{"title":"Mamuthones","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"fear-on-the-corner","title":"Fear On The Corner","description":"\u003cp\u003eMamuthones may have originally taken their name from the death-masks used in rituals in their native Sardinia, and initially emerged from the Italian occult psychedelic movement alongside the likes of Father Murphy, Mai Mai Mai and their labelmates Lay Llamas. Yet now, in the wake of their Rocket Recordings debut album \u003ci\u003eFear On The Corner,\u003c\/i\u003e the band find themselves undergoing a metamorphosis from mystical and ceremonial realms into a direct connection with the everyday, the personal and the political.This vibrant reinvention also sees Mamuthones transcending their roots in Italian prog and soundtrack work and shifting their modus operandi firmly in the direction of a distinctly New York-based headspace - a realm of mirrorballs and black-clad basements both As the band’s Alessio Gastaldello tells it, this is a groove-based.eclectic style that finds its metier in the realm of two albums which are paid direct homage in the record’s very title -the bleak and kinetic \u003ci\u003eFear Of Music\u003c\/i\u003e by Talking Heads and the iconoclastic, heat-haze repetition of Miles Davis’ \u003ci\u003eOn The Corner\u003c\/i\u003e. This is principally an aural landscape whereby the eclectic mischief of ZE Records, the sonic brinksmanship of ‘Tago Mago’ era Can and the post-punk songwriting flair of LCD Soundystem can happily form communion in a post-2AM reverie. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50497246232907,"sku":"1026828","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/d32778e0-8886-4461-b9e5-7275342740f1_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727726982"},{"product_id":"from-word-to-flesh","title":"From Word to Flesh","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eHow does one approach the morning after a party for the end of the world? This is a question which Mamuthones had to ask themselves, in the wake of their last album for Rocket, 2018's \u003cem\u003eFear On The Corner\u003c\/em\u003e. Nonetheless, from the aftermath of this uncertain period has risen the still more flourishing realm of \u003cem\u003eFrom Word To Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e - a colourful and multi-faceted creation very much befitting the outsider spirit of Rocket's new Black Hole imprint.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eI believe that with this album a circle has been closed” reflects Mamuthones mainman Alessio Gastaldello. “We returned to the atmosphere of the first Mamuthones albums with the skills acquired throughout the journey, with new sounds and with new creative processes. I would say that what remains constant – and at the core of our music – is the obsessive rhythms and the search for a sonic rituality: this is for certain our trademark”. This is clear right from the curtain raiser 'Burn From Inside', which beams the emotive approach of the band through the shamanic prism of Coil's \u003cem\u003eApe Of Naples\u003c\/em\u003e. From there, hypnotic repetition marries to abstract abrasion and mournful laments with equal finesse, as redolent of the spiritual zest of Popol Vuh and Ash Ra Tempel as the gnostic folk of Six Organs Of Admittance. Elsewhere, 'A Symmetry Of Faith' summons a union of post-punk and psychically charged folk aligned with the recent work of Bristol's Beak. The Sardinian ritual of the Mamuthones – in which sinister masked figures weighed down with cattle bells conduct a ceremonial procession to ward off evil forces - has gone on for some two thousand years, and it may be that these ghoulish avatars are engaged in a celebration of the endless cycles of death and rebirth, fortifying spirits for a new epoch.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eAmidst the chaos and tumult of the 2020s, the band of this name has undergone just such a change themselves, and \u003cem\u003eFrom Word To Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e is the fruit of their struggle. As Alessio says “With this album I think the Mamuthones have never been so unmediated, so naked: all masks gone”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":51386044645707,"sku":"R3357-5031","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/be27a250-8fae-6778-5a2e-abf0a8fb2d8c.jpg?v=1741091487"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/mamuthones.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}