Okay, I don’t understand the language being sung and spoken here but this feels very much as if the sound IS the story. I can’t tell you which creeds or cultures or traditions this song draws from, or what sound or style drives it. All I know is that I want to go there. Now.
This, the debut single from the Bologna, Italy duo Racines, feels like a song out of time and place, dislocated from conventional chronology and not associated with anywhere you could point to accurately on the map. The sound of many voices weaving through arabesque vibes, traditional music dancing over dubby, clubby beats and pulses, the old analog world meeting the digital revolution, “Market Miracolo” is not only a place where sound and sonics and song all merge, it also feels as if it is a mythological place of harmony and humanity, of understanding and unity, music made before The Fall, perhaps a place where people gathered and mixed and merged and became one before the Tower of Babel fell and the various peoples and languages were scattered to the four winds.
As debut singles go, “Market Miracolo” is fantastic and marks the duo out as adventurous and beguiling, worldly and creative, and shows that they understand that sounds are just tools, rules are there to be broken and if their sonic vision requires them to travel beyond genre and geography, through both the past and the present, and employ ancient sounds and cutting edge technology equally, so be it.
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