‘Everybody Just Calm Down’ by Giovanni Carnuccio III | New Album ‘A Matter of Time’
New single from Austin, TX electronic and experimental pop artist Giovanni Carnuccio III, mixes elements of psych-rock, trip-hop, jazz, and Ennio Moriconne.
‘Everybody Just Calm Down’ is taken from his second solo album ‘A Matter Of Time’, due July 9.
While enduring the pandemic like the rest of the world, Carnuccio was struck by – and still exists within – a stretch of creative inspiration, using the past year to let his freak-flag fly: “[I] invaded an acoustic record with synths because so many normal everyday interactions and communications with people had just been forced onto screens.” Surprisingly, though Carnuccio has made a reputation for himself being a polymath on the Americana scene, ‘A Matter of Time’ defies classification by mixing elements of psych-rock, trip-hop, jazz, and Ennio Moriconne, all while maintaining frenetic, whiplash rhythms.
At this point, Carnuccio half-jokes, he is hoping for this whole “folk Mark Ronson shit to take off” before wryly qualifying that he might actually be “like an Italian unplugged Dr. Dre or something.” All jokes aside, this isn’t too far from the truth as his creative touch has added a dash of the cutting edge to a genre steeped in obstinate traditionalism. Instead of allowing himself to sit in tradition, Carnuccio aims to innovate by taking cues from the atmospherics of Nine Inch Nails, the pluckiness of the Punch Brothers or Cornelius, and the orchestral dramatics of Spaghetti Western classics.
Carnuccio’s genre-melding style, though lighthearted and playful, conveys a much more timely and heartfelt message than you might expect. Whatever the future holds for Giovanni as an artist, producer, and musician, now we have ‘A Matter of Time’, a kaleidoscopic journey reminding us to embrace creativity and cast our fate to the wind.
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