hi•ku has today premiered their new video for the track titled ‘S.O.U.L.’, dropping this Friday (April 4th). ‘S.O.U.L.’ combines pomp, percussion, and poetry in a quasi-dazzling mesh of music from a muse. With hints of electronica and bits of grandiosity, this is a song that sneaks up and kisses you on the cheek, like that long-lost over who never stopped loving you.

While the song has those signature electronic elements, it also has a solid organic feeling about it. That feeling that it was meant to find you. That fateful moment when you have found the next song that will stay in your memory. Lavished with electric love and remembered with divine serenity, ‘S.O.U.L.’ calms the heart and soothes the mood and makes your day just a little bit brighter, and darker.

About ‘S.O.U.L.’

With S.O.U.L. hi•ku take a further step on visual and musical concepts starting with their first single “Hiding Place”. The track tells of a painful and suffered loss, an unavoidable goodbye that, despite everything, cannot be pronounced. “I want to remain myself, stay away from me, save yourself.” is the last will engraved on the road to a new life. The sound is cold, chilled, blue synthwave with 80’s influences (Depeche Mode), and a sad mood close to dream pop.

About hi•ku

hi•ku is a project born in Catania, Sicily, in 2022. The lineup features Gianluca Montagna (vocals), Federico Mancuso (synths and bass), and Marco Spalletta (synths and guitars).

Their imaginary landscape is minimalistic and compelling, as are the Japanese short poems Haiku, a rainy night in Tokyo iridescent with neon lights. Their soundscape flirts with the dark soul of She Wants Revenge, Depeche Mode‘s synth-wave, Massive Attack‘s futurism, and the contemporary electro-pop of The Weeknd and Daft Punk.

hi•ku have fixed their first 4 selected poems in sounds, which will be revealed, following a fil-rouge both graphically and visually, in 2025.

“Hiding Place”, hi•ku first released in January 2025, was a song about scars that not even love can heal. The video, shot underwater in the Mediterranean Sea, is a visualizer for this concept of life as a fluid, un-directional, and primordial experience.

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https://www.instagram.com/hi.ku.band/
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https://www.youtube.com/@hikumusic03