Digital + Cassette, 50 limited-edition transparent brown cassettes, with transparent brown covers and outer graphic O-Cards.              

“Parallel Rooms is a two‑track composition for strings and electronics recorded in 2024-25. The pieces came together by recording improvisations guided by a set of graphic notations and arranged harmonic motifs, editing and layering them, then re‑amping and improvising again over those takes.

Tying the work together was two miniature rooms: Room One, dark mahogany with an orange glow and an empty chair; Room Two, a stained‑glass window, fleur‑de‑lis wallpaper, and a small rabbit figure. These props were used during the recording sessions to establish a central atmosphere for the work. The idea of two parallel rooms also shaped the structure of the composition; the pieces mirror each other harmonically with a leitmotif joining them together.”

Composed and Produced: Pietro Bardini

Violin: Angharad Davies
Double Bass: Caius Williams
Cello: Isidora Edwards
Viola: Charis Morgan / Ariane Alexander
Piano: Pietro Bardini

Additional Arrangements for Room One: Tim Pottier

Additional Mixing: Sean Woodford
Mastering: Noel Summerville

Album cover models: Pietro Bardini
Album cover photograph: Sotiris Gonis

Thanks to Maxwell Sterling for the feedback and support