Red Sun - Songs From Hidden Places (Album Review)

Release Date: June 19th 2026. Record Label: Subsound Records. Formats: CD/DD/Vinyl

Songs From Hidden Places - Tracklisting

1.. Hidden Places

2. Details from the Past

3. Sleeping Brainqui

4. The Hidden Truth

5. All Things Are Written There

6. A Hidden Bond

7. The Secret Dope

Members

Stefano "Eno" Dusi (guitar)

Mirco Dugaria (bass)

Federico Rivoli (drums, synth)

Elisa Brusati (vocals)

Review

Psych/Space/Stoner Rock collective Red Sun take a major creative risk with their latest album Songs From Hidden Places by moving from their core instrumental sound and adding a vocalist to the mix. Elisa Brusati has joined the band and this gives Red Sun a more mystical and ethereal progressive quality to their music which aligns them more closely to the likes of TOOL and A Perfect Circle from a musical perspective at times.

Elisa’s vocals are quite grounded which gives Red Sun quite a Spaced Out energy compared to their previous albums. Their trademark style of Acid Rock, Psych and Jam based melodies are fully intact but with a heavier presence which fully comes to life very early on within the excellent opening track Hidden Places. There’s some trippy sounds building up behind the scenes as different layers of musical themes overlap each other whilst still being quite low-key and remarkably subdued.

Songs From Hidden Places does take time to find it’s emotional core but it’s a journey worth taking with the lyrics inspired by the likes of WINDHAND which is powered by some epic gloomy soundbytes being played from the instrumental melodies that accompany each track. There are some interesting themes developing within the hard-hitting tracks of Details From The Past. Sleeping Brain and The Hidden Truth.

The album does have a kaleidoscopic sound that’s developed throughout the album where the music constantly evolves with different hooks, riffs and progressive sounds allowing Red Sun fully reinventing themselves for the better. Red Sun perhaps had to change their music to form around Elisa’s superb vocals which can be quite direct one moment and beautifully sincere the next which left me impressed on an emotional level.

The second half of the album does allow Red Sun to play heavier grooves and wonderful ambient synths which can be considered Doomgaze in some aspects with the most powerful moments appearing on tracks such as All Things Are Written There and The Hidden Dope. 

Songs From Hidden Places is an emotionally charged record that allows Red Sun to open a highly exciting new chapter for themselves. The record is quite daring but one that offers the listener a highly rewarding experience that you will remember for a very long to come.

Excellent and Highly Recommended.

Words by Steve Howe

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Exclusive Album Premiere For Stoner Rockers RED SUN Stunning New Album SONGS FROM HIDDEN PLACES

After three entirely instrumental albums, Red Sun have traced a steady evolution from desert stoner toward increasingly psychedelic horizons, enriched by a growing use of synthesizers and theremin.

'Songs from Hidden Places' marks a turning point: for the first time, the voice of Elisa Brusati (formerly singer of Noema) — who joined the band in 2025 — runs through all seven tracks, grafting the song format onto an already mature sound without betraying its identity. Guitars and bass take a more central role compared to the previous 'From Sunset to Dawn' (2024), while still leaving room for long psychedelic digressions — as in 'Hidden Places' and 'Sleeping Brain' — that keep the band's dreamlike and epic imagery intact.

Thematically, the new album explores those hidden places that belong to us — physical and interior — worn by time but steeped in memories: silent refuges where comfort and catharsis can be found. An idea that also runs through the artwork, based on a concept by drummer Federico Rivoli, who personally carved the song title font and the band's logo into the wall of the old mill in Albone, the Red Sun's historic rehearsal space.

You can listen to the superb new album thanks to the cool folks over at Metaversus PR and Subsound Records.

Find pre-orders at Bandcamp: https://redsun3.bandcamp.com/album/songs-from-hidden-places

TRACKLIST

1. Hidden Places
2. Details from the Past
3. Sleeping Brain
4. The Hidden Truth
5. All Things Are Written There
6. A Hidden Bond
7. The Secret Dope

BIOGRAPHY

Photo by Nicola Neso

Red Sun were formed in 2014 in Albone, between Piacenza and the Emilian Apennines. Within less than a year, Stefano "Eno" Dusi (guitar), Mirco Dugaria (bass), and Federico Rivoli (drums, synth) recorded their self-produced debut album 'Trisophy' (2015), later reissued on vinyl by Spin On Black. After an intense run of live activity across Germany, the UK, Switzerland, and France, their second album 'The Wind, the Waves, the Clouds' (Psyka Records) followed in 2017, alongside the split 'Psychedelic Battles n° 4' (Vincebus Eruptum), shared with Chicago's The Luck of Eden Hall. In 2024 they released 'From Sunset to Dawn' (Subsound Records); in 2025 Elisa Brusati joined as vocalist, leading to 'Songs from Hidden Places' (2026).

