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ARTIST BIO
Nico Amara is the solo darkwave project of experimental composer and multidisciplinary artist Nicole Fior-Greant (Switzerland), active in European electronic contemporary music festivals. With this project, she delves into her very private box, releasing her debut darkwave single—bringing with her a compositional precision that shapes subtle yet complex acoustic shifts within a minimal structure, offering a first glimpse into her dark sonic world.Inspired by darkwave, industrial-tinged electronic music, and classic contemporary composers, her music carries technical complexities, driven by cold, detached dark electro beats and mechanical textures shaped by dissonant tones, slow filter sweeps, and modulated reverb tails. These elements contrast with lush, minimal analog synth layers, creating an immersive backdrop.Themes of existential reflection, environmental, and animal activism are expressed through fragmented, concise thoughts. Shifting between soft singing, spoken phrases, and whispers, she delivers haunting vocals in English, Italian, French, and German, reflecting a unique identity that adds sonic diversity and ambiguity that feels both intimate and distant.The result is a sound that defies easy categorisation—meticulously crafted yet emotionally raw, where compositional precision meets vulnerability through fragmented, multilingual vocals and a minimalist framework, unfolding in a space marked by absence, tension, and quiet intensity, both personal and unapologetically detached.
l'ora vuota
Released: april 17, 25
Nico Amara’s second single, L’ORA VUOTA, closes the cycle of her upcoming debut album—written last, but emotionally central. Sung entirely in Italian, the track reconnects with something distant yet deeply ingrained.Driven by a sharper, more rhythmic pulse than her previous single, L’ORA VUOTA leans further into the dancefloor—remaining icy, hypnotic, and detached. A track that moves without release, steady and self-contained with a strong and dark beat line, layered with minimal synths and immersive vocals.The lyrics unfold in cycles, dealing with illusion, time, and perception. Drawing from a Nietzschean tension—the confrontation with the abyss—L’ORA VUOTA asks, in part, what remains once the reflection is gone. The track doesn’t offer resolution, only fragmentation, recursion, and a cold poetic logic that turns in on itself.Both cerebral and immediate, L’ORA VUOTA extends Nico Amara’s sonic architecture—retaining her signature restraint and cold intensity, but with a more seductive, body-driven momentum.
Releases April 17, 2025
Music, Lyrics, and Performed by Nico Amara
Produced by Nico Amara
Mixed and Mastered by Pina Vanucci
Cover Art by Nico Amara
IN CHAINS
DEBUT SINGLE
Released: March 07, 25
Nico Amara’s debut single, IN CHAINS, is the most personal track from her forthcoming album—raw, restrained, and unsettling. Beneath its stark and intricately structured framework, the lyrics explore the inherited, unwanted patterns which leave their imprint —both physical and emotional.
Her haunting vocals and ghostly textures, reminiscent of a horror film, evoke the feeling of being trapped in an abandoned factory.
Moving between spoken and sung whispers, weaving through minimal synth layers and subtly modulated dark electronic beats, she created a soundscape within a minimal framework, which resonates with hidden and contrasting complexities that are both hypnotic and cold, yet still driven by a dark pulse made to dance to.
Releases March 7, 2025
Music, Lyrics, and Performed by Nico Amara
Produced by Nico Amara
Mixed and Mastered by Pina Vanucci
Cover Art by Nico Amara
Photography by Zak Greant
Upcoming Schedule
The following release dates are scheduled:
May 09, 25 - Debut album release (8 tracks, including IN CHAINS and L'ORA VUOTA)
June X, 25 - Music video release for the second single
End of 25 - Plans to begin live performances
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