Hautville are an Italian band formed in 2006 in Ferrandina. Their name comes from the Hautville Normans' family. Some members of that family conquered and politically unified South Italy in the years 1100s. They picked up this particular name to underline their interest into the preservation of their land's history. NUMEN LUMEN contains three unreleased songs ("Apparizione", "In Lode all'Asino" and "Memoria di Felicità ") and a selection of songs coming from the album "No milk for the babies" released on a small Italian label called Invisible Eye records. Musically their music is deeply influenced by Italian progressive rock of the 70s (see the organ parts plus the way they use dissonances or the choruses) but the main instruments they use are acoustic guitars: they sound like a neo folk band deeply rooted into the 70s. On the ten tracks of NUMEN LUMEN, you won't find loud drums or guitar solos but nice melodies and cured arrangements. Most of the tracks tend to create medidative atmospheres that fit really well their lyrics. About the lyrics, they are written in Italian language and talk about tradition and about the eternal voyage the human being started thousand years ago just to understand himself. The album is dedicated to Giordano Bruno, Giuliano Kremmerz ("Otranto" has excerpts from his "I dialoghi sull'ermetismo") and the poet Domenico Bellocchio and it's out now on HR!SPQR.