Hauntings

Description

Iconic keyboardist for Japan and Porcupine Tree, Richard Barbieri returns with Hauntings, his new studio album. A major figure in the synthesizer revolution of the 70s/80s, Barbieri has profoundly marked electronic and art-rock music, influencing major artists from The Human League to Gary Numan, while affirming his status with Porcupine Tree. The first studio album since Under A Spell (2021), Hauntings deepens a dark and immersive instrumental aesthetic, fueled by nostalgia for the past and anxious visions of the future. The compositions evoke cinematic soundscapes, between a foggy Victorian London and Belle Époque Paris, before shifting towards tense futuristic projections. Driven by a refined sonic architecture and an almost Lovecraftian atmosphere, the album brings together Morgan Ågren, Percy Jones, and Luca Calabrese, for an ambitious and deeply evocative work, at the peak of Barbieri's career.