Out on May 23rd for Asian Fake, SMOKE is the new album of Royale casinowho return with a real suitea flow of sound images collected in songs designed to be listened to in sequence.
Co-producing from Clap! Clap!the disc is the result of the will of the Milanese band of go towards the contrary to quick, fast and superficial listening that predominates today, telling clashes, exasperated dualisms, anxieties, dangers and relationships between individuals and groups that lead to relying on the “positivism of the will“.
The invitation is therefore that of stop, observe, reflect, understand how to act And fight for a changeleaving the fog that makes this universe of the individual blind and intoxicated by SMOKE that surrounds us.
And it is precisely from the image suggested by this metaphor that the idea of putting the censer on the covergiving a simple object used in Christian religious functions a double meaning.
The Turkey, who dispenses the SMOKE generated by the combustion of incense, can in fact symbolically represent the will to obscure, confuse And Draw the mindsin order to control them, as well as the will to purify And clean up The context and the spirit from negative energy and malignant presences.
Casino Royale: “smoke” and the meeting with Asian Fake
Like a Fenice Iraba i Royale casino They always be reborn from their ashes, looking forward, aware of the road made and the life lived every day outside the artistic-musical context.
A life without which today, most likely, there would be no SMOKEwhich was born as a transgenerational project the result of the meeting and the artistic-disclosure with the label Asian Fakeespecially as regards graphic design, to which he worked Deem (Member added as the band of the band, editor's note) together with the creative unit of the label.
As for the sound of this new project, however, i Royale casino have returned to their roots, or to the Black Music of Matrice Jamaican and a type of soul with an urban characterto whom Clap! Clap! gave a boost of bass and colors, drawing with full hands from the so -called “Sound System Culture”, In full UK style.
The disc thus flows between aggressive and hypnotic flows of grooves, suspended kinematic moments and texts that are transformed into real synthetic posters, in which the band addresses very important themes such as control, manipulation, power and influence of technology, the fear of the different, the relationship between solitude and anger and the trust placed in the new generations, so that they can build a better future.
