Steeplejack
Dream Market Audio
Steeplejack are back with a new double album, a collaboration with some of the most active indie labels of the Italian underground scene: Area Pirata, Psych Out and Rock Bottom. The overall theme of "Dream Market Radio" - as the title suggests - is about dreams and dreaming. The 15 compositions are divided into four "chapters" and are a journey into the inner universe of the group's deus ex machina Maurizio Curadi and his bandmates Alessandro Tellini and Elio Gavarini. Often hanging in the balance between structure and abstraction, Curadis music lends itself to group improvisation, creating a sort of "total psychedelia" where experimentation and tradition merge and become one. "Dream Market Radio" is a wonderful psychedelic album where the adjective 'psychedelic' refers to an inner mental space where images and sensations freely flow. That's because between velvet smoothnesses and sharp edges, hypnotic patterns and wild rhythms, visions of meadows and sunsets and arcane mysterious figures take shape. You are swept away into the dreamy atmospheres of the music. It's a magic enchantment born from a "strange" combination of lysergic rock, primitive blues, acid folk and ethnic music, all distilled in 13 original tracks plus a transfigured cover of Captain Beefhearts "Kandy Korn" and a heavily revisited ancient traditional song ("Gallows Pole"). Follow Gil Scott-Herons advice and find a place by yourself, turn off your mobile, play "Dream Market Radio" and immerse yourself in the magical world of Steeplejack.