Karu

Italian multi-instrumentalist and producer Alberto Brutti, aka KARU, release his new album ‘An Imaginary Journey’ via Beat Machine Records.

KARU’s music flawlessly blends pounding double basslines, aberrant guitar riffing, and eccentric, almost shamanic sax outbursts with avant-garde electronic music, a plethora of samples (such as clips from documentaries about Afrofuturism), and frenetic drum sections.

With tracks inspired by the likes of Gauvajut new year celebrations and the Taklamakan Desert of Xinjiang Province, China, the Kalam tribe of Papa New Guinea, the African tribe of the Dogon, and more, the album explores the connection between music’s ancestral rhythm in tribal culture and the freedom of jazz and club sounds.

PERSONNEL:

• Alberto Brutti - (bass, electronics)
• Mario D’Alfonso - (sax)
• Cristiano Amici - (drums)
• Andrea Di Nicolantonio - (guitar)
• Matteo Castiglioni - (synthesizer on A3, B2, B3)

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Kalam
• A2. Purulli
• A3. Akita

• SIDE B
• B1. Spears Of Leaves
• B2. Nyia
• B3. Pneuma