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Picture #2

YUGEN

Label: Filibusta Records /Romolo Dischi
Released: 2026
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Tracks

The Night Spoke To Me; From The Bin To The Sunrise; When Order Fell In Love With Chaos; Risveglio Di Settembre; The Diver U-Bow; Picture #2; More Than Meets the Eye; Time; Petricore.

Personnel

Additional Personnel / Information

Alessandro Dell’Anna: guitar (2); Valerio Daniele: artistic director (1-9).

Album Description

The Italian trio transform sound into an imaginary film, where structure, silence and slow accumulation become music for images not yet born.

YUGEN, the Italian instrumental trio formed by Katya Fiorentino on piano, Stefano Compagnone on bass and Maurizio De Tommasi on drums, present Picture #2, a new chapter in a musical journey that moves beyond genre definitions.

Suspended between contemporary jazz, minimalism, rock sensibility, subtle electronic incursions and cinematic imagination, the album transforms sound into an inner visual experience: music that does not accompany images, but generates them.

Formed in 2020 from the collaboration and long-standing experience of three musicians from Salento, Southern Italy, YUGEN has developed a language that resists easy classification. Their music is not simply jazz, not rock, not electronic music, yet it contains traces of all these territories at once. What emerges is a personal and highly evocative sound: essential, layered, contemplative and constantly in motion.

From Cell to Landscape
At the heart of YUGEN’s creative process is the idea of transformation.

Each composition begins from a small cell: a melodic or harmonic fragment, a minimal gesture, an essential intuition. From there, the trio builds slowly, rehearsal after rehearsal, allowing the material to evolve through listening, silence, repetition and controlled deviation.

There is no closed writing, but a living process. Composition becomes a balance between structure and change, where each element is pushed toward the edge of its expressive possibility. The result is music that does not simply unfold: it breathes, expands and gradually reveals itself.

Cinema Without a Screen
With Picture #2, YUGEN enters an even more cinematic dimension.

The album does not describe images; it generates them. It is not the soundtrack to an existing film, but the possibility of a film that takes shape inside the listener.

Through essential structures, subtle repetitions, minimal variations and suspended spaces, the trio create a perceptual environment where something can emerge without ever being imposed. The music becomes cinema without a screen: a sequence of moving frames that do not exist before the act of listening, but are born within it.

As Ray Brown Jr. described it:
“The most beautiful soundtrack to a film I haven’t seen yet.”

Three Voices, One Music
This vision reflects the deeper identity of the trio.

YUGEN is built on a dynamic equilibrium between three musical perspectives, where the focus is never the individual musician, but the music itself. Each idea is questioned, reduced, transformed and integrated.

The differences between the three voices are not erased, but placed in dialogue, giving shape to a sound where everything is distributed horizontally and every gesture modifies the whole.

A Different Musical Temperature:
Although YUGEN comes from a Mediterranean landscape naturally associated with light, warmth, rhythm and vocal expression, the trio choose a different trajectory.

Their music does not seek exuberance or direct quotation. Instead, it develops a rarefied and essential language made of silences, micro-variations, slow architectures and suspended spaces.

The Mediterranean remains present, but as an inner memory rather than a surface reference. Northern European atmospheres may appear as a mental landscape, but never as a model to imitate.

From this distance comes YUGEN’s most personal tension: warm in its emotional origin, restrained in form; luminous in its roots, shadowed in its language.

It is not a fusion of styles, but a different musical temperature.

Their aesthetic research brings together three distinct musical personalities into a shared language beyond classification.

With Picture #2, YUGEN continues to navigate a space beyond fixed definitions, where melody, rhythm, and atmosphere merge into a sound that is fluid, evocative, and unmistakably their own.

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