Tricomi

The pieces from this disc come mainly from two collections: th 12th century “Troparium de Catania” conserved in the National Library of Madrid (ms. 19421) transcribed by David Hiley, and the “Corpus of Sicilian Folk Music” (Palermo, 1957) wich contains pieces collected directly from the peaple by Alberto Favara about a century ago.

L’età borghese è giunta al tramonto, lasciandoci in dote la profonda crisi della democrazia. Interrogare la letteratura, non solo italiana, del secondo Novecento e dei giorni nostri può forse aiutarci a comprendere il tempo in cui viviamo, così incendiario, disperato, informe. O è almeno questa l’ipotesi da cui muove il presente volume.

Epic yet intimate, tracks like "Feelin' The Future" and the towering "Buildings & Mountains" see the Kansas City-based quintet weaving future folk, euphoric psychedelia, and exuberant symphonic pop with intricately crafted electronic textures and uncommon emotional depth. The result is a bold and beautiful collection of strikingly human music that holds an aural mirror to our ever more technologically integrated society. "It's a sound that's half organic and half synthetic, kind of like how all of our lives are now," says singer Kenn Jankowski. "It's the common theme throughout all our songs and we tried to approach it audibly as well."