Joseph Martone

Italian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist Joseph Martone returns to the scene with his second solo album entitled “Endeavours”, set for release on vinyl, CD and digital formats on 6 February 2026 via Italian independent label Rivertale Productions.
Recorded in Italy at Auditorium Novecento, Naples and Al Mare Studio, Ravenna, with prestigious collaborations (Fabio Rondanini of Calibro 35 on drums and Francesco Giampaoli on bass, already active with Hugo Race Fatalists
and Sacri Cuori), and at Studio Cimetière in Quebec, Canada, Martone consolidates his songwriting partnership with his friend and long-time collaborator Ned Crowther (The Fernweh, Smokey Angle Shades), and benefits from the significant production of Mike Dubue and Taylor Kirk of the Canadian folk-blues band Timber Timbre. The album also includes the suggestive contribution of two female voices, Rebecca Noelley and Marianna d’Ama.
Taylor Kirk had already produced Martone’s debut album “Honey Birds”, elected best album of 2020 by Rolling Stone France readers in the Folk/Blues/Americana section, and now reprinted by Rivertale Productions. Sounds reminiscent of Nick Cave and Calexico under the cinematic influence of Sergio Leone.

“An album of rare richness in terms of harmonies and production, but also for its evocative power.” Rolling Stone FR
Joseph Martone draws on the sounds and rhythms of both his cultures of origin, Italy and the USA, to create his own unique style of music. His songs are honest, often painful explorations of his childhood and adolescence, which paint wide-screen pictures of his extraordinary life and feature a colourful cast of characters that have contributed to his story. Love and pain, family and friendship, time and memory are the themes that animate his songs, expressed with an artistic maturity that reflects the complex and turbulent universe in which Martone moves. Torn relationships and lifelines, such as the imaginative family vineyard where everything begins and everything returns, where even in dark times life demands that a harvest be completed, a story of intertwined existences that cyclically resurfaces. A life experience that does not spare pain, but which also knows how to give beauty to those who are able to stop and grasp it.
The single “Lying Low” from “Endeavours” is accompanied by a video created through the collaboration between director Antonio Zannone, renowned for his music videos, documentaries, and short films, and director of photography Antonio De Rosa, who received a special mention at the 2017 Nastri d’Argento awards. A skilful play of light and shadow offers a portrait of the poetic authenticity of Martone’s songwriting, dense with Morricone-evoking suggestions.