ASTRAFORISMI is the new album by CantinaSociale published with the Electromantic Music label.

The work consolidates the band’s artistic choice, started with CAOSFERA, to present only instrumental songs. The collaboration also continues with Beppe Crovella as artistic director and co-producer and with Antonio Catalano who created the cover and booklet.

The CD contains eight songs with musical colors and atmospheres coming from different worlds, held together by a sort of gravitational effect that unites them and presents them as if they were a single planetary system. The eight worlds/songs represented in the booklet, each associated with a short abstract aphorism and the title resulting from the artistic suggestions of Antonio Catalano, can make the work a “concept album”.

In the music of CantinaSociale, composition, improvisation come together, add together, seek each other, avoid each other, interacting to the point of blending into each other in creating the “articulation” of each piece. In the world of progressive music, it is common to encounter bands that refer to the sounds, arrangements and structures of historical formations. However, some bands take a unique and personal path, challenging conventions and trying to avoid direct references to other groups. I CantinaSociale they represent a perfect example of this artistic audacity. Their innovative attitude is clearly manifested throughout their recording career, characterized by constant evolution and a firm dedication to the search for their “own voice”. This philosophy finds its expression in their latest album, ASTRAFORISMI which fully embodies their desire for innovation and musical experimentation.

CantinaSociale was born in 1996, in the wake of an experience of music for the theater by the historical members of the band at the end of the 70s. In the first phase of the band’s activity there is a theatricality which, in the evolution that led to offering exclusively instrumental music, maintains and emphasizes a “musical scenographic” side that ventures between scenes and colors always different, in particular in the latest work ASTRAFORISMI. The meeting with Beppe Crovella, producer and keyboardist of the historic group Arti & Mestieri constituted the starting point of a journey which, with the publication in 2002 of the album Balene (c’è qualcosa di più) for Electromantic music, determined a series of important events such as the Demetrio Stratos Memorial Award in 2003 and the participation in several compilations, including Kalevala. In 2006 the DVD Catturati Live was released. In 2009, CUM LUX, the band’s second album, was released.

In 2017 the band renewed itself both as a formation and as an artistic proposal, proposing with CAOSFERA (Electomantic music) an album that contains only instrumental songs. During 2019 CantinaSociale proposed the live “Caosfera ed altri viaggio” presented, with two sets at the 2 Days Prog + 1 Festival in Veruno and at the Verona Prog Fest. In 2022 the band’s three albums, enriched with some unreleased bonus tracks, were released in Japan by Electromantic Music Japan.

The ASTRAFORISMI CD is presented in a cartoon box with a 12-page booklet.