Italian psychedelic rockers Ghostwound to release self-titled debut album on December 6th via Go Down Records!
Milan, Italy based psychedelic rockers Ghostwound are gearing up to release their self-titled debut album, which will see the light on December 6th, 2024 via Go Down Records.
Tracklist:
01. Funky Robot
02. Ghostwound
03. Smoke
04. Gimcana Spiralis
05. Dive Into The Mirror
06. Five Ave Marias
07. Lycantropus
08. Rojava
09. Azimuth
10. Coffee Grounds Revelations
Courtesy of All Noir PR:
This is the debut album of the Milan-based space funk rockers Ghostwound, a four-piece whose members’ experience within the Italian underground psychedelic rock scene is longstanding. Their truly unique style features dreamlike vocals, broken funk grooves, kosmische modular synths, and, above all, complex layers of fuzz and reverberate guitars with hallucinatory acid blues solos.
In these ten songs, the richness and variety of the atmospheres that follow one another are made homogeneous by a colourful and genuine sound. Each single track conceals a long series of inspired intuitions and precious details, that reveal themselves little by little with every listening, elevating the album to the purest peaks of creativity. For those who love the evolution of the hard psych sounds from the late 60s, the Kraut Rock weirdness of the mid-70s, the super funk breakbeats of James Brown, and also the vocal harmonies of the 90s UK shoegaze, you’ll be able to find something surprisingly flavourful in this record!
About the band:
Ghostwound is the union of four non-conformist rockers who decided to form a band in Milan in 2020. These “cursed heroes in search of redemption” come from various projects active in the unhealthy meanders of the Milanese underground music scene – Matra, Lord Shani, Free The Nation, Noise Under Dreaming, PsicoTaxi, just to name a few.
In their past, however, perhaps due to their wacky and erratic lifestyle, or most probably, due to their childish and ridiculous desire to think of themselves as invincible and immortal, it is because of this hubris that, in short, they have thrown away the few favourable opportunities that the life of an artist offers, ending up missing all the trains. All, but one. It is in this symbolic, old and battered locomotive that they found the common feeling in creating a style that inserts sudden Space Funk 70s incursions into a solid ground of psychedelic rock dominated by guitarist Paolo Bramino’s fat mixture of fuzz and delays and Michele Ricciardi’s analog synth. These guidelines of their musical language are complemented by a dreamy vocal style that contributes to creating the innovative contrast that was a source of inspiration for the writing of ten original songs, recorded in two different sessions by Gianluca Mancini at MaiTai Studio and mixed by Paolo Bramino.
In the meantime, Ghostwound began the live activity that led them to share the stage with Giöbia, Black Delta Movement, Da Captain Trips, Huge Molasses Tank Explodes, Diplomatics, The Devils, Bluedaze and more.
In 2024, the band signed for Go Down Records to release their eponymous debut album. Ghostwound drops in a limited edition clear vinyl LP featuring ten gems of groovy acid rock with tasteful grainy sound textures and complex layers of varied atmospheres.
Credits:
All music by Paolo Bramino Valassina.
All lyrics by Michele Ricciardi.
Recorded by Gianluca Mancini at MaiTai Studio, Milan.
Mixed by Paolo Bramino.
Mastered by Daniel Grego at Mal De Testa Recording Studio.
Artwork by Paolo Proserpio.
Line-up:
Paolo Bramino – Guitars
Michele Ricciardi – Synth, Vocals
Petrolio – Bass, Backing Vocals
Virgil Mermoud – Drums
Additional musician:
Steve Balboa on congas and percussion
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