Ilacchime Quartet
Soundtrack (for Parties on the Edge of the Void)

Published on June 7th, "Soundtrack (for Parties on the Edge of the Void)" is the fourth album of the group Illachime Quartet. The combo, which has made post-rock and, in general, sonic avant-garde its musical matrix, returns, after about nine years, to record a new album, the fourth of their career, with Marocco Music and the essential support of the self-managed cultural center l’Asilo di Napoli. Fabrizio Elvetico (bass and electronics), Gianluca Paladino (guitars), Ivano Cipolletta (drums), and Pasquale Termini (cello), after collaborating with Graham Lewis from Wire, Mark Stewart from The Pop Group, no-wave trumpeter and guitarist Rhys Chatham, German Schneider TM known for his electronic textures, jazz pianist Salvatore Bonafede, and electro-acoustic composer Domenico Sciajno, all artists who have contributed surprising sonic interweavings enriching the group's varied sound; they entrust their renewed desire to play together to a project inspired by "Five Easy Pieces," a cult film from 1970, which becomes a concept divided into two parts: Part A (Five Easy Pieces) composed of reworkings of the group's original soundtracks produced for various films and documentaries, and Part B (Five Uneasy Pieces), the result of two improvisation sessions held by Illachime in February 2018. The album, which is a complex project, was entirely recorded in the theater of the former Asilo Filangeri with Carlo Mascolo, Lauro Rossi, Shelly Bisirri (trombone), Charles Ferris, Ciro Riccardi, Lee Koelz (trumpet, flugelhorn), Giulio De Asmundis, Giuseppe Giroffi, Max Fuschetto, Pietro Santangelo (sax), Elisa Vito (bassoon), Francesca Diletta Iavarone (flute), Marcello Vitale (electric mandolin), Marco Pezzenati (vibraphone), Nino Spezzano, Rosa Maria Meoli (clarinet, bass clarinet), Sara Piccegna (oboe), Sergio Albano (guitar), Umberto Lepore (double bass), Marco Messina, while the visual part was curated by Francesco Napolitano, Sabrina Merolla (photos), Elena Cepollaro, Luca Serafino (graphics). The mastering is by Giovanni "Blob" Roma, while the mixes are by Carlo Di Gennaro. In this whirlwind of collaborations, the music takes-does not take a real shape. The free-form sound oscillates between abstract punk and noise, old school post-rock, ambient music, and impro jazz; a transversal musical exploration that takes the listener into a multisensory world that aids imagination and swings between crypto-mental visuals and emotional deflagrations.