BIO
Charo Galura is an alternative pop singer, songwriter and producer based in London.
Her debut EP 'Life Through Apocalypse' was recorded in Italy and released in 2017. It is a vocal dreamscape, with a hint of bluesy and progressive rock sounds. The surrealist music imagery is filled with lyrical metaphors, describing the tumultuous time she was passing while writing the EP.
Charo then moved to London and she is now working on her next recording project, which will be entrirely produced by herself.
Charo would describe her music with a few lyrics from her single 'Life, Apocalypse & Rewind', "Petals fly from my mouth, they are drawing sounds", explaining how she makes music while visualising colours, shapes and images. In fact, her music was often described as cinematic pop by critics, and she often refers to the art of filmmaking as one of her main influences.
Her debut EP 'Life Through Apocalypse' was recorded in Italy and released in 2017. It is a vocal dreamscape, with a hint of bluesy and progressive rock sounds. The surrealist music imagery is filled with lyrical metaphors, describing the tumultuous time she was passing while writing the EP.
Charo then moved to London and she is now working on her next recording project, which will be entrirely produced by herself.
Charo would describe her music with a few lyrics from her single 'Life, Apocalypse & Rewind', "Petals fly from my mouth, they are drawing sounds", explaining how she makes music while visualising colours, shapes and images. In fact, her music was often described as cinematic pop by critics, and she often refers to the art of filmmaking as one of her main influences.
Interviews
ITA
Nel suo progetto solista compie un'operazione d'innesto spericolato: irrora, cioè, la strumentazione elettronica con la vocalità blues. Il risultato gioca, in modo magistrale, con l'enigma: del personaggio, di una voce quasi primigenia, del suono che galleggia in un liquido amniotico sonoro dove i sogni sono sempre al limite dell'incubo. Questa è l'atmosfera del suo primo singolo "Oh Lover"
ENG
In her solo project, Charo recklessly performs bluesy vocals on electronic instrumentation. The result masterfully plays with the enigma: of the character, of a voice that's kind of primitive, of a sound floating in waters where dreams are always at the limit of the nightmare. That's the atmosphere of her first single "Oh Lover".
A MODERN AMBIENT BLUES BLISS
ITA
La voce e i sospiri di Charo si diffondono in più strati, divenendo un valido strumento di espressione e catarsi. [...] "Life Through Apocalypse" è indubbiamente un Ep che convince per capacità di fondere sperimentazioni vocali e melodie pop, elettronica contemporanea e blues d'annata: non era facile portare l'ossimoro del titolo in musica, ma la missione di Charo Galura può ritenersi completamente riuscita.
ENG
Charo's voice and whispers spread over several layers, becoming a valid tool of expression and catharsis. [...] "Life Through Apocalypse" is certainly an impressive EP thanks to its ability of blending vocal experiments and pop melodies, contemporary electronic and vintage blues: it wasn't easy to bring the oxymoron of the title into the music, but Charo Galura's mission can be considered completely succesful.
Charo Galura is not the type of artist you would find in your feed regularly. Her work is more intricate and polished then what our current market is used to, it is nonetheless easy to digest once you discover the curating powers of her soulful waves.
ITA
“Life Through Apocalypse” è un suggestivo lavoro di contrasti, a partire dal titolo e colpisce anche per i riferimenti, probabilmente inconsci, a quelle ibridazioni che nella seconda metà degli anni ottanta si interrogavano sui confini della percezione identitaria.
ENG
"Life Through Apocalypse" is an evocative work of contrasts starting right from the title, and also striking for references - probably unconscious - to those hybridizations which have been questioning the boundaries of identity perception in the second half of the Eighties.
ITA
"Life Through Apocalypse" è un biglietto di sola andata per una dimensione surreale.
ENG
"Life Through Apocalypse" is a one-way ticket to a surreal dimension.
ITA
Il suo stile mostra molto margine di crescita, ma già in questo EP di debutto vengonno evidenziate le qualità di un'artista da seguire con attenzione
ENG
Her work shows a margin of growth, but this debut EP already highlights the qualities of an artist worth to follow with attention
ITA
I pezzi inebriano l’ascoltatore di un’eccitante malinconia che vuole in realtà trasmettere una lettura positiva della parte più oscura dell’esistenza. Un album che dimostra non solo il percorso artistico di questa enigmatica e affascinante cantautrice, ma anche quello esistenziale.
ENG
The sound inebriates the listener with an exciting melancholy that aims at conveying a very powerful message: look positively at the dark side of life.
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