You're listening to In Our Headphones. I'm E.B. Stokes here with Kevin Cole, a K-E-X-P DJ.

And Kevin, you just returned from Erosonic, a festival in Europe. And you have some new music

that you want to share that you discovered there. That's right. Eurasonic is a showcase for new

and emerging artists. 300 artists played.

I saw as many of them as I could.

And really, there were a lot of highlights.

Della from Cyprus and Dieter from France,

and Amasta from Poland, and Molina from Greece,

and all sorts of different genres.

And what I wanted to play today is an artist from Italy.

Gaya Monfi.

Tell us about Gaia. I don't know a ton about Gaia. Well, I don't know a ton about Gaia Bonfi, but this album, I can't stop listening to it.

It's a perfect in-our-headphones kind of album.

It's so immersive yet really minimal.

It takes you in.

And there's a sense of escape, you know, when you listen to a

song or an album, you feel like you've been transported somewhere else. I do. Yeah.

This is one of those albums where time stands still, you forget about like what's going on

in your world, and you're just drawn in. And I think it's kind of perfect for this song,

because Bonfie describes the song as a snapshot of an imaginary village.

And she says it's like a chest of memories from her childhood.

And it's also been described as pastoral Italian romanticism.

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