Back in February, Erika Severyens reviewed Acid Folk, the latest offering from Berlin-based Americana band Yonder Boys. She concludes her review:
‘Acid Folk’ breaks through the walls of genre, convention, and predictability, taking you on a wild ride which you don’t want to get off.
The album concludes on the song ‘Il Pesce Spada’ (‘swordfish’ in Italian) featuring echoing lush harmonies over sounds of the sea and organic percussive elements. They call it an ode to the Sicilian moon, Italian people, and la dolce vita.
Next month they release two different versions of the song, each accompanied by a video. Today we are sharing the first ahead of its release – A live version of the song which soundtracks a short film made in Sicily in the summer of 2019, which was shot in a 9th-century castle, Castello di Carini, with a backdrop of adjacent mountains and the Mediterranean Sea. It’s the perfect setting…
The song was written when the trio was on tour in Sicily, staying in the sleepy village of Carini in between tour dates. While drinking local wine, cooking, and eating fresh products from the market – the band members are self-proclaimed great chefs – they fell deeply in love with the atmosphere of the place and the local music. Drunk on the joy of life (and probably alcohol), they decided to write a song that showed their appreciation for the friends they had made and the experiences they had shared in Carini, which is how ‘Il Pesce Spada’ was born. The short film below was shot and produced only three days later by Associazione Nuova Carini.
The studio version from the album will accompany a video clip inspired by the old surf movies on VHS that were popular amongst Australian surfer kids in the 1990s, courtesy of the Australian banjo player in the band, David Stewart Ingleton.
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