No, "they" don't.
Mamuthones is the solo project of Alessio Gastaldello (Jennifer Gentle). Named after the festival in Sardinia, where there's a parade of people wearing these epic masks and outfits like the one you can see above (it's far more interesting than that but this is a music magazine, dummy), the music that Gastaldello has created for ear valves is so ambient and free-flowing that we think we are starting to turn into harem pants. His latest record SATOR is out on Italian imprint, Boring Machines, who have a juicy roster of visually incredible and healthily satanic bands, but this sounds a bit more special.
To be honest, whilst listening to this music and reading about this music, two things started to happen. Firstly, we felt as though we were slipping into a worm hole, clawing at astral plains for an explanation, and secondly, it seemed like we were reading about a lost cult or Da Vinci code follow up rather than a musical experience. The album is described as "truly a shamanistic take on Catholic rituals, all performed with an intensity that smells of incense as much as of fire and brimstone. " at one point, which is where my mind started to wander and I feared as though I had become dark matter. However, this is a really diverse drone project and infinitely more emotive than the majority of art students holding their Fender against their amp because they just heard Salem.
M A M U T H O N E S
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