KRANO - La Città di Pianura OST - 2LP - Black Vinyl [NOV 21]

2LP - Black Vinyl

After Requiescat In Plavem and Lentius Profundius Suavius, Krano returns with another curveball in his discography, a kolossal double-album and his first original soundtrack for the movie Le Città di Pianura (The Last One For The Road), directed by Francesco Sossai, a rollicking, bittersweet journey through the Venetian countryside, where memory and mischief ride shotgun, a road-movie through a territory undergoing great transformation.

Krano's soundtrack continues his highly personal journey as a total outsider but at the same time a figurehead of the European underground. A soundtrack that combines the desolation of the Piave River and the fog of the lagoon with the woozy, rarefied folk that has always distinguished the psychedelic singer-songwriter from Veneto. A perfect match for Sossai’s cinematographic vision, poignant and lighthearted, Krano’s music narrates ‘deep’ Veneto by singing in dialect but with a sound that harkens back to the great American folk tradition of the 1970s, tunes that shift between Nashville looseness, Italian goth and haunted ballads. Krano’s music runs free, transcends barriers, a distillation of broken dreams tinted in black and white, where having the blues is not just a feeling but something you can’t shake, a wayfaring outsider on a journey side by side with players like Bill Fay, Robbie Basho, Skip Spence, Dave Bixby, inevitably bound to burn in eternity.

Le Città di Pianura’s OST adds a bitter sweet layer to Krano’s loner folk compendium, a ghostly eeriness that gently carries Doriano, Carlo Bianchi and Giulio, the three protagonists, to a thin line between bliss and the abyss. No rock 'n' roll record has felt this mysterious and free-spirited in years. R.I.P. channels Jorge Ben's late-night, alcohol-soaked vibes (heard on 1970's Fôrça Bruta) and the rambling country-blues of Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline. - NPR “Damn if there isn’t some mystical appeal at work in these songs.” - Aquarium Drunkard

Tracklist: 

1. Gueramamatera 
2. Strachet 
3. Ti 
4. More Film 
5. Amea 
6. Lentius, Profundius, Siavius - Solus 
7. Secsi Dise 
8. Workaholica 
9. Par Ledam 
10. Va Pian 
11. Coparse (acoustic) 
12. 4:03 P.M. 
13. Merica Merica 
14. Coparse 
15. La Ninna Nanna