The way Alessandra Novaga’s voice winds through an ever-growing sonic maze is captivating, as though she’s gently holding us in the palm of her hand while the world grows darker. Her repeating melodies loop effortlessly in the sky atop crying strings and inquisitive guitar arrangements. Hypnotic atmospheres permeate every layer of this music, haunting the margins until everything is magic. Each strand of sound is heightened by the visual mosaic. “Tarkovsky’s films have recurring elements like water, marshy lands, there is a lot of nature, sometimes a brutal nature,” Novaga explains, drawing connections to this video. She continues, “There is mist, there is fog, there is cold. In ‘The Artistic Image Is Always a Miracle,’ the video artist Lorenzo Lupano edited and re-created all the footage shot in Tuscany on a cold February day … Here Tarkovsky filmed Nostalghia. Here Alessandra Novaga embodied his imagery.” The results are ghostly and beautiful, distilling the aural essence of “The Artistic Image Is Always a Miracle” into a new classic.
The Artistic Image Is Always a Miracle will be released on June 21 by Die Schachtel. Pre-order HERE.
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