"Captivating avant-garde new-wave... charmingly ensures via an 80s call-and-response style throwback; with an ensnaring melody" ~ Post-Punk.com
"Dynamic and exciting... a clear indication of how original and passionate, if not also complex, their artistic vision can be" ~ The Spill Magazine
"An addictive necromantic mood" ~ Amplify Music Magazine
"Chilling and fiery… Stellar offering" ~ Big Takeover Magazine
"A dark delicious slice of darkwave excellence" ~ Skylight Webzine
"Charismatic and talented... avant-garde sensibilities and diverse influences, delivering music that is unique and haunting" ~ The Record Stache
Postpunk-darkwave-electro trio VONAMOR presents their pulsating and enthralling new single 'You the People'. Recalling the best dark pop of the '80s, this is the second taste of their impending debut 'VONAMOR' album, an 8-track collection produced by Lucio Leoni and being released via Time To Kill Records (TTK).
The hypnotic fast-paced videoclip features dystopian imagery depicting the messed-up and borderline world in which we live. The sound weaves together stories of men, power and protest worldwide to sharp dialogue between male and female, voiced in English and Italian. Colours and pounding images mesh with archive footage of clashes between people and power, men and progress, technology and freedom, as flashes of our modern world strike your retina.
“Through our darkwave music and words, we search for the question, the ambiguity, the multiform influence of a variety of demons. We feel the urgency of questioning ourselves, our fellow human beings and the reality around us," says Giulia Bottaro.
"At first it may seem you are watching the videoclip for 'You the People', but the more you go on, you may feel that the video itself is watching you - and you are there, at the very intersection between we and you, between past and present, between desire and fear, between sound and colour."
'You The People' underlines VONAMOR's dialecticism and style, as well as their will to convey originality and sensuality, even when menacing, with passion and intensity. Eternally playing with words and sounds, they never lose sight of the rhythmic, Dyonisian and captivating soul of their electro dark, post-punk vision.
This single follows the lead track 'Take Your Heart', which has been met with international acclaim, and its intriguing video, directed and edited by Fabio Santomauro. Last year, the trio released the singles 'Never Betray Us' and 'Fast-Forward Girl'.
VONAMOR is made up of sisters Giulia Bottaro, Francesca Bottaro and Luca Guidobaldi, with Francesco Bassoli and Martino Cappelli joining the trio for live performances. The band's roots date back to 2016 in Rome. Initially focused on communicating images and composing scores for short films, they morphed into the trio we know today with their style, literary echoes, imperious art-pop and enigmatic aesthetics.
“VONAMOR is an escape plan, our treasure island, a thick and savage jungle that gives you the chance to let your prayers and whispers reverberate like a church. We used the music in this album to walk paths that we hadn’t known before, to connect Rome to Paris to Berlin to Beijing, to mix techno music with folk, to let our voices and bodies mingle and dance to an incredibly weird yet familiar beat, and finally to search for a boom of love and light into the dark of our everyday life: yes, VONAMOR is a boom!" says Luca Guidobaldi.
'You The People' is available across online stores and streaming platforms, including Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, Spotify and elsewhere. On February 18, the full-length album will be released, both digitally and on CD, and can be pre-ordered directly from Time To Kill Records.
CREDITS
Music and lyrics written and performed by VONAMOR ©℗ 2020
Giulia Bottaro (vocals, bass, metal flute)
Francesca Bottaro (drum station, sequencer, saxophone, clarinet, synth)
Luca Guidobaldi (vocals)
Francesco Bassoli (LP - guitars and loops)
Martino Cappelli (live performances - guitars, mandolin, bouzouki, oud, loops).
Edited by VONAMOR
Recorded in Rome at Monkey Studio & L'Albero Recording Studio by Lucio Leoni & Luca D’Aversa
Artistic production, sound engineering and mixing by Lucio Leoni - Lapidarie Incisioni
Mastering by Elephant Mastering
Art direction and design by Francesca Bottaro
Photography by Marco Stramaglia
Label and physical distribution: Time to Kill (TTK) Records
Digital distribution: Believe Intl
Artistic production by Lucio Leoni. Digital distribution by Believe International
Label and physical distribution by Time to Kill (TTK) Records
Video direction, editing on 'Take Your Heart' by Fabio Santomauro
Video direction, editing on 'You The People' by Francesca Bottaro
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