Gionatan Scali’s dream-like new album ‘Ride On’

Inspired by artists such as Durutti Column, Kurt Vile, and Kevin Morby, the band led by musician, writer, and activist Gionatan Scali, preserves their mystical approach when it comes to their sound. The band draws inspiration from Middle Eastern influences, psychedelic periods, and krautrock, in that way radiating ‘mystical soft-core,’ with slurred vocals and melodic riffs combining for a powerful and expansive sound in their upcoming 11-track album ‘RIDE ON.’ A perfectly painted picture of Gionatan’s varied and unexpected personality, soaking in a wide range of emotions, from the dark and existential to the heavenly and surreal. The album retains a sense of surprise throughout, with varying levels of energy that may be terrifying, warm, and soothing at times, as well as funny and cynical at others.

When discussing the release, Scali shares:

“RIDE ON” Developed along some of our writings, the whole concept stays around ‘Cats Science’, an essay that Gionatan wrote about the perverse behaviour of social media taken from a weird-scientific point of view. A more or less scientific approach to the world of social media, the problem of purity of art, ego, isolation, and other new modern existentialist approaches to life. You can find these concepts in songs like “To be seen is a sin’ ‘I cannot force someone to love me” and “Palinopsia” a sort of eye disease of the image that stays in your brain even after you move your eyes somewhere else. It’s a sort of image loop disease.’

Premised on the idea that the underlying sickness of our time is hidden beneath the assertion that humans are abnormal and incapable of stating the truth, ‘Ride On,’ is jam-packed with on-brand tracks and themes, depicting a wide range of feelings, moods, and emotions, bleeding of alternative ’90s and new modern psychedelia,  ready to unpack this 15th of May.