Salo Pallini: “Some Air” Record Release Show

Salo Pallini: “Some Air” Record Release Show The Crosstown Arts Theater Friday, December 11th, 2026 Doors open at 6:30 pm | Show starts at 7:30 pm $20 in advance (plus fees) | $30 at the door PURCHASE TICKETS HERE Salo Pallini began as a four-piece instrumental group from Memphis, TN, built around an unusual idea: create a musical accompaniment to Kurt Vonnegut’s 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan. The result was The Sirens of Titan: A Preemptive Scoring, an 11-song debut recorded in the historic home of renowned Civil War historian Shelby Foote. The record established the band’s self-described sound of “progressive Latin space country” and the larger concept of preemptively scoring literary works bound for the screen. For its second record, Salo Pallini is taking a very different approach. While the band’s debut was entirely instrumental, the new album places the human voice at the center of the music, with a different singer featured on every song. Rather than settling on a single frontperson, the band has built each track around the character of its guest vocalist, allowing the record to shift voices, perspectives and personalities from song to song while retaining Salo Pallini’s distinct musical identity. The new record also marks the addition of Stephen Williams as an official member of the band, joining Landon Moore, John Whittemore, Pat Fusco and Danny Banks. Williams has taken on the lion’s share of the vocal composition duties for the project, helping transform music originally developed by the band into songs built around melody, lyrics and voice. The result is both a departure from and an expansion of Salo Pallini’s original concept. The cinematic, genre-bending approach of the first record remains, but the addition of vocalists opens the band’s music into something broader — a record where the sound of Salo Pallini remains the constant, while a different voice takes the lead with each song.