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La poliedricità e il genio di un artista che risponde al nome di Devin Garrett Townsend, il tutto condensato in questo grande album. Poliedricità intesa come "figura professionale": oltre ad essere cantante e polistrumentista, è ormai da 10 anni affermato produttore; poliedricità intesa anche come vedute musicali: una passione per il metal (soprattutto quello di stampo "progressive", ma forti sono nei suoi lavori anche le influenze "death" e "industrial") ma anche per il blues, il jazz, la musica classica e il rock progressivo. E qui il genio trova la sua massima espressione: accorpare generi musicali così differenti tra loro sembrerebbe un'impresa davvero ardua, eppure Hevy Devy ci offre in "Terria" un'amalgama - se così può essere definita- impeccabile, parlare di un album metal sarebbe troppo semplice e riduttivo, com'è anche evidente la difficoltà di trovare una denominazione per la musica da lui composta. Ma questo sicuramente non è un fattore rilevante: ascoltando il frutto delle sue fatiche ci si perde in atmosfere spesso sognanti, altre volte inquietanti, che lasciano ben poco spazio ai superflui -almeno questa volta- dubbi dell'ascoltatore.
Voce stupenda la sua, carica di tanta espressività e fusa a melodie che si snodano solo apparentemente fredde e distanti, le quali, al contrario, contribuiscono alla creazione di sonorità impressionantemente coinvolgenti; infine lyrics dure -che in alcuni tratti sfiorano un rado senso di malinconia- e, talvolta, anche ironiche.
Quindi impossibile descivere "Terria" track-by-track, ogni singolo brano mostra così tante e diverse sfumature da rendere impossibile un'analisi obbiettiva, teoricamente uno stesso pezzo -a seconda del momento in cui lo si ascolta- potrebbe deludere, ma esaltare già dopo il secondo ascolto, e ancora impressionare, o disincantare. Concludo con le tracce che maggiormente hanno attirato la mia attenzione: "Nobody's Here", "The Fluke", "Deep Peace" e "Earth Day" (i primi 30 secondi di quest'ultima sono realmente mozzafiato!). DA NON PERDERE!
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02 Mountain (06:32)
Nerves on fire, nothing is a sneaker...everything is catastrophe
That bump in your armpit is Cancer
That bump was turbulence
I guess it starts again
There is no reason for nostalgia,
Everything is still happening,
There is no reason for memory
The step, a choice.
I wish everything could have worked out the way you wanted it to
It's so tragic...so beautiful...
When everything is so hollow
Think of going home.
You are so beautiful to me
You are so beautiful to me
So far, i've logged so many hours
With medications and the dog
...You are so beautiful to me
So far, I've lost so many hours,
Two medications and a dog
IT'S JUST ANOTHER MOUNTAIN!
...JUST ANOTHER MOUNTAIN!
Just another weakness
03 Earth Day (09:35)
Eat your beets, recycle...recycle...
Don't eat your beets, recycle...recycle
The message is; 'THERE IS NO MESSAGE'
Babe, you better not ever think,
Staring into the drink...get out of my mind...
Cause I may not be the one to say,
is there no other way we could do this another day?
I saw God.
She said...'If you don't believe me, guaranteed you'll never leave me'
On your way, and out of my time
But I didn't even know if it was true or just a result of chemicals
Shut up and think of something more important to say...
'Sometimes I think that in every straight there's a gay!' Something or nothing a whole either way it's a way,
it's a way, it's a way, it's a way, it's a way
EARTH DAY, EARTH DAY, EARTH DAY, EARTH DAY
it's a way, it's a way, it's a way, it's a way
EARTH DAY, EARTH DAY, EARTH DAY, EARTH DAY
It's like your birthday, it's on Earth Day,
Like a child you're born again, little child you're bored again...
It's your worst fucking day, it's on Earth Day...
Little lies to cover up...please make your mind up
(Eat your beets, Recycle...recycle...)
(...Don't eat your beets, recycle...recycle)
Man Overboard (I'm so far away)
Man overboard (I'm so far...)
But fuck it! ...I really don't care
Fuck! Listen to me! Just shut the fuck up!
Peace, Love, Joy
Man overboard (I'm so far...)
Hate, hell, war
Hate, love, love, hate, love, hate...destruction!
So just shut your face and take a seat
Because after all, you're just talking meat...and music?
Well, it's just entertainment folks.
Sometimes I think that I really have something moreto say...
'Sometimes I think that in every straight there's a gay!' ...forgive me for saying it blows either way, it's a
way,
it's a way, it's a way, it's a way, it's a way...
It's your birthday, it's on Earth Day,
Like a child you're born again, little child you're cold again...
It's your worst fucking day, it's on Earth Day
Little child your time is up...please turn the heat up
You need your beets, you recycle...
...Don't eat your beets...recycle...
Man overboard...I'm so far away...
10 Stagnant (05:25)
Summer's here, the sunlight greets the day
The winters gone, there's no more rain today...
And if I could, I'm sure that I would take your breath away
So ain't it funny how, after trying to find my way home
I'm in the middle now and I won't get lost again
Cause in the winter time, when everything is grey
And in the summer time, into the month of May
I get a feeling that it's all so temporary
And that's the feeling that can take my blues away
Tired of the way that I'm feeling everyday
And I feel it in my head...woo-hoo-hoo...
Tired of the way that I'm feeling everyday
And I feel it in my head now, my head now
It's beautiful, the way it's meant to be...beautiful, but it 'don't do shit' for me...
So peel away a little skin and choke upon the bone
And ain't it funny how, after trying to find my way home,
I'm in the middle now, and I won't get lost again.
But you don't know, how or when it's gonna go
You don't know.
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