We’re thrilled to welcome Italian cinematic funk trio Atabasca to the Killer Groove Records family! The debut single “Cacopoulos” is the first glimpse of their self-titled debut album, due in spring 2026 on limited-edition LP, CD, and digital formats.
“Cacopoulos” is out on all digital platforms. Listen/Pre-order 45 HERE.
Like a desert blooming within the evergreen forests of the planet’s far north, a unique, alien, disruptive environment. This is the vision behind Atabasca, the project of Luca Mongia (guitars, lap steel, keyboards, vocals), Paolo Mazziotti (bass, keyboards, vocals) and Valerio Pompei (drums, percussion, vocals). Individually active for over twenty years on both the national and international scenes, the three musicians came together in 2023 to create a project that merges experience, experimentation, and creative freedom.
Their music is imaginative and at times dreamlike, blending the classic concept of the instrumental trio with the worlds of film scoring and sound design. Atabasca’s sound moves through jazz-funk, world, and cinematic territories, weaving together afrobeat, desert, and psychedelic influences into a personal and timeless language.
Each piece is a scene; each sound, a fragment of a world, a journey between reality and imagination where groove, texture, and organic timbre merge into a singular sonic ecosystem: a perpetually shifting balance that generates new inner landscapes.
Fans of Khruangbin, Surprise Chef, and instrumental psych-funk take note!
