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Vocàlia is the title of Carolina Bubbico’s fourth album, a multilingual, choral, ancestral, and inclusive vocal orchestra. It is her personal act of love toward life: a message of hope she dedicates to her daughter Nina and to all children of the future.

The album took shape during a profoundly transformative phase in her life: motherhood. This experience opened the door to new emotions, moments of crisis, inner shifts, and ultimately a creative rebirth marked by renewed clarity, vision, and drive.

The term Vocàlia, rooted in Latin, refers to the vowels, the essential sounds of language, evoking the raw material from which singing emerges. In this project, Vocàlia becomes a poetic and surreal name, a world where the voice takes on a central, expansive role and embodies femininity, ancestry, and collective expression.

Over the past fifteen years, Carolina has explored vocal ensemble work extensively, through her loop station performances and collaborations with choirs, discovering the immense potential of perceiving herself within an orchestral landscape made entirely of voices. Here she sets herself the challenge of shaping a vocal-only arrangement style that feels cohesive, modern, and sonically rich.

For her, vocal harmony is the highest form of collective sound: an architecture balanced between vertical and horizontal motion, a constant interplay in which every line supports and enhances the lead melody.

Carolina transforms the inner “noise” of thoughts into music. During the orchestration process, melodic lines surface one after another in her mind, intertwining into a musical stream of consciousness that allows her to translate her emotional world into sound.

The symbolic image of this creative journey is a lace doily, a small hand-crafted crochet piece representing knowledge passed down through generations. For her, it becomes the metaphor of a vocal score forming spontaneously within her. Each thread, like each voice, weaves into another to create a complex, harmonious pattern, a doily made of voices.

At the core of the project is the transformation of her voice into a multifaceted melodic and harmonic instrument capable of fulfilling every orchestral function. She carefully sculpts dynamics, timbres, phonemes, and syllabic textures to give each piece its unique character. At times the voice plays in call and response; elsewhere it evokes a brass section, a string ensemble, or becomes a rhythmic engine generating polyrhythms through vocal riffs.

Carolina performs in multiple languages thanks to the collaboration of distinguished co-writers: Becca Stevens, Greta Panettieri, Giuseppe Anastasi, Simona Severini, Lauryyn, Antonio Villeroy, and Cristiana Verardo. The lyrics explore themes of rebirth, overcoming hardship, the arrival of new beginnings, trust, simplicity, and a deep love for life.
The album features two guest artists: Becca Stevens on Everlove and Mari Jasca on Uma rosa e um bordado.

The rhythmic landscape is shaped by Finnish percussionist Abdissa Assefa, who contributed a rich palette of sounds drawn from musical traditions around the globe.
The entire album was produced by Filippo Bubbico, who also performed and processed all synth bass parts, opening experimental pathways that give Vocàlia its contemporary and distinctive sound.

TRACKLIST

1. Everlove (feat. Becca Stevens)
2. Uma rosa e um bordado (feat. Mari Jasca)
3. Maria
4. Filosofia dello stare bene
5. Dolore
6. Blossom
7. Ya Volverà
8. Il nome degli dei
9. Luce della sera

CREDITS

Music: Carolina Bubbico 

Lyrics: 
Becca Stevens (Everlove)
Lauryyn (Filosofia dello stare bene) 
Antonio Villeroy (Uma rosa e um bordado)
Greta Panettieri (Blossom)
Giuseppe Anastasi (Il Nome degli Dei)

Carolina Bubbico is an Italian singer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and conductor. She performs widely in Italy and abroad, appearing at major festivals and venues, including the Blue Note in Tokyo and Beijing with Nicola Conte. She has worked at the Sanremo Festival as arranger and conductor in three editions, collaborating with artists such as Elodie, Serena Brancale, Il Volo, and in 2026, Ditonellapiaga.

She debuted at 23 with Controvento, followed by Una donna (2015) and Il dono dell’ubiquità (2020). Her upcoming album, Vocàlia, will be released in 2026 on GroundUp Music, the US label founded by Michael League. Over the years she has released several singles and collaborations and has performed on renowned stages such as Time in Jazz, Blue Note Milano, and Auditorium Parco della Musica.