Michele Ducci has today premiered his new video for the track titled ‘Hic’ from his upcoming album ‘SIVE’ dropping June 7th (preorder HERE) via MonoTreme Records. As much a concoction as it is a concept, ‘Hic’ delves into the realms of sonic poetry and soundscape perception, almost to the point of playing a character.
An audio canvas, of sorts, ‘Hic’ is something designed to make you think as much is it hopes to make you feel on a guttural and subconscious level. Audio as art, if you will. It’s almost fitting that this was the last song recorded for ‘SIVE’ in that it feels like a closure, or maybe even an uneven epiphany, as unperfect as some of the meaning may be. But, in essence, it’s also telling you that closure is always out of reach. Everything comes down to ‘right here’.
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About Michele Ducci & ‘Hic’
‘Hic’ (Latin for ‘here’) is the third single from the debut solo album by former M+A and Santii member, Michele Ducci. The track is a more experimental departure from the rest of the album, fusing loose, percussive Beat poetry with ravaged vocals.
According to Ducci, “‘Hic’ came to visit me towards the end of SIVE’s recordings. I was listening to the tapes, it was night, the bathroom in the house had flooded and I had lost my voice. Not being able to continue recording the other songs because of the hoarse and broken voice I decided to make a new one exactly with hoarse and broken voice. I started improvising recording myself without instruments and only with what was left of my voice.“
“Keeping in mind as canvas some verses by the poet Henry De Régnier I began the musical navigation with this sort of indirect free speech that revolves around the Copernican question of a taking place = x, a ‘hic’ more than a ‘now’, not extensive, but intensive, which is the root of every extended space. An immense threshold which is like a shadow “qui se retire ou s’allonge, selon l’heure du jour qui croît ou du jour qui décline, Marque le cours du temps et la saison divine où l’aube est toujours claire et le soir toujours long.”
“In two hours the song was done with some addition of drums and piano. And the nine-song album became a ten-song album…And with my vocal exhaustion I happily looked upon it as a kind of bizarre drunken Armstrong. I am still grateful for that experience!!!!”
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https://www.instagram.com/michele_ducci/
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