PR: BLACKTOP OVERDRIVE EXPERIENCE

Artist: Blacktop Overdrive Experience
Title: Out of the Show
Format: album digital
Release date: March 17th, 2023
Label: self released
Genres: stoner, classic rock
PR territories: Italy

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In uscita il 17 Marzo 2023, Out of the Show è il nuovo album dei Blacktop Overdrive Experience, giovane ed energico trio dalla provincia di Catania attivo dal 2014, ed e’ il loro secondo lavoro dopo l’esordio omonimo del 2017.

Due i singoli già estratti dall’album, Take Control e Fly, entrambi accompagnati da videoclip che esaltano l’attitudine irruente ma anche auto-ironica della band.

Out of the Show, rispetto al primo lavoro, si smarca dal classic rock, andando a cercare soluzioni ritmiche e armoniche affini a un sound più contemporaneo, vicino al grunge e a sonorita’ grezze, un’immediatezza ottenuta grazie anche alla scelta, in accordo col fonico Carlo Longo, di registrare la batteria, il basso e la chitarra ritmica suonati assieme in presa diretta.

L’album si apre con l’intro blues di chitarra e voce di Feeling Free, che prelude ad uno shuffle aggressivo con un un ritornello in pieno stile Hard Rock, ma i 10 brani che compongono la tracklist spaziano da episodi minimali come You’re Never Gonna Be the Same (unica ballad acustica dell’album) a una versione personale del classico di Neil Young Hurricane, per giungere alla chiusura in chiave decisamente stoner di Blame.

Credits:
Registrato, Mixato e Masterizzato al NuevArte Studio di Carlo Longo – Misterbianco (CT).
Artwork e foto di Marco Garofalo – Laboratorio Creativo – Giardini Naxos (ME)

I Blacktop Overdrive Experience nascono in provincia di Catania nel 2014, come progetto di tre amici uniti dalla passione per il rock anni ’70 e il blues: Peppe Papa al basso, Antonio Valentino batteria e cori, e Gianfranco Torrisi chitarra e voce. La scelta dell’inglese per i testi avviene in modo assolutamente naturale, essendo Gianfranco nato e vissuto per diversi anni in Australia.
Fin dalla sua nascita il trio si dedica a scrivere brani che si ispirano al rock degli anni ’70-’80 e al blues, ma anche a generi più “moderni” come il Grunge e lo Stoner degli anni 90.
Il primo album omonimo viene pubblicato a Ottobre del 2017, e porta il trio a esibirsi al Rocketta Summer Live presso il Monastero dei Benedettini di Catania, aprendo il concerto a due band internazionali, Photo Taxis e Random Recipe, e a seguire in diverse date ed eventi siciliani, fra cui la partecipazione nel Settembre 2018 alla trasmissione “AllaKatalla” di Giuseppe Castiglia, con un’esibizione live in diretta su Rei TV.
A fine 2019 il trio inizia a lavorare al nuovo album Out of the Show, che pero’, a causa delle prolungate chiusure dovute al Covid, viene ultimato solo a Marzo 2022.

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PR : SYNNE SANDEN – UNFOLD

Artist: Synne Sanden
Title: Unfold (album)
Release date: February 17th, 2023
Label: Nordic Records
Hometown: Oslo, Norway
Genre: experimental pop
PR territories: worldwide except German speaking countries and Scandinavia

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Unfold is the fifth solo album from the experimental pop artist Synne Sanden.
The album is composed by Sanden and produced by the well known producer Lars Horntveth, who has produced for Susanne Sundfør, Fieh, Aha and Kimbra, and is also a member and bandleader of Jaga Jazzist.
Synne Sanden writes about the things we find difficult and vulnerable to talk about, what we are ashamed of, about personal growth and healing.
Gaffa writes «she has succeeded in finding her own voice, both musically as well as lyrically».
Synne Sanden combines the catchy and the beautiful, with the quirky, expressive and raw and creates songs and soundscapes where you can hear her unique signature.

