Hey Trust the Mask, thanks for taking the time to talk to us today. Could you tell us something about yourself that nobody knows?

Hei Purple Melon! Thank you for interviewing us.So, perhaps not everyone knows that we do anything but music in our daily lives. We are in a constant struggle against time, trapped in an office job that for many people is normal. Our project was born almost as a protest, or an intimate and personal escape attempt against the current system that always seems to prevail over everything and everyone.  In short, for us music is a way of reclaiming our most authentic selves and therefore an expressive need.

What influences have gone into your sound recently?

Both of us are very attracted to ethnic sounds and at the same time dark dance and tribal rhythms, in fact many sounds you can hear on the album “Idiom” come from very rare ethnic flute recordings. We like to get carried away by the sounds of other cultures, but at the same time we are attentive to mainstream and pop music.  These aspects are always supplemented by electronic and industrial influences, which we enjoy and intrigue almost equally. We feel that our style has changed a lot thanks to the artistic residency we did in the Bronson Recordings studios where we recorded Idiom, which is our first album. It is there that we more clearly defined our identity, thanks also to the collaborations we did with the artists who joined us, and that opened other horizons to our musical tastes.

What are you currently working on?

We are working hard on improving our live performance. We would like to bring listeners to experience our live show not just as entertainment, but as a journey into a darker, rawer dimension that wakes up bodies and makes them dance free. Many of the songs we bring live we are producing with different sounds than the work done in the studio, in a more dance or darker version. At the same time, we are already working on many unreleased tracks.

What are your plans for the rest of the year? 

This year we want to play a lot of live shows to present “Idiom” to as many people as possible, and thanks to the work of La Colletta Booking and the network of the Bronson Recordings label we are finding a nice response in this sense. We would also like to be able to dedicate time to propose ourselves outside of Italy, including through calls and showcases related to our genre.

What would be a dream collaboration for you?

We both greatly admire Young Fathers. The uniqueness of the project and their current worldwide spread is our biggest source of inspiration when we are talking about independent music. To name other dream collaborations, Zola Jesus, SUUNS, Boy Harsher. On a more local level we have found a lot of affinity with Cemento Atlantico, with whom we have already done a featuring on the track Frontiers. We are also intrigued by the sound and vocal constructions of So Beast, a duo we met at the Sicily Music Conference in Palermo.

What’s your favourite aspect of being a musician? 
Being able to express your emotions both positive and negative through an artistic language is addictive and distances you from futile things, and being able to also spread a message through music is a wonderful opportunity. We believe that if a song is composed from a specific feeling, this same feeling, while interpretable, can be transmitted to the listener with spontaneity.We believe this is the most beautiful part, the possibility to communicate and share a message.Also the chance to create relationships in the name of art. Getting to know people who share the same passions as us and from whom we can learn and build together.

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