Nell'ottica dell'orizzonte emocore moderno, il 2003 vede l'attesissima quanto dirompente conferma di uno dei guppi rivelazione dell'intero scenario rock mondiale. Si parla dei Coheed & Cambria. Si parla di Claudio Sanchez, Travis Stever, Michael Todd e Joshua Eppard.
Risulta quanto mai difficile per me recensire un album del quartetto del New Jersey, perché, come la maggior parte della critica musicale, mi uniformo al pensiero di quanti affermano che alla base del successo dei Coheed & Cambria ci sia non solo una tecnica musicale di altissimo livello che riguarda l'intera sezione ritmica del gruppo, ma anche e soprattutto un'ecletticità onnipresente, che scaturisce dalla mente geniale di Sanchez & co., e che in definitiva risulta essere quella componente fondamentale e caratteristica che spinge il gruppo al di fuori dello stereotipato confine del "genere musicale". Così è nel fantastico "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3", secondo lavoro del gruppo, album della maturità in cui i suoni vengono levigati con particolare maestria ed in cui confluiscono influenze di diversi generi musicali, tutte poggiate su una base emocore da brividi che costituisce il fondo comune, il collante dell'intero viaggio. Si, perché di viaggio si tratta. Perché sin dall'ascolto dell'intro, ciò che risalta all'orecchio di chi ascolta è che a spezzare la monotonia del ritmo di vita quotidiana irrompe la melodia dei Coheed, che ci trasportano in un luogo lontano nel tempo e nello spazio. Poi la title-track. "In Keeping secrets of silent earth 3". Le note scorrono nelle mie orecchie mentre scrivo. Il concetto si ripete dalle prime battute della Gibson di Claudio. Non sono più davanti il pc di casa. Non so dove sono, ma sono travolto dal turbine emotivo scatenato dai Coheed and Cambria. Le chitarre di Sanchez e Stever graffiano come unghie; si alternano suoni dolci a riff taglienti che improvvisamente e come per magia si amalgamano. Del resto, chi poteva maneggiare l'emocore per 8 minuti senza disperdere l'intensità del coinvolgimento emotivo? Non è roba per tutti, ci riescono solo i Coheed. L'ultimo minuto e mezzo della traccia è un'escalation di sensazioni travolgenti e emozioni intense: le chitarre, il basso, la batteria, la tastiera, il coro di voci, la voce di Claudio: tutto semplicemente perfetto. Potrebbe sembrare che mi sia dilungato troppo, ma questa è in assoluto secondo me la migliore canzone dell'album, quella che mi spinge a premere sempre il pulsante repeat del mio lettore.
Ma non si esaurisce qui la bellezza e la forza del quartetto, nelle due successive tracce succede di tutto: riff che ricordano Santana, ritmi incalzanti e soliti ruggiti, il tutto condito dalla sempre intraprendente voce del singer mentre è sempre costante il dialogo tra le chitarre, che producono il miglior emocore degli ultimi 10 anni. "The crowing" merita menzione particolare perché emerge quella vena metal-dark che esploderà nel successivo lavoro "Good Apollo, I'm burning star IV volume One form fear trough the eyes of madness" (da notare le accelerazioni improvvise) e per lo strepitoso finale ("Dear Ambellina, the prise wishes you, to watch over me!" resteranno impresse nella mia memoria a lungo!!!). Con "Blood red summer" e "A favor house atlantic" i Co&Ca dimostrano di riuscire a spaccare di brutto con melodie orecchiabilissime, facilmente assimilabili e all'apparenza semplici, ma sempre legate alla personalità del gruppo. Le tre "Velorium camper" continuano il viaggio nei meandri del mondo dei Coheed & Cambria, o di Coheed e di Cambria, che sono appunto i personaggi immaginari inventati da Claudio e il cui intreccio di avvenimenti costituisce la storia che fa da sfondo alla musica del gruppo del New Jersey. Il cd si conclude con la bonus track e "The light & the glass", che riassume in sé un po' tutte le prerogative musicali dei quattro.
