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SENDUKI

TRANSITIONAL MUSIC FROM A RESIDUAL REALITY

NEW ALBUM
2025

STRANìA

Stranìa - Transitional Music from a Residual Reality is more than an album — it’s a meditation on change. Each track drifts between what endures and what is yet to come, echoing the pulse of peripheral worlds and forgotten cultures. From Calabria’s shifting landscapes, where dialects, sounds, and souls move between the ancient and the modern, emerges a sonic philosophy: identity as a living residue of time.

Track List

1. Calanchi (G. Costa) 2’15

2. Zingaròta (Traditional lyrics - E. Castagna, G. Costa, C. Torchia) 3’47

3. Chitarra si’ di lìgnu (Traditional lyrics - E. Castagna, G. Costa, C. Torchia) 5‘43

4. Fòcu & palùmbi (Traditional lyrics - E. Castagna, G. Costa, C. Torchia) 3’32

5. A bàllu (Traditional lyrics - E. Castagna, G. Costa, C. Torchia) 4’39

6. Palòri d’amùri (Traditional lyrics - E. Castagna, G. Costa, C. Torchia, E. Surace, D. Morello) 6’09

7. Malaspìna (Traditional lyrics - E. Castagna, G. Costa, C. Torchia) 3’52

8. Regina di li hiùri (Traditional lyrics - E. Castagna, G. Costa, C. Torchia) 5’52

9. Basta ‘n’accòrdu (Lyrics E. Castagna - E. Castagna, D. Morello) 4’58

10. Senduki (E. Castagna, G. Costa, C. Torchia, E. Surace, D. Morello) 4’55

11. Pàru cerca pàru (Traditional lyrics - G. Costa) 8’07

12. Calanchi (reprise) (G. Costa) 1’28

Videoclip Fòcu & palùmbi by Saverio Autellitano

Published by AlfaMusic Studio & Sud Studio Digital Sound (SIAE)

Recorded at Senduki Sublimation Studio - LM Recording (Reggio Calabria) by Alessio “Lex” Mauro from June 2024 to January 2025

Mixed at Sud Studio (Carolei - CS) in February 2025

by Tiziano and Angelo Sposato, Peppe Costa, Ettore Castagna and Elisa Surace

Mastered at LM Recording (Reggio Calabria) by Alessio “Lex” Mauro in April 2025

Artwork: Carmine Torchia

Photos: Angelo Cavallaro (front cover) - Erika Stanca (booklet pag 3,13,15) - Peppe Costa (booklet pag 16, band photos) - Aldea Bellantonio (booklet pag 8)

Line-up:

Ettore Castagna – Calabrian lira, guitars, malarruni, vocals
Peppe Costa – YoSonu drums, electronics, vocals
Mimmo Morello – Zampogne (bagpipes), winds, vocals
Elisa Surace – vocals, tamburello (frame drum)
Carmine Torchia – bass, vocals

Senduki Manifesto – Music Between Worlds

Senduki unites distant worlds into a single, living pulse. Calabria’s ancient instruments — the lira, zampogna, double flutes, malarruni, and tamburelli — intertwine with electric bass, guitars, drums, and loops. An archaic, evocative voice cuts through — raw, direct, timeless.

Senduki is an exorcism — against the numbness of fast-food culture, fast sex, unshared music, and digital illusions. It rejects fake roots and celebrates memory as a force of transformation.

Senduki is both more and less than it seems — a passage between what has been and what could be. It is transitional music, born from fragments of the people, the land, and the noise — the kind of sound Alan Lomax might have recorded on a restless day.