Caboose - Hinterland Blues (2019)

When Louis DeCicco begins to play in the Berlin's underground, the only trains that matter are the yellow ones. "Just the last wagon, because when you hear the train coming, you'd better start playing for the people who jump on and off". He didn't know yet, that in the U.S. , where Biagio Daniele is touring extensively, the last coach of the train, derives from a german word: Kabhuse. We'r talking about freight trains of course, that many artists have caught on the run, and let the destiny behind.

"Our Caboose tells about stories at the edges, describing the habits of the citizens of whichever little town in the world.

If you look around you, wherever the place you live, the city (or the suburbs) IS a small world: the first you experience as a young man and have to deal with.

A lot of songs, especially in the new album, reflect our real urges and thoughts, but we discovered that we were using the point of view of some childhood characters that we met in the real life. And the funny is, that listeners recognize themselves as much as we do: because those characters are immortal, in a way, and everyone says his truth, everyone sings his own blues"

The blues, here we go. Is it possible to say something new with such a "old" style?

We'd like to quote a great italian jazz musician of the eighties, Massimo Urbani: the avantgarde is in the feelings.

So, the songs are about real episodes and fact, concerning mixed emotions: they witness the overtaking of cars that end up into a prostitute circle in the middle of the suburb (Hinterland blues); the voice of a hopeless preacher concerned about the increasing reverence for money (Our world), the last thoughts of a friend who is about to commit suicide ( Suicide song) and so on…

The frequent touring brought Louis and Biagio to open up (indeed) their duo-formula to welcome a third member, the talented 21 years old Carlo Corso to strengthen and nourish the rough and dark sound that the two achieved along the previous tour. The first EP is sold out and contains 6 songs played and recorded within one day, in a country house close to a dead volcano (Mount Taburno) in the " telesina " valley ( 43,500 mi. from Napoli) where the trio spends most of time doing meditation, cooking and of course re-arranging artistic material.

" The essence of music we play, is based on the constant research of border zones, knowledge of foreigners, inner opening, holiness of human being and motherly generosity of the Nature: it's definitively built upon love and anything comes from it, for the good and the bad, like we say in Biting Dog:

The world and its creatures are sacred
and everything beyond that stands
belongs to the Lord who creates them
and to the man who destroys them as well



Track List:
01. Land Of No Return 04:45
02. They Call Him Poet 03:10
03. Suicide Song 03:42
04. Landslide 04:14
05. Our World 03:29
06. Hinterland Blues 07:26
07. Freight Train Blues 04:36
08. Bloodhound 04:14

Louis DeCicco - electric guitar, resophonic guitar, voice, lyrics
Carlo Corso - drums, percussion
Biagio Daniele - harmonica, guitar dulcimer
Bruno Belardi - double bass on 1,2,6
Emanuele Carulli - electric bass on 5
Giovanna Salvo Rossi - backing vocals on 4,5

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