Captain Quentin – Quattro

“Quattro” is Captain Quentin‘s fourth album, and, aside from its original title, it’s a completely new experience for the band. The new album, released almost nine years after the previous album, We’re Turning Again, features the original lineup, marking a true revolution in Captain Quentin’s discography. For the first time, guitars, bass, synthesizers, and drums are joined by vocals. After 20 years of stoically instrumental music, there’s now room for some real “songs,” even if the musical tone hasn’t shifted much: disparities, sudden timing shifts, psychedelic synthesizers, and intertwined guitars. For this occasion, they’ve enlisted the help of some experienced friends. In fact, for half the tracklist (four out of eight tracks), the musical structures, always tightly interlocked and closed in the most Tetris-like sense of the term, are expanded just enough to make room for the vocals of Dario Brunori, Max Collini (Offlaga Disco Pax), Amaury Cambuzat (Ulan Bator), and Francesco Villari (Plastic Farm Animals), who for this occasion is joined by Yosonu (aka Peppe Costa) representing the Reggio Calabria group. For this album, the band has chosen a well-established team for the artistic production: Niccolò Mazzantini of Appaloosa on mixing and Pisistudio in Rome for mastering. “Quattro” is released in co-production with Overdrive Records, which has always been close to the band’s activities.