated with a feeling of refreshing musky moistures or textured with soft, wet soil, Eurybia reminds us of walking barefoot near the lush architecture of some ancient, overflowing fountain or amidst the continuous flows of shallow rivers’ bedrocks informing the album with strong physical, sensory qualities. Myth, senses, and imagination become anchors of artistic and healing expression as well as forms of romantic escapism from an ever complex world.

On the whole, Eurybia's seven tracks alternate dense enmeshment of sounds and melodies with sparse, forthright single-instrumental devotional hymns, working as a personal cartography of ephemeral audio monuments to human, transcendental, and mythographic landscapes. Influences connected by means of nuanced ascendance going from classical New Age music and video game soundtracks to digital phone ringtones. The fluttering arpeggios used as the main compositional device coalesce together into an experience of relaxing trance which is yet a glaring, audacious work.

  1. 1 - Eurybia (feat Polonius) 6:02
  2. 2 - Giochi, Dispetti, lo Sguardo della Ninfa 5:00
  3. 3 - L'Inno delle Oceanine alla Bellezza e alla Fortuna 3:06
  4. 4 - Nuova Atlantide 3:18
  5. 5 - Stella Rugiada 7:34
  6. 6 - A'marina 2:44
  7. 7 - Argentosfere 3:52

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  1. 1 - Eurybia (feat Polonius) 6:02
  2. 2 - Giochi, Dispetti, lo Sguardo della Ninfa 5:00
  3. 3 - L'Inno delle Oceanine alla Bellezza e alla Fortuna 3:06
  4. 4 - Nuova Atlantide 3:18
  5. 5 - Stella Rugiada 7:34
  6. 6 - A'marina 2:44
  7. 7 - Argentosfere 3:52

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why we love this

A falling droplet has never sounded so fascinating. Francesca Heart's 'Eurybia' is a whimsically detailed study of micro-sounds amplified on a macro scale.

about the cassette

Eurybia is the second solo album by Italian artist Francesca Heart. The result of a compositional process that began in summer 2020. It is the product of a series of intimate imaginary projections and aural engagements with a number of geographical sites scattered across the Italian landscape. Places which have resonated with Francesca during various personal travels and pilgrimages, due to their extramundane and often even mystic significance. The most outstanding and iconic being the cloisters and gardens of San Gregorio Armeno’s monastery in Naples and the Nympheum of Villa Giulia in Rome.

The whole record seems to bring the listener constantly together with the overwhelming, tender presence of the surrounding environment. Seemingly permeated with a feeling of refreshing musky moistures or textured with soft, wet soil, Eurybia reminds us of walking barefoot near the lush architecture of some ancient, overflowing fountain or amidst the continuous flows of shallow rivers’ bedrocks informing the album with strong physical, sensory qualities. Myth, senses, and imagination become anchors of artistic and healing expression as well as forms of romantic escapism from an ever complex world.

On the whole, Eurybia's seven tracks alternate dense enmeshment of sounds and melodies with sparse, forthright single-instrumental devotional hymns, working as a personal cartography of ephemeral audio monuments to human, transcendental, and mythographic landscapes. Influences connected by means of nuanced ascendance going from classical New Age music and video game soundtracks to digital phone ringtones. The fluttering arpeggios used as the main compositional device coalesce together into an experience of relaxing trance which is yet a glaring, audacious work.

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