With Amplexum Mentis, Femina Faber carry on the path traced four years earlier with the debut album Tumultor. Paola Bianchi keeps her central role in the project, creating and performing all music, and her role as exquisite vocalist is once again exalted by by lyrics sung in Latin. The vibrating vocal work is delightfully laid over musical arrangements that strike a perfect balance between minimalism and textural richness, made mainly of electronic arrangements by the hands of Fausto Balbo, but also further enriched by instruments like harp, guitar, fretless bass and m'bira that contribute a further link to traditional heritage other than the vocals.

The electronics are layered subtly and are sapiently interwoven with the other elements, giving life to an seamless blend in which also a few experimental ear-candies find their way deliciously. From rhythm driven tracks to numbers that have a purely mystical flavor, Femina Faber indeed refine the journey started with Tumultor, giving life to an enticing work in which the spirit of the past and of the present fuse themselves in a perfect symbiosis.

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