Maria Chiara Argirò is preparing to release her follow-up to 2020's Flow with Forest City set to arrive on May 6 via Innovative Leisure. The trained pianist sublimely fuses the jazz and electronic music worlds, creating sprawling compositions that marry her poetic lyrics, looped vocals, and intricate rhythms. Today, she's shared the album's fourth single "Greenarp."
“‘Greenarp’ is about experiencing a beautiful natural scene and a reoccurring dream of being in nature,” she said about the track. “The dream is blurred together with the reality of waking up with, almost, at the end of the song—not knowing what’s real. I wrote the instrumental part mainly on my organelle arpeggio synth as I wanted to create an abstract sound layered with detuned synths into the production, in order to create a blurred and uncertain dreamlike soundscape.”
The song, which reconfigures Argirò's gentle vocals into meditative loops after she details the subtleties of the outdoors in abstract lyrics, is accompanied by a video directed by Laura-Lynn Petrick. The warm-colored visual finds Argirò embracing kisses from the sun and cold breezes in addition to some modest choreography.
Watch the video for "Greenarp" below and pre-order Forest City here.
