PANFOBIA by Riccardo Salvini

A vague and persistent dread of some unknown evil...

Panfobia is a raw and sincere, stripped-down record, constantly searching for authentic and poetic meaning. Guitar music and electronics meet to give life to something new, dig into the depths of Word and Sound, and come to answers that are never banal.

The focus of this album is to recount the facets of fear, try to recognise differences and learn to live with them. Panphobia is a ubiquitous fear tied to an evil of unknown origin. It is the fear of everything, that feeling of anxiety and anguish that, unfortunately, permeates the lives of many human beings today. Who can say they are lucky enough never to have found themselves in this condition?

Darkness is part of human life, and denying it can generate further suffering; the driving force behind these songs is the desire to imprint fear in music and, in the best-case scenario, to abandon it forever.

Two narrative levels can be recognised within it. The first, guided by the songs, is linked to emotivity, to an imaginative tale - but anchored in reality - of the distorted visions induced by the phobia; the second, led by the readings, places the listener in a condition of identification: a human being retraces the stages of his life, using war metaphors to represent the universal struggle against Time. The two narrative planes intertwine, mingle and influence each other until the End.

Panfobia is an emotional journey, dark and dense. It conveys the sense of siege and the attempt to escape. It follows the coordinates of song and psychedelia. A record that is like chewing iron and stone and as necessary as friendship.

Riccardo Salvini is a multi-instrumentalist, arranger, lyricist, and producer active in the music scene since ten years. Thanks to his experience in various bands on the international scene, he has played all over Europe. Petardo follows the coordinates of song, and psychedelia. Like chewing iron and stone, as necessary as friendship.

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