{"product_id":"atabasca-atabasca","title":"Atabasca - Atabasca","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CN-HPXQqB1o?si=xYOSKh207IoQmG8U\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\"Atabasca\" marks the debut release from the cinematic funk trio, dropping March 27th on limited edition LP, CD digipack and digital formats, the latter featuring an exclusive bonus track. This is a project built on evocative imagery: each song unfolds as an open scene, an emotional landscape where listeners can step inside and write their own ending.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eLap steel, kalimba, percussion and guitars interweave with bass and drums, striking an original balance between tradition and experimentation that evokes unwritten soundtracks for worlds at once distant and familiar. The record navigates between melancholy and irony, tension and release, with a sharp focus on dynamics and sonic narrative.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eDeserts, seas, imaginary villages, getaways, pursuits and collective rituals: \"Atabasca\" emerges as a collection of musical landscapes that unfolds through vivid, evocative imagery.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eJazz-funk, world music, afrobeat, psychedelia and the Italian Golden Age of movie soundtracks merge into a singular emotional geography: warm, analog and deeply human.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThe musical journey opens with \"Dune\", a melancholic statement that leaves room for imagination, before igniting with \"Kundela Mawedi\" and its cascading lap steel over haunting vocal chants. \"Paco\" tips its hat to classic westerns, tracing a bandit's trajectory, while \"Cameo\" drifts back to childhood through minimal rumba and shimmering kalimba. The cinematic imagery continues in \"Cacopoulos\", a nod to Spaghetti westerns and Eli Wallach, built on raw drum patterns and distorted guitars. Intensity builds in \"Khettara\", where afrobeat rhythms and Middle Eastern textures intertwine, before \"Hell Dorado\" tears off in pursuit of the American dream's funk-fueled mirage. \"Papambra\" weaves hypnotic polyrhythms between kalimba and lap steel, while \"Porpora\" delivers a sensual, visceral tango of passion and tension. The digital edition closes with \"Reprise\", a sequel that stretches the album's central theme into an expansive, meditative interpretation.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThe tracks were recorded in single takes, capturing the raw energy and natural atmosphere of the performance. Artistic production was handled by the trio alongside Andrea Fabrizii (digger, musician, producer and catalogue curator for CAM Sugar), while Riccardo Ricci mastered the album at Velvet Room Mastering Studio in Brighton.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eLike a desert blooming within the evergreen forests of the planet's far north, a unique, alien, disruptive environment. This is the vision behind Atabasca, the project of Luca Mongia (guitars, lap steel, keyboards, vocals), Paolo Mazziotti (bass, keyboards, vocals) and Valerio Pompei (drums, percussion, vocals).\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eIndividually active for over twenty years on both the national and international scenes, the three Italian musicians came together in 2023 to create a project that merges experience, experimentation and creative freedom. Their music is imaginative and at times dreamlike, blending the classic concept of the instrumental trio with the worlds of film scoring and sound design.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eAtabasca's sound moves through jazz-funk, world and cinematic territories, weaving together afrobeat, desert and psychedelic influences into a personal and timeless language. Each piece is a scene; each sound, a fragment of a world, a journey between reality and imagination where groove, texture and organic timbre merge into a singular sonic ecosystem: a perpetually shifting balance that generates new inner landscapes.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eFor fans of Khruangbin, Surprise Chef and instrumental psych-funk!\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Killer Groove Records","offers":[{"title":"1LP Edition","offer_id":45569524989996,"sku":"KGR01LP","price":1046.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD Edition","offer_id":45569525284908,"sku":"KGR01CD","price":616.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0388\/0461\/9308\/files\/atabasca-atabasca.jpg?v=1779614718","url":"https:\/\/whitenoiserecords.org\/en-tw\/products\/atabasca-atabasca","provider":"WHITE NOISE RECORDS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}