Witchwish – Alice

“Alice” is a debut single by Witchwish, a solo project of Italian singer, composer, producer, and video-maker Tarroni Stefano. With storytelling lyricism and Tim Burton-inspired visual aesthetics, this excellent music outlet draws you into an expansive sonic universe where all his songwriting, composing, arranging, and producing abilities shine in the limelight. Lyrically, “Alice” explores Lewis Carrol’s “Alice In Wonderland,” and dives deep into the themes of inner conflict as the artist tries to navigate the complexities of insomnia, self-doubt, and the pressures of balancing multiple creative endeavors. Sonically, Witchwish combines several different but complementary music genres to illustrate such luxuriant lyrical and sonic imagery. Perhaps alternative rock comes to mind first, but you’ll notice how some of the finest properties borrowed from emo, goth rock, indie rock, indie pop, and other similar music styles found their way into this sonic equation. Witchwish uses all these additional elements as more than necessary enhancements, accentuations, decorations, and other details to uplift his music to new heights while solely remaining loyal to the primary sonic direction. Therefore, “Alice” will unquestionably appeal to anyone looking for emotionally charged alternative rock music.

With the initial notes and beats, it becomes apparent that Witchwish poured heart and soul. Accompanied by his passionate, sincere, confident, powerful vocals, Stefano Tarroni provides emotional depth and complexity over an already intricate structure. His voice glides over all those instrumentations, emphasizing everything he intended to achieve with his debut song. The impressive vocal range seamlessly balances between low, mid, and high notes from scratch to finish, decorating each orchestration and segment with such precision and finesse. No matter if he’s in low or high registers, he emotionally conveys the message about his struggles, making “Alice” such a highly relatable composition that will unquestionably resonate with the broader auditorium. Sonically, “Alice” has a perfect structure, garnered with many profoundly detailed sections, brilliant ideas, and marvelous instrumentations. Each instrument has its place and purpose in this sonic equation, ensuring nothing but a tremendous listening experience worth repeating over again.

Without any doubt, the guitars reign supreme on this epic sonic journey. The comprehensive collection of cleverly assembled, catchy, memorable, engaging riffs and riffs shapes such a perfect backdrop for all the vocal articulations to shine upon. You’ll notice how the interplay between rhythm and leads resonates in the mix, offering such enjoyable sonic maneuvers that linger long after this song ends. Still, the synth acts as an actual leading instrument here, delivering mesmerizing, ethereal, otherwordly leads, themes, melodies, and harmonies that provide adequate complexity to the track. These collisions between guitars and synths are tastefully and wisely constructed to appeal to even the pickiest music enthusiasts and those are the moments where Tarroni Stefano showcases his creative genius to the max. In the meantime, the equally intricate, vividly hearable, warm-sounding basslines rumble beneath all those orchestrations, providing more than necessary heaviness, clarity, and depth while binding guitars and synths to the rhythmic patterns. The excellent drumming keeps the remainder of the instrumentations in the link while dictating groove and pace with expertly assembled, flawlessly performed, well-accentuated beats, breaks, fills, and other percussive acrobatics.

As you can see, Witchwish thought about everything while writing, composing, arranging, and producing. Perhaps “Alice” is his debut song, but you’ll get the impression you’ve been listening to the first single from his tenth album. It’s a wondrously written and composed piece that showcases all his knowledge, talent, and skills. With an impressive collection of various music genres at his disposal, he breaks all the rules and shapeshifts the boundaries of alternative rock, demonstrating his creative genius to the max. “Alice” is a marvelous number that you should immediately place on your music radar. The single is available on all streaming platforms. Don’t miss it!