Sicilian singer-songwriter Fabrizio Cammarata unveils Insularities, a nine-track album that explores solitude, memory, and human connection with a Mediterranean soulful sensibility. Produced alongside Dani Castelar and his brother, Roberto Cammarata, the record unfolds like a quiet voyage across shifting waters, each song a fragment of the same shoreline viewed from a different angle.
The album’s path was foreshadowed by the dual release Água E Sal / The Woman In Me. “Some nights carve themselves into you before they ever become songs,” Fabrizio wrote when sharing the former, born of grief for a lost friend and of a fleeting encounter on a remote Mediterranean island. The track carries that duality of tears and sweat, absence and presence, sorrow and celebration. Its companion piece, The Woman In Me, dives inward, inspired by Internal Family Systems therapy and elevated by the Berlin choir Cantus Domus and Casadilego’s spectral harmonies.
Opening Insularities is the chant-like Asanta, sung in Sicilian as an invocation against isolation. Elsewhere, Ricordare Inventando reflects on memory as a tool for survival, while the luminous lead single Icarus soars in dialogue with the father figure within; a meditation on the temptation to rise, the inevitability of falling, and the strange grace found in the crash. Its swelling arrangements feel like both ascent and descent, trembling yet radiant.
Sung in English, Italian, Sicilian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic, the album dissolves borders, favouring tone, breath and vulnerability over linguistic display. Following the release, Cammarata takes Insularities on the road with a series of autumn shows, including a special performance in Madrid on October 8 at Open Folk, a city he calls inspiring and close to his heart. Shaped by silence yet pulsing with human connection, Insularities is an archipelago of songs inviting listeners to step ashore.