Italian occult psychedelia
Italian occult psychedelia is a subgenre of Italian psychedelic music characterized by obscure atmospheres. Italian occult psychedelia was coined by journalist Antonio Ciarletta in an article published by Italian music magazine Blow Up, in January 2012.
Characteristics
Italian occult psychedelia has emerged as a kind of Italian hauntology, an engine of reactivation of an Italian collective memory. The features of this shared past are related to the imaginary of Italian genre films as cannibal movies, spaghetti westerns, Italian B horror movies and their soundtracks, and are related also to the violent, obscure and esoteric folklore so well outlined in the essays of Ernesto De Martino and in the documentaries of Luigi Di Gianni. Other references are the stories and the characters of Federico Fellini and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Musically, Italian occult psychedelia is a cross of post-punk, krautrock, psychedelic rock, Italian progressive rock and Italian library music.
Groups
- Be Invisible Now!
- BeMyDelay
- Cannibal Movie
- Creapopolvsqve
- Donato Epiro
- Dream Weapon Ritual
- Eternal Zio
- Father Murphy
- Fulkanelli
- Gianni Giublena Rosacroce
- Gustoforte
- Hermetic Brotherhood Of Lux-or
- Heroin in Tahiti
- In Zaire
- Jacula
- Jennifer Gentle
- La Piramide Di Sangue
- Llay Lamas
- Mai Mai Mai
- Mamuthones
- Orfanado
- Psalm n Locker
- Satan Is My Brother
- Slumberwood
- Spettro Family
- Squadra Omega
External links
- Blow Up Blow Up on Italian occult psychedelia, January 2012.
- Simon Reynolds about Italian occult psychedelia Music journalist Simon Reynolds about Italian occult psychedelia on his blog.
- Playlistsociety.fr Playlistsociety, June 2012.
- Rai Radio3 Rai Radio3, Battiti. April 2013.
- SentireAscoltare SentireAscoltare. April 2013.
- Distorsioni.net Distorsioni.net. May 2013.
- Louder than war Article on Italian occult psychedelia, July 2013.
- ArteCapital Artecapital.
- Xl - Repubblica Italian occult psychedelia on Xl - Repubblica 91, November 2013.
- Vice Vice magazine on Italian occult psychedelia festival, April 2013.
- OndaRock OndaRock, July 2013.
- Rumore Rumore magazine 260 on Italian occult psychedelia (Italia occulta). September 2013.
- Il Mucchio Selvaggio In Zaire speaks about Italian occult psychedelia (Psichedelia occulta in Italian language) on Il Mucchio Selvaggio website, November 2013.
- Rai Radio3 Rai Radio3, Battiti. April 2014.
- Noisey Noisey. April 2014.
- Fact Magazine Fact Magazine. May 2014.
- Distorsioni.net Distorsioni.net. May 2014.
- The Wire Magazine Global Ear Rome. Joseph Stannard learns the secrets of Italian occult psychedelia. June 2014.
- Blow Up Italian occult psychedelia part 2, April 2014.
- Pizza Digitale Donato Epiro, August 2014.
- Rocket Recordings Rocket Recordings, November 2014.
- Rai Radio3 Rai Radio3, Battiti. November 2014.
- Ventsmagazine Ventsmagazine, December 2014.
- Rockit Rockit, December 2014.
- Wdr3 Wdr3, January 2015.
- Rockit Rockit. Guida essenziale all'Italian occult psychedelia, January 2015.
- Die Tageszeitung Die Tageszeitung. Musik mit goldenem Pferdeschädel, April 2015.
- Prismo Prismo. La crisi di mezza età dell’indie italiano, October 2015.
- Shinding Magazine Shinding Magazine. Occult Psych, February 2016.
