FRACTALS (MACACO RECORDS/AUDIOGLOBE 2012)

CREDITS’ READING GUIDE: instrument played during live sessions / (overdub)

1.  DAYLIGHT

  • paul – vocals, electric guitar / (electric guitar)
  • gibo – korg r3 / (trumpet)
  • ale – bass
  • nico – drums
  • additional musician: g. ferrario - (pedal harmonium)

2.  SHADOWS COME

  • paul – vocals, electric guitar / (acoustic guitar, electric guitar)
  • gibo – wurlitzer / (korg r3)
  • ale – bass
  • nico – drums

3.  ROSEMARY CALLS (multi-track)

  • paulguitars / vocals, electric guitar
  • gibowurlitzer
  • alebass
  • nicofield recording, hi-hat, percussions

4.  FLAKES

  • paul – acoustic guitar / (vocals, electric guitars)
  • gibo – pedal harmonium / (nord electro, wurlitzer, percussions)
  • ale – bass
  • nico – drums, percussions
  • additional musician: g. ferrario(real-time roland chorus echo on vocals)

5.  BEAUTIFUL WITCH

  • paul – vocals, electric guitar
  • gibo – wurlitzer
  • ale – bass
  • nico – drums

6.  THEY SAY

  • paul – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar / (electric guitar, guitar looping)
  • gibo – korg R3 / (wurlitzer, upright piano)
  • ale – bass
  • nico – drums
  • additional musician: g. ferrario(electric guitar)

7.  STARING AT STORES

  • paul - vocals, electric guitar / (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitars)
  • gibo - upright piano / (upright piano)
  • ale - bass
  • nico - drums
  • additional musician: g. ferrario(some kind of keyboard we don’t remember)

8.  IT WILL BE ALRIGHT (multi-track)

  • paulvocals, bontempi kadette, electric piano looping
  • gibokorg r3, electric piano
  • nicosamples
  • additional musician: g. ferrariobass

9.  MIND EYES

  • paul – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar / (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitars)
  • gibo – trumpet looping / (korg ms2000)
  • ale – bass
  • nico – drums, “santa claus is coming to town” percussion
  • additional musician: g. ferrario(electric guitar)
LYRICS:
Daylight
Cold drops come after the sunrise
To wash away my time
Floating as ghost it feels like
A man who sold his life
Again
Days go by and I don’t know my name
A sparkle would help me out tonight
I’m praying for daylight
I welcome the scary man outside
I think I lost my mind
Again
Days go by and I don’t know my name
Shadows Come
Everywhere you go there’s no sunlight
Walk towards the peak, shadows come
Rosemary Calls
(I) Should have left you by the train
Shouldn’t have left without explain
Shouldn’t have left you touch the ground
Should have let you count the clouds
Rosemary calls
I remember your love and joy
Remember your disappointment
‘cause I’ve never taught you to sing
Now I’m just waiting for a ring
Rosemary calls
Flakes
Here on the outside is getting cold
I’m waiting for a light
Dark is the sky as I walk out the door
But bright is my mind
‘cause the drops fall on my head
‘cause the snow comes down in flakes
Snow comes down in flakes
Beautiful Witch
Came through my window
Scary red & black dress
Asked her who she was: a witch
Met her in my dreams
I always had fun
She seemed serious: “Kill you, kill you!”
Always knew she wanted blood
Didn’t even care
“Glad to see you again, princess”
Maybe I’m going mad
Maybe I don’t sleep well
Maybe this is hell
Where are you now?
Found myself in bed
Seemed that sweat had been shed
Don’t remember well my witch
Stood up and got dressed
About what I saw I’m not sure
Flames and blood on the floor
Once opened the door
Realized it was a dream
Nothing left to loose
Jumped into the fire
Where are you now?
They Say
Stay down, cover
Bullets will not hit your head
At the end of the tunnel
You can stand up, now it’s all right
They say: don’t give up, don’t give up
Wonder why they say it’s all right
Staring at stores
Throwing yourself out the window
And you still want it all
Staring at stores, watching mirrors
And you still want it all
We’re moving around, we’re flowing
It Will Be Alright
My heart was dying when I asked for help
Blood pushed my skin as I took a rest
I’m not going any farther than this
No saints are coming to save me
Just a sparkle from my brain
It will be alright if it will be for you
Mind Eyes
Mind eyes have seen
Things you might have never seen
Wanna go blind tonight

 

WHITE LINES (MACACO RECORDS/AUDIOGLOBE 2010)

Con questo lavoro abbiamo cercato di sublimare i nostri primi 3 anni di attività, proponendo pezzi nuovi insieme ad alcune canzoni un po’ più datate – ma mai registrate – per cercare di creare una più ampia varietà di stili e atmosfere. È un disco che a nostro avviso fa leva soprattutto sugli arrangiamenti, sulle tessiture tra gli strumenti, probabilmente l’aspetto sul quale abbiamo avuto più tempo per lavorare e sul quale abbiamo lavorato meglio. Abbiamo cercato di non stravolgere il nostro sound di partenza, e abbiamo quindi lasciato grande spazio alle atmosfere acustiche (in tutte le 10 canzoni c’è la chitarra acustica), rinforzandole dove necessario con qualche tocco di ‘elettricità’ in più (specie in Home Sweet Home, Horizon e the Gate, dove la chitarra elettrica si fa più dirompente). Per la prima volta ospitiamo un altro gruppo – Grimoon – in una nostra incisione, e questo avviene in In Love with a Freak. Il nostro è un pop artigianale, con pochi ‘effetti speciali’ e tante influenze, e volevamo che questo si riflettesse nel nuovo album. Volevamo fare un disco ‘genuino’, sincero, cercando di fare musica nuova (aka non revival) pagando i giusti pegni stilistici ai nostri gruppi preferiti. Si sentono sicuramente Beatles, Calexico, Mojave 3, certi R.E.M., il rock psichedelico, il brit-pop. Questi sono alcuni dei nostri ascolti prediletti ed è normale che emergano. La durata relativamente breve dell’album rispecchia il nostro desiderio di rendere più leggero e rilassante l’ascolto, e di invogliare a ri-premere il tasto ‘play’.