Silvia Tarozzi - Lucciole

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Silvia Tarozzi 2020s Art Song First Release

Description

Lucciole is Silvia Tarozzi’s luminous follow-up to the intimate reflections of Mi specchio e rifletto and the deeply rooted folk dialogues of Canti di guerra, di lavoro e d’amore with Deborah Walker. Here, Tarozzi draws together voices, memories, and musical lineages to create an album where avant-garde composition, personal narrative, and collective resonance exchange freely.

The album opens with a radiant brass ensemble—chosen for its popular, celebratory, spiritual sound—and closes with the Piccolo Coro Angelico, the children’s choir she has worked with for over fifteen years and calls “my best school of composition and a constant gym of hope.” Between these bookends, Tarozzi’s songs trace life’s transitions with a rare tenderness: childhood into adolescence, health into fragility, presence into absence.

Two central songs—her own “Lucciole” and a glowing live-in-studio cover of Milton Nascimento’s “River Phoenix”—honor a beloved friend whose life and presence evoke new horizons. “Corallo e perle,” inspired by a dream her grandfather had after her grandmother’s passing, becomes a gentle, dreamlike meditation on the persistence of love.

The strings, voices, and melodic contours that define Mi specchio e rifletto reappear here with new warmth and depth. Produced by Tarozzi in close collaboration with Marta Salogni, who engineered and mixed the album, Lucciole carries a clarity, intimacy, and sonic generosity that reflect their shared journey through the recording process.

At its heart, Lucciole is an album about small lights carried through moments of transition—an invitation to listen closely to the places where life changes, and to the people, living and remembered, who illuminate the way.

Track List

DIGITAL TRACK LIST

1. ∞8∞ (2:19)
2. Frutti acerbi (2:30)
3. L’airone (3:58)
4. Brass on the rocks (1:56)
5. Sun (3:53)
6. La quercia (4:38)
7. Code (2:22)
8. Lucciole (3:18)
9. Corallo e perle (3:59)
10. River Phoenix (3:37)
11. Le ossessioni (5:31)
12. Distratta (2:50)
13. Perdutamente (2:56)
14. Un motivo per tornare (2:58)
15. Distratta (Reprise) (1:49)

Credits

1. ∞8∞ — Mattia Marangon (horn); Pasquale Paterra (trumpet); Federico Pierantoni (trombone); Silvia Tarozzi (midi brasses); Massimo Simonini (field recordings, turntables)

2. Frutti acerbi — Silvia Tarozzi (voice, field recording); Pasquale Paterra (trumpet); Mattia Marangon (horn); Federico Pierantoni (trombone); Giancarlo Bianchetti (classical guitars)

3. L’airone — Silvia Tarozzi (voice, keyboard, midi guitars); Valeria Sturba (voice, theremin); Cecilia Stacchiotti (Wurlitzer electric piano); Stefano Pilia (electric guitar); Edoardo Marraffa (tenor saxophone)

4. Brass on the rocks — Pasquale Paterra (trumpet); Mattia Marangon (horn); Federico Pierantoni (trombone); Freya Edmondes (electronics, voice)

5. Sun — Roberto Rossi (balafon); Massimo Simonini (prepared theremin—voices, flutes—manipulations, co-arrangement); Silvia Tarozzi (midi percussions, violin); Mariangela Finarelli (cello); Fabrice Villard (clarinet); Amélie Berson (flute)

6. La quercia — Silvia Tarozzi (voice, keyboards)

7. Code — Edoardo Marraffa (tenor saxophone); Massimo Simonini (field recordings); Silvia Tarozzi (midi violin)

8. Lucciole — Silvia Tarozzi (voice, accordion, violin); Valeria Sturba (voice); Christian Pruvost (trumpet); Pasquale Paterra (trumpet); Edoardo Marraffa (tenor saxophone); Stefano Pilia (electric guitar, electric bass); Cecilia Stacchiotti (keyboard, piano)

9. Corallo e perle — Silvia Tarozzi (voice, violin, synth); Valeria Sturba (theremin); Cecilia Stacchiotti (Wurlitzer electric piano)

10. River Phoenix — Silvia Tarozzi (voice); Stefano Pilia (electric guitar); Valeria Sturba (voice, theremin); Cecilia Stacchiotti (bansuri flute); Edoardo Marraffa (tenor saxophone)

11. Le ossessioni — Silvia Tarozzi (voice, keyboards, synth, violin); Valentina Magaletti (drums); Amélie Berson (flute); Valeria Sturba (violin); Pasquale Paterra (trumpet); Mattia Marangon (horn); Federico Pierantoni (trombone)

