Thanks to the joint efforts of Luce Sia and Eight Tower Records, Capricorni Pneumatici’s second opus is reissued after almost forty years, for the first time on CD in a limited edition of 200 copies. Probably the darkest and most esoteric work of this project, the album has its roots in the mythical Al-Azif, or the Necronomicon, a book invented (?) by the equally legendary writer H. P. Lovecraft to give substance to his pantheon of the Great Old Ones. Capricorni are masters at transforming the most diverse objects such as rubber hoses, compressors, buckets and hammers, cans and who knows what else into (non)musical instruments, in the vein of Einstürzende Neubauten. The setting is pitch black and the sounds seem to come from the afterlife: an underground ritual takes place, where there are no verbal evocations, but rather jolting movements animated by reverberations and echoes of metallic clangs. Four additional tracks enrich this release, three of which follow the first four, “Cavità” (or perhaps five, given that another song with the same title appears on the self-titled debut), and the final one, “Hymn to Ra.” Although recorded around the same time, they represent a different stylistic direction from the main tracks, which Capricorni have only now decided to release after nearly forty years. These songs are, if anything, even darker and more majestic than the others. This is an unmissable album, best listened to at very high volume and in complete solitude.

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