SingleRelease date:
28.08.2026
Federico Albanese, Francesca Guccione
Shadow Land, Pt. 1 Revisited
"Shadow Land Part 1 Revisited" is the second single from Federico Albanese's upcoming "The Blue Hour" 10th Anniversary EP. Originally released ten years ago, the piece has remained a constant part of Albanese's live repertoire ever since. In this new version, violinist Francesca Guccione adds a delicate new voice, opening a fresh perspective on music that has continued to evolve with him over the years. The anniversary EP is not simply a return to "The Blue Hour", but a reflection on what these pieces have become after a decade of performance, change and rediscovery.
Federico Albanese
In his childhood Federico practiced the piano and clarinet, whereas as an adolescent he focused on playing the guitar, with which he could establish as a leading protagonist in the underground scene of Milan after studying contrabass. In 2007 he founded the avant-garde-duo "La Blanche Alchimie" with his girlfriend, the singer-songwriter Jessica Einaudi. With this duo he released three albums, could reach international attention and prospered. Also as a composer for advertisements, film and television he could achieve a major success. His scores got used for example in the international film production "Shadows In The Distance" (2012), "Alles im grünen Bereich" (2014) or the documentary "Cinema Perverso" (2015) of the television broadcaster ARTE.
Federico’s debut album as an solo-pianist got released in 2014, titled as "The Houseboat and the Moon". In his new release "The Blue Hour" in 2016 he presents crisp, very dynamic and complexly arranged compositions.
Photo: Beniamino BarreseFrancesca Guccione
Fascinated from the very beginning by the relation between sound and image, she combined her violin studies with those in composition and film scoring, earning a Master's Degree in this discipline with the highest grades.
Her love for travelling lead her to perform in many cities around the world, including New York, Toronto, Dublin and Alexandria of Egypt.
In 2021 she released for the French label Whales Records, her first album of neoclassical music, “Muqataea”, featuring the famous cellist and composer Giovanni Sollima as the artistic director of the project; afterwards, several international artists, including Robot Koch, Julien Marchal, Hélène Vogelsinger and Throwing Snow made several reworks of some of the tracks on this album. Also for Whales Records, in 2022 she released the EP “Utopia Aerial View”, produced in collaboration with Moog Music. In addition to Whales Records she also collaborates with other record labels, including the Canadian Enjou Music, for which she released three singles, the French InFiné Music, for which she released a rework of the track “Hysope” by Arandel, and the German labels Modularfield and 7K! Records with which she released the single "Mare Tranquillitatis" included in the collection "String Layers Vol. II". In September 2024 she released her second album, "The Geometry of Time," for the Berlin-based record label Neue Meister. The album was preceded by two arrangements for strings and analog synthesizers of two tracks by the Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson.
On invitation from Moog Music she performed at Superbooth 22 in Berlin, where she presented an original composition for violin and analog synthesizers; this experience lead to a collaboration that continues to this day.
In 2023 she collaborated on the soundtrack of the film "Lubo," by Italian director Giorgio Diritti, which features Franz Rogowski as the lead actor. The film competed at the 80th Venice Film Festival being highly praised by the jury. She also collaborated on the soundtrack for the Finnish film "Death Is a Problem for the Living", which was presented in competition at the Rome Film Festival 2023.
She’s s currently a researcher at the Francesco Venezze Conservatory of Rovigo, where she’s researching the life and musical production of Jóhann Jóhannsson.
Her creativity is poetic and suspended between reality and imagination; a gateway to hidden worlds.More releases
