{"id":12594,"date":"2022-01-19T11:23:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T10:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digipur.it\/?p=12594"},"modified":"2022-01-19T11:23:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T10:23:38","slug":"post-jazz-duo-drone-san-release-self-titled-debut-album-via-horribly-loud-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digipur.it\/en\/post-jazz-duo-drone-san-release-self-titled-debut-album-via-horribly-loud-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-jazz duo Drone San release self-titled debut album via Horribly Loud Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a new, unidentified sound object on the horizon.\u00a0Its name is\u00a0Drone San<\/strong>, the project of\u00a0Nicola Pedroni\u00a0<\/strong>(musician and sound designer active for over fifteen years, also along many\u00a0European festivals) and\u00a0Andrea Sanna\u00a0<\/strong>(pianist and composer). Their\u00a0self-titled debut album<\/strong>\u00a0is now available on all digital platforms\u00a0via\u00a0Horribly Loud Records<\/strong>, the label founded by themselves.<\/p>\n

Drone San is an\u00a0electronic music<\/strong>\u00a0project with acoustic\/electroacoustic incursions that fits in the contemporary post-jazz scene. It’s\u00a0post-jazz for post-humans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Drone San<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>was recorded in Sardinia, Italy, mainly during the summer period, between the walls of a\u00a0studio<\/strong>, but also in the woods and even into the depths of the so-called\u00a0domus de janas<\/strong>, typical prehistoric chamber tombs carved into the rock. Great Ancients and extraterrestrial creatures, the shadow of Cthulhu and the strange lights emanating from UFOs, go hand in hand in duo’s imagery, strongly influenced by\u00a0science fiction<\/strong>, starting with H.P. Lovecraft, and by post-apocalyptic but hopeful atmospheres.<\/p>\n

This sci-fi imprint, combined with the interest in anime, is highlighted by the exceptional\u00a0artwork<\/strong>\u00a0born thanks to the close collaboration with the illustrator\u00a0Yoshi Mari<\/strong><\/a>, that has even created a\u00a0silent book<\/strong>\u00a0connected to the record. The concept of the silent book, to be published soon together with the vinyl version of the record, shows\u00a0ecological and environmental themes: the spaceship of Drone San is struggling with a desperate interplanetary journey in search of possible forms of vegetation, sadly disappeared in our world.<\/p>\n

Based between Cagliari and Florence, met by chance in a jazz club, Pedroni (drums, percussions, synths) and Sanna (piano, keyboards, synths) have entirely written, arranged, produced and played\u00a0Drone San<\/strong><\/em>, a blend of radical improvisation and real process of composition, of analog and digital instrumental textures, in a temporal clash between\u00a0ancestrality and highly technological future<\/strong>.\u00a0The two musicians made use of drums assembled, cut and reassembled in layers with vintage drum machines, Fender Rhodes, software, objects such as old pianos, strings, springs and toys amplified with piezoelectric microphones or as we said taken inside suggestive\u00a0natural locations.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0sound design<\/strong>, the adventurous and elaborate processing and production phases were curated by Pedroni with the artistic help of Sanna. Recordings were made by Nicola Vacca at Panda’s Studio in South Sardinia. Finally, mix and master were made by Lapo Grossi at the Multiverso in Florence.<\/p>\n

First single\u00a0Ornamentalities\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is a dark and obsessive track, characterized by odd and pulsating beats.\u00a0Its electro-symphonic crescendo leads to soundtrack territories for an ideal B-movie.\u00a0The related abstract-alien\u00a0video, created in Los Angeles by the sound and media artist\u00a0Kai-Luen Liang<\/a>, was obtained through generative manipulation techniques. The second single\u00a0Snob Pineapple<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>is funk as s constantly syncopated drum machine can be.\u00a0Snob Pineapple<\/em>‘s\u00a0animation video\u00a0was directed by Lucio Coppa, with the contribution of Yoshi Mari herself: elements belonging to alien pineapples, androgynous faces, trees and flying cities follow one another in\u00a0an everlasting mutating loop.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the seven tracks of\u00a0Drone San<\/em><\/strong>, the main references of the Italian duo acquire both an experimental elegance and their own peculiar strength: from jazz to the universe of soundtracks (Baking Bread<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Waltzer Matthau\u00a0<\/em>play with mentions to TV series and cinema), from\u00a0soul music\u00a0<\/strong>to\u00a0hip hop<\/strong>, from\u00a0ambient<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0IDM<\/strong>, up to\u00a0math rock<\/strong>,\u00a0cosmic psychedelia<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0dub music<\/strong>. The resulting Thing moves with cyber groove step and sprays nostalgia from every tentacle, incorporating and reworking the listenings of Battles, The Cinematic Orchestra, Tortoise and Boards Of Canada, among others. Drone San is a flying saucer, and we are in danger of abduction!<\/p>\n