"a somber surrealism"
Italian harpist Floraleda (aka Floraleda Sacchi), on the voyage-esque, vast Oltremare (by Ludovico Einaudi) moves in interesting ways. As interpreted by Sacchi, the plucked notes push through the void, they sometimes feel, either through temperament or sonically, more like piano or even electric guitar. The narrative here will cast different images for anyone who listens but the experience will be a journey. For me it felt like a surreal one, somber and mysterious, dark and brooding. At one point, the falling notes scattering a bit in a dissonant way fall down a rabbit hole or sorts and I flashed on some of Thom Yorke's work. At other times, especially when the rhythm, the plucking slowed and you could hear hints of Floraleda's breathing I felt a baroque pop reticence and thought of vintage Tori Amos. The minimal sound, in the end, is so inviting, moving and powerful.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Floraleda is a musician, composer and producer who creates her own musical world blending acoustic harp and electronics, classical, minimal and pop.
Trained as a classical musician, she won 16 prizes at international competitions, received in 2018 a Latin Grammy - with the project Magica y Misteriosa for Harp and Strings -, played at Carnegie Hall New York and in top venues all around the world as one of the most sought-after harpist of her generation.
She recorded for Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, and then she created her recording label, Amadeus Arte, where she started writing her own music combining electronics, looper and fx pedals to the harp developing a unique sound and a new artistic identity. Her first project in this direction (Darklight, 2017), was on top of charts in several counties of the world.
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