Corviria

Psyco Analysis is the first of the two albums that Vittoria Corona recorded as Corviria for Edizioni Leonardi, released in 1977 on the Squirrel label. It is one of the most obscure and mysterious titles in the whole catalogue, both for its music and for the way it was made.

It is a set of short, dark and gloomy pieces for treated piano, solo strings and synthesizers, soaked in tape echo and string synthesizer, moving at a slow and relentless pace. As the record goes on, pieces with titles like Paranoia, Trauma Infantile, Subconscio and Schizofrenia take over, with haunting female voices and reverberated drones: the soundtrack for a noir or a 50s sci-fi horror film.

Then the closing Seagull Song switches the mood completely, a bright little lullaby for drum machine and synthetic melody that seems to release the listener onto a tropical beach. Practically impossible to find in its original edition, the album was reissued for the first time by Redi Edizioni.

Black vinyl.