Maria Valentina Chirico
Hallucinating Loss
In Hallucinating Loss, composer William Fowler Collins presents one hell of a cinematic record. Through a sweeping grandeur and telescoped gestures, he offers a poignant and powerful meditation on grief, loss, and sorrow. Completed before the 2020 pandemic besieged the US, this is an album that presages the conditions of anguish that many have felt throughout this very difficult season.
For this album, Collins furthers the connectivity between film and sound by recruiting his friends and colleag…
Initiale / Quanno Nascette Ninno
** Edition of 150 copies. Pressed on classic black vinyl in hand assembled sleeve, including insert with texts ** Invisibilia Editions presents Initiale / Quanno Nascette Ninno by Maria Valentina Chirico. Cover photo by Sophie Anne Herin. "The music of Initiale is based on the verses of poet Rainer Maria Rilke and inspired by the melody of a carillon I owned as a child. This melody created a connection with the invisible and accompanied me into the world of dreams. Quanno Nascette Ninno is a son…
Folk Tapes
** Edition of 100 copies. Gold print on high-quality natural cardboard. 2021 Stock ** A collection of dreamy, ambient-folk songs composed in solitude by Maria Valentina Chirico. Her arrangements include tape loops and field recordings created by Andrea Penso (a frequent collaborator who was originally part of Canti Magnetici label and is now active as Invisibilia editions), the voice of her 11-year-old friend and collaborator, Marta Arbarello, and bass by Michele Anelli, a charismatic figure in …