"May the name of God not 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 is a singer-songwriter with a style that blends signature writing, sound exploration, and an openness to cinematic and narrative dimensions. Her work unfolds at the intersection of word and landscape: she constructs expressive spaces where the voice becomes material, presence, and direction. As a songwriter and performer, she has released three albums, developing an increasingly essential and distinctive style of writing, oriented toward depth, subtraction, and a constant openness to new forms. With LÙMIA, together with Emanuele Contis, she develops a project in which word, sound, and the interrelationships between the elements become central, giving rise to a language that explores the boundaries between song and soundtrack.

Emanuele Contis is a composer, producer, and musician with a language that blends contemporary improvisation, jazz influences, electronic experimentation, and film music. His work unfolds at the intersection of musical composition and cinematic dimension: he constructs soundscapes in which sound becomes space, atmosphere, and narration. As a film composer, he has developed a keen sensitivity to the relationship between sound and image, between form and space, which is also reflected in his artistic output, oriented toward depth, subtraction, and an openness to the unexpected. With LÙMIA, together with Ilaria Porceddu, he has developed a project in which composition, improvisation, and the interrelationship between elements are central, giving rise to a language that explores the boundaries between song and soundtrack.

(Unioneonline)

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