Kaligola | de

An eclectic crew for a journey in Italian folkloric traditions with the nomadic spirit of a vagabond: a wind section that intertweaves with gypsy sounds made of darbuka and accordion, all of it set to electronic rhythms based somewhere between folkstep and echoes of dub. It was 2011 when musician and radio DJ Mondo Cane, a.k.a. Mondokan, brought together an ensemble of daredevil musicians for an experiment that soon revealed itself to be a powerhouse of experimental sounds. Electronic beats find themselves arm-in-arm with traditional Italian melodies that themselves are filtered through the mesh of Eastern European contamination. A return...