Italian cult combo Calibro 35 release their highly
anticipated 7th studio album “Momentum” on January 24th 2020. “Momentum”
follows “Decade”, their previous studio album released in 2018 that had marked
10 years of Calibro 35, and it stands out as a new starting point for the
project. In the last 10 years Calibro 35 have dug the golden age of soundtracks
and they have been to the future with “S.P.A.C.E.”. “Momentum”, as the band
stated: "represents a look at nowadays and a reflection about making music
right in the time that we’re living”.
Inspired by the work of artists such as Tortoise,
Jagajazzist, Dj Shadow, Budos Band, Stelvio Cipriani, Ennio Morricone, Sandro
Brugnolini, White Noise, Comet is Coming, JPEGMafia and DJ Signify, compared to
the previous Calibro 35’s full lengths on the 10 tracks that make up the new album,
band’s instruments and sounds have increased in number and complexity as well
as reality. The music palette is further extended by incorporating even more
synths and electronic sounds, but keeping everything true and 100% real, with
all the instruments played live and with no presets or programming. The two
featurings on the album serve the cause as well. On the first single “Stan
Lee”, they collaborated with rapper, producer and songwriter Illa J, a former
member of super group Slum Village and younger brother of the late legendary
hip hop producer and rapper J Dilla. On “Black Moon”, the combo from Milan
provided the groove for London-based artist MEI. "If 'Decade' was the sum
of everything that the band had felt in the previous ten years", Calibro 35
says, 'Momentum' is the prequel of what you will hear in the next
ten".
To mark the new beginning and come full circle, the
recordings took place under the expert hands of usual suspect Tommaso Colliva,
in the same studio where Calibro released their self titled debut album twelve
years ago.
The band will be on tour, starting in February 2020. Down
here the UK tour dates and further up the video teaser of the album, made by
Sugo Design and Francesco Imperato and available on Youtube and on the band's social
medias.
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