Today, Olmo reveals his brilliant new album ‘The Trunk’ including focus track ’25‘
Check the album in full HERE & watch the accompanying video HERE
Impossible to box, this nine track body of work is an impressively unique record that will stay with you, long after you’ve finished listening to it.
“My music is about creating a temporary dream space that people can escape into. It’s a safe place where complex issues are sweetened up and turned into these little ear worms.”
Bearing an escape route from the trials of daily life, the world through Olmo’s music is much more palatable, even when he’s tackling the heaviest of issues.
The Trunk
1. Tornerai
2.My Friend Amer
3. Whatever Works
4. Pigs
5. Prince Harming
6. Dream Boat
7.These Waves
8.25
9.Michelangelo
Earlier this year Olmo shared ‘Dream Boat’a sonically cheerful track about finding a way to keep your dreams afloat amid choppy waters. Olmo explained more: “Dream Boat is a cheerful song about being miserable. The joyous mood of the song contrasts the dark narrative to portray the difference we often experience between what we feel inside and what we display on the outside when we are in an emotional abyss. This is especially common in men, who in the name of appearing strong have been pressured by society to not show vulnerability or weakness, which results in an inability to talk about one’s emotions or asking for help” The track was accompanied by a hypnotizing hand crafted music video featuring the longest recorded flipbook, that stands at an impressive 1700 pages! Watch it HERE.
More recently came ‘Whatever Works; which Under the Radar called a “a gorgeous and dreamy waltz” The soaring-single touches on what it means to listen, reflect and allow yourself willingly to be shaped by people and the world around you. The track comes as a love song, focusing on male fragility and the power that devotion can hold.
A natural experimentalist, Olmo might once have been driven by finding unique ways to combine frenetic drums with grandfather clock chimes and baby kicks (“Lungs”). However, The Trunk comes as a new chapter and it’s all about creating more direct harmonies that can be chanted out instinctively by audiences. “Pop is no longer this dirty word,” Olmo explains. “I think as I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized pop is whatever speaks profoundly to the most people.
Another favorite to be revealed today with the album is ‘My Friend Amer’, a track inspired by his friend and ex-housemate Amer who moved to Berlin from the Palestine territories. Sharing more Olmo explained: ;His experiences as a member of a country that isn’t recognized as a country gave me an insight into what it means to be a refugee in today’s world. His persecution his starts from inside his own home his and continues to follow him wherever he tries to resettle. With the help of the world’s superpowers, this oppression is often misrepresented or normalize by mainstream media and the west and this song explores that narrative.’
Influenced by a melting pot of artists such as Dylan, Nick Drake, and Beach House, the singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has subsequently inherited a soft-spoken, conversational way of singing that is rooted in dreamy instrumentation that sifts through folk, electronica, rock, and classical soundscapes.
Olmo (Francesco Lo Giudice) studied violin throughout his bilingual upbringing in Rome and London before turning to electronic composition whilst at Bristol University studying music. after graduation Olmo decided on a move to Berlin. “Bristol was a formative experience for me, but it was time to move on,” he says. Long days busking on the streets of Berlin became the place to forge new friendships, and the experience proved furtive for his imagination his – the Olmo project was born.
Last year Olmo took to writing, recording and producing new songs at his studio in Berlin, a room in a community art space (Artistania). The outcome is a body of work that consolidates his craft his as a meticulous producer and careful songwriter, confronting pressing social issues of our time, exploring mental health, the male ego as well as the eternal mystery of love.
Keep all eyes on Olmo as he shares these exceptional creations;
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