"[...] Our last hope was a full-force totemization: Simmia, a transmaterial fusion of human and primal abbanga. Swinging on wired lianas, Simmia reached the haramboloid structure and freed our unstable obtrusions from the glassy modem cliff [...]"
Rainbow Island is a quartet born in Rome in 2013. Since its foundation the band confirmed themselves as skilled explorers of virtual dub, deranged non-narrative storytelling and manipulations of digital riddim music in between fourth and fifth worlds.
Simmia is the first single out of RI's upcoming new album ILLMATRIX. The new work is a glitchy detour from the bandโs colourful sonic chromatisms toward a win95.exe non-figurative and unorthodox cartography of exotic, alien uncharted languages and dimensions of sound, which boundaries developing the projectโs saga are constantly and obsessively redrawn by Rainbow Island themselves by means of grimey sewer-like grooves and staggering concrete, urban sound design.