The Pilgrim

19/03/2024

Here to say hi to all of you folks, and advise The Pilgrim is writing new songs, we really hope to be back soon with a new album … in the mean time we want to send you our greetings🔥

03/01/2024

The Pilgrim - Walking into the Forest
Full album on You Tube reached out 6.2 million views !

Many many thanks and wish you a wonderful new year to everybody !
🙏

02/05/2023

!!! OUT TODAY !!!

*** The Pilgrim - WALKING INTO THE FOREST ***
- REPRESS of the debut album in new coloured vinyls -

GRAB YOUR COPY HERE:
https://www.heavypsychsounds.com/shop.htm
or
https://heavypsychsoundsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-pilgrim-walking-into-the-forest-repress-2

USA SHOP:
https://www.heavypsychsounds.com/shop-usa.htm

RELEASED IN
70 ULTRA LTD SIDE A – SIDE B YELLOW/ORANGE/PURPLE VINYL
200 LTD ELECTRIC BLUE VINYL
BLACK VINYL
DIGITAL

TRACKLIST
SIDE A
Peace of Mind – 4:00
The Time You Wait – 4:44
Sailor – 4:47
Dragonfly – 4:53
Sunset in the Desert – 1:24
Brainstorm – 3:00
SIDE B
Pendulum – 3:41
When I Call Your Name – 3:29
Secrets – 4:34
Suite, Pt. 2 – 3:37
On My Skin (new bonus track) – 3:29
Picture Of My Land (new bonus track) – 2:57

Gabriele Fiori -- already frontman of Rome-based outfits Black Rainbows and Killer Boogie and a key figure in Europe’s heavy underground as the head of the Heavy Psych Sounds label and booking agency -- was not exactly lacking for things to do. And yet, a couple years back, The Pilgrim started to nebulously take shape as an idea for a solo-project, something different than the hard-driving psychedelia and garage heavy rock for which he’d already been so revered.

It wasn’t until Jan. 2018 that he really got to putting songs together, but the end result on Walking into the Forestis a space-folk release with a personality unto itself. Songs like opener “Peace of Mind” evoke some of Fiori’s more rocking side, while “Sunset in the Desert” feels like an ode to the acoustic album Kyuss never made, and side B, which starts with the Hawkwind cover “Brainstorm” and ends with the moody strum of “Suite #2” -- originally from Void Generator’s 2004 debut EP; when Fiori was in the band -- hones a cosmic drift and textures that nonetheless remain accessible and organic thanks to their acoustic foundation.
“The main point in common with Black Rainbows is the diversity of the songs,” Fiori explains. “You have mind-dreams like ‘Dragonfly’ or ‘Sailor,’ or the more folk rock ‘Peace of Mind,’ passing through space with ‘The Time You Wait’ and the melodic-melancholic ‘When I Call Your Name.’”
In completing the arrangements, Fiori turned to Black Rainbows drummer Filippo Ragazzoni, and as he says, “Songs came out so spontaneously and easy. I always played acoustic guitar and wanted to push further on this path. The songwriting, rehearsing and recording approach was so different from usual Rainbows or Boogie style, both to me and Filippo for drums, because all the instruments needed to be played smoothly, softly.”
The fantastic and dreamy artwork has been accomplished by Marteen Donders
The recordings has been realized in Rome at Nero Studio on a fantastic 70's SSL mixing console during the fall 2018
The Mix and the mastering been doon at JD Studio by Pino Santamaria, same engineer who mixed several Black Rainbows albums

With Walking into the Forest, Fiori evokes a sound that is both classic and fresh, melodically rich and creatively constructed. It is a new outlet for Fiori that demands spiritual as well as auditory engagement, and an all-things-permissible sonic context that one can only hope The Pilgrim continues to explore.
JJ KOCZAN

17/04/2023

New pressings !!!

Swirl , blue sky, black, cd, test press !!

“Walking into the Forest” our debut album repressed in new colored editions !!

