Alalie by Agnese Amico

"Alalie is a ten track album of improvised music played on the hardenger fiddle and recorded at Cosmo: an apse in Giudecca in Venice with very lively acoustics. The work dwells on the sensation of alalie: the feeling of loss of words, thoughts and memories leading to an inability to interact with a certain environment. The album is an exploration of the feeling of alalie with my Sicilian and Norwegian home countries and playing with this sense of detachment. The music takes inspiration from the popular songs of those lands, without pretending to make them mine. The songs interact, like the smell of snow and figs melt together in one undefinable scent."
Notes by Agnese Amico - Padua - 2022
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released October 1, 2022

Recorded live without overdubs on the 16th January 2022 in Cosmo, Giudecca (Venice).

Recorded and pre-mixed by Emanuele Wiltsh Barberio.

Mixed and mastered by Elliott Sharp, Studio zOaR - NYC

Special thanks to Ragna and Trond Dahlen
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Published by zOaR Records

Agnese Amico is a Sicilian-Norwegian violinist based in Padova who juxtaposes the classical repertoire and work in orchestras and ensembles with the realm of improvisation in various formations as well as activities with Quartetto Obliquo, a contemporary string quartet. She has been playing the hardenger fiddle since 2020.