About

Francesca Macri's System Olympia project takes the best bits of Italo, disco, boogie and house and distills them into something fresh and sincere. As her cover art unfailingly spells out, this is sexy music first and foremost, and that intention charges her productions with a heart which positively radiates out of the speakers. Her Okay Nature label has been a reliable conduit for her prolific output, following up on last year's Always On Time record with this new EP which features a surprise appearance from Working Men's Club on the title track 'Sanctified'. It's a melancholic centre point to an EP which maintains Macri's thematic focus on the spiritual dimension of pleasure.

Love, longing, and the restlessness of the heart are the foundation forces of this record. "Luce Rossa" presents itself like an emblem of a credo, an irreverent manifesto delivered via daring melodies and empowering vocals. System Olympia inhabits a world in which human senses are mightier than religion and "Sanctified" feat Working Men's Club is an ecstatic and highly articulated fusion of passion and redemption - a new truth about reality, whispered to your ear with infinite sweetness. Poetic desire as a force of beauty and vitality is all over "Lenzuola Di Raso". Fantasising in between satin sheets on the hottest day of the year because art and imagination mean freedom from the solitude of the mind. "Mi Dimentico" makes beauty out of melancholy, and nostalgia out of the oscillation between resignation and demand. — (via Bandcamp, System Olympia)

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Label: Okay Nature Records – OKNR08
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, EP, Stereo
Country: UK
Released: 2024
Genre: Electronic, Pop
Style: Synth-pop

File under: Disco / Boogie / Funk