Joseph Martone x Impostor Costume

JOSEPH MARTONE (IT - USA-

Back with a new album titled « Endeavours », Italian-American Joseph Martone reminds us of his presence with an artistic universe echoing Nick Cave and Calexico under the cinematic influence of Ennio Morricone discovered through the album « Honey Birds » released in 2020.

Recorded in Italy, at Auditorium Novecento in Naples and studio Al Mare in Ravenna, featuring renowned musicians (Fabio Rondanini from Calibro 35 on drums and Francesco Giampaoli on bass, also active in bands Hugo Race Fatalists and Sacri Cuori), as well as at Studio Cimetière in Quebec and Canada, this album brings together Joseph Martone and his longtime friend and collaborator, Ned Crowther (The Fernweh, Smokey Angle Shades), to write these new compositions. This 2nd album also benefits from meticulous production by Mike Dubue and Taylor Kirk, from Canadian folk-blues group Timber Timbre, as well as enchanting vocals by Rebecca Noelley and Marianna d'Ama.

Joseph Martone draws from the sounds and rhythms of his two heritage cultures, Italy and the United States, to create a unique musical style. His songs are sincere, often painful explorations of his childhood and adolescence, sketching a striking portrait of his extraordinary life and staging a gallery of colorful characters who shaped his journey. Love and sorrow, family and friendship, time and memories are the themes driving his songs, expressed with artistic maturity reflecting the complex, tumultuous universe in which Martone lives. Torn relationships and vital bonds, like the imaginative family vineyard where everything begins and returns, where even in the darkest hours, life demands that the grape harvest be brought to completion: a tale of intertwined lives resurfacing cyclically. A life experience that does not spare pain, yet also reveals beauty to those who manage to pause and grasp it. The 1st single « Lying Low » is accompanied by a music video featuring a subtle interplay of light and shadow, revealing the poetic authenticity of Joseph Martone's lyrics rich in references to Sergio Leone.

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IMPOSTOR COSTUME (be)

Every ten years, Geoffrey Hautvas becomes someone else. First 10 years as a solitary cowboy under the name The Dallas Explosion (2 albums and an EP, European support for Willy Deville, Monster Magnet, and many others). Then came the Electric Château adventure in London before returning home to Brussels. As a fallen king, Geoffrey led his power trio, trading raw aggression for velvety irony, mocking money and blue blood. 1 EP and 1 album. Countless concerts, the conqueror preaching his royalty rock 'n' roll wherever offered food and lodging for the night.

Here he is back under the pseudonym Impostor Costume with a new album “Shaking the Shaker” to be released in April 2027.

New name, new sound — not because old costumes wore out, but because lingering too long in one begins to feel like truth.

The album itself, Shaking the Shakers, was recorded almost entirely solo — Geoffrey playing all instruments himself,

locked in his studio for a whole year, except for drums handled by longtime collaborator Nicolas Scalliet (Electric Château). It is the most solitary work Hautvas has ever conducted, and it shows: the songs feel intimate even when loud, like something built in isolation and only then released into the world. This isolation did not prevent the record from receiving proper finishing touches. Shaking the Shakers was mixed in Los Angeles by Cory Hanson (Wand / Ty Segall) and mastered in London by Pete Maher — giving these bedroom recordings scale without sanding down rough edges.