12. Distratta — Silvia Tarozzi (voice, violin); Valeria Sturba (whistle, theremin); Cecilia Stacchiotti (keyboard, Wurlitzer electric piano); Mattia Marangon (horn); Federico Pierantoni (trombone)

13. Perdutamente — Silvia Tarozzi (voice, violin); Valeria Sturba (violin); Marianna Finarelli (cello); Cecilia Stacchiotti (Fender Rhodes, keyboard); Edoardo Marraffa (tenor saxophone); Stefano Pilia (electric bass); Massimo Simonini (radio, prepared theremin—various sounds—co-arrangement of the coda)

14. Un motivo per tornare — Silvia Tarozzi (toy zither, violin, synth); Cecilia Stacchiotti (Fender Rhodes); Stefano Pilia (electric guitar); Edoardo Marraffa (tenor saxophone)

15. Distratta (reprise) — Piccolo Coro Angelico (children choir); Angelica Foschi (piano); Silvia Tarozzi (violin)

All music and lyrics by Silvia Tarozzi, except River Phoenix by Milton Nascimento (Italian translation by Silvia Tarozzi)

Recorded by Marta Salogni at Fonoprint Studio, Bologna (Sept 2023).
Additional recording (Mar 2023–May 2024):
• Roberto Rossi recorded by Bruno Germano at Vacuum Studio, Bologna
• Valentina Magaletti recorded by Cathy Lucas at Studio Ovo, London
• Christian Pruvost, Amélie Berson, Fabrice Villard recorded by Benjamin Maumus at Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse
• Freya Edmondes recorded at home studio, somewhere
• Silvia Tarozzi’s voice on La quercia recorded by Claudio Adamo at Fonoprint Studio
• Giancarlo Bianchetti recorded at home studio, somewhere else
• Distratta (reprise) recorded live by Lorenzo Bini at Angelica | Festival Internazionale di Musica, Centro di Ricerca Musicale / Teatro San Leonardo, Bologna
• Silvia Tarozzi’s keyboards, toy zither, accordion, synth recorded at home studio, elsewhere

Mixed by Marta Salogni at Studio Zero, London (June 2024), except Distratta (reprise) mixed by Enrico Capalbo at Fonoprint Studio (Dec 2024)

Mastered by Enrico Capalbo at Fonoprint Studio, Bologna (Dec 2024–Feb 2025)

Supported by Fonoprint Studio – Emilia-Romagna Region, within Music Law L.R. 2/2018 (year 2025), CUP E39G24000620009

Executive Producer: Tommy McCutchon – Unseen Worlds
Produced by: Silvia Tarozzi
Co-produced & compiled by: Massimo Simonini

Thanks: Marta Salogni, Massimo Simonini, Oderso Rubini, Giacomo Golfieri, Valeria, Cecilia, Stefano & Edoardo (a great band), Romeo Celeste, Angela Chahoud, Angelica Centro di Ricerca Musicale, the Piccolo Coro Angelico children, and all the wonderful musicians & technicians who took part. Thanks to Tommy and his tenacity.

Press

In case you were looking for a track to make you feel like you’re living inside a Wes Anderson film, this is the one... All in all, it’s delightfully approachable.

Adria Kloke, KCRWLink

About Silvia Tarozzi

Silvia Tarozzi is a violinist, composer and improviser. The oral transmission of music and the form created through a deep immersion into the sound are traits of her musical research. She has been in a duo with Italian cellist Deborah Walker for about 15 years, and has been the violinist of the French ensemble Dedalus since 2006. She has closely collaborated with and performed work by composers such as Éliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, Pascale Criton, Cassandra Miller, Martin Arnold, Pierre-Yves Macé, Philip Corner.

Silvia started composing and improvising at the same time, starting from her experience as an interpreter and through a process of opening up to more creative musical approaches. In 2009 she began to write songs inspired by Italian poetress Alda Merini which became the album Mi specchio e rifletto.

She has been working with the French composer Pascale Criton since 2010 on the technical and expressive possibilities of a violin tuned in sixteenths of tone. From this research comes Circle Process for microtonal violin, which was presented at numerous international festivals. Since 2011 Silvia has also regularly collaborated with Éliane Radigue, becoming one of the main interpreters of her compositional cycle Occam Océan for acoustic instruments and creating numerous works ranging from the violin solo Occam II to chamber music, performing with many of Éliane’s interpreters.

Since 2011, Silvia has also coordinated, with Giovanna Giovannini, the activities of the children choir Piccolo Coro Angelico. This project focuses on vocal research and experimentation, bringing children to an open and creative approach to music since the beginning of their musical experience. We conceive that art is a inclusive concept that depends only minimally on technical competence and which instead helps children to develop their skills and talents.