HDADD - BLACK MOTHER

HDADD’s still keeping his immersive touch but focuses on a straightforward narrative where the contemplative moods of past works have been replaced by a fictional kind of nervous storytelling.

Don’t get it wrong: we’re still talking about psychedelia but forget the hippie, transcendent vibes of his last works and make room to this new dizzy experience whose depth is enhanced by an explicit songwriting and a production which, in some way, sounds more physical than ever before.

The record is structured on a series of episodes where mutant afro-beat blends with Mediterranean folklore and sci-fi electronics clash with ancient futurist ballads in order to create a murky cinematic atmosphere: a continuous chase where tension and relief, damnation and delight pursue each other.

We’ve this febrile jazzfunk that leads the listener in the twilight zone, where the deepest darkness and the highest enlightenment are dualist reflections in a mirror, which is placed at the core of the entire work. Imagine a rush in a gloomy sequence shot: an haunted corridor where sepia tones and fluorescence alternate fast like paints on a black wall.

This work aims to adapt as an imaginary soundtrack for a contemporary Grand Guignol or a Freak Show.A metaphorical and existential description of our times and its rituals in which the audience is the show itself and no one is allowed to experience the drama in the comfort of a seat.

Written and Produced by HDADD
Recorded Between 2015-2018
Mastering at Queenspectra
Artwork by QS

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HDADD - Quetzal Splendente

After 2 years from his last solo work, the HDADD project is coming back with a new album called "Sense of Wonder" which is going to be released in the second half of November 2016.

Here you can enjoy the first excerpt from the album called "Quetzal Splendente"a track which melts HDADD's futuristic touch with the ancient vibes of spiritual and soulful jazz.

"The Quetzal symbolize freedom and wealth.
This creature used to sing beautifully before the conquest;
but has been silent ever since.
It will sing once again only when the land is truly free." 

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OKE' - Tree of Life

OKE' is the collective effort of three kindred spirits who enjoy astral traveling, and following their own pineal glands, or perhaps telepathy, accidentally collided planet QS. They like to describe their output as an eruption: it's the fire of creation that tries to reach the sky and every gram of its magma fell on the ground it's pure fertility.
If the mountain is the trunk its fountain of fire draws the missing part of their plan: a tree of life whose branches, leaves and fruits connect the earth to the sky.
Their music is the expression of inner worlds: the thin membrane which wraps their spirits is a sonic halo through which you can embrace their experience made of pure emotions expressed on the thin line that crosses the Cosmic Chaos to lead toward the Supreme Order.
Oke' is the Knowledge of the Heights through Elevation and Wisdom.

Music performed by OKE'

Katzuma - Electronics
William Simone - Electronic Percussions
Andrea Calì - Electric Piano / Synths

Produced by Katzuma
Mastering & Artdirection by HDADD (QS)

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COLOSSIUS - Tribal Pursuit LP

Here we are again: Colossius is back with a new solo work since a long time and is well worth the wait considering the fact that we're talking about a fresh and forward thinking full lenght.

"Tribal Pursuit" recalls the missing link between the past and the future: it investigates the roots of rythm and transposes the tradition into something which sounds like the voice of tomorrow.
Most of the tracks here share a lot of with the history of grooves, from psychedelic jazz to indigenous folklore but it seems they have been upgraded to be one of the most modernist listening experience your ears are going to perceive nowadays.

The relation with roots is clear but on the other hand you've an avant-garde approach which in someway declares a distance from the past.
Like an heretic Futurist who keeps the consciousness of the origins of his culture, he creates a new language keeping in mind the source of his informations.

Thanks to the the use of hybrid techniques it sounds like the man and machine finally melt together in a harmonic way: think about futurism and turn its kinetic attitude into a colourful spiral of dynamic percussions, organic grooves and cinematic vibrations.
Then Chase the Rhythm.

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HDADD - Autogenesis

This new project from HDADD can be considered a collection of pictures which wants to portray the presence of life, its variety of subtle manifestations we can experience even in places that seem to have been abandoned.

Life can be seen as a chain reaction of activities, movements and permanent changes of status that may evolve from a bacteria to the final degrade of ashes.
But what remains then can really be considered only devastation or the spirit of life keeps blooming in the documentation of the previous activities?
Life exists everywhere just because the death of someone or something can only be perceived by a living observer, as death itself is the absence of perception and the zero level of feelings.

So this new concept is about this beautiful paradox which is most of the time an ephemeral and ambiguous brackets between the state of origin and that of nemesis, which in a historical observation plane can just be regarded natural mutation.
Autogenesis is a sonic fiction which celebrates the spontaneous processes of creation across different scenarios: a spectral analisys of life's heartbeat and the rythm of cosmic harmony.

Empty Places aren't Empty Spaces.

HDADD - GRACE

Grace is the new album from HDADD and is the follower of Mondo Mzk. If the previous work was an attempt to face the shadows of digital middle ages, this new one is conceptually a spiritual healing after the effort of that investigation on the dark side of the modern living.

They are songs about the love of nature, navigation, daydreaming and oblivion: they praise the elements of joy which are often hidden by the fog of the lies. In terms of feeling this compositions differ from the tension of the previous material but they keep the continuum because still rooted in the same field of research which has been briefly described as Soundscape Funk: a freeform sound into which the nerves of funk coexist with modern psychedelia and electronics.

Grace can be described as a joyful spiritual resurrection thanks to the wide range of feelings spread across the album as a panoramic idea of funk: microtonal orchestrations, upbuilding psychedelic soul and african rythms come together to synthetize how the roots are still present in the future to create a universal kind of vibe.

This album wants to hold your hands and lead you across the sea breeze to smell the exotic flavour of an immaginary travel in the Mediterranean Area.
Let's Sail On.