SPIRIT EXIT

Double vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. Marking the debut album on her new label light-years, Barbieri now delivers her most profound work yet u a journey through inner-space as vast as a universe and as intimate as a heartbeat. The Spirit Exit opens and we fall in. Spirit Exit is Caterina BarbieriAEs time machine, primarily composed with a modular synth rig she thinks of more like a mechanical fortune teller. Whereas previous releases were constructed on lengthy tours, capturing only snapshots of continually evolving works, Spirit Exit represents the producerAEs first album fully written and recorded in her home studio amidst MilanAEs two-month pandemic lockdown in 2020. It was during this extended isolation she found inspiration from female philosophers, mystics and poets spread across time, but united in their strength at cultivating vast internal worlds. St. Teresa DAEAvilaAEs foundational 16th century mystical text The Interior Castle, philosopher Rosi BraidottiAEs posthuman theories and the metaphysical poetry of Emily Dickinson act as thematic anchors throughout Spirit Exit, imbuing a life and death gravity into the composerAEs most perception-altering music to date.