Iosonouncane
IRA

Today marks the release of an important album for the Italian and international music scene. Two hours of music in an uninterrupted flow of emotional crescendos, rapid rhythms, and sweet lullabies. The influences identifiable in IRA transcend musical genres, or at least the Western characteristics of what we consider musical genres. It is primarily a look at other music, a tribute to the culture of music in its spiritual, ritualistic, and ancestral sense. DIE, his previous album, is still tied to properly pop and singer-songwriter structures, yet even then the ambition to create a musical microcosm that was the result of contamination and primitive ties with the earth and tradition made it an uncommon and deeply poetic object. Incani somehow manages to surpass the ambitions of DIE by immersing himself in a musical matter that is elusive and difficult to handle.

IRA by Iosonouncane is many things. It is music, and it is also a narrative of evoked images, it is the expression of shared unease. Music as an instrument of a global yet not globalized culture, born of conflicts and born of peace. A universal, unclassifiable character traverses the pitch-black soul of IRA. Jacopo Incani has created an unrepeatable musical monument, a requiem for the human being who has lost all points of reference. It is an album immersed in the present, capable of telling the future and the past without rhetoric, through prophecies whispered in an impossible language. The album's lyrics are written in an invented language, a collision of European languages and Arabic terms that required structuring a pronunciation to be studied and shared with the other 7 voices. It is music of pure sentiment, naked like the man on the cover. A bold display, a painful acceptance of the imperfections and damnations that make us despair but that fill our existence with meaning.

In his words: “IRA is a choral album of a man who partially renounces his own voice to embrace that of a multitude that crosses lands and seas.”

And then: “It is undoubtedly a political album. It is for its duration, for its sound, and for its language. It is because it is complex, because it is layered, and because it stands sharply opposed to the world we are living in, both our little musical world and the great world of capital and borders. It is also undeniably a dramatic album, as it is set in the becoming of a precise moment, without any hope.”

IRA is therefore also an acceptance of complexity as resistance to passivity, a continuous search for decoding tools to understand the phenomenology of our actions and the behavior of others. It is the journey of a man who observes the world with wonder, anger, and sadness. In these years where virtuality has become the protagonist of our existence, Incani reminds us to stay grounded, to empathize and understand the dramatic reality we are living in by embracing the transversality and differences that unite every man. It is a demanding listen, undeniably an uncommon musical experience that will leave its mark in this 2021.