Dead Butterfly

Composer: Camilla Battaglia
Lyrics: Camilla Battaglia*

Camilla Battaglia, vocals/electronics
Francesco Fratini, trumpet/vocals
Michele Tino, alto sax
Francesco Bigoni, tenor sax
Federico Pierantoni, trombone
Filippo Vignato, trombone/electronics
Simone Graziano, piano/synth
Francesco Fiorenzani, electric and acoustic guitar
Francesco Ponticelli, doublebass
Andrea Lombardini, electric bass/electronics
Stefano Tamborrino, drums

Recorded on 02/02/2020
by Stefano Bechini
at Cicaleto Recording Studio (Arezzo-IT)
Mixed by Francesco Ponticelli
Mastered by Stefano Bechini
Funded by Siena Jazz through SIAE and MiBACT 'Per Chi Crea' Project
Live Video recording by VisualCam Production at Cicaleto Recording Studio

ELEkTRA it's a large ensemble project whose music is meant to unveil the complexity of ancient greek female characters’ profiles from both mythology and history as well as the conflicting interpretations history and literature have given about them.

Dead Butterfly is the first single released (21Sound) by this ensemble as part of the forthcoming album: ELEkTRA.
The tune is dedicated to the modern and revisited version
of Penelope (in Homer's Odyssey): Molly Bloom from Joyce's Ulysses.
Her articulated and bursting monologue at the end of the novel represented an inspiration not only for music writing, but above all for the desire to perpetrate a social message that aims to point out how many old stereotypes about female gender have survived.

*one section of the tune quotes a part of the final monologue of
Molly Bloom in James Joyce's Ulysses.