EMMA TRICCA

Italian-born singer-songwriter taps into her family’s past for some dreamy psych-folk.

EJ

“I FEEL THIS is a miracle record,” says Emma Tricca of her latest album, Aspirin Sun. London-based, Italian-born, and currently talking from her rented apartment in Manhattan’s East Village, she’s certainly created a thing of great beauty. Written as she grieved her father, its gentle psych melodies and fingerpicked guitars bring decades, even centuries, of her family’s artistic history to life. Never is this more evident than on Christodora House, which channels her great uncle. A rebel, he left the family winemaking business to study painting. After the death of his wife and child, he fled to New York to become an artist. On getting an art historian involved, Tricca discovered that one of his paintings from the 1930s, Christodora House, is in the Smithsonian Museum, but the building it…

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