Multi-instrumentalist Maria Chiara Argirò has announced her new record, Forest City, due out May 6. “All my life, I’ve been surrounded by men,” Maria Chiara Argirò says. “But when you’re 15, you don’t really think about being the only woman. Now, I see many more women in electronic and jazz music, but back then, it wasn’t the case at all. I wanted to find my own path.” The record was finished being written before the first lockdown, but the forced isolation helped to give the music a sense of urgency, a want to be in a natural world and the buzz of the city at the same time. “It’s about being conscious of the world we live in and how careful we need to be,” she says. “At the end of the day, there is hope.” Alongside the album announcement comes new single “Bonsai” that portrays swirling m...