
Alessandro Stefana announces eponymous PJ Harvey exec-produced album
Guitarist, producer and composer Alessandro “Asso” Stefana has announced his eponymous solo album, and shares first single, "The House".
Alessandro Stefana has featured on PJ Harvey’s The Hope Six Demolition Project, Mike Patton’s Mondo Cane, Calexico's El Mirador, Micah P. Hinson's I Lie to You, and Penguin Cafe's Rain Before Seven.
“This mysterious and beautiful music by Alessandro Stefana entrances me. Its fragility and tenderness bring comfort and understanding. It reflects the unique sensitivity of its creator, who has drawn on his experience to bring this profoundly moving, and life affirming record to the world," says executive producer Polly Jean Harvey.
On the second half of the record Roscoe Holcomb’s voice appears, taken from the precious Smithsonian Folkways archives. “It is a powerful and moving testimony to a bygone era… I have always been fascinated by the idea of mixing folk, a music so intimately linked to the land, with something that goes beyond the boundaries of the genre,” Stefana says.
One of his aims for this album was for it to feel “suspended between earth and sky” - the interplay between decades old recordings with new improvisations evokes feelings of being grounded and untethered at the same time.
Tracklist:
- Fading Away
- Farewell To Dust
- Out Of The Blue
- The Wandering Minstrel
- The House
- Born and Raised in Covington
- I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow
- Moonshiner
- Continental Spazio
Alessandro “Asso” Stefana, is due for release on 17 May via Ipecac Recordings, and is available to pre-order now.
- Ani Glass shares new single "Phantasmagoria" from upcoming second album
- Campbell King presents new single, "My Mates"
- Paul Weller joins forces with Robert Plant on "Clive's Song"
- Loreen signs to Polydor France and shares new single, "Echoes"
- BIG SPECIAL unveil surprise new album, NATIONAL AVERAGE
- A. G. Cook announces songwriting workshop with School of Song
- Boko Yout unveils debut album GUSTO, driven by semi-fictional character
Get the Best Fit take on the week in music direct to your inbox every Friday

Lorde
Virgin

OSKA
Refined Believer

Tropical F*ck Storm
Fairyland Codex
