Salo Pallini: “Some Air” Record Release Show

Salo Pallini began as a four-piece instrumental group from Memphis, TN, built around an unusual idea: create a musical accompaniment to Kurt Vonnegut’s 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan. The result was The Sirens of Titan: A Preemptive Scoring, an 11-song debut recorded in the historic home of renowned Civil War historian Shelby Foote. The record established the band’s self-described sound of “progressive Latin space country” and the larger concept of preemptively scoring literary works bound for the screen.

For its second record, Salo Pallini is taking a very different approach. While the band’s debut was entirely instrumental, the new album places the human voice at the center of the music, with a different singer featured on every song. Rather than settling on a single frontperson, the band has built each track around the character of its guest vocalist, allowing the record to shift voices, perspectives and personalities from song to song while retaining Salo Pallini’s distinct musical identity.