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Exclusive Song/Video Premiere For Stoner Rockers RED SUN New Song DETAILS FROM THE PAST From Forthcoming New Album

Italy-based psych/stoner band Red Sun unveil 'Details from the Past', first single and video from 'Songs From Hidden Places', their upcoming album due for release on Subsound Records on June 19th, 2026.

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A lilting, enveloping rhythm harks back to trip-hop, carried by Elisa Brusati's evocative vocals, while guitars, synth, and theremin weave in a psychedelic touch. The song speaks of unknown places explored despite a troubled state of mind — seeking safety in the unknown and in the power of the subconscious.

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Red Sun - From Sunset To Dawn (Album Review)

Release Date: April 05th 2024. Record Label: Subsound Records. Formats: CD/DD/Vinyl

From Sunset To Dawn - Tracklisting

1.Where Once Was Light 02:12

2.The Sky Turns Purple 06:29

3.A Violent dusk 05:13

4.The Shape Of The Night 06:04

5.Intempesto 03:36

6.The Coldness of The New Moon 07:35

7.Towards The End of Darkness 05:25

8.The New Sun 07:04

Members

 

Stefano Eno - guitar

Mirco - bass

Fede - drums & synths

Review

Instrumental Psych Stoner Rockers Red Sun return with their third album From Sunset To Dawn and awakening from a seven year slumber ever since their last release back in 2017. Continuing their Space Rock/Post-Rock inspired journey, this album has a more subdued flavour with moments of trippy synths to elevate the album to heavier altitudes of Cosmic sounds. 

The strongest creative asset on the album is Fede’s inspired use of synths that adds a “world-building” element to their music with Stefano and Mirco providing the first rate Instrumental grooves to build upon on Guitar and Bass respectively. The sound is equally modern and classic sounding at the same time which comes across superbly well on the sublime opening tracks of Where Once Was Light and The Sky Turns Purple. 

With the album being fully instrumental, Red Sun rely upon use of distinct sounds and ambient rhythms that can be quite experimental in places which you get a feel for on the stunning second track The Sky Turns Purple. Bands such as Yawning Man and Tuber can be used as direct comparisons for newcomers to Red Sun’s majestic trippy world. The whole record has a delicious and warm-hearted approach within the louder and quieter dynamics of the album. Red Sun can be quite Progressive when the time calls for this but it’s mostly a melodic blend of Heavy Space Rock/Psychedelic based Stoner Rock energy.

The waves of different synths and sultry instrumental jams has moments of modern Post-Rock delivery which builds upto some impressive extended musical passages which can be flamboyant in nature especially on tracks such as The Sky Turns Purple,  The Shape Of The Night, The Coldness Of The New Moon and The New Sun. These are the longest tracks on the album and it’s good to see Red Sun strive for heavier musical pastures which can be more “DOOM” based but the levels of Ambient and Cosmic sounds always allows Red Sun to be part of the Instrumental Stoner Rock scene. 

From Sunset To Dawn is quite gloomy and emotionally heartfelt which I didn’t expect. So it’s not all “sunshine and light” on this record with Red Sun offering a more organic identity to their music. If you enjoy the subdued moments of bands such as Russian Circles and Red Sparowes then the later stages of From Sunset To Dawn will impress you even more.

Red Sun have delivered a deeply engaging and superbly entertaining album that will surprise you in multiple ways that you don’t expect. This all builds up to an album with a fearless attitude and provides the listener with an endless array of outstanding Psychedelic Stoner Rock sounds from start to finish.

Excellent and Highly Recommended.

Words by Steve Howe

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From Sunset To Dawn is available to buy now on DD/Vinyl via Subsound Records.

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Exclusive Song Premiere Of Psych/Space Rockers RED SUN New Song A VIOLENT DUSK From Upcoming New Album FROM SUNSET TO DAWN

Italian Space/Psych mongers RED SUN will be releasing their new album From Sunset To Dawn from April 5th 2024 via Subsound Records.

We're pleased to be premiering the new track A Violent Dusk from the upcoming new album which you can listen to below:

Lowdown About Red Sun

RED SUN formed in march 2014 after few long night jams under the starry sky of an ancient mill lost in the Piacenza countryside.Their first self-produced album "Triosophy" released in 2015 and reprinted in vinyl by Spin On Black the years after serves an original mix of space psychedelic instrumental rock. This album opened the doors of many venues and festivals in Italy and Europe. 

At the end of 2017 EnoMirco and Federico ultimate the second work "The wind, the waves,the clouds" produced by Psyka Records. The evolution of the band can be perceived in a more powerful and mature sound that enhances the expressive power of the instrumental trio.Throughout these last strange years RED SUN restarted their musical journey and in 2023 recorded the new material that will take the listener on an introspective adventure full of colors and emotions.

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You will be able to pre-order From Sunset To Dawn from this link. 

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