"Decomposizione : Riforma", the new album by 42 Cent Hotline, explores two coexisting processes: decomposition, which dissolves matter, and reformation, which generates new forms. They do not follow one another in sequence, but intertwine, creating a constant tension in which every disintegration already carries the seeds of a possible reconfiguration.

Rooted in the Mediterranean folk heritage, the project emerges from a careful listening to the Sicilian landscape, marked by its recurring water crisis. In this work, drought becomes a concrete presence, emerging in the soundscape, the manipulation of acoustic materials, and the design of textures, revealing the fragility and resilience of a deteriorating territory.

Signs and sounds of Sicilian tradition are transformed and reterritorialized. Rhythms of folk dances and funeral marches intertwine with samples of traditional voices and instruments, blending with digital synthesis to create new, pulsating sonic territories where memory is not a relic but a living fabric in which the past emerges from fossilized traces.

From this interplay arises a sound universe in motion: bodies disintegrate and regenerate, territories breathe with difficulty, archaic dances surface as echoes of a parched era. The tracks form an ecosystem in perpetual metamorphosis, with elevations, fractures, and shifts perceived as living matter, telling the inner metamorphosis of those seeking to reconstruct the syntax of a dying land.

In this context, "Decomposizione : Riforma" presents itself as a sculpture of sound. The album does not tell the story of metamorphosis: it is its force field, the place where decay and generation merge into a single, continuous physical event. The acoustic transformation produces unexpected morphologies and restores to sound the ability to reconnect humans to the territory and its memories, transforming music into a corporeal landscape to inhabit, shape, and perceive as one’s own.