'A Sad Song For A.' was born from a conversation between Stefano Gentile and Giulia Dal Vecchio about intense anxiety, translating an emotional state into words. From there, came the idea of dividing the emotional journey into four stages that, in one way or another, we have all experienced: Panic, Anxiety, Light, and Dream.

A project which combines writing, photography, and music with a specific goal: to make people feel less alone, creating an invisible thread of empathy through words, images, and sounds - to feel closer to one another, to strike common inner chords, to remember that no one is truly alone when going through darkness.

"A sad song for A." features Gigi Masin, Fabio Orsi, Anacleto Vitolo, and a new multimedia project called Hiseka (Stefano Gentile and Giulia Dal Vecchio with various guests). Each musician worked on a phase of anxiety, creating a dedicated and original work. Stefano created the images and Giulia wrote the texts. Each of the four parts was given a title that is also the title of the sound work:

CD1 (Panic): Anacleto Vitolo "Precipitando in un vortice di stelle malate" (Falling into a vortex of sick stars). Dark ambient with thunderous variations bursts, that bubbles with traces of noise... celestial synths, noisy cracks, rising beats (heart palpitations), abrasive roughness, an exhausting and relentless loop, hypnotic and obsessive percussion on a buzzing post-industrial backdrop.

CD2 (Anxiety): Hiseka "Affogando in un mare di polvere" (Drowning in a sea of dust). Laboured breathing in a drone dimension, pulsations in the silence, melancholically cosmic syntheses, a heart that returns to beating irregularly over a texture of field recordings, subdued Eno-esque panoramas, gentle and deeply solitary gravity touched by piano notes dirtied by glitches. Silences reign supreme.

CD3 (Light): Gigi Masin "Implodendo in una accecante oscurità" (Imploding in a blinding darkness). Sparkling sonic magic. Glimmers of light bounce off broad synthetic volutes, a bewitching ambient, airy quiet... a few veins of darkness shine through, aesthetic beauty equates to clear spirituality, sax and female voices, the elegy that intertwines piano and vocal loops, that omnipresent melancholy, nostalgia.

CD4 (Dream): Fabio Orsi "Ascoltando il rumore dei girasoli" (Listening to the sound of sunflowers). Escapist voluptuousness, in the wake of a reflective ambience, in a soft and vaporous form of post-rock, on a neutral drone base of lost melodies, yet romantic, caressing melancholy with a mild warmth, a cosmic thread that crosses the clouds, the utmost delicacy of rarefactions and celestial breaths between piano drops.

A beautiful, deluxe 4CD boxset (7.5" / 19cm), with each CD in its own printed sleeve. Also includes four individual 17x17cm booklets with photographs by Stefano Gentile and texts by Giulia Dal Vecchio, a hand numbered insert, a postcard and a bookmark. Ltd 300 numbered copies.