Distopia by Salvatore Evola

“The sun of a mediterranean April began to warm my sad and disheartened soul from a period psychologically long and heavy to endure. A long period that has severely tested the peoples of an entire planet. I knew that to get out of it I would have to feed my spirit with music. But I was looking for a different kind of music, far from everything I had created so far. The desire to create something syncretic, transversal, highly energetic and spiritual, rich, ancestral and melodic, grew in me. I took a cue from this global situation to think about our destiny, about our sense of belonging to this place and this time. So I looked for a sound that was stripped of any categorization. A sound capable to elude any scheme by borrowing instruments, sounds, melodies from all over the world and blending them together. Whether it was a japanese taiko, a blues or latin melody played on the guitar, a duduk (and, why not, a panflute) or the voice of an opera singer no longer mattered. These elements so distant and different from each other had to dialogue together. I asked my best friend, Ueps, to accompany me with his guitar: I needed his company to face this sonic journey. His cousin Gabriele (Gibra), those spring days, had recently returned from Brazil. The opportunity was perfect to make everything come true. Gibra understood and shared exactly my feelings and my need: in a few minutes he wrote the text of Distopia and read the words in front of a microphone, that sunny April afternoon and a few steps from the sea, in Sicily. And that’s how this heavily contaminated and multiform EP took shape.
De onde quer que você venha e para onde quer que você vá, boa viagem!” – Salvatore Evola

released April 11, 2022

Distopia – Additional guitars by Ueps. Vocals by Gibra.
Utopia – Additional guitars by Ueps.
All songs are produced by Salvatore Evola between Torretta Granitola (Sicily) and Bologna.
Mastered at Ohxala Records Studio
Artwork by Renato Rocha aka Cohra_
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