“Costa Sud”, the title track of the band’s upcoming LP (due May 2026), is an instrumental joyride towards pure lightheartedness; a disco-funk number where, at ‘groove-speed,’ Peppe Maiellano and co. return to their beloved ‘Salifornia’— that southern province of sun-drenched coastlines where decadent, forgotten places provide the fertile soil from which dreams of exotic escapism sprout and bloom.


The band’s sound is tight, built around a musical theme that keeps shifting through modes and keys as the various instruments interlock and chase one another, while the wordless vocals allow the listener the freedom—and pleasure—to project their own cinematic scenarios onto the music.

The Costa Sud (Southern Coast) imagined by Peppe Maiellano is a shimmering ribbon of sun-baked asphalt stretched between the sea and the ancient pine forests of the Gulf of Salerno. It is a land of enchanting but wounded places, where the grace of Ancient Greek civilization sits in a restless silence alongside the scars of illegal building, organized crime, and poor local governance.

“But if truth is beauty and beauty is truth,” Maiellano explains, inverting Keats’s famous line,“with the right eyes, you can find beauty and poetry even under a layer of moral and material filth.”

“Costa Sud” is a metaphor for the ‘Souths’ of the world—places that, despite their heavy contradictions, remain overflowing with charm and an unstoppable vitality.



So, climb in, roll down the windows, and enjoy the ride.