Ascoltando "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3" ci si trova quindi di fronte ad un album di grande caratura, permeato dallo spirito più autentico di un gruppo che come ho già scritto fa della versatilità e dell'ecletticità la propria bandiera e che guarda all'emocore in maniera originale e sicuramente nuova, riuscendo a rapire l'ascoltatore per tutto l'intero ascolto del disco, proiettandolo con forza in un'atmosfera surreale, onirica, fantascientifica, che solo i Coheed & Cambria riescono a creare.
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02 In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (08:12)
A broad incision sits across the evening
The victim to our fathers' lost war
The restless children sit and mourn the graves
Of those they've never seen before
Will they be buried here among the dead
In the silent secret
The pioneers
In dealing with it they march for dawn...of will and worthy
The truth be told the child was born
Man your own jackhammer
Man your battle stations
We'll have you dead pretty soon
And now
Sincerely written from my brother's blood machine
Man your battle stations
We'll have you home pretty soon
And now
Awake through motion
With curious to curtain your first move
Over arms length they'll break protocol
Jealous envy for the youngest one
To be the hero is all I'll ask
Can I be buried here among the dead
With room to honor me here in the end
You'll be better off too soon
You'll be better off when you get home
The pioneers
In dealing with it they march for dawn...of will and worthy
The truth be told the child was born
Man your own jackhammer
Man your battle stations
We'll have you dead pretty soon
And now
Sincerely written from my brother's blood machine
Man your battle stations
We'll have you home pretty soon
And now
For you I'd do anything
Just to make you happy
Hear you tell me that your proud of me
For them I'll kill anything
Cut the throats of babies for them
Break their hearts for they were them
Waiting for you to say
I love you too
The navigator
The pilot
Her favorite
The one they call the vision that bears the gift
The navigator
The piolet
Her favorite
The one they call the vision that bears the gift
Will, do the children really understand the things you did to them
And why oh why
Should they conjure up the will
For you my love I would kill him
we're coming home pretty soon
We're coming home
In the seventh turning hour
Will the victims shadow fall
Should the irony grow hungry
With the victory and all they sought for
We were one among the fence
One among the fence
Woah...Woah (15X)
Woah...
Woah...
Woah...
Coming...
Coming...
Tonight...
Tonight...
Now we're coming home...
Man your own jackhammer
Man your battle stations
We'll have you dead pretty soon
And now
Sincerely written from my brother's blood machine
Man your battle stations
We'll have you home pretty soon
Till then...
03 Cuts Marked in the March of Men (05:00)
Listen to the words out on the outside pressing in
are you ready on my mark?
fingers given names with the last word they ascend
on the comfort of their well being...in arms
into something we can't stop but wish that they would kill
you're the answer to their prayer
in your last hour stand
you'll notice
the one that you had loved in dreams is here among the others
chase it's you I want
but if I can't have her
then why should I, spend any more,
time in a world that's going to end pretty soon?
I need you now more than I ever did
I'll hand myself over for you
this comlink's lost its frequency
and I feel that we're coming home short
here take me instead I'd rather not see her off alone
scattered amongst the killing streets the children slate defense
is god's work to have us fail?
rivered blood shoots out the dead as bodies foul the air
I'll make peace when this done
in arms...we storm
slowly the streets begin to fill with new flesh bound to bone
armed and ready it begins again
in your last hour stand
you'll notice
the one that you had loved in dreams is here among the others
chase it's you I want
but if I can't have her
then why should I, spend any more,
time in a world that's going to end pretty soon?
I need you now more than I ever did
I'll hand myself over for you
this comlink's lost its frequency
and I feel that we're coming home short
here take me instead I'd rather not see her off alone
tonight...we storm
tonight
Deliver a favor to my love x4
In your last hour stand
You'll notice,
the one that you have loved in dreams is here among the others
Chase its you i want, but if i cant have her
Then why should I, spend any more,
Time in a world thats gonna end pretty soon
I need you now, more then i ever did
I'll hand myself over for you
This comlinks lost its frequency
and i feel that we're coming home..short
Here take me instead, id rather not see her off
Alone.
