ABOUT THE BAND

SACROMUD 

THE OVERGROUND BLUES: ABOVE THE UNDERGROUND, UNDER THE MAINSTREAM

A NEW MUSICAL “CROSSROADS” BETWEEN HUMAN RIGHTS, MISSISSIPPI, GUBBIO AND SOCIAL INCLUSION!

“I say that perhaps, to continue the journey, instead of selling our soul to the devil like Robert Johnson, we must accept the hell, and as Italo Calvino says, and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of hell, are not hell, then make them endure, give them space.”

This is how Maurizio Pugno, leader and founder of the Sacromud collective, comments the end of the documentary film made between Italy and the South of the Mississippi "Gubbio to Memphis" .

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​The SACROMUD overground Blues feels that, in the new popular culture, there is still that old wandering spirit in search of lay prayers; therefore it tries to play the sound of their footsteps, the rhythm of new exodus, to give voice to the sensuality of human weaknesses and to the blackening of the trees, with its off-scale blues, in this new Carousel.

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SACROMUD (Labilia production) is not just a band that catch into Maurizio Pugno's blues, continuing in some way the trajectory traced with over 35 years of activity around the world, but it is a real factory of suggestions and sounds spread on what we are today, the Sacred Mud of the contemporary.

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The SACROMUD Live Show follows this vision and is built as a single musical suite within which the narration itself moves as well as soul, roots music, blues, rock, pop, funk, R&B etc. but blended together with the sounds of contemporary contradictions.

 

The OVERGROUND BLUES is the answer that Sacromud tries to give to those who allow themselves, sometimes even unwittingly, to be seduced by the tradition that feeds the sound of contemporary sacred mud, that tradition, which belongs to everyone, even to those who do not know the rhetoric that distinguishes its profile.

The overground blues proves to be the sum, in constant evolution, of the values ​​useful to his people and that people must continually renew itself, if it does not want to perish.

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But it is also a stroll around Bluesland, the land where everyone has generated the music of the last 150 years: ”the blues was for me the salt with which I seasoned my musical journey – says Pugno himself - not only as a musician. The Blues is giving meaning to suffering and SACROMUD has its political mission. Our hope is that music, sooner or later, will raise its voice above the din of prejudices; a shear to cut every kind fence"

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After the first two studio albums («Resized» released on 2021 and «Sacromud» on 2023) and having been awarded as "Best Italian Album 2022" and as "Best Italian Rock Band of 2023", Sacromud win the final of the Italian Blues Challenge and fly to Mississippi and Memphis, to represent Italy at the INTERNATIONAL BLUES CHALLENGE!

A revolution: a band so musically contaminated and "anthropologically” transversal, represented Italy in the land of Mississippi. the home of Blues, Soul and Funk.

The band, with a video crew in tow, extended its stay in Mississippi from January 11th to 25th in an attempt to generate a documentary film within a new vision regarding finding a common thread between "what we are and what we have loved"

This is the synthesis of this journey:

• A docufilm «Gubbio to Memphis» released in July 2023

• a double CD live album released in October 2024 called «Gubbio to Memphis: Live at Opera House, The Overground Suite»

• The album «The Sacromud Sun Sessions» recorded at legendary Sun Records in Memphis, an album that will see the light next February 2025.

In short, five musicians, five ways of seeing and hearing music, but all aimed at achieving music conceived as a real musical movement!

You take a breath at the beginning and exhale it all out, slowly!​