BIOGRAPHY

Carlot-ta was born in 1990, in Vercelli, a little town in the north west of Italy. Her complex, formal music is built on a passionate, exuberant pianism, modal harmonies, sturm-und-drang interpretations. Her musical style has been described by critics as a mixture of sophisticated songwriting and pop attitude. Her songs often tell of animals, landscapes, trees, love and death in a romantic and dramatic way inspired by literature and science.

Carlot-ta started performing live in 2010; since then, she played in more than 400 clubs, theatres and festivals – including Liverpool Sound City, Paratissima Skopje, Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, Jazz:re:found, Torino Jazz Festival, JazzMi, Veneto Jazz, Festival dei due mondi – sharing the stage with National and International artists.

In 2011, her debut album Make Me a Picture of the Sun (Anna the Granny/Audioglobe, 2011) won a number of Italian music awards as Best Debut Album of the Year. In 2012, her song Pamphlet was chosen by Ford for a National advertising campaign. In 2014 she wrote some songs for the Italian movie La Luna su Torino by Davide Ferrario.

In 2013 Carlot-ta started collaborating with Rob Ellis – worldwide known for his work with PJ Harvey, Anna Calvi, Marianne Faithfull etc. – who produced her second album. Songs of Mountain Stream (Brumaio Sounds/Audioglobe, 2014), released on September 2014, has been inspired by Western Alps. Strings, piano, electronic drums coexist with unconventional and natural sounds – samples recorded in woods, rivers, and farms amongst the others – creating a strange microcosm: the artist personal Arcadia.

In 2016 Carlot-ta collaborates with Italian harpist and songwriter Cecilia, giving life to a side-project with the name of Doppelgänger.

Murmure (Incipit Recorpd/Egea Music, 2018) consists of 11 songs for pipe organ, vocals and drums/electronics. The album is produced by Paul Evans (Bedroom Community, Greenhouse Studio) and explores the range of timbers and possibilities of the traditional pipe organ in a songbook where dark and dramatic songs coexist with crooked or delicate ballades. The album is produced thanks to the contribution of SIAE and Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage.

Carlotta is part of Ant Mill collective, author of the a/v project Settima Estinzione preformed in some of the most important electronic festival in Italy (Nextones, RoBOt Festival). She also collaborates with Italian/Australian theatre company Cuocolo/Bosetti IRAA Theatre, creating music for unconventional theatrical performance (Le vie dei campi, Opera 3.0/soldi).

Carlotta has a PhD in Digital Humanities and is part of the research group on soundscape at SUPSI (University of Southern Switzerland).