Italian artist Michele Ducci unveils “Hic,” the third single off his debut solo album titled “SIVE,” to be released June 7, 2024 by UK label Monotreme Records.
‘Hic’ (Latin for ‘here’) is a more experimental departure from the rest of the album, fusing loose, percussive Beat poetry with ravaged vocals.
According to Ducci, “‘Hic’ came to visit me towards the end of SIVE’s recordings. I was listening to the tapes, it was night, the bathroom in the house had flooded and I had lost my voice. Not being able to continue recording the other songs because of the hoarse and broken voice I decided to make a new one exactly with hoarse and broken voice. I started improvising recording myself without instruments and only with what was left of my voice.”
“Keeping in mind as canvas some verses by the poet Henry De Régnier I began the musical navigation with this sort of indirect free speech that revolves around the Copernican question of a taking place = x, a ‘hic’ more than a ‘now’, not extensive, but intensive, which is the root of every extended space. An immense threshold which is like a shadow “qui se retire ou s’allonge, selon l’heure du jour qui croît ou du jour qui décline, Marque le cours du temps et la saison divine où l’aube est toujours claire et le soir toujours long.”
“In two hours the song was done with some addition of drums and piano. And the nine-song album became a ten-song album… And with my vocal exhaustion I happily looked upon it as a kind of bizarre drunken Armstrong. I am still grateful for that experience!!!!”
Accompanying the single is a video directed by Marco Catapano, which was filmed in Greece between Paxos and Corfu.
The album is available for pre-order HERE
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