Afterhours, the reprint of "ballads for small hyenas" comes out

Twenty years after its publication, on June 6, the Afterhours they republish in a special reprint, published by the USM/Universal Music Italia, “Ballates for small hyenas”, here the preorder.

The album will be available in LP versions in black vinyl and CD, while the LP limited edition designed exclusively for Lazio disco in brick red marbled vinyl has been sold out in a few weeks. Each format includes a celebratory poster with the four original covers, taken by Guido Harari with the artwork signed by Thomas Berloffa.

Published in 2005 by Mescal and distributed all over the world in its English version by One Little Indian (the British label of the Icelandic artist and performer Björk), the band’s eighth album reached second place in the Italian sales charts and brought the Afterhours on tour in Europe, the United States, Canada and China.

“Ballates for small hyenas” (Read the review here) consists of 10 tracks recorded directly between Catania and Milan from Paolo Mauri And Daniele Grasso. Co-producing from Manuel Agnelli And Greg Dulli (leader of the Afghan Whigs and the Twilight Sinters who also participated in the recordings), “Ballates for small hyenas” It also boasts collaborations on the mixing of six songs of John Parishproducer and songwriter (PJ Harvey, Eels, Sparklehorse) while Hugo Race (Hugo Race and the True Spirit, The Fatalist and guitarist in the Bad Seeds of Nick Cave) is on the slide guitar in the title track. It was remastered by Giovanni Versari.

“After twenty years, the album returns to a new remastered version that is not a simple restyling operation, but a real act of creative reinterpretation, the result of a work of rediscovery and sound reinvention that goes beyond the simple sound restoration operation. The work was carried out four -handed between Manuel Agnelli and Giovanni Versari, with the intent to give the record a new depth, a three -dimensionality. sound capable of restoring all the emotional urgency and the rock attitude that the disc had. They shine with new distortions and fragility, the batteries are cleaning in a wider breath, and the bass excavates even more deeply. Preserving the rough and visceral character of the original sound, however enhancing its clarity and detail. (Giovanni Versari)

On the occasion of the anniversary Manuel Agnelli (Read the interview here) decided to return to the stage with the band of the time, made up of Andrea Viti (Bass), Dario Ciffo (violin, guitar) e Giorgio Prette (drums). The training will be on tour starting from June 26th. The tour will be enriched by the participation of some of the bands selected by the review “Meat Fresh, sounds from the future “open to bands between the ages of 15 and 29, held for three evenings per month, every month, at the LDC Germi in Milan from November 2024 where there has been room for over 100 emerging young people.

About “Fresh meat” Manuel Agnelli He declares: “We did not imagine to review the queues outside a place for unknown groups (as in the nineties); but that there was a new generation that returns to live music as an authentic path, this yes, looking around we had glimpsed it. Each path begins from scratch; if it finds space it evolves, grows and matures in doing. The germi of via Cicco Simonetta in Milan, our cultural laboratory, was the physical place where these groups were found space. And freedom of expression. We have opened the doors to about sixty bands to date, after hundreds and hundreds of listening to proposals received from all over Italy. To the radio deepening at the end of each episode of “Leoni per Agnelli” and after six live evenings of the Milan Film Fest for twelve bands of the Lombard scene, we thought about the new Aphterhours tour that will give them way to experiment (for the first time) great stages at the opening of the concerts. “

Concert calendar:

26.06 – Bologna – Sequoie Music Park

28.06 – Florence – Amphitheater of the Cascine Ernesto de Pascale – Sold out

02.07 – Genoa – Balena Festival – Porto Antico

03.07 – Turin – Flowers Festival

05.07 – Rome – Rome Summer Fest – Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone – Cavea

06.07 – Rome – Rome Summer Fest – Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone – Cavea – Sold out

08.07 – Milan – Kozel Carroponte

09.07 – Padua – Sherwood Festival

12.07 – Arezzo – Mengo Music Fest

15.07 – Brescia – Brescia Summer Music – Arena Campo Marte

19.07 – Pordenone – Pordenone Blues & C. Festival