Five years after his first quartet release “Kora” (Aut Records, 2021), Giacomo Zanus returns with a new album titled “wandering away is safer than getting lost on your own.”

Composed and produced by the italian guitarist, “wandering away…” is a collection of little stories — postcards and travel notes that evoke faces, places and sensations to immerse oneself in, get lost in and ultimately rediscover.

Emblematic figures such as Calvino’s silent Palomar — almost a manifesto for the entire project — appear alongside real and remembered places, like “return to Maren” (the dialect name for Valmareno, between the provinces of Treviso and Belluno, Zanus’ hometown). There are lived and dreamt memories, as in the diptych “I picked up a flower to say hello” and “but hell..It became a farewell,” as well as cinematic moments recalling the more melancholic atmospheres of Morricone and Ry Cooder in “canto pagano”