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Solitude And Beauty - Tapes 1981-86

I present this collection, with which I intend to bring a taste of my productions. In this case it is the "best" pieces of buildings from 81 to 86 years. Hard to tell in a short period that ihis was intense for me, a full immersion in the music and what it meant For me, music at that time. That is all. Life, strength and transgression. During this period, which lasted about 5 years the evolution was very fast. I came from a kind of rock sound, with acoustic guitar and / or piano . I felt the need to produce a more complete and wrote a sort of full-length album (which means it would have been obvious limitations of tape, at that time "demo-tape") which was entitled "Changing Places", 8 songs rather intense. A mix of electronic, punk, dark, rock and pop. When he was born to the group "Inner Nail" 3 of these pieces came into the repertoire of the group. The group is developing a musical more "obscure", a sort of garage-band, that instead of a garage used for a test .. "Attic", hence the name of this blog. This same loft and saw the developments after many alternate characters in that time Roman music, and other figures who lived on the border between music and other art forms, which were, painting, graphics, poetry or whatever. Shortly thereafter, and after the band split, Inner Nail, 84, realized "Vera C" as "Unforgettable Nail" to continue the work begun with the group but open myself to new experiences. It came a mini production of 4 pieces which was attended by musicians and non-Romans. After several interesting and bizarre collaborations on stage, where I continued to use the name "Inner Nail ", was born at the end of 1985 the group Latosegreto. From the album (still on demo-tape)" Double Sense "excerpts are taken. After the experience of this group, partly because of personal circumstances that forced me to put a stop, I was alone and recorded two collections, "Ego exuberant" and "Union." Most of the pieces were the last footage of Latosegreto live, never recorded with the group. The repertoire was much lighter and pop again in response to a physiological need to revert to a repertoire more "positive" and less "destructive", and work from scratch on the form "Song" from which, moreover, I started in the 70s. The evolution of my period are quite readable in this collection where they are cutting quite different approach repertoires, but nevertheless reflect my various natures, and I still hope that eventually put emphasis on the personalities who inspired them, that is mine. I must point out that you have always given priority to sing in Italian, to draw the first Italian music, but also to reconnect with the heavy, international productions (British, American, French) seamlessly, giving the music a language culturally open and not restricted.

some of these pieces they played (in addition to me playing bass, guitars, keyboards and sang):

Francesco Baldi (violin); Tonino Amendola (saxophone), Bruno de Angelis (guitar, bass), Flavio Pizzardi (guitar, keyboards), Silvain Jean Brochu (classical guitar), and items Hermin FT, Marlene Sam, Chiapponi Paola, Giovanna Gulinelli, Leandro Marzullo.

Some comments on the songs:

FLASHES: A very important piece for me, a sort of rudder that pulled me in musical experiences of that period, although on balance I think I made things better. My goal was to make a piece in 7 / 8 but it was too square and linear. I think eventually I succeeded.

ONA-SHOWER: I liked a few pieces of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, and I thought of a piece very corrosive and distorted. The song is the shower a bit onanistic 'proud and suffered from a person who feels rejected and left.

DESIRE: a reflection on how difficult it is, in some cases and in a relationship, when you try to express a strong desire. It 'a piece that I feel very well not only in the text because it belongs to a musical composition vein my stop.

TUNNEL: the story of someone who can not get out of a situation (be it drugs or other fetishes, love itself may be). Musically, perhaps I was influenced by old sounds to Herb Alpert, along with the funky, to Simple Minds and the like. In short, a concoction.

JOKES: reading a bit 'ironic sadism that is at times in some reports, in which the lack of feeling is replaced by pleasure to suffer. Musically the piece is from the same family of "Lightning", but the chorus is king, like rooting for the executioner and the victim ... sing!

CIRCUS: I talk more about curiosity. Version of "hell" sounds and instruments that evoke "lost souls". Live I later performed the piece with a piano-only basis, with memories to certain comments of silent films, perhaps more lean and efficient.

BAR: The content is about the thought process of those who drink, and the question, you drink to reflect, meditate or to forget? The piece had to be a funky really obsessive. Still do not know if I have succeeded.

