Europe’s intriguing alternative / electro trioVONAMOR have released their debut‘VONAMOR’ albumThe album, which feels like we’ve finally reached the finish line, after having seen the band release single by single over the past year, including the latest one, ‘You the People’, and earlier ‘Take Your Heart’, as well as‘Never Betray Us’ and ‘Fast-Forward Girl’.
This record is a wonderful trip down the rabbit hole, with Alice wearing her best darkwave, post-punk and electro attire.
Through their pulsating, imaginative music, VONAMOR mixes fascinating contemporary electronic beats with dark, noise and punk sounds evocative of the ‘80s with the addition of melancholic and clever lyrics written in several different languages, including English, Italian, French, German and even Chinese. Now available digitally and on CD via Time To Kill Records (TTK), this album was produced by Lucio Leoni.
Track by track, the ‘VONAMOR’ album teases the audience with a wildly emotional trip around the world – through the stories of love, belonging, submission, protest, power, desire, abuse and the passion that affects our everyday lives. Here we find stories of femme fatales and fearful memories, of burning desires, motherly loves and fatal tragedies, falling empires and latent revolutions. Music about a messed-up world that is always moving too fast, yet makes us dangerously linger between reality and dystopia, sanity and madness. Music conveying the hope that we recover our true and authentic bond with mother nature and other human beings.
This ‘VONAMOR’ long-player is rich with musical brilliance, magnetic sensuality, unexpected twists, literary echoes and cinematographic references. Through an addictive vortex made of male and female voices, tongues, idioms, musical timbers, beats and pauses, VONAMOR come face to face with a multitude of demons, suggesting a change of perspective – to make you move, dance and, ultimately, love, leaving all restraints and conventions behind.
“Through our darkwave music and words, we search for the question, the ambiguity, the multiform influence of a variety of demons. We feel the urgency of questioning ourselves, our fellow human beings and the reality around us,” says Giulia Bottaro.
VONAMOR is made up of sisters Giulia Bottaro, Francesca Bottaro and Luca Guidobaldi, with Francesco Bassoli and Martino Cappelli joining in for live performances. This project started in 2016. Initially focused on communicating images and composing scores for short films, they morphed into the trio we know today with their style, literary echoes, imperious art-pop and enigmatic aesthetics.
‘You The People’ is available across online stores and streaming platforms at https://bfan.link/vonamor. On February 18, the full-length album will be released, both digitally and on CD, and can be pre-ordered directly from Time To Kill Records athttps://timetokillrecords.bigcartel.com/product/vonamor
CREDITS
Music and lyrics written and performed by VONAMOR ©℗ 2020
Giulia Bottaro (vocals, bass, metal flute)
Francesca Bottaro (drum station, sequencer, saxophone, clarinet, synth)
Luca Guidobaldi (vocals)
Francesco Bassoli (LP – guitars and loops)
Martino Cappelli (live performances – guitars, mandolin, bouzouki, oud, loops).
Edited by VONAMOR
Recorded in Rome at Monkey Studio & L’Albero Recording Studio by Lucio Leoni & Luca D’Aversa
Artistic production, sound engineering and mixing by Lucio Leoni – Lapidarie Incisioni
Mastering by Elephant Mastering
Art direction and design by Francesca Bottaro
Photography by Marco Stramaglia
Label and physical distribution: Time to Kill (TTK) Records
Digital distribution: Believe Intl
Artistic production by Lucio Leoni. Digital distribution by Believe International
Label and physical distribution by Time to Kill (TTK) Records
Video direction, editing on ‘Take Your Heart’ by Fabio Santomauro
Video direction, editing on ‘You The People’ by Francesca Bottaro
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