LAY LLAMAS - Time, Islands And Thresholds

We'd last left him grappling with the chronicles of an anonymous traveler immersed in a jungle populated by enigmatic presences, and a year later Nicola Giunta returns with a new exploration under the name Lay Llamas. From the home-grown Delete recordings to the Zel Zele universe based between London and Istanbul, from the tropical forest to mysterious rites on desert islands inhabited by acid-tripping surfers. What remains unchanged is the psychedelic signature and the knack for building intricate inner journeys.

The atmospheric soundscape underpinning "Hidden Eyes In A Ghost Jungle" is here replaced by a song form often frayed at the edges in an ambient dub vein, which in the lysergic chanting of "Up Your Hands In Front The Sun" still echoes Italian Occult Psychedelia, blending it with certain vocal inflections reminiscent of Incani. A framework partially normalized into the psych-rock of the enchanting single "Mystical Journey", which returns to the exotic otherness nurtured in the predecessor through the presence of Joao Branco Kyron of Beautify Junkyards on "Exotic Liminal Space".

Beyond its declared conceptual scaffolding, what stands out most is the sonic richness of an album that unfolds through successive variations, moving from the percussive rock drive of "Disguise You By Animal" to the ethno-ritual temptations of "A Fire On The Hill" and closing with the cosmic breath of "I Was Blind (Now It's Over)". A wealth of facets for a magnetic sound that confirms the full quality of this Sicilian project.

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31/07/2026