Silvia Tarozzi – Lucciole

Lucciole is Silvia Tarozzi’s luminous follow-up to the intimate reflections of Mi specchio e rifletto and the deeply rooted folk dialogues of Canti di guerra, di lavoro e d’amore with Deborah Walker. Here, Tarozzi draws together voices, memories, and musical lineages to create an album where avant-garde composition, personal narrative, and collective resonance exchange freely.The album opens with a radiant brass ensemble-chosen for it’s popular, celebratory, spiritual sound-and closes with the Piccolo Coro Angelico, the children’s choir she has worked with for over fifteen years and calls “my best school of composition and a constant gym of hope.” Between these bookends, Tarozzi’s songs trace life’s transitions with a rare tenderness: childhood into adolescence, health into fragility, presence into absence.Two central songs-her own “Lucciole” and a glowing live-in-studio cover of Milton Nascimento’s “River Phoenix”-honor a beloved friend whose life an