I Hate My Village are back, more sprawling than ever

I Hate My Village are back, more sprawling than ever

When you press play to listen to a song by Hate My Village (here is the story and an interview with the group) you never know what to expect. And that curiosity, mixed with amazement, is a great little magic. “Water Tanks”, the new single, is out. A song that marks the long-awaited return of the superband, a first preview of the new album arriving in spring. “Water Tanks” surfs with brilliant, wild and unpredictable creative brazenness in the wake traced by the group's previous worksmade up of four absolute protagonists of Italian music: Adriano Viterbini (Bud Spencer Blues Explosion), Fabio Rondanini (Caliber 35, Afterhours), Marco Fasolo (Jennifer Gentle) e Alberto Ferrari (Verdena). From the union of their artistic personalities and their passions, primarily that for the world of African music which brought Viterbini and Rondanini together starting the project in 2018once again a song with a “different” sound emerges, with a contaminated musical architecture.

A song where they breathe the sounds of Africa between overseas visions and strange remote signals. “The riff and rhythmic flow of 'Water Tanks' ungrammaticalize highlife, the Ghanaian musical genre with a jazzy flavor from which the inspiration for the piece comes. The song came to us, a bit like the future likes to do – says Adriano Viterbini – during a crazy and unusual pseudo-Afrobeat jam, between one date and another on our first tour, we recorded the composition on tape and over time we finished it digitally”. The video created and shot by Donato Sansone, director and animator recognized and appreciated nationally and internationally, will also be released on Friday 22 March.

Worked in a single sequence shot, without narration or conceptual intentthe video is a psychedelic visual journey in which the camera passes through the band in a game of interpenetrations, spatial crossings, and surreal shapes in a cumbersome loop, which well represents the uncontainable disorder of the band which, like an anthill, is not the sum of several people but is itself the only living being, which never dies. I Hate My Village are also preparing to return to concerts on stages throughout Italy. The first two opportunities to listen to the new album live will be on May 22nd and 23rd at Locomotiv, the live club of their new label, during the Express Festival in Bologna.