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The fine art of smash you hard, providing a six slapping. Elephant slapping. From hell.
Instrumental, post-HC, the Happy Hellephant Orchestra - Allegra Orchestrina Hellephant grills psychedelia on fuzz gear. What a blasting fire. 
I must confess that when I've read their name as well as their songs titles I was about to make the same prejudicial mistake I made with The Flying Madonnas a decade ago. A different asset, but, welcome to the same art of not taking yourself too seriously, and of playing it fcking serious at the same time. Yeah, it's all about when the shit hits the fan (Ma: quando la merda arriva al ventilatore). That seeped acknowledge of who cares.
Four piece band from Monte Amiata, Tuscany, Italy, DIY record, a few years since their debut release Leviatano (which frankly I did not know), Allegra Orchestrina Hellephant are loaded with adrenaline and dissonance, fast pace, the catharsis of abrasive and killer bass/guitar chords pushed to the fore (Vecchie nuove - I played this song three times in a row on my first listen - their drummer goes wild here, - actually, their drummer is a Kali more than Ganesh - pick one among Fabrizio, Michele, Stefano, Isacco, - they run a low profile). They know how to have fun with songwriting dynamics, fat distortions and cavalcades (from Tepolini with love), just listen to the epic climaxes of (S)KAPPA!). My headphones were soaked soaring sound. Con quella cappa, skappa. 

Alberto Novello and Rob Mazurek joined forces and started to eat our burning star. 
Both master their role. Rob Mazurek's discography is huge and juicy since day one. Alberto Novello relentlessly goes by the same path.
Padova meets Chicago, "recorded in a single afternoon at Dobialab, an experimental artist run space in Northern Italy", these 6 track record perfectly pictures their excercise of retrofuturistic jazz, tinted with psychedelic consciouness (the bittersweet solitude of Automaton Phase 27), where Novello governs the laws of nonsense abstractism through analogue synthetizers, boasting a variety of amazing architectures, intertwining and altering the sacredness of Mazurek's trumpet winds - what probably is meant to embody and which portraits humanity in all this pitch‑shifting chaos driven universe of wires and knurled controllers. Luchadores Sudden Embrace and Ricochet Edge Verse pulse and buzz over this hypnotic synesthesia oscillations which supply a depth connectivity to the listener's inner self. Pretty allucinatory before going instrospective. Like the shamanic mysticism of final track A New Mycological Framework of Narrative. Or probably that's just the mean to its end: crashing over the Sun and think you eat it.

While I totally love Peter Kernel since day one, I still have mixed feelings for Barbara Lehnhoff and Aris Basetti's solo projects.
Still, new track I like the Noise - for the forthcoming new Camilla Sparksss record, ICU RUN The Movie - is totally growing on me: buzzing and pulsing, sexy and oblique. And DIY galore. Press play.