December 2009 Entries
Some beautiful places, scenes and tunes still exist in this strange world of ours. Many of them are sheltered from our view: so little people know about them. Once we have discovered them, we wanna try not to forget them. This is why, periodically, we do not post new tunes but simply check the “random” mark on the administrator page of our blog, and let the old ones play.
And this is why, in order to “color” our music based blog, we sometimes post also some pics which represent places and situations we had the need to “fix”. Beautiful and remote places, as the mountain one where Carlo is going to spend some relaxing days. Beautiful and secret scenes, just like the “family one” that Fiorenzo saw this morning from his window: a wild cat that is breeding its babes, hidden in a closed courtyard which no one can access. A scene that can offer some unexpected relief even when one is lost in a million thoughts.
We want to wish you a happy new year, hoping that our readers will help us keeping in mind all the little fragments of “grace” we hardly found during these two years.
See you next year,
Fiorenzo Fuolega & Carlo Trevisan
Artists permanently (and randomly) "on air" at present date: Madrigali Magri (Italy), Gimme 'hat Moonshine (Belgium), Krakenti (Latvia), Wheelchair Discotheque (Latvia), TheOneOnTheIsland (Slovakia), Maok (Slovakia), LaBon (Slovakia), Jordan Jordan (Slovakia), Social Society (Slovakia), Batte (Norway), Orange Crush (Norway), Oriental Music System (Hong Kong), Iamsum (Hong Kong), Rex Cody (Hong Kong), Donkey Valium (Hong Kong), Smiling Buddhas (Hong Kong), O-M (Hong Kong), Hvoya (Ukraine), Automatic Pilot Required (Brazil), Yogi (Brazil), Light Merchants (South Africa), The Slowmovies (Italy); I am this (USA); Kråkvind (Sweden); Above the tree (Italy); Volcano Playground (Canada); Linz (Italy); Anomie Belle (USA), Christophe Marc (France), Death Valley Sleepers (Denmark), Jeremy Sparrow (Denmark), Zoon van snooK (England), Systemton (Germany), Matti Bye (Sweden), Manuzik (Japan), Chances (Italy), Hometaping (Great Britain...?), Ping (Norway), Frey (New Zealand), Manhan (Japan), One Chef (Sweden), Mijagi (Poland), Pandacetamol (Scotland), Lu-Sin (Argentina), Thomas Solgaard (Denmark), Wonderboy (France), Los Hermanos Butaca (Argentina), La Biyuya (Argentina), Negro Fluo (Argentina), Sempai (Italy), Riccardo Vianello (Italy), Wolther goes stranger (Italy), Eildentroeilfuorieilbox84 (Italy), Buzz Aldrin (Italy), Stefano Roveda (Italy), Rosso! (Italy).
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Last summer my band had the great honour to open the show of one of my favourite Italian bands, whose name is "Bachi da Pietra". I love their dark poetry, their skinny minimalism, the guitar which is hit like a drum (and the effect is sometimes the same). Bruno Dorella and Giovanni Succi are among the most talented musicians of present day Italy. While I already knew what are the other Dorella's project (OvO, Ronin), I didn't know anything about what Succi did before Bachi da Pietra formed. So, when the gig finished, I asked him 'bout it. He told me: "Listen to Madrigali Magri".
So I came back home and turned the computer on. Well, I discovered a beautiful band, which is somehow the "father project" – or, at least, the “brother one” - of Bachi da Pietra.
Instrumental or whispered songs, poetry, experimentation, noise, melodies, spleen, minimalism... Things I love so much. Unfortunately, they split before I could be aware of their music.
Some of their songs are in free download on their site (www.succi.it/mm), from where we've taken the music you're listening to (“Porte dell'inverno” excluded).
"Giorno è notte" (which is a calembour: "giorno e notte" means "night AND day", while "giorno è notte" means "day IS night"...) is a fantastic dark ballad, which recalls, especially in its part 2, the quite early (and more inspired) Jason Molina of "Protection spells". And “Porte dell'inverno” is, in my opinion, such a song that even Mr Tom Waits – God bless him - couldn't avoid loving it.
Enjoy,
Fiorenzo Fuolega
Artists permanently (and randomly) "on air" at present date: Madrigali Magri (Italy), Gimme 'hat Moonshine (Belgium), Krakenti (Latvia), Wheelchair Discotheque (Latvia), TheOneOnTheIsland (Slovakia), Maok (Slovakia), LaBon (Slovakia), Jordan Jordan (Slovakia), Social Society (Slovakia), Batte (Norway), Orange Crush (Norway), Oriental Music System (Hong Kong), Iamsum (Hong Kong), Rex Cody (Hong Kong), Donkey Valium (Hong Kong), Smiling Buddhas (Hong Kong), O-M (Hong Kong), Hvoya (Ukraine), Automatic Pilot Required (Brazil), Yogi (Brazil), Light Merchants (South Africa), The Slowmovies (Italy); I am this (USA); Kråkvind (Sweden); Above the tree (Italy); Volcano Playground (Canada); Linz (Italy); Anomie Belle (USA), Christophe Marc (France), Death Valley Sleepers (Denmark), Jeremy Sparrow (Denmark), Zoon van snooK (England), Systemton (Germany), Matti Bye (Sweden), Manuzik (Japan), Chances (Italy), Hometaping (Great Britain...?), Ping (Norway), Frey (New Zealand), Manhan (Japan), One Chef (Sweden), Mijagi (Poland), Pandacetamol (Scotland), Lu-Sin (Argentina), Thomas Solgaard (Denmark), Wonderboy (France), Los Hermanos Butaca (Argentina), La Biyuya (Argentina), Negro Fluo (Argentina), Sempai (Italy), Riccardo Vianello (Italy), Wolther goes stranger (Italy), Eildentroeilfuorieilbox84 (Italy), Buzz Aldrin (Italy), Stefano Roveda (Italy), Rosso! (Italy).