Italian jazz-funk group Smuggler Brothers return with new album ‘Musione’
Based out of Palermo, which is the primary town in Sicily, the Smuggler Brothers return with their sophomore release Musione on the highly-acclaimed Italian label, Schema Records.
Evolving over the past couple years from an octet to a more cohesive quintet, this group’s new album is heavily influenced by Mediterranean 60s and 70s era library music, Italian soundtrack recordings, and Ethio-jazz. Throughout the recording, the band nicely fuses together funky percussive rhythms and organ-based grooves with layered horn melodies, spacey synths, and psyched-out guitar lines.
Produced by Massimo Martellotta of Calibro 35, and recorded at Schema Records’ Blue Spirit Studio in Milan, the session features Roberto Orlando on guitar and mandolin, Vincenzo Nuzzo on bass and percussion , saxophonist Claudio Terzo, pianist Giovanni Di Martino on organ, synths, triangle and marranzano, and Giorgio Bovì on drums, percussion, and marranzano.
Overall, a great sophomore release from a highly-talented group that seems to be heavily influenced by the “golden era” of Italian-rooted instrumental music.
Fans of The Heliocentrics, Calibro 35, and Whitefield Brothers should definitely check this record album.
Smuggler Brothers — ‘Musione’
(Schema Records)
1. Intro
2. Siciliana
3. Kemonia Flow
4. Gran Fango
5. Sciarra O’ Scaro
6. Interlude 1
7. Lost In Val Demone
8. 101
9. Musione
10. T’Anno
11. Interlude 2
12. Deciditi, Bestia
13. Suddenly
