about the cassette

After two years since Eurybia, Francesca Heart returns to Leaving Records with a seven-track album detailing the progress in her personal musical lore. Bird Bath expands on Francesca Heart's childlike cosmic approach, crafting new tales where feelings and symbols of unearthly love and possibility, inner protection, and desire become the album’s pillars.

An iteration of the artist’s interest in Mediterranean mythology and the evolution of sacred icons, Bird Bath begins with the figure of the angel as depicted by early Renaissance Italian painter Beato Angelico, visible at the Monastero of San Marco in Florence. In that period, the not-yet-achieved perfect perspective in painting would give an abstract feeling to the image, leaving room for imaginative contemplation and therefore aiding the monks in meditating for long periods of time.

As the album unfolds, the listener is playfully transported through a puzzle of whispering grottos, mossy architectures, and theatrical fountains that follow the idea of the Genius Loci, the generative essence of places, and the guardians that may inhabit them.

Bird Bath is a playful, adventurous, and whimsical journey toward embracing a delicate vulnerability. Through Francesca’s imaginative musicality, the sacred unites with the mundane, the digital, and even the kitsch to generate a healing field where her compositions can come to life.