News: GIO explores humanity’s resilience across historical destruction and reconstruction with latest album

Morella Records has released The Geometry of Ruin, the latest album from GIO, a project founded by Blake Carpenter. The work centers on a fictional immortal Florentine character named Giordano Paulo Orsini, whose travels throughout history following Lorenzo de’ Medici’s death inform the project’s musical and conceptual framework. The album explores themes of humanity’s resilience, examining patterns of destruction and reconstruction across different historical periods. Through this narrative lens, GIO presents a darkwave and post-punk informed exploration of cyclical historical trauma and recovery, using the immortal protagonist’s perspective to reflect on civilizational collapse and renewal.

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