Get it now at

https://www.heavypsychsounds.com/shop.htm

18/03/2023

Original drawing by Maarten Donders of “Walking into the Forest”

01/03/2023

ONE OF THE BEST HPS RELEASES..

*** THE PILGRIM - WALKING INTO THE FOREST ***
- REPRESS of the debut album in new coloured vinyls -

Today we are stoked to start the presale of THE PILGRIM repress of the debut album WALKING INTO THE FOREST !!!

RELEASE DATE:
MAY 2nd

ALBUM PRESALE:
https://www.heavypsychsounds.com/shop.htm

USA PRESALE:
https://www.heavypsychsounds.com/shop-usa.htm

RELEASED IN
70 ULTRA LTD SIDE A – SIDE B YELLOW/ORANGE/PURPLE VINYL
200 LTD ELECTRIC BLUE VINYL
BLACK VINYL
DIGITAL

TRACKLIST
SIDE A
Peace of Mind – 4:00
The Time You Wait – 4:44
Sailor – 4:47
Dragonfly – 4:53
Sunset in the Desert – 1:24
Brainstorm – 3:00
SIDE B
Pendulum – 3:41
When I Call Your Name – 3:29
Secrets – 4:34
Suite, Pt. 2 – 3:37
On My Skin (new bonus track) – 3:29
Picture Of My Land (new bonus track) – 2:57

Gabriele Fiori -- already frontman of Rome-based outfits Black Rainbows and Killer Boogie and a key figure in Europe’s heavy underground as the head of the Heavy Psych Sounds label and booking agency -- was not exactly lacking for things to do. And yet, a couple years back, The Pilgrim started to nebulously take shape as an idea for a solo-project, something different than the hard-driving psychedelia and garage heavy rock for which he’d already been so revered.

It wasn’t until Jan. 2018 that he really got to putting songs together, but the end result on Walking into the Forestis a space-folk release with a personality unto itself. Songs like opener “Peace of Mind” evoke some of Fiori’s more rocking side, while “Sunset in the Desert” feels like an ode to the acoustic album Kyuss never made, and side B, which starts with the Hawkwind cover “Brainstorm” and ends with the moody strum of “Suite #2” -- originally from Void Generator’s 2004 debut EP; when Fiori was in the band -- hones a cosmic drift and textures that nonetheless remain accessible and organic thanks to their acoustic foundation.

“The main point in common with Black Rainbows is the diversity of the songs,” Fiori explains. “You have mind-dreams like ‘Dragonfly’ or ‘Sailor,’ or the more folk rock ‘Peace of Mind,’ passing through space with ‘The Time You Wait’ and the melodic-melancholic ‘When I Call Your Name.’”
In completing the arrangements, Fiori turned to Black Rainbows drummer Filippo Ragazzoni, and as he says, “Songs came out so spontaneously and easy. I always played acoustic guitar and wanted to push further on this path. The songwriting, rehearsing and recording approach was so different from usual Rainbows or Boogie style, both to me and Filippo for drums, because all the instruments needed to be played smoothly, softly.”
The fantastic and dreamy artwork has been accomplished by Marteen Donders
The recordings has been realized in Rome at Nero Studio on a fantastic 70's SSL mixing console during the fall 2018
The Mix and the mastering been doon at JD Studio by Pino Santamaria, same engineer who mixed several Black Rainbows albums

With Walking into the Forest, Fiori evokes a sound that is both classic and fresh, melodically rich and creatively constructed. It is a new outlet for Fiori that demands spiritual as well as auditory engagement, and an all-things-permissible sonic context that one can only hope The Pilgrim continues to explore.
JJ KOCZAN

05/12/2021

Trying not to give fire to my wonderful guitar and writing some new tunes 🔥❤️

31/08/2021

2 million views !!!
WOW !!!

Just a big thank !!

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25/04/2021

Super Rad pic of our latest album !!

15/03/2021

On the road with the pilgrim

13/03/2021

The Pilgrim merch !!
Che it out at

www.heavypsychsounds.com

27/02/2021

Our digital albums only 6.66 at HPS Bandcamp !!