No Room For Squares Session 46: Silvia Tarozzi – Mi Specchio E Rifletto
Monday, April 21 @ 6:30 PM
Silvia Tarozzi, inspired by the poet Alda Merini and her studies with composer Garret List, worked with intimate personal history to write songs of love, motherhood, and the mystery hidden behind the curtain of everyday life. Over the course of nearly a decade, Tarozzi practiced setting the poetry of Alda Merini to music and then replacing it with her own to reflect her own life experiences. As a result, „Mi specchio e rifletto“ feels both poetic and earnestly autobiographical.
A longtime collaborator of Eliane Radigue and a talented free improvisor, Tarozzi inspires as sensitive awareness while echoing progressive music forebearers. Past masterpieces reverberate throughout: the gentle chamber explorations of Penguin Cafe Orchestra, the science fiction of Franco Battiato’s ‘Fetus’, the abstract free jazz flourishes of Maria Monti’s Il Bestiario, the sweetness of Caterina Caselli’s Primavera.
« […] Tarozzi first set poems by Italian writer Alda Merini to music (Merini’s ‘Aphorisms’ contains the lines: “I sample sin as if it were/ the beginning of well-being”) then removed those words and replaced them with her own lyrics. The songs now have the same luxurious and gauzy unreality that I love Battiato and Monti for, structured as if Tarozzi is crafting intimate emotional dioramas. She tiles miniature rooftops in sung patterns; wiry shrubbery in plucked strings; shapes of birds in watercolour skies with soaring vocals and synthesizer washes of colour. I grow more attached to it each day.» (Jennifer Lucy Allen, The Quietus)
The bar opens at 6:30 PM. Needle drop at 8:30 PM.
No reservations.
Table charge of 5€ p.P.
We ask for silent listening during the length of the main record.
Come early and/or stay late for a chat and a drink!