Dust & The Dukes’ journey starts from the single Run, while sand rises in a storm and the darkness envelops the sunset’s tongues of fire.
Released on September 20, 2019, available as limited vinyl 7″ and on all digital platforms with Audioglobe’s distribution, Run is a song with animal power, born from a jam session that, thanks to the live dimension, has developed to its final form. The sounds are a mix between an obsessively tribal rhythm and pure rock and roll, starting from the Rolling Stones to get to the shadows of artists like Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Not forgetting desert rock fervency and Delta blues sources.
Electricity and sweat: Run realizes the primordial instinct of the Florentine trio, formed in 2016 and just a year later winner of the 29th edition of the Controradio Rock Contest, the most important Italian competition for indie musicians. The voice of the Italian-American Gabriel Stanza, also on the trumpet, is supported by the wall of sound guaranteed by Enrico Giannini’s guitar and by Alessio Giusti’s drums.
“Lyrics represent a race in which it’s not important the arrival but the act of movement itself. It’s a physical act of pulsing blood and tense muscles, just like ‘living music’. The horse, when it runs, does not know if it’s in the open space of a prairie or in a path established by man: it just runs! This is Run‘s message”.
On the B-side of the vinyl there is a different version of Shoot Me Down, a song originally contained in the homonymous self-released EP of 2017: “There is a contrast between the A-side and the B-side, as between dark and light, body and soul, wild impulse and introspection”. In a parallel way to an intense live activity, Run is the first extract from the debut album of Dust & The Dukes, coming in 2020 and produced by Andrea Ciacchini at SAM Studio (Blonde Redhead, The Zen Circus). Let the ride begin.
Listen to Run on Spotify…
…and check out the teaser for Run‘s video!