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Video Interview: Kariti Confirms Covered Mirrors Vinyl, Talks Playing Live for the First Time, New Material and More

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No, Kariti did not have the ‘long, dark winter’ of 2020-’21 in mind when she recorded her debut album, Covered Mirrors (review here). Issued through Aural Music last September, the record’s arriving was nonetheless fitting, and as the darker, colder and harder days have forced a hunkering-down even beyond that already instituted throughout much of the last 12 months, the melancholy that pervades Covered Mirrors has offered a quiet, melodic kind of comfort and understanding, weighted in atmosphere even as it basks in an ethereal sensibility and spans three languages in its 34-minute runtime.

Though she didn’t make the album entirely on her own — engineer Lorenzo Della Rovere contributed acoustic and slide guitar to on “Sky Burial” and “The Baptism of a Witch,” and Marco Matta (also Grime) played electric guitar on “Sky Burial” and “Anna (Requiem to Death),” and Lorenzo Stecconi mastered — it is a deeply personal work just the same for Katerina, who wrote the songs from poems she’d accumulated over years or by drawing on her Russian heritage, bringing it together with her current life in Italy and various folk traditions. Recording at the proverbial cabin in the woods, secluded, Kariti brings that organic sound to the album, in her voice and guitar, certainly, as well as the various natural elements captured on tape, be it a thunderstorm or the insects that joined her at night as she recorded vocals, singing outside the open window.

Kariti has never performed live, and that’s a prospect Katerina discusses in the interview below. As noted in the headline, she’s begun writing a follow-up album to Covered Mirrors, which sees her composing on piano for the first time. In addition to these, Katerina confirms an LP of the debut to come out on Aural Music with an additional track added, talks about her roots in classical music, the maybe-too-personal nature of this batch of songs, and what lessons she’s taking from putting together her first record into the prospect of making a second one.

It was a good chat and I’m happy to present it here as it happened. Thanks for reading and/or watching.

Please enjoy:

Kariti Interview, Feb. 16, 2021

Kariti‘s Covered Mirrors is out now on CD and DL through Aural Music and will be released on vinyl later this year (conditions permitting). The album can be streamed in full below.

Kariti, Covered Mirrors (2020)

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Kariti on Bandcamp

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