The album Unfold is about taking back your body and sexuality, after boundaries have been crossed.
She writes about creating a new safety, where it ́s been unsafe, and how the good and important sexuality gives nearness, vitality, presence and a sense of belonging, and how these painful sexual experiences can make you feel weak and small.

On the album you can hear vocals, beats, moon drums, rhodes, accordion, drums, synths, harp, strings, bass clarinet, vibrafone and pedal steel.
Some songs are co-produced by Synne Sanden, Kim Reenskaug and Peter Estdahl.
The co-producers are playing on the album, together with Synne ́s permanent band consisting of: Julie Kleive, Henrik Schmidt, Lars Fremmerlid and Jørgen Apeness. Ellen Bødtker is guesting on harp on two songs and Lise Sørensen is playing strings on several songs.

Synne Sanden conveys her emotions and strength, from her deepest layer, and you can hear her doing this in a very large degree on Unfold.

Like Neon

MEDIA LINKS

Jammerzine (US) – Video Interview
Jammerzine (US) – Video premiere
Selection Sorties (FR) – Like Neon
Selection Sorties (FR) – Unfold
AreaRock (IT) – Like Neon
End of the Week Show – Sheppey FM (UK)
It’s Psychedelic Baby Mag (SLO) – Video premiere
Rumore (IT) – Video premiere
El Santo del Rock (MEX)
Loaded – MMH The Home of Rock Radio (UK)
Purple Melon (US)
Symphony of Silence – Radio Onde Furlane (IT)
OffTopic (IT) – review
OffTopic (IT) – interview
Sodapop (IT) – review
Geophonie (IT) – review

PR: Madness at Home – Wet Room

Artist: Madness at Home
Format: single, video
Release date: Feb. 03rd, 2023
Label: Overdub Recordings
Genres: post-punk, noise
PR territories: worldwide except Italy

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Madness at Home is trio born in Rome in the summer of 2019. Under the spell of artists like Kyuss, Nirvana and Melvins, they wanted to bring back that obsolete sound from the late 80’s and early 90’s.
Their sound is dirt, distorted, untrendy, the lyrics are focused on sudden feelings and repressed thoughts, flowing as a stream of consciousness without any logical meaning.
They released a first eponymous EP at the beginning of 2020 for Seahorse Recording, but were then forced to a long period of stand by due to the pandemic.
At the same time, their sound started to incorporate into the post-hardcore and alternative 90’s influences some more modern listening (Metz, Young Widows, Daughters, Unwound, Fudge Tunnel, Gilla Band), being still dirty, obsessive and distorted.


At the beginning of 2022 they recorded their first full lenght album Shoelace, released by Overdub Recordings on October 14th, 2022.
Shoelace was recorded and mixed in Rome by Grop Records and Gianmarco Lauri, produced by the band itself.

The 10 tracks album is a description of endless waiting, recurring dreams, indolence and a morbid escapism where hidden desires turn into real.

Line up
Pietro Zaccari – Voice and Guitar
Andrea “D.B.” De Cave – Bass
Giulio Calamarà – Drums

Clocking at a sharp 2’02”, Wet Room is the new single (and video) taken from Madness At Home’s debut album Shoelace, released in October ’22 by Overdub Recordings.

Syncopated drumming, obsessive basslines and dissonant guitar chords push immediately into the abrasive moods of the track. It’s a flood of inputs both from the brain and the external world which paralyse mind and body, while machine-gun guitars open up a grotesque post-punk new world.
Wet Room stings like an Idles song played by Nirvana.
Also for fans of Metz, Young Widows, Daughters, Unwound, Fudge Tunnel and Gilla Band.

MEDIA LINKS
Rebel Noise – video premiere (USA)
Human Pleasure Radio (NZ)
End of the Week Show – Sheppey FM (UK)
Selection Sorties (FR)
Bushwick Garage / Radio Free Brooklyn (USA)
Loaded – MMH The Home of Rock Radio (UK)
The Alternative Frequencies / Radio Leyland (UK)
Afternoiz (GR)
Revista the 13th (ARG)