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1.	Bonsai Jungle 04:19	buy track
2.	Mirror People 05:02	buy track
3.	Mind Notice (interlude) 01:52	buy track
4.	Sketch Of A Daydream 05:10	buy track
5.	Photosynthesis 05:37	buy track
6.	Gifts (interlude) 01:58	buy track
7.	Sandstones 05:10	buy track
8.	What's Gonna Kill Me First? 04:22	buy track
9.	Bayaka (interlude) 01:35	buy track

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The band overall aesthetic is decidedly modern, the result of augmenting jazz horns, guitars, and synths with live modulated delays and highly volatile fuzz pedals, while the groove-based song structures leave ample space for improvisation to take the helm.

Piero Conte, the lead creative behind this eclectic setup, confesses his afﬁnity with the entrancing rhythms of Congolese “pygmy” music and quotes inﬂuences as contrasting as Jimi Hendrix is to Clever Austin.

But the guitarist from Rome reveals also a literary dimension to his music, citing the universe of Jorge Luis Borges and the magical realism movement as conceptual fodder for some of the band’s Spotify releases earlier this year: Mirror People opens with the misty sounds of morning dew and Maltese bass player Dean Montanaro’s delicate fragments, followed by the relentless drive of Slovenian drummer Domen Cizej.

The intricately arranged melody of Sandstones leads into a formidable solo by Dutch alto-saxophonist Paul van de Calseijde while Paolo Petrecca’s bewitching tones introduce the theme of What’s Gonna Kill Me First?

This is a raging anthem that backdrops a full-on horn fest including the trumpeter’s fellow Italian tenor-saxophonist Andrea Leone, with the latter’s exploratory melodies haunting the ﬁrst half of the afro-beat banger Bonsai Jungle (the sextet’s latest single).

Antares Flare’s collaboration will culminate in the issue of a limited-release vinyl, featuring the ghastly, otherworldly sleeve art of Ivan Specchio, and will be distributed by Amsterdam-based record label Wicked Wax.

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released September 2, 2022

Piero Conte - guitar
Andrea Leone - saxophone
Paul van de Calseijde - saxophone
Paolo Petrecca - trumpet
Dean Montanaro - Bass
Domen Cizej - drums

Recorded in Labstract Studio in Rome, Italy
Produced and mixed by Anton de Bruin (Dragonfruit, Peter
Somuah Sextet)
Mastered by Wouter Brandenburg
Artwork by Ivan Specchi
Vinyl pressing by Deepgrooves

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Antares Flare Rotterdam, Netherlands

Antares Flare, is a sextet based in the Netherlands. Their music is characterised by a groovy, afrobeat layer topped with soulful improvisation with horns (think Kokoroko with Christian Scott and BADBADNOTGOOD), combined with edgy electronic effects. Antares Flare offers a musical journey through the Congo rainforest, South-American magic realism and the psychedelic European realm of the 60’s. ... more

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