Stearica
Fertile
Torino-based instrumental trio's powerful, adventurous second album, inspired by the squares of the Arab Spring, features guests Scott McCloud (Girls Against Boys), Colin Stetson (Tom Waits, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver) and Ryan Patterson (Coliseum). Over the past decade, instrumental trio STEARICA (Torino, Italy) have gained a cult following in the independent music underground, touring and performing live with the likes of Girls Against Boys, NoMeansNo, Dälek, Tarentel, Damo Suzuki, Coliseum, and forming the Acid Mothers Temple and Stearica Orchestra, which recorded a full-length album together. The key to STEARICA's success is their powerful and adventurous sound, which is geometrical yet visceral: so intense that there is no need for words much like The Scream by Edvard Munch. STEARICA's second album, Fertile, will be released during Spring, the season of renewal and fertility in many parts of the world including the historical region known as The Fertile Crescent , the birthplace of some of the earliest human civilizations, and also the scene of the revolutionary political uprisings that swept across the Middle East known as the Arab Spring . Both the concept of fertile as life-giving' and the revolutionary impulses of the Arab Spring and the Indignants protests in Barcelona provided inspiration for this latest work from STEARICA, Examples of this fertility are also seen in the artistic collaborations with the musicians who contributed in different ways to the gestation of the album: fellow travellers of the independent international underground, including Scott McCloud of Girls Against Boys, who provided the vocals for AMREEKA , Ryan Patterson of Coliseum (vocals on 'NUR') and groundbreaking saxophonist Colin Stetson (brass orchestration on 'SHAH MAT'). Produced by band member Francesco Carlucci, Fertile captures the primordial nature of the sound that the trio creates in their dynamic live performances. At times brutal, chaotic, mysterious, tranquil; Fertile is music born of our time: instinctively revolutionary.
Tracklist
1. Delta
2. Halite
3. Bes
4. Geber
5. Nur
6. Tigris
7. Siqlum
8. Amreeka
9. Shah Mat