The old year goes away after a long rest you again with the promise that the new year will see us again in the forefront to advance our inizziativa to make known the treasures of Iblei.
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Before becoming a photographer of great fame required to Hollywood stars, rappers and rock giants, Michael Lavine has had its own art education and sentimental el'Olympia the Seattle underground of the early eighties, during the years when he began to develop quite naturally a beautiful punk ferment that led eventually to the explosion of alternative rock that the media identified with label ("bad", at least according to Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth) to grunge. It was the anniversary of the birth of Sub Pop Records by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman, the first steps of young talent who then gave birth to bands like Nirvana and Mudhoney, Calvin Johnson of K Records and the definition of aesthetics- fi, of a movement of musicians, clubs, fanzines and labels that gave shape some of the best experiences and most enduring of American independent rock. Michael Lavine came to Seattle in 1982, from Denver, right after graduation. In Olympia, an hour's drive, shared the apartment with two young punks, one of them made him feel X Wild Gift of opening up a sea of \u200b\u200bpossibilities and musical knowledge. He began to throw with greater conviction in photography and in a few years was able to document, with his shots, almost all the underground music scene back then. "Grunge" (ISBN editions, 29 €) is the book about those years of music through the best photos Lavine - not just the grunge in the strict sense, say, but the alternative rock that crossed all the Eighty U.S., from New York to Olympia Sonic Youth Beat Happening, Dinosaur Jr Amherst from Washington to the Pussy Galore - until of course at Seattle's Nirvana, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, namely which was later defined by Megan Jasper in The New York Times, "grunge". There is all the imagery and aesthetics of the time: young street punks that Lavine approached very naturally, there are the looks and the faces of boys who showed a willingness, even naive, certainly authentic and angry, to challenge conventions time through American social marginality. Their poses bold and violent attitude, but also, after all, sweet. The whole truth of a subculture caught before it became a phenomenon codified and exploited by the media and industry (flannel shirts thrown into the glamorous world of Marc Jacobs). Musicians who "made his own and showing off how they were called to the school: loser, losers" - Thurston Moore writes in the preface of the book. Moore paints a profile of the work of Lavine of those years and especially advanced features and reflections on the fate of a subculture that, following the explosion of Nirvana's Nevermind and the "failure to recognize the true meaning of their cultural heritage created a commercial phenomenon of underground fake. " "The band of this generation," says Moore, "had learned from punk that the awards are a small thing in rock'n'roll. What really mattered was to be able to sustain the gaze of an audience, a camera, the world as a mirror that challenges you to be broken. " ( Unione Sarda )
"We publish a disc only when you really believe our geological era has arrived, a moment that marks a real difference. We are not musicians by profession and we outside of the dynamic record. " If there really is a matter of Giardini di Miro is worth emphasizing that this is what we deduce from the words of Conrad Nuccini, singer and guitarist of the band that will be in concert next Friday at Villa Siotto to Sarroch Sarroch in the Summer Groove Vox Day organized by musical attitude that led them to retain artistic restlessness and the ability to reinvent itself - but without force - in nearly fifteen years of his career and in the midst of four official records, several ep, collaborations and outputs side. Born in 1995 in Cavriago, a center of Emilia Romagna eleven thousand souls who gave birth also to Offlaga Disco Pax (and Orietta Berti) and where it was rumored that Lenin was honorary mayor of the town, the Gardens have been since the Miro time of their first self-produced EP (dated 1998) one of the most original names in the receipt of post-rock sound in Italy, quickly becoming the most important interpreters but without becoming prisoners of those who later became the style of the genre. For example, in 2007 they released a record, Dividing Opinions, which could channel their style in a more square, linked to the song form and the use of voice, incorporating also diindietronica shoegaze elements and in the meantime we had started to attend and to meditate in their sound. A record that seemed important to have marked the path more defined. But in 2009 he released The Fire (Unhip Records), which marked the return of the long instrumental band of the early