The Murena studio made a record at the Kendrick Lamar

“To Pimp a Butterfly”, a masterpiece by Kendrick Lamar, Released ten years ago, it has always been A reference above all musical because the compon rapper had the great ability to literally bring the project “inside” an instrumental scene linked to Black Music, illuminating it and making it emerge. It is a record that photographs, still today, a sort of artistic movement, has an overview and at the same time tells different aspects of the artist’s life. It is often and dense both musically and lyrically, and has its own precise direction.
With all the debt proportions, we underline it several times, “night” of the Murena studio does the same: From words to sounds it leaves their mark and photographs many elements that, together, form something compact, free and coherent at a creative level. Eleven songs in which lashing, introspective and sincere texts intertwine with the band’s sound mixture, a perfect fusion of jazz and rap veined electronics, which in this album conquers an even more relevant space. “Notturno”, produced by Tommaso Colliva, who returns to collaborate with the Milanese formation after the previous album “Wadirum”, calls several guests in this case not always united by a sound, but from the same authentic approach to art.

The most immediate, direct and fresh album of the previous ones, is embellished with collaborations with Fabrizio Bosso, Willie Peyote, Riccardo Sala, the actress Valeria forgive, Rodrigo d’Erasmo and half -bait: artists to whom the band is linked by mutual esteem, and which harmonize in the multifacetedness of the group artistic worlds of the group. To them are added 24kili: a mysterious rapper who is the most bloody reflection of the society in which he lives. Always as “to Pimp a Butterfly”, “night” is a rap disc, but it is not according to the classic canons, it is an alien project that like a spacecraft captures many protagonists and magically incorporates them. “The themes we deal with on the disc are very personal and focused on the path that each of us is undertaking, they are topics that have involved us firsthand In all this time and we had the opportunity to live them both as individual individuality and as a compact group. All this has kept us so close and connected to become the humus from which to shape our third story together – says the band – The period that encloses was, for all of us, a time of radical changes and growth. So the night becomes the space in which to live to better reflect on what was the previous day and what we would like to find in the next one. ”

The album opens with “Another day with another Sun”who takes the title from an installation by the artist Philippe parreno on the movement of the sun from dawn to sunset: just that time in which he moves “night”. “Baba Jaga” It tells of a vortex between love and drugs and was born from a improvisation electric-flat. In “Nostalgia” Fabrizio Bosso’s trumpet frames enlarged and melancholy words, and inside there is also “Tomorrow is another day”, a tribute to Ornella Vanoni. In “Tunnel” The MC of the Carma and Willie Peyote band paint a city and its faces. “Vienna” Immortal an intense and vaulting love and also mentions Franco Battiato. That of “Three doors of fear ” Instead, it is a dialogue between the psychologist played by Valeria Forgonò and her patient, who tells her her fears and guilt through three recurring nightmares. First song written for the disc, was born from a jam of improvisation on a fragment of “Evidence “ Jazz pianist Thelonious Monk and plays with silence, broken phrases and dissonant harmonies. Among the fighter rhymes of “Oskar Kokoshka” Riccardo Sala’s sax stands to add a free jazz ingredient. The arches of Rodrigo d’Erasmo bind the reflection of “Go away” on the difficulties of a relationship, where there is not only one way to love each other, while in “Out of place” Half -breeding joins the band in a reflective dip on its personal path. That pride of remaining faithful to oneself that also resonates in the last trace of the album, “Jazzhighlanders”. It is a real claim of the importance of being consistent by refusing to adhere to an image.