The Italian psych/noise/ambient duo unveil a new single ahead of their debut album!
Jan 24, 2026
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The track represents the fourth narrative movement of Ancient Impulses of a Paranoid Idol, the duo’s debut album due out on February 7, 2026, and stands as one of its most restrained yet tension-filled passages. The story follows a man who has spent his entire life without ever moving beyond the point where he first arrived: years of silence, repetition and immobility that culminate in an unexpected, frugal encounter, capable of cracking the routine open and introducing a possibility previously unimaginable.
I Flatten Myself Like A Biscuit, One Day, On Tuesday explores the compression of time and space. Dense electronic layers, suspended between dark ambient, drone and noise, collide with a jazz-informed drumming that neither leads nor accompanies, but instead digs, slows and bends the flow. The drums become a source of resistance and friction, while the electronics insist on a charged stasis, as if every movement were constantly deferred.
The single offers a clear expression of The Future Sound of Koyaanis Naqoy’s aesthetic: cinematic and psychedelic music in which narration emerges from the friction between sound matter and silence, between primal impulse and intellectual control. A precarious balance that prepares the ground for the album’s subsequent and definitive rupture.
Like the entire record, the track was recorded fully live on November 13, 2024, in Italy, at Goldmine Records, run by Maurizio Sarnicola, preserving the urgency, unpredictability and physical presence of the performance. What emerges is a compact and dark fragment, in which every sound seems to carry the weight of accumulated time.
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The Future Sound of Koyaanis Naqoy was formed in Italy in 2024 through the meeting of Andrea Doro (Sardinia, 1986) and Antonio Vessa (Salerno, 2003), two different paths converging in a radical, fully instrumental sonic exploration.
Andrea Doro has been involved in poetry and literature since 2009. In 2015, he founded the public reading collective Grande Nave Madre in Sassari. In 2018, he published the poetry collection Oggetti Abbastanza Smarriti (Ensemble Edizioni). During a stormy night, in a basement filled with instruments, Koyaanis Naqoy took shape: a fully instrumental project moving through dark ambient, minimal noise drone and cinematic suggestions inspired by the work of Godfrey Reggio. An immersion into the ink of a wordless story, a sonic dispatch from the end of the Anthropocene, among peaks, feedback and abyssal depths.
Antonio Vessa, a philosophy student at the University of Salerno, first approached the drums in 2019. His musical research is constantly shaped and measured by an intense critical engagement with multiple artistic forms. His torrential, non-stationary/non-academic drumming incorporates a wide range of stylistic elements, drawing inspiration from IDM, jazz-funk and ambient music.
CREDITS
Electronics | Koyaanis Naqoy
Drums | Antonio Vessa
Recording, mixing, mastering | Maurizio Sarnicola @ Goldmine Records, Cilento, Italy
Recording date | 13/11/2024
Artwork | Koyaanis Naqoy
Photos | Amedeo Petrocchi
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