Troubadour: between Burt Bacharach and the old complaint of Fernet Branca. Choir sixty. Ambiguous situation in which you are a person with a head that makes us so, while it would be another table with what you are peeking ...

SENSE: evoking a bit 'Annunzio a whole and profoundly feminine sensuality. The environment from the very idea of \u200b\u200bbeing inside .... etc etc..

ADVENT: but here is the celebration of male beauty, a vision of ancestral folk, melancholic.

EGO rampant: a kind of bolero rock-pop. A farewell described with clarity and a controlled and severe desperation.

NOTES: a picture of solitude, from one window to another, the person who is only light the windows of the house opposite, hoping to steal a pair a few moments of love, as if seeing a movie. In fact, the couple said in a kind of fiction to the world and hidden in difficult times. Musically piece a bit 'to "Bette Davis Eyes."

BUTTERFLIES: consider, without immodesty, this song, a real poem. Cold Moon, but also delicate and comforting.

veil over his face, a sort of jazz-wave, a person who walks through the crowd and it feels foreign to all the details lose their meaning and sound in the world is just noise.

RUNNING: by abstracting story of the pilot that explodes with his race car, a metaphor for facing life with the madness of speed and live with the thrill of risk and the heightened sense of life and death. It could mean whatever you want to read.

Brumaire: the part in the initial idea was to represent the sea, and all the emotions that catalyzes. A kind of catharsis of grief, the greatness and the power lost horizon. A sea of \u200b\u200bautumn, so the name of the piece. Then the piece has become something else, but it often happens.

MIRROR IMAGE: The piece evoked some 'idea of \u200b\u200bMarianne Faithfull 60 (Morning Sun), and the productions of 4AD. A heartfelt definition of beauty.

NAVIGATION: a total lunar piece, in which the rush of passion and boiling are stylized and transformed into a cold atmosphere and nightlife.

ANDREJ VOBLICH: desire for freedom, to escape, to reject any tax. This is the story of Andrei, sometimes you need to get away from everything because the thing that does suffer most are just links. The music evokes something medieval but in a new-wave.


I apologize for the sound quality is not always good. I recommend any to play with the EQ to get a better sound.


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To present the cd collection I propose the attached comment / story CD. The CD can be downloaded using the links above. It is not recommended for those who had never heard or appreciated something like Joy Division or at Talking Heads.

