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Marta del Grandi

Italian vocalist and songwriter Marta Del Grandi worked primarily as a jazz singer throughout the 2010s before venturing into compositional art pop influenced by a mix of the American 1960s West Coast sound, exotica, and the soundtracks of Ennio Morricone and David Lynch. With lyrics based on similarly out-of-the-ordinary, often mythic inspirations, she released her full-length pop debut, the intimate Until We Fossilize, in 2021. She expanded her sound into deeper crevasses on the more personal Selva in 2023. Born in Italy, Del Grandi was working as a jazz singer based in Ghent, Belgium at the time she appeared on the Musica Jazz compilation Porsche Live: Giovani e Jazz 2011 with her quartet with Claudio Phan, Emanuele Serra, and Marco Giongrandi in 2012. As part of the Kobe Boon-founded improvisational collective Mòs Ensemble, she sang on 2019's self-released Limbs. By that time, she was already working on solo material that reflected a departure from her background in collaborative jazz. Del Grandi signed with indie label Fire Records for her solo debut album, November 2021's Until We Fossilize. It was self-produced back in Italy with a mix of orchestral and electronic elements, and featured drums and synths by Shahzad Ismaily, who also mixed the album from Brooklyn. Inspired by extensive travel in the late 2010s, its title referred to myths surrounding the marine fossils at the peak of the Himalayas. Recorded in Ghent, the more personal follow-up, Selva, was co-produced by Bert Vliegen (Sophia, Whispering Sons) and featured a slightly sturdier, more bass-heavy sound albeit still delicately textured. It arrived on Fire Records in October 2023.
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