04 Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow) (05:08)
Across the floor in the hand of where we drove the drill
a cautious ear to the mouth of your confession
think of all the things we put him through
in the face of his god would he tell the truth?
still recorded were the words that dribbled out his kiss
when eyes go blind in this man of what could once become
sever the limbs off his torso in sleep
and burn what remains so the world may now see
no longer...will we wait for your answers
back to the hell where you've come from
think of all the times you've once had
write them in a letter that says goodbye
you'll listen to reason while you're face down in the dirt
you'll stomach the hurt and break for him here just how much he's worth
slowly discarded were the remains of his lonely youth
among the alley where the dwellers scare to notice
picture a young boy in pieces and streets with leveled malfunctions
no name to be called redeemer
We'll fix him restore him...with the love is no other
think of all the things you did before
write them in a letter that says reborn
you'll listen to reason while you're face down in the dirt
you'll stomach the hurt and break for him here just how much he's worth
following you across the interstate walking away...I'll fire on
following you across the interstate walking away...I'll fire on
following you across the interstate walking away...I'll fire on
on the wrong way out
on the causeway to neverwhere
on the wrong way out
on the causeway to neverwhere
on the wrong way out
on the causeway to neverwhere
dear my friends in the time we've spent forever after beyond this when will our nightmare ever end?
dear my friends in the time we've spent forever after beyond this when will our nightmare ever end?
pull the trigger and the nightmare stops...
pull the trigger and the nightmare stops...
pull the trigger and the nightmare stops...(forever you will) forever you will learn
pull the trigger and the nightmare stops...
pull the trigger and the nightmare stops...
pull the trigger and the nightmare stops...(forever you will) forever you will learn
pull the trigger and the nightmare stops...
pull the trigger and the nightmare stops...
pull the trigger and the nightmare stops...(forever you will) forever you will learn
pull the trigger and the nightmare stops...
pull the trigger and the nightmare stops...
pull the trigger and the nightmare stops...(forever you will) forever you will learn
05 The Crowing (06:35)
I fed the clues of a lost day killed in motion
But I thought out it so like there's no other way it could of been done
Will they size my fit for a puzzle I wish not to play part in it?
A heart stained in hate, a feeling I fear will play circles
But you, you were my favorite
But you, you know, you were my favorite
I've severed my ties to shroud this body under the streets of this city
And wait for the day when I am summoned to walk across the face
Well slowly but clearer now in visions that play and plague memories
I love them with all as a son should to mother and father
But you, you were my favorite
But you, you know, you were my favorite
Would I walk through the door,
Shedding the light of all life?
With the rise and reform,
Would I come as before?
Pray you're not the only one
Pray you're not the only...
If given mistakes would I take them back?
If erasing them could
If erasing them would
But would they be the words that I would say?
Your face and a door between
I've parted three ways
For you, the Newo that I loved
Did you ever really know before, my face shamed to break?
Did you ever really know before, my mind scared to think?
Did you ever really know before, my name son to these?
Did you, did you, did you come clean, in the end from the start?
