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Aspirin Sun

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Emma Tricca has announced the release of her new album Aspirin Sun due out 7th April via Bella Union and available to preorder now.

 

it don’t bother me /
good morning diner

 
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Following her acclaimed St Peter collection and successful opening slots for Nick Mason' Saucerful of Secrets, Robyn Hitchcock, and The Dream Syndicate, Emma Tricca was anticipating another busy and productive year.

Now she finds herself trying to ensure that remains so, whilst grappling with the restrictions of life under lockdown. The enforced downtime has found Emma reflecting on old favourites and major influences, leading her to revisit a recent recording, Bert Jansch’s ‘It Don’t Bother Me’, with the St Peter personnel (Pete Galub, Jason Victor, and Steve Shelley).

Stirred by what she heard, she passed it to Sean Read (Dexys, Edwyn Collins, Rockingbirds) at the Famous Times Studios, who added organ and horns and mastered the track. It’s always a good time to be reminding ourselves of Bert, and this impressive reading certainly serves him well.

From an initial, deliberate simplicity of guitar and voice, the track grows; organ, horns, and band reveal themselves in a full flowering replete with hues of baroque and psych. Coupled with ‘Good Morning Diner’ - a song she wrote some years back in Austin - an out-take from Relic, produced by Carwyn Ellis (Pretenders) to which Sean adds more magic, and restores Sharon Forbes' strings; it recalls a time when the limitations on our horizons were still no more than those on our dreams.

 
 

St. Peter

Moving from haunted demi-melodies and tenderly plucked guitar, imbued with tastefully echoing reverb and Tricca’s delicate voice, influenced by decades of classic Americana and folk but sounding like none of the above. Brimming with emotion, and thoroughly enchanting. Superb.
— Piccadilly Records, Manchester
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St. Peter does feel like the work of an artist who has found her voice in a most startling way. Her songwriting is of exquisite skill and she has surrounded herself with the perfect musicians to complement her expanding sensibilities.
— The Quietus Lead Album Review
Throughout the record, surface intimations of prettiness are shadowed by these ripples of drama—cinematic changes in tempo or tone. Tricca’s voice is that of a singer in transition, a traveller across time and space, genre and scene.
— Goldflakepaint.co.uk
 

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Biography

In life and music, Emma Tricca is an explorer. Just as ‪Davey Graham set sail for Morocco and ‪Vashti Bunyan for the Outer Hebrides in search of their elusive ‪muse, Rome-raised singer-songwriter Tricca has journeyed to London, New York, Texas and further afield to seek the heart of her own music. And like those renowned voyagers, she’s returned with a set of songs that refresh the tired old folk form. Tricca’s new album St Peter – created with a cast of supporting artists including global icon ‪Judy Collins, ‪Sonic Youth’s ‪Steve Shelley and Dream Syndicate guitarist Jason Victor – takes a bracing plunge into the unknown, leaving the folksinger tag far behind with a rolling collection of reverie-inducing raw diamonds.

It was encouragement from ‪Pentangle legend ‪John Renbourn that started Tricca on her lifelong path. An aspiring young player, she met Renbourn after a solo gig in Rome and impressed him with her fresh-cut songs. A move to the UK was inevitable, gigging around folk clubs first in Oxford and later in London, honing her craft as a songwriter and a fingerstyle guitarist. Extended stays in New York and Texas followed, before Tricca returned to London to begin work on her first melancholic masterpiece, 2009’s crystalline long-player Minor White.

The album was released on Bird Records, an offshoot of Finders Keepers run by husband and wife team ‪Jane Weaver and ‪Andy Votel, who’d been thrilled by Tricca’s talent (and her Italian leather boots) at the Green Man Festival in 2006. They secured her a show at ‪Jarvis Cocker’s Meltdown Festival in London, ensuring international exposure, a major European tour and a run of shows with her old friend Renbourn.

Five years later Tricca released Relic, an album even more poised and precise than its predecessor. Scoring rave reviews across the board – 4 stars in Record Collector and Mojo, 5 in Time Out – the album added gentle percussion and plaintive orchestration to the established pattern of hushed guitar and heartfelt vocals. A collaboration with longtime friend and guitar wizard Jason McNiff led to 2017’s sparkling Southern Star EP, while a song on the soundtrack of Patrick Stewart-starring US indie film Match raised her profile. But encouraged by Weaver – who urged her to ‘explore the weirdness’ in her music – Emma Tricca was hungry for a new challenge.

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The road to St Peter began with a chance meeting at South by Southwest between Tricca and producer and musician Jason Victor, and the formation of an instant friendship. During a Skype call one Christmas morning the pair decided to start work on a new project together, hauling in ‪Sonic Youth drummer ‪Steve Shelley and New York session player Pete Galub to help Tricca explore the rougher sound that was in her head. Recorded near-live at Echo Canyon West in Hoboken, the album draws on crunchy country rock, homespun psychedelia, Morricone soundtracks, New York underground grit and English folk grandeur to weave a wholly unique and surprising spell.

More musical guests soon joined the party – gruff songwriting hero ‪Howe Gelb put in a brief cameo, while Tricca was able to live out a childhood fantasy by inviting ‪Judy Collins to appear on the album’s penultimate cut, Solomon Said. As a teenage folkie Tricca had recorded one of Collins’s TV performances onto VHS, and worn the tape out trying to mimic her picking style. Now they were working together, on perhaps the album’s most startling, transporting track.

Released on April 2018 by London-based indie label Dell’Orso, St Peter is the culmination of a life steeped in music, a journey as much for the listener as its creator. Climb on board.

 

 

Albums

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Minor White

2009

Minor White is a debut album that sounds utterly uncontrived and effortlessly accomplished as a first collection of songs.
— Boomkat
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Relic

2014

Relic offers a wry, modern take on life while musically and melodically keeping one foot in the folk tradition.
— Record Collector
 

Videos

'Julian's Wings' by Emma Tricca on Dell'Orso Records. Directed by Julian Hand.

 

 'Salt' by Emma Tricca on Dell'Orso Records. Directed by Bobby Klang.

 

Contact

For all enquiries and bookings, please contact: info@emmatricca.com

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