Dark folk/drone/ambient act Kariti has offered the title track from its forthcoming third full-length, Still Life, due on 7 November via Lay Bare Recordings.

Kariti on the first album's single: "Inspired by a dream and the product of a cherished bittersweet synchronicity, 'Still Life' was one of my first poems of this new cycle. At the same time, it was the last song I composed the melody for and was still largely unfinished when we began recording. It owes its final form to a spontaneous voyage outside the comfort zone, please enjoy this trip with me, wherever it'll take us".

On the Still Life album, she notes: "These songs are the aftermath of being galvanised into a disillusioned reflection on human life and the way it is lived by most of us in the world in its current state".

Still Life was recorded by Lorenzo Della Rovere in Corno di Rosazzo, Italy, produced and mixed by Della Rovere and Ekaterina, mastered by John "Spud" Murphy in Dublin, Ireland, and includes additional guitar/noise/drone machine by Marco Matta. The record comes swathed in the cover art image of Ashley Tofu and Laura Sans Gassò, with layout, lettering, and design by Strxart.

Kariti (карити) - meaning "to mourn the dead" in church Slavonic - is the emotional and creative outlet of Ekaterina, a Russian-born poet and songwriter based in Italy. Kariti's 2020 debut album, Covered Mirrors (Aural Music), represented a "cathartic peregrination through bereavement". Her second offering, Dheghom, released in February 2024 (Lay Bare Recordings), saw a development in sound, songwriting, and instrumentation: apart from electric guitars, Ekaterina performed various synthesisers and the analogue piano. And here comes Still Life... Link