Last month, we shared the news of Emma Tricca signing to Bella Union and details of her new album Aspirin Sun, out on 7th April. That announcement was accompanied by her first album single King Blixa. Today Emma shares a visually stunning video for her new single “Christodora House”.
The song is a homage to her late father, inspired by a historic settlement building in New York’s East Village that is inextricably interlinked with her paternal lineage. Tricca’s great uncle, an artist in New York, had painted the 16-storey building in the 1930s. When she stood outside its perpendicular lines in the summer of 2019, she was struck by this unusual orbit so many years later, standing in the same spot as her predecessor, coming to the profound realisation that she had come full circle.
The song comes accompanied by an extraordinary short film made by Francesco Cabras. Commenting on the track and video Cabras says: “When Emma and I discussed the song, its meaning and inspiration, I started to ‘see’ the building – Christodora House – as a portal into the unknown. I had footage I had filmed in three different continents that seemed to perfectly depict what Emma had felt and translated into song. Ancient, primitive buildings, a woman wandering in search of freedom from grief and finding peace. Influences of Bunuel, Parajanov, Jodorowsky, even Mario Bava and JesúsFranco, are very much present but ultimately, in assembling the sequence, I was pulled into the vortex of the crazy sounds, her voice and melody.”
Emma Tricca has recently announced news of a London headline show just after the release of the album, performing at The Grace in Highbury & Islington on Wednesday 19th April. Tickets are available here.