11 by Joanna Gemma Auguri

Joanna Gemma Auguri's new album was recorded on tape during the first Corona Lockdown. The number 11 stands for dreamers and idealists - and for new beginnings. One and one makes two, but each number remains alone, like two people who ultimately stand for themselves in this world, no matter how close they get.
The songs are an examination of loss, identity, and the ruptures we experience during our lives. The album is an analogue recording with as little editing as possible, and the use of nostalgic equipment conjures up the spirits of old times. Joanna`s voice is the axis around which everything revolves. It is mainly accompanied by the accordion, whose sound resembles a church organ and creates an orchestral and spiritual tension, or the zither and cello, which wind themselves around the depth of her words. The throbbing slowness and the sparse arrangements seem almost cathartic. There is a distinctive nature in her way to sing to the audience, an invitation into a private world where a broken heart can beat at its own pace. The result is as intimate as a live concert, an authentic and pure work with delicate and disarming honesty. Joanna Gemma Auguri breaks out of traditional songwriting and invents her own form of expression. Because music to her is a transformation that lets us see, that through the greatest pain, life still holds us tight. "Baby, you can not control it, it will swallow you anyway" (Molecules of Light).
"I wanted to create something true and unvarnished, as raw as i felt during this year, with all the cracks and contradictions as a contrast to this polished and digital world - says Joanna. 11 is a remarkable album in which the soliloquies of the unconscious find their way from the depths to the shimmering surface of a dark water: fragile, haunting and full of power.

Joanna Gemma Auguri is a musician, songwriter and actress. In the various stages of her musical solo and band projects, she incorporates influences from folk, ambient and avant-garde music.

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