The best way to describe Paolo Apollo Negri‘s performance style on “A Bigger Tomorrow” is simple: Jimi Hendrix on organ!
“Destination: Mars” – new EP
After two years of lunar wanderings, Moonbrew and Paolo Apollo Negri move the horizon a little further and embark on a new adventure that takes them, this time, to Mars. In retracing the history of space missions that have investigated the red planet, the sound becomes more modern and layered, even if there is no lack of references to the previous adventure. A common thread links the new “Destination: Mars” to the two chapters of LEM Tales: taking inspiration from the past to talk about the present, drawing on an epic and shared imagination to tell the challenges that face us all. Once again, jazz merges with hip-hop, funk with electronics, vintage instruments with new technologies to paint the portrait of a changing world, oriented towards the future but firmly anchored in the past. Listen HERE
Da Captain Trips “In Between”
“In Between” is the fifth full length album of the band and comes after 3 years from “Maths of the Elements”with the same line up.
This time the mission of the four musicians is to explore the sound and the landscape of the place “in between” where our consciousness moves when the physical form ends its time. Compared to the previous album, there is an improvement in dialogue between guitar and keyboards and structures are like a flow because most of the ideas come from improvisations and some songs were born and developed starting from the rhythm. More info here.
G.O.L.E.M. “Still Life”
The writing process and the musical research that G.O.L.E.M. took on with the first two albums (“Gravitational Objects of Light, Energy and Mysticism” in 2022 and “Gathering Of the Legendary Elephant Monsters” in 2024) is now enriched with a small but important step: “Still life”, a mini-suite in three movements which will be released by Black Widow Records on September 5th, on the day of the band’s performance at Veruno Prog Festival 2025.
The first part of the new composition, “Still life (pt.1): Born Erased” was released in May 2025 on the 7 inch vinyl attached to the magazine “Gimme Danger” (this is where the idea of the project came from); the second one, “Still Life (pt.2): Sons of Death”, and the third, “Still Life (pt.3): Still Dreaming?” are unreleased as of now. With its overall lenght of 14 minutes and 39 seconds, the EP will be released on limited and numbered CDs (100 copies), in a transperent envelope, with double-sided print poster and full lyrics. Listen here.
Marek De Vann feat. Paolo Apollo Negri
Brace yourself for a high-voltage journey into the heart of vintage Italian grit, reimagined. Released on May 14, 2025, Il Fuggiasco / A Mano Armata is a gripping two-track instrumental EP by Marek De Vann, designed as a sonic homage to the legendary Italian crime films of the 1970s. Each note, chord, and rhythm pulses like a scene from a lost Poliziotteschi classic, tense, stylish, and emotionally charged. Collaborating with Paolo Apollo Negri, one of Europe’s most respected Hammond organ players, Marek blends atmospheric analog synths with the raw edge of Hammond-driven suspense, creating an EP that doesn’t just sound cinematic, it feels cinematic.
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