With I Used To Have Nothing To Lose But Now I Have You, Austrian singer, songwriter, and producer Violetta Parisini creates an album that moves impressively between electronic art-pop, jazz influences, and intimate songwriter moments. Radically subjective, uncompromisingly tender, and at the same time unmistakable in its social critique, it opens spaces for quiet reflection, deep emotion, and unexpected breaks. Released as a CD on Else Musik.
To create this album, Parisini completely withdrew into her own studio – writing, arranging, recording, and producing everything herself until every word and every sound said exactly what needed to be said. Only then did she bring in a team of congenial musicians and sound artists: Peter Rom (guitar), Hanibal Scheutz (bass), Sixtus Preiss (sound design, mixing), and Maximilian Walch (mastering). The result: a velvety yet multi-layered sound with unexpected twists. Voices and choirs that can hardly be distinguished from synthesizers, a softly played piano – sometimes recorded live with vocals, sometimes fragmented and alienated – delicate guitar and bass lines known from her intimate trio live concerts. Thematically, the album revolves around motherhood as both an intimate and political subject. Violetta Parisini sings about the upheaval of a completely changing everyday life, love, fear, inner conflict – and ultimately the strength to reassemble oneself in the midst of all the chaos.
