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Legendary Milanese combo Calibro 35 drop their new single “Reptile Strut” on digital platforms and announce a new studio album titled “Exploration,” to be released worldwide on June 6. Pre-order the new album HERE The band’s ninth studio album marks the return to independent label Record Kicks after the release of their previous record, “Nouvelles Aventures”, in 2023 on Universal Music.
The first extract “Reptile Strut” is an instrumental breakbeat-heavy jazz-funk number with fuzzy guitars, crunchy drums and dreamy grooves. The song’s title refers to the green lizard, which is a symbol of regeneration and rebirth, of versatility and introspection.
“The green lizard is a reptile that is very fast in its movements, has a snappy gait and often changes pace. This is why it is difficult to capture. “Reptile Strut” starts from these premises. It has a precise DNA, namely a great passion for groove but also an insatiable desire to experiment that determines a continuous change of pace, styles and musical worlds that can’t be captured in the definition of a genre.” This is how Calibro 35 introduce their new single, which serves as just a first glance of the highly anticipated new album “Exploration,” enough to draw the attention of jazz-funk heads out there.
“In recent times we have ingested a large amount of music. Thanks to the production of soundtracks, we have used our instruments to tell specific stories and to set to music specific images. But we’ve also played at various festivals where we shared the stage with acts such as Makaya McCraven, Headhunters, Roy Ayers or Robert Glasper and we confronted ourselves with the very wide world that is the world of jazz. We kept our ears open, ‘tasted’ everything we could, trying to understand what we could insert into our musical language” add Calibro 35.
“Reptile Strut” is the perfect introduction to the new album “Exploration”, which represents an ideal development of the previous EP “Jazzploitation”, released in October 2024. In the new full length, Calibro 35 switch from the “exploitation” and “robbery” carried out in the ‘jazz bank’ of the previous EP, to the tension towards the exploration of further horizons. The band turns that inspiration and jazz attitude towards a multiplicity of possible new landings.
