Elsewhen by Futuro Ancestrale (Giuseppe Doronzo, Yannis Kyriakides, Andy Moor, Frank Rosaly), released 15 June 2026
- Eye of the Hurricane
- Ghostline
- Scindone
- Elsewhen
- Blind Needle
- Saturno
- Underrun
- Faló
- Driftlight
Futuro Ancestrale, the ensemble around saxophonist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Giuseppe Doronzo, was born from the idea to combine contemporary improvisation and non-western music traditions. In Elsewhen, electronics play a central role along with ancestral instruments borrowed from Chinese, Albanian or Chadian traditions. Doronzo’s concept of convoking those sounds and cultures in the same musical space is a way to celebrate, and to create a vibrant dialogue between histories.
Notes by Giuseppe Doronzo:
“Elsewhen,” the second album by Futuro Ancestrale, continues the celebration of ancestral musical cultures, now placing them in dialogue with electronic music. A recurring sense of duality runs through the record, expressed in both its musical language and its instrumentation.
Scindone takes its name from an ancient Apulian pagan-religious prayer, whispered by farmers to the sun before entering the fields. Faló, inspired by the Chadian kakaki, recalls a nocturnal fire rite marking the passage from winter to spring, a ritual common in many parts of the world under different forms and meanings. These traces of ceremony return in the album’s sonic imprint: in Ghostline, the cyla dyjare (Albanian double flute) intertwines with drums and electronics, evoking a shepherd’s timeless journey. Eye of the Hurricane, featuring the hulusi (Chinese gourd flute), is built on a transcendental pulse set by Andy and Frank, while Yannis’s live sampling gathers these elements into a distinct sound world, summoning textures and sonic eras from distant places and times.
The project continues to unfold in the spirit of collective instant composition, leaving room for spontaneous creation and opening a space to honor the present.
_ Giuseppe Doronzo
