{"id":37145,"date":"2018-11-08T01:59:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T00:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/?p=37145"},"modified":"2026-04-16T01:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:38:20","slug":"introducing-malihini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/introducing-malihini\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing: Malihini"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Before you hear anything from this duo called Malihini<\/strong>, you\u2019ll be as intrigued as I was when I find out that this real life Italian couple made of\u00a0Giampaolo Speziale and Federica Caiozzo are originally from Rome, have chosen a Hawaiian band name that means \u201cNewcomer\u201d and have recorded their upcoming album \u201cHopefully, Again\u201d in the forgotten dreamscapes and beautiful back country that Wales, and more specifically Powys, has to offer. For having been there every year since the inception of yours truly. Basking in rolling fields of greenery, farming every summer with the grandparents on a very Welsh farm. I hold this part of the world and the nature surrounding it very dear to my heart.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So naturally, when I came across the fact that they took the time and effort to trek all the way out there to Powys to record their debut album\u00a0\u2018Hopefully, Again\u2019 with producer\u00a0Richard Formby (Wild Beasts, Ghostpoet, Darkstar). Malihini automagically went up my street-credibility radar a few hundred points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mahilini<\/strong>\u2018s title track \u2018Hopefully, Again\u2019 is as delicate as a newly-born lamb just getting up for his first steps on solid ground. The band describes the track as \u201csuperficially, pretty\u201d which is quite accurate. Then comes in that unforgettable hook guitar over lingering drums that will have you addicted to their lyrical prowess in no time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giampaolo Speziale says of the track :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about when you\u2019re first really into one another. When you try to be someone, as seen through the eyes of the other.\u00a0It\u2019s about flirting, and the moment when you come back from the slowness of depression, you dress up and you\u2019re ready to confront with the fastness of love\/life again\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe write using only a guitar, a Casiotone keyboard, a toy synth and a drum machine. We\u2019d start with loops and then just improvise melodies over the top, not listening back for three or four hours\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Hopefully, Again\u2019 is accompanied by a video filmed and directed together by the band themselves from footage of their travels to Rome, Portugal, Sicily, Iceland and London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can\u2019t help but think the duo will get to greater things as they\u2019ve signed with Memphis Industries and with all this promising material to come out. We can only recommend you listen to the beautiful first track from their upcoming debut album:<\/p>\n\n\n\n