Dear Ambelina, the Prise wishes you to watch over me
Dear Ambelina, the Prise wishes all to watch over me
I fought the decisions that called and lost
My mark has a relevant piece in this
I will come reformed
In short for the murders of those I court
I bless the hour that holds your fall
I will kill you all
I will call you (I will cross you out)
Out from shelter
Burn your wings,
You'll know no better (Burn your wings)
I will call you (I will cross you out)
Out from shelter
Burn your wings
And learn their letters (Burn your wings)
I will call you (Dear Ambelina,)
Out from shelter (The Prise wishes you)
Burn your wings (To watch over me)
You'll know no better. (Burn your wings)
I will call you (Dear Ambellina,) (I will cross you out)
Out from shelter
Burn your wings (To watch over me)
And learn their letters (Burn your wings)
I will call you (Dear Ambellina)
Out from shelter (The Prise wishes you)
Burn your wings (To watch over me)
06 Blood Red Summer (04:05)
Faint white figures paint my sleep
please don't tell my secrets keep them hidden (you got it [x3])
if the words that matter reach your face from floor
will you be wondering if, or (do I need what is given or honest)
does it cost me scarring if the words stay true
even number your nephew (I don't want it don't want it don't want anymore)
and when the answer that you want
is in the question that you state
Come what may (come what may)
when in the answer that you want
Is in the question that you state
Come what may (come what may)
in the pain that buckles out your knees
could you stop this if I plead (you got it) x3
so destined I am to walk among the dark
a child in keeping secrets from (will they know what I've done in the after)
in the sought for matter when the words blame you
in a blood red summer I'll give you (I don't want it don't want it don't want it)
and when the answer that you want
is in the question that you state
Come what may (come what may)
when in the answer that you want
Is in the question that you state
Come what may (come what may)
what did i do to deserve
what did i do to deserve (This)
what did i do to deserve
what did i do to deserve (This)
10 A Favor House Atlantic (03:54)
Your eyes tell the stories of a day you wish you could
Recall the moments that once have
Retract the footsteps that brought us to this favor
I wouldn't ask this of you
Good eye, sniper
Here I'll shoot, and you run
The words you scribbled on the walls
With the loss of friends you didn't have
I call you when the time is right
Are you in or are you out?
For them all to know the end of us all, all
Run quick, they're behind us
Didn't think we'd ever make it
This close to safety in one piece
Now you wanna kill me in the act of what could maybe
Save us from sleep and what we are
Good eye, sniper
Now I'll shoot, and you run
The words you scribbled on the walls
With the loss of friends you didn't have
I called you and the time is right
Are you in or are you out?
For them all to know the end of us all
Bye bye beautiful
Don't bother to write
Disturbed by your words and they're calling all cars
Face step, let down.
Face step, step down.
The words you scribbled on the walls
With the loss of friends you didn't have
I called you and the time is right
Are you in or are you out?
For them all to know
Bye bye beautiful
Don't bother to write
Disturbed by your words and they're calling all cars
Face step, let down.
Face step, step down.
Bye bye beautiful
Don't bother to write
Disturbed by your words and they're calling all cars
Face step, let down.
Face step, step down.
11 The Light & the Glass (09:39)
Slowly the pen touches paper
In the guidance of the words that you write
Memories roll in, of the things you once did
And who you had shared them with is somebody thinking of you
Did I bother telling you this, with the words that cross teeth and jump lips?
A poor choice of words, in wanting to tell you anything
But words don't come with ease, they're forever my hurt
Would it really matter if you were to count the days left with your hands
Your focus secure and the loves you left well
Smiles staged in photographs here until...
You, you left the light on
There's a chance I might have tripped, girl
You were there to hold on
Ignoring the words of your obnoxious little brother
"Kill or be killed," spilled the words from your mother
I'll lay awake for a while
I'll leave the light on a while
You couldn't last a lifetime caught between here and the days of it
Carving her name across your arm with every wish
It's hit or miss... her
I told you so
I measure distance in lines departing the rest of my life
But you, you you... you had better things to do
Liar, liar, liar, liar
Liar, liar, liar, liar
Liar, liar, liar, lie away
(x2)
If you'd get put to sleep, like an old dog you're better off, should you get put to sleep
I've been cautious with the words I extend
Allow this year before the world starts to end
Your father's dead, he passed in his sleep
And I woke to the sounds of her crying
Pray for us all
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Di seifer77
Il risultato è mastodontico e, francamente, inclassificabile!
Un gruppo originalissimo, senza dubbio il più originale dell'intera scena emocore.
