Uncle Faust

Set for release on Friday, September 18, 2026, Vol. 2 is the second album by Uncle Faust, released by the Wallace Records label. The Cagliari-based trio, composed of guitarists Fabio Cerina and Raffaele Pilia and percussionist Antonio Pinna, returns six years after their 2020 debut album.

The record features six instant compositions recorded live at Spazio Homu in Dolianova on October 13, 2019, with no pre-written material. The band revisited that session over the following years, adding overdubs between 2021 and 2023, until those six moments coalesced into complete tracks. The album also features guest appearances by Matteo Muntoni on bass and Elisa Dienesch on vocals.

The music traverses vastly different territories: from dense noise that gradually organizes into rhythmic and timbral interplay before transforming into a heavy mantra, to more minimal moments built around bright melodies that slowly take on darker tones. Elsewhere, suspended and hallucinated dub drifts emerge, alongside space-rock passages dissolving into ambient textures, incursions into psychedelic proto-techno, and funk-driven openings. The journey closes with an irregular dance that steadily finds a more defined, narrative structure. It is a highly varied path, bound together by the atmosphere, inspiration, and shared moment of that October 13th afternoon.

In addition to its digital release, Vol. 2 is available in a limited edition of fifty physical copies: a 7-inch sleeve containing a vintage 45 rpm vinyl and a download code for the album. No two copies are alike, as the vinyl enclosed inside varies from piece to piece. The record you hold in your hands is not the one you hear.

The project originated in 2008 when Fabio Cerina (Plasma Expander, Bron-y-Aur, Dandaure) recorded a set of compositions in his home studio. Since then, it has taken on various live iterations: a quartet in 2012, then a duo with Raffaele Pilia (Julia Ensemble, Pyramiden Project), and finally a trio with the addition of Antonio Pinna (Arràmini, Mattadiau, Vagabond).

This current lineup recorded the self-titled debut album, released on July 17, 2020, via Wallace Records and TiConZero. Received by the press as a blend of psychedelia, weird-folk, mantras, and dronescapes built around a shared creative flow, Ondarock described it as "a concept forcefully communicated through subtle yet crucial mutations of genres and harmonic practices." Vol. 2 continues and refines this approach.