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Atabasca new single “Dune” & live dates

Pre-order the debut album Atabasca and listen to the new single “Dune” HERE

Killer Groove Records presents “Dune”, the third single from the upcoming self-titled debut album by Italian cinematic funk trio Atabasca, out on March 27 on limited-edition LP, CD digipack and digital formats, the latter featuring an exclusive bonus track. Album pre-orders are available HERE. The single is out today on all digital platforms.

Chosen as the opening piece of their first full-length work, “Dune” introduces the musical language and narrative approach of the album: essential yet evocative, open, suggesting rather than asserting, leaving listeners free to lose themselves in the sound. Over a shadowy, melancholic harmony, a whispered melody takes shape, fragile and suspended, guiding the listener through an intimate, rarefied soundscape. At a certain point the music drops away, making room for silence and imagination. It’s in this emptiness that “Dune” acts as an emotional springboard, inviting listeners to project their own ending, to complete the piece with their own sensibility.

“Dune” takes its name from a place dear and familiar to the instrumental trio a real space that becomes a metaphor for an interior landscape of waiting, movement, and transformation. The track serves as a threshold, an entry point into the band’s sonic universe, anticipating their artistic vision.

The single drops with an official video: A journey through landscapes, where film and digital images coexist as two ways of looking at the same path, without hierarchy. Music accompanies the movement and shapes the rhythm of the story, letting places speak for what they are. What emerges is a simple, continuous narrative composed of crossings, pauses, and details, where landscape and sound remain attuned to one another.

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ATABASCA live!

March 26 – RELEASE PARTY @ BIKO Milano
April 8 – LIVE @ Amore & Psych / 30Formiche Roma

Two live shows to celebrate the release of Atabasca. Conceived as a journey through images, atmospheres, and groove, the record comes to life on stage in two special release concerts. Info & tickets HERE

Atabasca drops second single & announces album release date!

Pre-order the debut album “Atabasca” and listen to the new single “Kundela Mawedi” here: https://found.ee/Atabasca

Killer Groove Records presents “Kundela Mawedi”, the second single from the upcoming self-titled debut album by Italian cinematic funk trio Atabasca, out on March 27 on limited-edition LP, CD digipack and digital formats, the latter featuring an exclusive bonus track. Album pre-orders are available starting from today at the following link: https://found.ee/Atabasca The single is out today on all digital platforms and also available as a limited-edition 7″ vinyl (300 copies worldwide).

The sound of an old lap steel guitar evokes the gentle waves of the sea, opening the doors to “Kundela Mawedi”. The sonic journey unfolds through hypnotic rhythms and echoes of ancient cultures, where ethereal voices and warm, entrancing bass lines intertwine with psychedelic riffs and evocative guitar melodies, merging into a soundscape rich in warmth and mystery. The chorus, with its unexpected choral chant, adds a spark of magic. An elegant twist that gently stirs the dreamlike mood and transports the listener into a new sonic dimension, steeped in mysticism and tribal vibrations. “Kundela Mawedi” is more than just a song: it’s a sensory experience, a musical ritual where tradition meets psychedelia, sand meets sea, and the soul dances upon the waves of time.

Recorded in a single take, the session captures the raw energy and natural atmosphere of the performance. 
Artistic production was handled by the trio alongside Andrea Fabrizii (digger, musician, producer, and catalogue curator for CAM Sugar), while Riccardo Ricci mastered the track at Velvet Room Mastering Studio in Brighton.

The single drops with an official video: A suspended afternoon, where the band travels through the coastal places of their origins, unhurried. An essential and delicate journey, where friendship and music intertwine in everyday gestures, and each stop becomes an intimate return to their roots, to the simple happiness of being together.

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!

Atabasca Debut Single & Video “Cacopoulos”

Killer Groove Records proudly presents “Cacopoulos,” the debut single by Italian cinematic funk trio Atabasca, out now on all digital patforms. A syncopated journey where funk, psychedelia, and cinematic tension merge into a timeless narrative suspended between rhythm and vision. Pre-Order limited-edition 7″ vinyl (300 copies WW), out on January 23, 2026.

LISTEN & ORDER 45: HERE

“Cacopoulos” marks the birth of Atabasca’s sonic universe: the first glimpse of their self-titled debut album, due in spring 2026 on limited-edition LP, CD, and digital formats.
From the first beat, listeners are drawn into a dry, dusty landscape driven by a primal drum groove and the acid twang of a guitar that evokes the spirit of classic Westerns. It’s an impetuous, visionary ride that fuses the power of instrumental groove with the evocative imagery of library music and Italian golden-age soundtracks. Indeed, “Cacopoulos” pays homage to I Quattro dell’Ave Maria (Ace High) and to the legendary Eli Wallach, the sly outlaw who turns deception into revenge. A subtle yet powerful nod that ties the trio’s sound to an imagery steeped in dust, dreams, and redemption.

The single drops with an official video: a psychedelic Western journey into the protagonist’s mind, charting a chase between him and the light. Shot entirely on Super 8 film, the video explores the thin line between reality and perception in a suspended, hallucinatory atmosphere. The video is directed by Marco Mazzone, with cinematography by Claudia Sicuranza. Both based in Rome.

Director and editor: Marco Mazzone
Director of photography: Claudia Sicuranza
Colorist: Alberto Bandini
Actor: Matteo De Liberato

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!