Energumeni

ENERGUMENI :: ENERGUMENI :: DOUBLE LP ON VINYL :: SUSSIDIARIA / RIZOSFERA-NUKFM :: 2025 :: THREE EDITIONS AVAILABLE**

1 – TRADITIONAL DOUBLE VINYL EDITION** (SUSSIDIARIA)

2 – LIMITED EDITION OF 50 COPIES IN DOUBLE VINYL WITH CD-R AND 16-PAGE BOOKLET** + DIGITAL STREAMING (RIZOSFERA-NUKFM)

3 –LIMITED EDITION OF 50 COPIES IN CD-R AND 16-PAGE BOOKLET** + DIGITAL STREAMING (RIZOSFERA-NUKFM) 

**Some clarifications are necessary, point by point, to expand the reach of this stunning double vinyl album’s publication:

First Point: DOWNLOAD
Inside the double vinyl packaging, you’ll find a small printed card with a download code for the entire album. This download card is included in both the standard double vinyl edition and the special limited edition (50 copies only), which includes the double vinyl, booklet, and CD-R. Where is the download card NOT included? Only in the CD-R and booklet edition (Point 3 of the available editions listed on the Rizosfera website, as mentioned above).

Second Point: UNLIMITED DIGITAL STREAMING
Digital streaming on the Rizostream platform is free and exclusively linked to purchases made via Rizosfera. The streaming code for Energumeni is sent by the Rizostream platform at the exact moment the online purchase is confirmed on the Rizosfera website. The album is available for streaming 24/7, with no restrictions. The Rizostream code is tied to the email address provided by the buyer during checkout and is non-transferable.
Registering on Rizostream also grants free access to a vast library of ‘open access’ albums (different from Energumeni), but other albums on the platform can only be streamed if previously purchased via the Rizosfera website. The Energumeni streaming code is sent to buyers of all three editions and is exclusive to Rizosfera customers. An added value of Rizostream for Energumeni is the inclusion of two bonus tracks—Ne hai del tufo and Provenienza km zero—which are only available on Rizostream and not on other streaming platforms.

Third Point: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF THE ALBUM
The two special editions are only available for purchase on the Rizosfera website. The vinyl album is physically distributed to record stores via Audioglobe and digitally via standard streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube, etc.) through the ZDB Consortium’s multi-link https://bfan.link/energumeni . However, the two numbered special editions (with booklet and CD-R) are exclusive to Rizosfera, and the bonus tracks are only available for free on Rizostream, in addition to the full album.

Fourth Point: THE CD
At this time, there are no plans to produce a physical CD version of Energumeni. The only way to listen to the album on CD is by purchasing the numbered special edition with booklet and high quality CD-R (which also includes unlimited digital streaming with the bonus tracks).

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PAGAN PEOPLE OF THE PO VALLEY by Vittore Baroni

Let’s say it right away: due to distant kinships and ancient artistic alliances, it is both my fault and my merit to have brought the two bearded giants together in person. Thus, it falls to me to bear the burden and honor of scribbling a few superfluous introductory lines. This commentary is not essential, as the bare tracks of the double album already eloquently spell out the sonic trajectories that converge here in a rustic manner—ranging from free rock moods, weird jazz clots, no wave tantrums, and inventions of instant freeze-dried songwriting glossolalia, to hieratic laments of lost exotic civilizations and assorted rule-free game pieces. The lament of the tenor before the final whistle.

Internalizing expressions of restless and undisciplined improvisation, the two multifaceted Emilians—both with four decades of musical militancy behind them (Marmo e le Forbici di Manitù on one side, and En Manque D’Autre, Acid Folk Alleanza, Groove Safari, Impresa Gottardo, etc. on the other)—sublimate their energies and passions headlong. They shift from Canterbury-esque calembours, all tears and patches on raw canvas, to quarrelsome motorik rhythms and Faustian grumbles (almost like a lost album of the most esoteric krautrock), with the Chris Cutler lesson well-hidden beneath their shared affection for the Associates (as good children of the ‘80s). They weave enlightened astral conjunctions of styles with ungraceful smirks and jeers. Traces of fried gnocchi on the Moog.

In the homemade rehearsal room, amidst wary feline tribes and silent buzzards soaring over the fields, like two sprites in a pod far from the maddening crowd, Manitù and Taver accumulate cave-dwelling philosophies and procedural paradoxes (abstractions disguised as songs, and vice versa). There is no antagonism between good and bad music, but rather between useless and necessary music—if only to soothe that underlying pain, that accumulated malaise of eons that keeps one awake at night, as if storytelling could make one feel more real and fit to uphold some misunderstood cause, caught between sad Catholic-communists and cunning turbo-capitalists. Independent bodies and minds weaned and rooted in the Po Valley, fortified by elephant mosquito bites, scanning violet skies at dusk in anticipation of alien saviors. With the Klingons, we make *klang*.

In a self-induced state of agitation and intentionally unconscious intent, the two, like good-natured ogres, have programmatically decided to lose themselves in overlapping layers and stratifications of aleatory automatic compositions. Peaceful and dazzled brutes inspired by the muse Euterpe, stubbornly intolerant of the prevailing Asinine Intelligence, they grope their way through the fog that no longer exists, conquered and subdued by that mysterious groove that serendipitously appeared between them one night. They are willing to put themselves on the line again and always, like disbelieving shamans, shouting and throwing punches at other dimensions of knowledge. To inevitably lose themselves in the sounds, here and now, before (as late as possible) the time comes to *pighêr i tvaiô* (a.k.a. to rise to heaven).