De Sidera, by Andrea Burelli

De Sidera

by Andrea Burelli

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Marc Ngui De Sidera presents lush sedative synth magic punctuated by haunting vocals evoking the luminous goth of early 4AD acts This Mortal Coil, Dead Can Dance and The Cocteau Twins. Really quite lovely music to watch sunsets to.

Frederic Weill Up to date I just listened to the title track De Sidera and love it.....synphonic, a little melancholic ambient techno of the finest art....The track of the year 2020 <3

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1.	Mediterraneo 06:42	buy track
2.	De Sidera 05:32	buy track
3.	Ultimi Raggi 04:32	buy track
4.	In Pezzi Sopra La Tua Pelle 04:10	buy track
5.	Aquilone Perduto 01:38	buy track
6.	Cum Sidera 05:22 video	buy track
7.	Natura Domina 05:12	buy track
8.	Cuore Di Piume 03:17 video	buy track
9.	Leggeri Come Cenere 04:06	buy track

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“This is the first time I have lived in Italy since I was fifteen,” says experimental electronic musician Andrée Burelli - who previously performed as Bodyverse. She’s musing on the inspirations of her patient, nurturing new album De Sidera - “and I am overwhelmed by the beauty of its nature, landscapes, and cultural roots.” Having temporarily moved from Berlin to Sardinia in her native Italy to record music between 2019 and 2020 (she was born in Venice) - the mediterranean has taken on renewed significance. De Sidera is Burelli’s first album with Italian titles, written and recorded in Italy, inspired by the land she inhabited at the time of recording.

Though any and all vocals on De Sidera are wordless, language is central to the album. “I try to make my vocalisms sound like words,” she explains, “but it is a kind of invented language. Somehow the form, the signifier, is enough to express meaning, sense, emotion.” Burelli notes that this concept has resonance with her practice in Greek and Turkish music, in which wordless vocals and instrumental improvisations are common. This is front and center on a song like the title track “De Sidera,” where Burelli’s rising and falling vocals dance atop an undulating, contemplative bassline - close your eyes, and the clear tides of the Mediterranean lap at the sand - her wordless intonations guiding you to a tranquil state.

Burelli remarks that the songs with singing are full productions - “De Sidera” and “Cum Sidera,” but there are also compositions that came from improvisation - the love and usage of looping emerging from her studies in tabla and Hindustani classical music. Songs like “Mediterraneo” and “Cuore Di Piume” are fully loop-based, slowly adding shimmering, melodic layers as the compositions unfold. Others like “Natura Domina” are glacial musings, spilling gentle melodies and cascading piano sounds across the compositions.

De Sidera was conscientiously composed and recorded in a confined area, one surrounded by natural wonder - perhaps because of that it is especially introspective, considering Burelli’s place in her mother landscape. “I closed myself in a special, intimate, creative place,” she says. “I watched the sunset through my window every afternoon during the mild winter in a town between mountains and sea.” Burelli surrenders to the natural world and the ineffability of words - on De Sidera she shares the gem of universality she discovered while doing so.

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released October 16, 2020

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