Gold Mass – Happiness in a Way (Spotify)

GOLD MASS is an Italian artist who writes indie electronic music. She has just finished recording her debut album Transitions, whose release is expected for the spring of 2019. Her work is arousing a strong interest, having attracted the attention of big international producers since its first steps. Among them, Howie B (Bjork, U2, Tricky), Marc Urselli (Lou Reed, Nick Cave, Mike Patton, John Zorn) and Paul Savage (Mogwai, Franz Ferdinand, Arab strap, King Creosote) with whom she actually entered the studio to work on the album. This frame gives the project an international flavor and makes GOLD MASS one of the most interesting debut artists of the new year. To date, two singles have been published, Happiness in a way and Our reality that have being chosen by Spotify editors to appear in the playlist New Music Friday UK. The dark and minimal sounds of the album accompany the author’s intimate writing and emphasize the attitude to introspection and confession. Given the scope of the producer involved and the aura of mystery that surrounds the artist, it is easy to perceive the potential contained in this project, that is newborn and has all the aspects of a fairy tale.

The song is about all those little things that make us feel good, the slightest things that remind us of who we are, listening to a welcome voice, the complicity with someone, the sound of the piano of our childhood. This is happiness, in a way. The song is tremendously melancholy, because happiness itself is melancholy. It’s a series of flashes of light, moments of pleasure that are destined to end. Happiness is inherently transitory and hides the seed of melancholy within itself. These two states of mind follow one another, in a dance of moods that anyone experiences. Serenity is something different. The song is tense and evocative at the same time. It’s a fast gallop during the verses, suggesting an infinite series of images in motion. The choruses calm down, breathe, open up. There is a piano solo at the end of the song in which an anxious breath can be heard, slowly calming down.

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