Carla Patullo can capture worlds and layers that you can’t visit very often. Imagine yourself to enter this portal only for a brief period, to experience the storytelling she creates. Her latest album processes complex emotions like grief, exploration and transformation-by taking you through an otherworldly experience. The GRAMMY® award-winning artist checks several boxes with her latest album, a concept that is retained by soul. This one is called Nomadica.
Opening with the sonically heavy textured number Our Love Is, there is a cinematic layer in how Carla Patullo composes her music. You can imagine the visual conjure up in front of you-deriving volume and suddenly becoming devoid of it as spaces come together. She designs the tracks with a certain passion-the first 2 becoming an output of her soul and mind through effective balance. As vocals trail off, strings take over the same space, almost mimicking the emotive ends of the song. She might present it as her being lost in the opening and finding something of value-where home appears as a beacon of hope.
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The ambience to delve into
I enjoyed A Handblown World for the way the lead builds into the environment-from the violin strings to how the choir like vocals build organically. Every step seems natural, not forced or “composed” in the traditional sense of the word. Carla Patullo is channelling this visual and emotive depth with the help of a quartet and musicians who understand the purpose behind the music. This is what cannot be generated, human experiences being reflected in this form of art. The gentle balance of piano with strings and vocals might retain itself as the narrator in all these tales. Carla just channels the epiphany to the right place.
Painting dreams with notes
The analogue universe of Undercurrent comes in next. It is a unique change in texture, building over a loop that slowly unravels itself in many characteristics. Vocals are the contrast the lead needs, as gentle and poetic as they sound. Scorchio Quartet and Tonality are the right partners on this canvas to visualise what Carla Patullo is wanting to depict. Leading from this to Isochronic Waves is unlike anything I will be able to explain. It is a tempo that leads from the heart, rather than a metronome guiding your way. Like the tides at an abandoned beach, it wears away at the sand to write something deeper than lyrics.
Whether the GRAMMY’S recognise Carla or no for this piece of art is immaterial. In her time composing for movies and truly knowing the genre she is able to express through back and forth-there is a reward of wanting to return to this song. As the tracks blend into each other or make cold stops to make you live each experience, you’ve been part of something bigger than yourself, with Nomadica:
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Self professed metalhead, moderately well read. If the music has soul, it's whole to me. The fact that my bio could have ended on a rhyme and doesn't should tell you a lot about my personality.