years, but with a drier sound, balanced, dominated by a sense of proportion and rigorous style of almost extreme. The album was actually not even be an album. It was the soundtrack, commissioned by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema of Turin, a silent film of 1915, the fire of John Pastrone. "From an experience that was to be tied to a single concert at the end we realized that that was in effect our new record, "says Nuccini. "Creativity can take many initial sparks. Sometimes having a towel is not a limit but can be a map in which things move and develop with their own originality. " The band's approach to work was to communicate with the image without distorting it. "We thought if we had tried to make a dress that was fitting for the film, we would have lost the challenge from the start. We decided to use a dress that was to our own, perhaps with the risk of minor moments of harmony or philology with the film, but at least produce a result staff. And beyond singing or not to sing with this record we went back to a more nocturnal, dark and stripped that well represents our soul melodramatic. " At Sarroch Summer Groove, the band will offer the show tied to the fire, with the screening of the film and its soundtrack (opening night of the play De Grinpipol Sassari). In recent concerts, the band began to offer some new songs that should go to be part of the band's fifth album. "I certainly will not sound very optimistic and cheerful," says Nuccini. "Our records have a soul in a certain way and carry out our social perceptions of the reality around us. A reality that you are laddered, both politically and socially. My experience of 36 year-old musician does not make me see the world with optimism. But there is the will to continue to do our part, and it is every day stronger. "
recently came out in a network compilation, Other gardens, which contains some songs from the band's discography reinterpreted by many artists already known (His Clancyness, Banjo or Freakout, Comaneci, Bob Corn, Stefano Pilia) and other less Note the Italian music scene. "This disk was born a little 'game, as half a joke," says Corrado Nuccini. "I say half because in the end the result was very good and involving reality worthy of note that represent the best of today's music scene. We are always difficult to answer the question of how the Italian music scene. In the end, however, this compilation has already been answered. " One of the characteristics of the compilation, which demonstrate a little 'the role of musical reference of the Gardens through their website that they have specifically asked for unsigned bands, youth will be challenged in the realization of their cover in order to put the best compilation. And the response was very positive. "They came more than thirty covers, through the network, with a message on Facebook or Twitter," says Nuccini. "It was amazing see a response like that. And in the end there are four or five songs we have heard so, by bands who wanted to participate and gave us a cover sent through the channels of the web ". ( Andrea Tramonte, Unione Sarda ) | |
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Before the fest I thought I could write a report every day for three days to recount the Hare I Stay Festival in almost real time. But as I thought there was no time and modo.Ora, ten days away, it seems to me just drop a line - with the proviso that it is a view from "within" - beautiful on an issue that reveals how the festival is growing well and that looks edition next year with renewed optimism. Here.
The Oneida funk stuff to start with then continue with hip hop and nineties nell'electro forays. Only the day before the New York band had known what it is: a live in high volumes with a devastating sound that alternates repetitive kraut, psychedelic, hard rock and pure noise, literally shakes the ears of those who stood in front of the stage (the whistle to my left ear was gone after two days). A monstrous live - there is no other adjective to describe it - which has amply repaid the efforts to have them brought from New York to play in a small Sardinian festival on the outskirts of a village in the Middle Campidano.
**** One of the most curious live with that expected at the festival was that of Buzz Aldrin . The band had Bolognese listened to in streaming the tracks of the first EP, released on the casket Secret Furry Hole and inside there I found much of what ultimately I like it: a dark and haunting sound that revises an original post-punk British and American influences (Wire , Suicide), suggestions shoegaze, garage and even a cover shot of the Silver Apples. Live all'His were huge. The sound on stage takes a thick - almost in the sense of matter - which has no disk, and a rock that impact is greatly enhanced compared to that of the tape recordings. Percussive, powerful, even violent, personal opinion - and without wanting to do wrong to the other bands that played - one of the best live all'His.