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No.3 - february 2016 WWW.MUSICTRAKS.COM NERO MY PERSONAL VISIONS ROBERTA GULISANO AN INSTINTIVE APPROACH LIVIA FERRI STEP BY STEP Marrano capturing the image The Rideouts REVIEWS INTERVIEWS NEWS contents 4 Interview REVIEWS 22 reviews ROBERTA GULISANO AN INSTINTIVE Review 25 APPROACH RESCUE interviews 8 Interview Review 26 LIVIA FERRI THE FALLS STEP BY STEP Interview Review 28 12 NERO MINNIE’S MY PERSONAL 29 VISIONS VIDEOS TO SEE Review ITALIAN BANDS 31 16 MARRANO, CAPTU- IN EUROPE RING THE IMAGE TraKs magazine WWW.MUSICTRAKS.COM 18 Interview is an online THE RIDEOUTS emission supplemental of site: streaming of full albums 20 Interview www.musictraks.com STEFAN CHRISTOFF AND POST MORTEM Editor in Chief: Fabio Alcini videos 21 Interview [email protected] IAN FISHER news 24 review roberta gulisano: an instintive CLICK HERE AND LISTEN TO approach “Piena Di(s)grazia” strong lp, full of Sicilian flavors without Abeing provincial, full of pathos without being pessimistic: Roberta Gulisano, with the help and the production of Cesare Basi- le, publishes Piena di(s)grazia (title repre- senting a joke with words of prayer “Ave Ma- ria”), and we asked some questions about the album to the songwriter. How did you approach the work to your second album, “Piena di(s)grazia”? Did you change something from first album? “Destini Coatti” was a head’s job, “Piena Di(s)grazia” is a work of belly: it contains songs stored in the drawer, waiting their chance to be played and songs written in between recording intervals. The initial project was wider, but in the study it took a more lean and sinewy shape. My approach to writing music was less “intellectual”, more instinctive than in the previous work, both for the issues that I wanted to deal with, and for a personal need to find the scent of the essences that I belong. interview “La Brigante” is Michelina De Cesare, one of se that have abundant story to tell, like Basile the most famous robber of the post-unifica- of course, Donà, Fiori and other well-known), tion of Italy. It is said of them that they were Antonio Di Martino (which I consider THE beautiful and brutal, certainly courageous. songwriter of Italy today, the perfect synthesis The history written by the vanquished should of musical history from which we come), Si- be read together with the one written by the mona Norato (for expressive power, origina- winners to see the reality, today, with mind lity and writing because it is a stage animal), and eyes most lucid and rational. Gnut (a voice like that, there are not many Who is or who are independent artists Ita- around), Carmine Torchia (because he is a lian you love the most and why? philosopher and a poet, his songs are drawin- “Artists” presupposes a wide range of crafts, gs surrealists), Katres (because he tells emo- so I restrict the field to the musicians! I state tions without shame). Obviously these are the that I listen to little music (in the “hedoni- ones who are with me in my car, I know it by stic” meaning of term), and that the field of heart! There are many others who may not li- independent Italian music is so broad that sten, but no I do not think less valid. It would knowing him is a complex operation. I most take more than females, however, in this in- respect among independents (excluding tho- dependent music ... What do you say ?! From my point of view, listening to your don’t work planer and file properly, trying to record is like reading a newspaper that spe- work well throughout the whole project. aks of stories, specially about Sicily, today How did you start working with famed mu- and yesterday (but always with reflections sician and producer Cesare Basile? on the present). I would like to know how I listened to first lp of Cesare Basile in the car do you write your songs. of my cousin: it was “Gran Calavera Elettri- “Tell your village and you will be universal” ca”. In short, I know his records since I was a said Tolstoy. Just read between the lines and kid. When I finished the specimens of “Pie- see ordinary stories in every latitude: the na di(s)grazia” I thought it was necessary to Muos-tro, it could be called “TAV”; “Maria” put in the right hands, and those hands were could be called Fatima or Simon; The “Bri- definitely his. He liked the work and in a few gante” Michela could belong to the Kurdish months we pulled up. This collaboration is Peshmerga... My lyrics are usually written in the creation of a small dream. one go, but I would be a poor craftsman if I How did you write “La Brigante”? 6 interview Livia Ferri: one step at time step at a time: Livia Ferri, songwriter try to invite people to take time, time for Abacked by a painful record as Taking themselves, where to be able to listen to an Care (2012) has decided to publish her own entire song, without haste, and to have the new work, A path made by walking, one opportunity to perceive the internal resonan- song at a time, throughout 2015. An original ce of these songs, this entire album. A choice choice, at least as the sensitivity of a singer fully in line with the concept of the album, capable of giving many surprises. I want to which concerns the way, but the personal know how the idea of an lp released a song journey, different for everyone, or at least dif- at a time and how, past the initial amaze- ferent for those who do not follow a predeter- ment, was welcomed the operation. mined path by any figure, which is the family, The idea came from two considerations: first, religion, the society. The other side of this art. A human need, personnel, a challenge: choice stems from the desire to experience a 8 9 interview has re-harmonized the tune by adding depth more words, I did not want to talk. I went and richness and I am really grateful for that. back to myself. And I found an important When I invited her to take part I knew that person. And the gratitude towards natu- the result would have been nice, she’s a great re, towards myself, that I could resist the artist. temptation of evil. The gratitude for life, What can you tell of “Gratitude”? even if it is trivial, that it never fails to give It’s a romantic track in the sense that it has you the chance to grow. to do with romance, if I think about it. It speaks of a difficult month, where I felt very alone, tease, humiliated. In moments of dif- ficulty nature saved me, luckily I was in a CLICK HERE wonderful place. Every little thing, a burst of rain, strong wind, the flight of birds, took me AND LISTEN TO back to the present, to this more real, cor- poral present. Nature has taken care of me, “A path made made me feel alive when it was hard to have by walking” contact with humans, when I did not want new way of producing and promoting what which I found myself so far in my life to get we do. It was interesting to try to publish a to the conscience of me, happiness, balance, piece at a time in order to create expectations inner harmony... but life is made of cycles, of each piece, as if each were an individual. you go up and down! This is the chronicle of At first the astonishment is not missed at all! a very important cycle of my life. But today we can say that it is working: the Can you tell something about “Patterns”? expectation is there and the public is accom- Patterns is a song about fear. Of all the things panying us step by step, song after song. that we can not do, become, change, see, fear. This is a record that was born after the The fear of fear, the maze that immobilizes painful experiences that you had faced in you, from which you can only go out biting. the past. In the idea of publishing a piece at It’s a hard song, where there is a lot of under- a time you can also read a kind of gradual standing, but there is no excuse, no indul- catharsis, or even a bit of decency in ope- gence: giving way to fear is the worst road ning a bit at time? we can take. Fear encases all the unhealthy, And certainly more a catharsis than modesty, not the truth. The hate is born out of fear, absolutely. I decisively abandoned shame on like so many other negative tendencies. The this record! The tracklist of the album has a opposite of fear is love. The song was written specific order that has its own sense of ca- by me and Mimes of Wine (Laura Loriga, tharsis: starting from the darkest antrum in songwriter and pianist from Bologna), which 10 11 interview CLICK HERE Nero AND LISTEN TO My Personal Visions “LUST SOUL” I would say that the path to a solo album was ust Soul is a raw, direct, visceral a quite natural development process. From album. I like to call this album a the beginning I have always exhibited in first personal diary recording fleeting person, not only as a singer / bass player, but “notesL and deeper moments, with meditated also as an author and main songwriter of all sentences and at the same time deliberately the material.