Michele Ducci from M+A unveils “River,” the first single taken from his first solo album “SIVE,” due for release on June 7, 2024 worldwide on Monotreme Records.
Tracklisting
1. River
2. Here You Are
3. Matter of Today
4. Just Because
5. Feelings
6. Nonesome
7. Secondfirstime
8. You Lay the Path by Walking on It
9. Hebrides
10. Hic
Michele Ducci was the ‘M’ in the electro-pop duo M+A, who released two albums on Monotreme Records, the second of which, These Days, earned the band a place in The Guardian’s ‘best new bands of 2014’ list and saw them perform live on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury and at the Venice Biennale.
For his debut solo album, SIVE, Michele takes a more stripped back, intimate approach, focusing primarily on piano and his beautifully expressive voice. River, the first single, is a poignant ballad that winds along like its title, opening with the quiet intimacy of hushed vocals and piano and detailing the time he desired to leave the music world behind: “They call my name but I’m a river”.
About the song, Michele says: “I was in New York for musical reasons in a situation of psychic and metropolitan traffic, in which every mention of my name in relation to the artistic career and the pressures of that world had nothing to do with music, I was so saturated that i could feel myself only in the moving waves of the Hudson River. “You and I”, I said to myself, ” are from the same origin.”
Stream/purchase the single: https://orcd.co/o2oj641
Pre-order the album: https://monotremerecords.limitedrun.com/products/758779
Credits:
Michele Ducci – vocals and all instruments
Letizia Mandolesi – backing vocals on all tracks
Music and Lyrics by Michele Ducci
Artwork by https://instagram.com/letizia_______michele
UK press: Cannonball PR – terry@cannonballpr.com
Europe press: Five Roses Press – agent.julien@fiverosespress.net
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