Twenty -Twenty (EP 2020)
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IKITAN, an instrumental heavy progressive post-rock ensemble, releases a 20:20-minute musical journey EP. The independent rock trio’s debut is titled “Twenty-Twenty”, released on 20-11-20.
IKITAN’s music is very unplanned, meaning that all the riffs and ideas heard in the album happened to be played by the band during jam sessions.
“We play a genre that can be defined as instrumental heavy progressive post-rock and our influences are quite varied. Not having a vocalist gives us total freedom from the intro-verse-chorus-repeat approach,” says Frik Et, bassist of IKITAN.
“None of us offers complete songs or definitive ideas to the other guys. We always let music guide us and improvisation plays a key role too. It’s a totally free approach to music,” continues Luca Nash Nasciuti, guitarist of IKITAN.
“IKITAN is our opportunity to experiment and put together a whole range of styles,” concludes Enrico Meloni, drummer of IKITAN.
“Twenty-Twenty” was recorded in the Summer of 2020 in Genoa, Italy.
Drums were recorded at Greenfog Studio, where the album was also mastered. Greenfog Studio is owned by Mattia Cominotto and it stands out as one of the most prominent and renowned studios in Italy for rock artists.
Bass and guitar were recorded at guitarist Luca Nash Nasciuti’s private studio, who works as a producer and sound engineer. Luca was also responsible for mixing the album.
The impressive artwork of “Twenty-Twenty”, which sees an angry figure, IKITAN, erupting off the Earth while smashing some stones above his head, is curated by Luca Marcenaro.
IKITAN is the god of the sound of the stones.
What do people say about “Twenty-Twenty”?
Writing an instrumental seamless suite such as “Twenty-Twenty” is not an easy choice. IKITAN manage to do it successfully, and the song itself is never predictable nor poorly written.
Each and every arrangement nicely flows without ever making it hard to keep on listening to the song.
“Twenty-Twenty” is a visionary dreamlike piece of work… highly recommended!
– Diego Banchero, bass player of dark-prog band Il Segno del Comando and ex-Malombra
IKITAN’s debut “Twenty-Twenty” is easy to listen to despite being a 20-minute long instrumental song.
It seems to me like a song that was built to be played live.
I was reminded of bands such as Tool or Opeth as the same patterns get repeated multiple times.
If I had to rate “Twenty-Twenty”, I’d give it 8 out of 10.
– Marco Basetta Sulas, bass player of London-based band Gramma Vedetta
“Twenty-Twenty” is available as a digital album to download on Bandcamp and it can also be bought as a limited-edition (200 copies) digipack with a free poster (pre-order now, available from December 2020).