PSYCHOWATERMELON
Ghostpiracy
Venerable Italian duo make their psychedelic prog debut as Psychowatermelon.
RADICI MUSIC
With backgrounds in space rock, psychedelia, vintage electronica and soundtrack music, Italian voyagers Alex Savelli (guitar, bass) and Tommaso Michienzi (synths, theremin) are successors to such countrymen as Goblin and Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso. Their filmic, almost entirely instrumental debut seems to nod at everyone from lateperiod Rush (on the title track) to midperiod Pink Floyd (Monkey Business Culture Club) to The Prodigy jamming with Doctor Who theme arranger Delia Derbyshire (Mindclimbers). Although drummer Andrea Lamb D’Aniello anchors some of these compositions with a great sense of dynamics, many of them are freefloating, part-ambient affairs such as Lazy Blades And The Gummy Forest, which opens with sweeping synth arpeggios.