Posted in Whathaveyou on January 31st, 2024 by JJ Koczan
Anybody remember November? Yeah, me neither. It’s the end of January, the start of February this week, so November might as well have been 1922 it was so long ago. That said, there was something distinctly familiar about the list of tour dates from L’Ira del Baccano as the Italian Subsound Records denizens set forth to promote their ’23 LP, Cosmic Evoked Potentials (review here), and indeed, some of them were announced last Fall. I didn’t figure anybody would be yelling at me for getting them up again — some of the TBD dates have filled in, which is nice to see — and perhaps snag an ear or two who missed the album when that came through because, well, it might make your day better. Ain’t no mystery to what we’re doing here these days.
Maybe they’ll announce a summer tour next week and I can post that and then do it again in June, just keep a thread going. Would you notice? Of course not.
Dates from social media:
L’IRA DEL BACCANO official artworks for our Tour created by Michele Carnielli a.k.a. @visione444 . See you on the road!!
(SEARCHING 4TH BETWEEN WÜRZBURG & WEIMAR,HELP US!!)
L’IRA DEL BACCANO Feb/March Tour 2024 17-02 Rome Defrag 27-02 Verona Fine Di Mondo 28-02 Bolzano @pippostage 29-02 Altotting Plattenzimmer e.V. 01-03 Nuremberg Kunstverein Hintere-Cramergasse e.V. with @j.ø.t.u. 02.03 Schmalkalden Kulturverein Villa K with GODDYS 03-03 Würzburg Immerhin Würzburg 04-03 NEED..BOOK US!! 05-03 Weimar C.Keller & Galerie Markt 21 e. V. 06-03 Dresden Chemiefabrik Dresden (Chemo) with Methadone Skies 07-03 Prague @klubmodravopice Těžká psychedelika 08-03 Bayreuth Glashaus Bayreuth 09-03 Heidelberg Yolo Hof 10-03 Salzburg Rockhouse Bar with Humulus
L’IRA DEL BACCANO “COSMIC EVOKED POTENTIALS” order:
Posted in Whathaveyou on November 9th, 2023 by JJ Koczan
Supporting their 2023 album, Cosmic Evoked Potentials (review here), on Subsound Records, Italian heavy psychedelic rockers L’Ira del Baccano will head out on a round of European touring starting at the end of February. There are dates to be filled in — I also don’t have venue info, so I guess there’s that as well — here and there as the band courses mostly through Germany, with some shows in Italy and a date in Prague for good measure. They’re hoping to tag a couple more shows onto the end as well, and I’d assume there’s some flex there geographically, since they can head in whatever direction might make sense and then just turn back home after. If all comes together as planned, it’ll be a solid two weeks of shows without a day off. Not insignificant.
The following was posted on socials. If you can help out, do. If you missed the record, you’re never too late no matter what internet fomo tells you. Good music is never irrelevant, especially not for having been out for several months already.
Dig:
Doomdelic Instrumental Space Prog Rockers @L’IRA DEL BACCANO will be on tour in Germany next March promoting the last album Cosmic Evoked Potential. Few slots are still to be filled. Any suggestion is much appreciated!! (better contacts/names of promoter/booker of course ). Below list of dates, Links. DM the band or Alessandro Drughito Santori for info. Free dates : MARCH 3rd -4th ( 2nd we will be in Schmalkalden and 5th in Weimar)- MARCH 10th & 11th South Germany/Switzerland
L’IRA DEL BACCANO Feb/March Tour 2024
17-02 Rome 27-02 Verona 28-02 Bolzano 29-02 Altotting 01-03 Nuremberg 02.03 Schmalkalden 03-03 NEED..BOOK US!! 04-03 NEED..BOOK US!! 05-03 Weimar 06-03 Dresden 07-03 Prague 08-03 TBA 09-03 Heidelberg 10-03 NEED..BOOK US!! ( South Germany, Switzerland, South France) 11-03 NEED..BOOK US!! ( South Germany, Switzerland, South France
L’IRA DEL BACCANO “COSMIC EVOKED POTENTIALS” order:
Posted in Whathaveyou on February 27th, 2023 by JJ Koczan
This week marks both the album release and the launch of the tour to support it for L’Ira del Baccano‘s new LP, Cosmic Evoked Potentials (review here). No, it’s not the longest string of tour dates you’ll ever see, but that’s the point; it’s a band getting out and doing what they can to spread the word about their new record. Pretty much the ideal of underground heavy in all its forms. The Italian instrumentalists will be out for nine shows in their home country and of course Germany, and whether it’s the only run they do or the beginning of a series of such sojourns, considering the work they’ve done on the album, I think it’s a good time to show up at a gig if you happen to be in their path or adjacent to it.
