Ashinoa annouce new album 'Un'altra Forma' and share lead title-track/16mm video

Ashinoa announce new album ‘Un’altra Forma' and share the lead single and title-track, alongside an equally dreamy 16mm video. The Lyon-based band’s third album is set to arrive November 28th, check out the first preview now and pre-order the album on limited pink vinyl here

Whilst still driven by the synthesised motorik beats and rhythms and experimental electronica of 2022's 'L'Orée', on its follow up Ashinoa move into new, dreamlike territory – assuming 'another form', as the title translates. On ‘Un’altra Forma’, the band enlists a cast of players between Lyon, Venice and Beaujeu and expands the Ashinoa palette with clarinet, saxophone, flute and piano, treading into hazy psychedelic jazz waters. The result is a record that balances heavier head-down electronics and moments of breezy, downtempo bliss.

"The first few seconds of ‘Un’altra Forma’ give a clue to the protagonists of this title: Venezia and its lagoon”, Matteo Fabbri says of the track, which was borne out of an improvisation with Venetian flutist Andrea Vecchiato and Fabbri on the Lyra-8, before being re-arranged with Romain Vasset on clarinets and sax and Alberto Collodel on bass clarinet: “‘The city' is a geographical environment that people usually think to have grasped, but it was by visiting Venezia that I realised that 'the city' can be radically different from anything I've ever experienced. The gentleness of its nights and the delicacy of its balanced contrast with the history and strength of a people who chose to build a city of stone on water.”