One of our records of 2020.
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I Should Have Been a Gardener is the last solo Alessandra Novaga’s album. The main inspiration is Derek Jarman, his diaries, his garden, his life: it is a portrait of the man, inspired by the life, the death, the political commitment, and the garden, a fresco composed of the music that Jarman loved and listened to. Sound and silence work together, music seeks redemption and purification in a living and sick atmosphere at the same time, like his garden at Prospect Cottage, a magical place, where colorful flowers that bloom between the stones, and crosses built by rusty irons left on the beach by the sea, coexist between the sea and a nuclear power plant.
Edition of 200, yellow vinyl, 180 gr. heavyweight LP + extensive booklet
“In the “oblique” portrait that Alessandra Novaga dedicates to director Derek Jarman there’s the implicit assumption that even behind the most eccentric artistic minds lies a private life dotted with small things, gestures of daily care that have no place in the works meant for the public. A dimension where the visionary flair gives way to quiet solitudes and, often, to an irrepressible melancholy.”
