Gipsy Fiorucci, born Marta Fiorucci in Città di Castello in Italy’s Umbria region, has spent her career building a musical practice that sits outside conventional pop songwriting entirely. She trained privately in voice from a young age, studied diction, phonetics, and vocal timbre at Florence’s Accademia Atelièr Della Voce between 2001 and 2006, and continued her vocal education at the Accademia della Voce in Montecatini Terme from 2008 to 2010. Out of that foundation she developed what she calls Pop Alkemico, a self-defined genre built on sound and vibration as much as melody, and a method she terms Melumalkemica.
Her new single, Dea Madre Terra (Alkemic Mantra), arrived as a Bandcamp release on June 24, 2026, followed by an official video on June 29. Fiorucci wrote and composed the track herself under her birth name and produced it with Renato Droghetti, who recorded, mixed, and mastered it at SanLucaSound in Bologna.
The Single
The track is built almost entirely around Fiorucci’s signature instrument, an Alkam, a 36-string Ark-type harmonic monochord tuned to 110 Hz, which she also uses in live performances and in individual and group sound therapy sessions. Rather than following conventional pop structure, the song is constructed as a mantra, with the monochord’s tuning generating a continuous sound bed beneath extended, devotional-style vocal passages.
Fiorucci frames the release as part of her ongoing work in the therapeutic use of sound and vibration, describing a mission to spread what she calls the evolutionary and spiritual power of sound in a world she sees as increasingly prone to stress and fear. The accompanying video, directed by filmmaker Riccardo Sarti, was shot at Pietra di Bismantova in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, a rock formation with centuries of local folklore attached to it, reportedly among the landscapes that inspired passages of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Dea Madre Terra (Alkemic Mantra) precedes a new Gipsy Fiorucci album scheduled for autumn 2026, and follows her 2019 album Protagonista Del Finale along with a series of singles and videos she has released since. She has recently been recognized with a first-place award at the Corti da Mare International Short Film Festival and appeared as a guest at Voci d’Europa, an anti-bullying arts event held in Rome.
Final Thoughts
Dea Madre Terra (Alkemic Mantra) is a clear statement of what Pop Alkemico is built to do: use a specific instrument, a specific tuning, and a specific ritual intent to create something closer to a sound therapy session than a conventional single. For listeners drawn to meditative, mantra-based music, it is a distinctive entry point into Fiorucci’s wider project ahead of her autumn album.
Dea Madre Terra (Alkemic Mantra) is out now on Bandcamp. Released June 24, 2026. A new album is expected autumn 2026.
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