Songs like morning petrichor, somewhere between RY X and Apparat
f o l l o w t h e r i v e r is the moniker of Filippo Ghiglione.
Stuck somewhere between RY X and Apparat.
Songs like little worlds, balanced between the warmth of the Sunday morning blankets and
the sound of the autumn trees that pass outside a train window.
The petrichor rising from the wet earth.
More than five years have passed since Filippo Ghiglione, for the first time, made two
important decisions.
After the release of a first Italian EP he started writing songs in English and he called the
project RIVER, then transformed into F O L L O W T H E R I V E R (yes, written with all the
little spaces, pure madness!).
Since then, things have happened.
An audiovisual collective of people.
A video project with shootings in the most disparate places (even in a graveyard!).
An EP recorded between Genoa and Milan. Another recorded all by himself in a little house
in Valle D’Aosta.
And finally the turning point. Honestly, a small and personal turning point.
But a great one for those who finally feel that they have taken the right path.
And Filippo is one of those people.
In 2019 he released "blankets & bumblebees", a handful of songs recorded with his usual
friends in the mountains, songs stuck somewhere between the most bittersweet and warm
North American alt-folk and the minimal electronic beats that leave in the songs so many
spaces to fill.
The EP has enjoyed success among the public and critics in Italy and abroad, with premiere
and reviews on magazines such as Blow UP, Rockerilla, Where The Music Meets, Mystic
Sons. A tour around Italy which was to land in Europe too. But it didn’t, unfortunately.
And finally a right musical path.
And now?
A new chapter.
New songs, new people who believe in the project, new friends and a new road to be traced.
Always stuck between the desire to run away somewhere among the clouds and the wish of
staying warm under the sheets on Sunday morning.