That’s pretty much the story here. The record is coming out through Subsound, and most of what I have to say about it is in the review linked above — these tour dates were also posted there, but I’m a big believer in supporting independent tours for cool albums — but if this nudge gets a few more ears on it or maybe a body out to a show, that’s enough of an excuse to me to repeat myself. This is the internet. Not like there isn’t room.
The video that was previously premiered for album opener “The Strange Dream of My Old Sun” is below. By all means, dive in:
L’IRA DEL BACCANO COSMIC MARCH TOUR 2023 starts this week!
Italian instrumentalist heavy progressive rockers L’Ira del Baccano will release their new album, Cosmic Evoked Potentials, on March 3, through Subsound Records. Recorded live in 2021, the band count it as their fourth full-length behind 2017’s Paradox Hourglass (review here), 2014’s Terra 42 (review here) and 2013’s Si Non Sedes iS: Live MMVII (reissue review here), though the latter was a live album taken from the first show they played under the L’Ira del Baccano name; they’d previously been known as Loosin’ o’ Frequencies and before that as Dark Awake, the collaboration between guitarist Alessandro Drughito Santori and guitarist/synthesist Roberto Malerba going back to the mid-’90s doom scene in Rome. Completed by bassist Ivan Contini Bacchisio and drummer Gianluca Giannasso, the Roman four-piece reemerge post-pandemic with a 40-minute collection of thoughtfully executed tracks.
They put their two longest pieces, opener “The Strange Dream of My Old Sun” (10:44) (video premiering below) and “Genziana (Improvisation 42)” (13:21) on side A while “The Electric Resolution” (6:37), “Cosmic Evoked Potentials” (6:38) and “Eclipse Omega…Old Sun Reprise” (2:50) highlight a more drifting psychedelic approach on side B, not without movement, but balancing its heft against a meditative patience and synth-laced far-out-ism, the title-track rooting its way into a nebular cloud of synth and drum atmospherics that feels broader in reach than the band were even just a few years ago. The general mission of L’Ira del Baccano hasn’t changed, in terms of bringing Santori‘s songs to life in a full, vibrant and engrossing fashion with marked chemistry all the more apparent for their commitment to live recording (which has obviously been there since the start), but as one might expect, they’ve grown firmer in their purposes, more mature, and more solidified even as they explore new avenues of their sound — and not at all just in the two longer tracks at the outset, though “The Strange Dream of My Old Sun” and “Genziana (Improvisation 42)” do make for a particularly dive-right-in beginning on the longer first side of the platter.
Strangers neither to fluidity nor heft, L’Ira del Baccano launch Cosmic Evoked Potentials in immediate communion with the titular space. An introductory drone leads to a stretch of methodically building soft guitar before the drums enter, synth or guitar drone coinciding as the bass and the drums lock in the central groove. Over the next few minutes, they solidify around a procession that brings to mind My Sleeping Karma before seeming to find another level of heavy shortly before the five-minute mark. Tied together in some ways by its synth, “The Strange Dream of My Old Sun” flows in its transitions and is hypnotic as it plays back and forth, one element rising in the dynamic mix before receding back, be it heavier guitar, the keyboard or some looped effects either from Santori or Malerba. A second (or third, depending on where you hear the divisions) movement to the track begins at around seven minutes, shifting into slower roll, with weightier low end and a distinct sense of punctuation in the snare as the guitars strum harder and the synth moves toward its eventual freakout apex, residual after the crash of the other instruments as a lead-in for “Genziana (Improvisation 42),” the 13 minutes of which were reportedly carved out of a 45-minute jam.
It’s hard to imagine that full session won’t see release at some point in this age of infinite capacity to throw something out there to stream for interested fans, but there’s something to be said as well for the manner in which L’Ira del Baccano construct “Genziana (Improvisation 42)” — one also wonders if they actually keep count, and if so, if they have a hard drive somewhere containing this and the 41 other improv jams leading up to it — working off the spontaneous foundation and overdubbing synth and effects in ways that build out the ambient impression of what becomes a complete idea of a song, growing to some of Cosmic Evoked Potentials‘ heaviest moments rather than simply meandering through space, finding a progressive chug in its second half around which the band seem rally and collectively push forward, and while I know editing is a part of the art here, the musical conversation between players is nonetheless what makes “Genziana (Improvisation 42)” such a highlight, the way the turns are anticipated and fleshed out and all the more cohesive for the keyboard so crucial to its makeup.