Trivia: Lampi (1981): was born as a claim (a little 'hallucinogenic to the truth) to write a single song in my biography (which was 7 / 8, time rather difficult) and that part I and two others (one and one) of staff time trying for a year accomplices to the draft a group as numerous as unlikely, and even decided at the end of that year (after meeting through the ads just about anything) to go ahead alone. Desire (1981), born as a filler song (I wrote the text in the park of the Castello Sforzesco, Milan) for a project in my eyes fraught with much more relevant episodes (Changing Places), became instead a kind of against my will " hit "in the footage of my band at the time (with a lot of requests from the public). Ona- Shower (1981) was born in a barren room in a school in Avellino in a day if I remember correctly in an afternoon nap I had a terrible nightmare in which I flew for those that room without being able to stop and most conspicuously in his sleep because I complained I was awakened by some rescuers find there. Seriously (1982) can not remember where and how did but we recall that at that time I attended a nice person who "fiddled ..." with me ... Tunnel (1983) was born around that convex chord piano and I was fascinated that her ancestry elusive of jazz, soul, funk and maybe even a little 'pop opera of the 70s, I remember the fun of the voice recording at home Marlène Sam, my friend of Haiti, in an apartment on the Aventine, and his laughter because it was the first time I recorded with headphones and microphone. Circus (1983): I am satisfied that he had written a good metaphor sull'autolesionismo, courage el'incoscienza, and sadism, except that in the moment to put up a melody and music that somebody intervened (some sort of .. . "demon") to make this piece something that left me a bit 'worried (and actually a little impauritello) but never attracted more able (and perhaps will) sing it like the first time that ( I always had that) composition. Advent (1984): feeling born from a distance of pipes, slow music, a sumptuous, Italian ethnicity, ritual, a celebration of youthful beauty and masculine. Bar (1981) : That was a really nice bar of Cividale del Friuli and then suffered in setting strong musical influences on me at the time of the passions a bit funky 'sperimentaloidi of David Byrne and Brian Eno (but here it would take a good voice "negra" my "forever" regret music). Troubadour (1985): between the two that look and risbirciano in this "coffee" from table to table not stand the two protagonists, namely the two people who were sitting at the table with both of them: they may not just noticed anything? The name of the song was taken away to a place open at that time in Ostia, which for the record, the only really interesting thing was the name. Sense (1984) : The text that is loaded with the intention of retro charm and subdued sensuality, writing and I Ross Long, in my opinion without being able to be trivial in spite of all foreseeable circumstances. The song remains one of my favorites. Exuberant Ego (1986): The song was born with the intention of giving it to a Climate group at that time "hanging out" Rome (at that time I had working relationships with many other Roman groups) became instead the symbol of a significant turning point that brought me back to the footage taken with a pop is not always very "bright", but more mundane and intimate. Look (1986): makes me think that loneliness is a lie at the bottom of the base, Regardless of who is not only as if it were really in the company. The song was a gift I wanted to do with Claudio Fore (my then friend and also my co-author of a few other songs) so that the incidesse in Cologne (D) thing that ever happened, neither this nor the other songs. Butterfly (1986): a friend of mine said he wanted this song to be played on the day of his funeral ... fortunately has not yet served. These butterflies were born in the beginning in a musical version that left the sunniest place with some modifications to this version of a cold cosmic melancholy. Evidently it was not yet the moment of sunshine. Velo face (1984) This beautiful piece with vague jazz painting to someone remembered the film Koyaanisqatsi (I really do not) for the contents of the text, however this is also one of my favorite pieces. Running (1984): no special memory, if not unconscious passion for the thrill of speed (just remained unconscious, because despite the bad job I prefer public transport), except that when we played these pieces with the group Latosegreto the song "Handmaid" had become "Armpit" and the phrase "take" the throbbing engine "had become" engines stink, "and so this ... Brumaire (1986): the song, even if born in one of my the most dramatic moments, was one of my happiest creations, so that even Turkey (Paola) does not know (or wanted to forget) that the record was his only successful due to the existence of this song that still ask ... Justice. Reflected Image (1984): with a song it comes back in a golden and warm intimacy hedonistic and narcissistic, but anyway if you do not say it themselves who tells us that we are beautiful? I remember this song in a live concert was ubriachissimo and at one point I had to play (the author of the text and the singing is very angry because I played another song ... but pretty much he does, no one knew! ) Navigation (1984): Jean Silvain Brochu who composed classical pieces on the guitar rather strange suggested that I complete this piece, which came out cold, silvery moon and a bit 'typical. This piece opened with a concert by the group, entering alone and throwing flowers to the public ... sin I in the wrong place ... they told me everything, and soon after I only answer ... Andrej Voblich (1984). I always liked this piece, although it remained in the drawer for a long time and I picked it up when it had changed gender. There is so much desire for freedom, such strength and so ... Eastern Europe.

SOLITUDE AND BEAUTY

Tues ì ot Kima

Lampi - Changing Places - 1981

Desire - Changing Places - 1981

-Ona Shower - Changing Places - 1981

Tunnel - Vera C. - 1983

Scherz i - Vera C. - 1982

Circus - Vera C. - 1983

Bar - Changing Places - 1981

Troubadour - Double Senso - 1985

Way - Two Way - 1984

Advent - Two Way - 1984

Ego Exuberant - Ego Exuberant - 1986

Look - Ego Exuberant - 1986

Butterfly - Ego Exuberant - 1986

veil over his face - Dual Senso - 1984

Running - Ego Exuberant - 1986

Brumaire - Unions - 1986

reflection - Filmstrip - 1984

Navigation - Brochu Chiapponi - 1984

Andrej Voblich - Unions - 1984

nb: title song collection that inspired the piece, year of composition