If you're signed to Killer Groove Records, you better have an album with some killer grooves on it - Atabasca have; this is your new Khruangbin, Surprise Chef, and instrumental psych-funk favorite band!
Taking pysch funk psych global grooves to a level of The Shadows flirting with Cinematic OST jazz-funk (Ed. and what more do you want?), Italian instrumental trio Atabasca — Luca Mongia, Paolo Mazziotti, and Valerio Pompei — release their self-titled debut on Killer Groove Records have got that Italian soundtrack tradition in a 'must have' set sorted on this release.
If you can go from Afrobeat to lap steel, kalimba and guitar textures layered over driving bass and drums with a Joe Meek 60s analog-warm production that shifts fluidly between melancholy and levity, tension and release.
Amazing to hear that this was recorded live in single recording and you've got to the fall in love with the cascading lap steel and chant of 'Kundela Mawedi'," the spaghetti western undertow of 'Paco' and 'Pampambra' (here's how you transition to Tony Joe White / Flying Mojito Bros. - see review HERE),"the garage-psych rawness of 'Cacopoulos' and the high-octane funk-rock of 'Hell Dorado'.
This is the 'new' Piero Piccioni that you couldn't imagine existed - until now!
BUY LINK / PRE-ORDER: https://atabasca.bandcamp.com/album/atabasca
Artist: Atabasca
Title: Atabasca
Release date: 27th March, 2026
Label: Killer Groove Records
Cat. No: TBC
Format: Vinyl / Digital / Bandcamp
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