“The Electric Resolution” finds itself more quickly directed into a winding but still riffy movement, some fuzz to the tone but a kind of distortion that would work as well for metal as it does for the ultimately still-languid purposes L’Ira del Baccano put it to as the backing for the midpoint lead on their side B leadoff. That solo legitimately soars, and the rhythm that reemerges after seems to carry all the more punch for its having been there, the two guitars finding a harmonized moment before splitting off for dual-channel solos and a stop that brings the keyboard to the forefront ahead of a complex but welcoming ending and direct turn into “Cosmic Evoked Potentials” itself, which is a mellower counterpoint to “The Electric Resolution.” The two feel purposefully paired even before one notes the similarity in runtime, and though the title-track gets plenty heavy and even works in a bit of shove to its ending, the abiding spirit is more subdued, not as hard-edged as the song prior, which is a turn well made in leading to “Eclipse Omega” and its synth/drone communion with “The Strange Dream of My Old Sun” back at the start.
If the idea with “Eclipse Omega” was to underscore the journey that’s been unfolding as L’Ira del Baccano convey the ways in which creativity seems ether-born — the potentials evoked from the cosmos, they might say — and to look back and see the place they started as a small dot like the distant Earth as viewed from Saturn’s rocky, icy rings, then fair enough. What that doesn’t necessarily tell you is how well Cosmic Evoked Potentials functions as a distinct entirety in tone and performance. The molten vibes throughout and the manner in which the band create space and then work to fill them are a fitting manifestation of their style and evolution as a group (Giannasso, making his first appearance, fits right in and plays a large role in setting the mood), and they’ve yet to find the end point, it seems, as “Eclipse Omega” calls out to the void in the resonant long fade that caps the album. Considering these recordings are two years old — something not all that uncommon in the era of global wakeup — it’s entirely possible L’Ira del Baccano have already moved forward from where these songs find them, but the accomplishments here in atmosphere and expression aren’t to be ignored. It is a work to be engaged with which it is a pleasure to engage.
The video for “The Strange Dream of My Old Sun” premieres below, followed by more info on the record from the PR wire, including some words from Santori on the subject.
Please enjoy:
L’Ira del Baccano, “The Strange Dream of My Old Sun” video premiere
Alessandro Santori on “The Strange Dream of My Old Sun”:
“The Strange Dream.. ” is a roller coaster, a trip about our expectations, on what and where the highs and lows of our lives will bring us.
L’IRA DEL BACCANO “COSMIC EVOKED POTENTIALS” pre order :
Doomdelic Instrumental Space Prog Rockers L’IRA DEL BACCANO are back with their official 4th album on Subsound Records ‘‘COSMIC EVOKED POTENTIALS’’. The album release will be preceded by a video for the single ‘‘The Strange Dream of My Old Sun’’.
Producer and guitarist Alessandro Santori says about the album: Cosmic Evoked Potentials is a rite of passage, the end of a circle and already blooming of another. Surely our most instinctive effort so far. We went back to our roots of live recording, this time instead of a stage we chose an old mansion from late ‘1700 outside Rome. The atmosphere there was so charming and stimulating that 13 minutes of a 45 min long improvisation ended up in the album. We wanted the dynamics and moods of the parts to be the most important thing, taking more time than our usual developing the “story” of the songs.
L’Ira Del Baccano will start promoting “Cosmic Evoked Potentials” live in March 2023: COSMIC MARCH TOUR 2023 03-03 MANTOVA IT – Arci Tom 04-03 ROSENHEIM DE – Asta Rosenheim 05-03 WURZBURG DE – Immerhin 06-03 NUREMBERG DE – Kunstverein Hintere 07-03 WEIMAR DE – C. Keller 08-03 HILDBURGHAUSEN DE – Molle 09-03 MANNHEIM DE – Altes Volksbad 10-03 ULM DE – Hexenhaus Ulm 11-03 KAUFBEUREN DE- Roundhouse 12-03 TBA
Tracklisting: 1. The Strange Dream of my Old Sun 10:44 2. Genziana (Improvisation 42)* 13:21 3. The Electric Resolution 06:36 4. Cosmic Evoked Potentials 06:37 5. Eclipse Omega…Old Sun Reprise 02:50
(* Genziana is an improvisation extract from a 45 minutes live session with post overdubs)
L’Ira del Baccano: Alessandro Drughito Santori: Guitars, Loops , Production Roberto Malerba: Lead Guitar, Guitar FX, Synth, Loops Gianluca Giannasso: Drums Ivan Contini: Bass
