- 1LITHIUM
- 2LOVE LIKE SILK
- 34E YOURS
- 4I THINK YOU'RE SEXY
- 5DO WHAT YOU WANT
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(desolate music playing) is nothing more than a bunch of love songs, or at least songs that, in their own way, talk about that.”
In this EP, Bambini writes unstable love songs without a clear addressee. The lyrics turn toward a figure that keeps shifting, as in dreams: a lover, a father, an indistinct presence. What remains is an empty space inhabited by unstable forms.
The lines repeat. A fragile, almost physical insistence. Love appears soft — “like silk” — something that slips, cannot be held, withdraws as it presents itself.
I feel sick, I feel sick
Please don’t blame me
Please don’t blame me
Like silk
Love like silk, love like silk
The emotional register is exposed close to its own irony. The subject remains alone, surrounded by figures that read as projections — a cast of lovers, carrying traces of shame and anger, the sense of having made a mess. Phrases stay unresolved, moving within the same unstable field. Identity follows the same movement, losing consistency as it speaks.
Pull me down
I messed you up
For today
You're coming down as you said
Nonetheless, desire persists. It tries to hold a form, to recognize the other. A gesture, a phrase — “I think you’re sexy” — returns with intact sweetness, but without restoring presence. It lingers slightly out of time. The record moves within the gap between what has been and what can still be felt.
The EP also reflects on a more distant layer — a time when gestures felt immediate, without distance between action and body. That condition now appears out of reach, replaced by a more mediated experience.
“I realize these are adolescent thoughts. But I remain attached to that time — pulling up a polo collar, lighting a cigarette, crossing a room — when gestures were total, every action felt necessary, fully believed. Now those gestures feel like quotations, reproductions of something that has already been lived. It’s as if the faith is gone, replaced by a subtle awareness of ‘pretending,’ even when you don’t want to.”
At its core, the EP touches on the conditions of experience itself. Not only love, but the possibility of something being fully real. The gesture, like the relation, loses its center — becoming echo, repetition, an attempt to reactivate what remains in the past.
(desolate music playing) unfolds as a suspended space — between memory and present, authenticity and imitation — where what has been real continues to insist, without fully returning.
.𖥔.˚.⋆⊹
With a background as a pianist and composer, as well deeply rooted in the impro scene, Andrea Bambini is a multidisciplinary artist and curator.
Working mainly at the intersection of sound, performance, and architecture, his projects focus on the possibilities of the symbolic, of what each element carries beyond itself. His interested in the relationship between practices and contexts lead him to reserach a language able to structure what always remains partially out of reach.
His works and collaborations have been featured in platforms and publications such as Freeze, Monopol, Bandcamp, and ArtTribune.
Bambini is co-curator of MOLT, a project dedicated to contemporary art.
In this EP, Bambini writes unstable love songs without a clear addressee. The lyrics turn toward a figure that keeps shifting, as in dreams: a lover, a father, an indistinct presence. What remains is an empty space inhabited by unstable forms.
The lines repeat. A fragile, almost physical insistence. Love appears soft — “like silk” — something that slips, cannot be held, withdraws as it presents itself.
I feel sick, I feel sick
Please don’t blame me
Please don’t blame me
Like silk
Love like silk, love like silk
The emotional register is exposed close to its own irony. The subject remains alone, surrounded by figures that read as projections — a cast of lovers, carrying traces of shame and anger, the sense of having made a mess. Phrases stay unresolved, moving within the same unstable field. Identity follows the same movement, losing consistency as it speaks.
Pull me down
I messed you up
For today
You're coming down as you said
Nonetheless, desire persists. It tries to hold a form, to recognize the other. A gesture, a phrase — “I think you’re sexy” — returns with intact sweetness, but without restoring presence. It lingers slightly out of time. The record moves within the gap between what has been and what can still be felt.
The EP also reflects on a more distant layer — a time when gestures felt immediate, without distance between action and body. That condition now appears out of reach, replaced by a more mediated experience.
“I realize these are adolescent thoughts. But I remain attached to that time — pulling up a polo collar, lighting a cigarette, crossing a room — when gestures were total, every action felt necessary, fully believed. Now those gestures feel like quotations, reproductions of something that has already been lived. It’s as if the faith is gone, replaced by a subtle awareness of ‘pretending,’ even when you don’t want to.”
At its core, the EP touches on the conditions of experience itself. Not only love, but the possibility of something being fully real. The gesture, like the relation, loses its center — becoming echo, repetition, an attempt to reactivate what remains in the past.
(desolate music playing) unfolds as a suspended space — between memory and present, authenticity and imitation — where what has been real continues to insist, without fully returning.
.𖥔.˚.⋆⊹
With a background as a pianist and composer, as well deeply rooted in the impro scene, Andrea Bambini is a multidisciplinary artist and curator.
Working mainly at the intersection of sound, performance, and architecture, his projects focus on the possibilities of the symbolic, of what each element carries beyond itself. His interested in the relationship between practices and contexts lead him to reserach a language able to structure what always remains partially out of reach.
His works and collaborations have been featured in platforms and publications such as Freeze, Monopol, Bandcamp, and ArtTribune.
Bambini is co-curator of MOLT, a project dedicated to contemporary art.
