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Uno dei problemi delle tante, forse troppe, riviste musicali che invadono le nostre edicole è il capitolo recensioni.
Nel delirio contemporaneo delle infinite uscite discografiche, affidare le recensioni a collaboratori esperti nel proprio genere musicale, equivale al concreto rischio di avere recensioni tutte positive. Controproducente e insensato sarebbe affidare uscite di heavy metal ad un esperto di soul music o viceversa.
Il dibattito è aperto e la soluzione tutt'altro che semplice. Lo stesso discorso può calzare anche per le recensioni on-line. Difficilmente un aspirante critico si avventura in una stroncatura e il risultato è che soggettivamente i dischi siano quasi tutti adorabili.
Cappello necessario per parlare del nuovo disco dell'italo-islandese Emiliana Torrini, giunto dopo oltre cinque (!) anni dal precedente "Love in the time of science".
Dimenticatevi tutto ciò che era (ed è) "Love In The Time Of Science", discreto album di sinth-trip-hop. Ebbene qui si cambia radicalmente rotta. La Torrini ha virato verso il cantautorato intimista impegnato.
Disco essenzialmente acustico: pochi, pochissimi accordi per costruire dodici canzoni porte in punta di plettro, interrotte qua e là da soffici tocchi di piano e da una leggerissima sezione ritmica che, per la verità fatica a farsi sentire. Vengono in mente l'ultima Cat Power, oppure una Polly Paulusma scarnificata e per andare nel passato citerei Joni Mitchell di Blue.
Personalmente lo trovo stucchevole e dischi di questa portata non mi fanno vibrare le corde dell'anima. Posso però comprendere che abbia i suoi estimatori e schiere di adepti pronti a scappellarsi di fronte alla tenera e graziosa voce della signorina venuta dalla terra del ghiaccio.
Apprezzo l'impegno e la volontà di volersi mettere in discussione quando avrebbe potuto tranquillamente fotocopiare il lavoro precedente, ma il risultato mi lascia francamente indifferente. Dischi come questo ne potrei ascoltare dieci, cento, mille e farei una fatica tremenda a distinguerli l'uno dall'altro.
La prossima volta che mi farò vivo su DeBaser sarà per una recensione positiva, ma questo disco mi fa due palle così.
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01 Nothing Brings Me Down (03:55)
Home alone and happy
Nothing brings me down
Full of wine, unsteady
Nothing brings me down
What's left of the rain runs down my roof
Nothing brings me down
The night is lush the air is still
Nothing brings me down
Dum dum dum dum dum dum
The windows are open, the flies are in
Nothing brings me down
The phones are off the music's on
Nothing brings me down
Dum dum dum dum dum dum
Home alone and happy
Nothing brings me down
My love for you is ready
Nothing brings me down
My love for you is ready
02 Sunny Road (03:04)
Wrote you this
I hope you got it safe
It's been so long
I don't know what to say
I've travelled 'round
Through deserts on my horse
But jokes aside
I wanna come back home
You know that night
I said i had to go
You said you'd meet me
On the sunny road
It's time, meet me on the sunny road
it's time, meet me on the sunny road
I never married
Never had those kids
I loved too many
Now heaven's closed its gates.
I know I'm bad
To jump on you like this
Some things don't change
My middle name's still 'Risk'
I know that night
So long long time ago
Will you still meet me
On the sunny road
It's time, meet me on the sunny road
It's time, meet me on the sunny road
Well, this is it
I'm running out of space
Here is my address
And number just in case.
This time as one
We'll find which way to go
Now come and meet me
On the sunny road
03 Snow (01:58)
You won't believe what I just found out She's getting married on the fifth time 'round Lining on my favorite sight And I wondered where you are and realize Something is painted in the snow that you'd like Finally I'm going no sain Wanna tell you something We last for long Well we've sometimes gone astray But I can't care for nothing, no way And I hope again to live this life Just to see you again before I die Yes I hope again to live this life To see you once more before I die And see you before I die
06 Today Has Been OK (03:31)
Friends tell me it's spring
My window show the same
Without you here the seasons pass me by
I know you were not new
That loved like me and you
All the same I miss you
Today has been ok
Today has been ok
The preacher lost his son
He's known by all in town
He found him with another son of God
Feeding on the prayer
Nevermind what God said
But love had lost its cause
And I thought today had been ok
Today has been ok
Today has been ok
Wind has burned your skin
The lovely air so thin
The salty water's underneath your feet
No one's gone in vain
Here is where you'll stay
'Cause life has been insane but
Today has been ok
Today has been ok
Today has been ok
Today has been ok
07 Next Time Around (03:36)
Then came question and it was about time
The answer came back and it was long
The house it was built by so men in rhyme
But whatever came of his talented son
Who wrote me a dialogue set a tune
Always you told me of being alone
Except for the stories about God and you
And do you still live there, in Bufallo
They put up the walls, no more to say
Nobody stopped to ask why it was done
The stream was too far and the rains to high
So into the city the river did run
Because of the architect the buildings fell down
Smothered and drowned all the seeds that you sowed
I wish I was somewhere but not in this town
Maybe the ocean next time around
I seem to remember the face and the name
But if it's not you I don't care
I know of changes, but nothing would change you
To Theo the sailor who sings in his lair
Then I'll turn and he won't be there,
Dusky black windows to light the dark stair
Candles will nod in the musty air
Oh, with the flames for as many as the years
08 Heartstopper (03:02)
You said I began
This messy state of love affair
And I drink too much and smoke too fast
And this city's cleared my innocence
Coffee is pouring out my ears
It's the only thing they have in here
And my heart stops beating
And when it stops it stops
My heart stopped beating
And when it stops it stops
My heart stopped beating
Number tree still on my plate
I heard the trains are running late
And I laugh out loud
My life is a mess
I have gone too far
In my lifelessness
Another coffee it's on the house
The poor girl look is on the owners spouse
And my heart stopped beating
And when it stops it stops
My heart stopped beating
And when it stops it stops
My heart stopped beating
Outside your house
To make a scene
In my head you grabbed me passionately
But the lights are out
And in an hour I walked on home
In the pouring shower
Lost my keys in front of me
My neighbor's smile he's handing me
The blackest coffee you will ever see
And my hearts stopped beating
And when it stops it stops
My heart stopped beating
And when it stops it stops
My heart stopped beating
09 At Least It Was (04:18)
I thought I saw you on the train I hid behind some men I had never seen you look so good I’m glad you're doing well I went out for a walk today To think of things unsaid Of course I found I'd said too much So I laid all that to rest And when the day falls I guess it was love And when the day falls At least it was You thought of the name to call me I guess that’s how it goes I know a few with the same name Yes, I’m sad I’m one of those Ungraceful as I am in loving And leaving I'm the same It’s way too late to say I’m sorry But I’ll say it anyway And when the day forwards I guess it was love And when the day forwards At least it was Dum dum dum dum
10 Fisherman's Woman (01:51)
I'm pretending to be a good fisherman's woman
Just like Anna Inga's mom
The gladiator of all fisherman's wives
Makes it a lot easier thinking of you
On the sea where you have to be a month at a time
Working hard in the day
Your hands cracking from the cold and the salt
In the night when you go to bed
You try to sleep by listening to the boat breathing
The boat breathing
And the only thing
The only thing you can think of is me
Waiting for you by the window
With the brightest red lipstick on my lips
Just like Anna waits for her man
How will I learn
I'll wait
11 Thinking Out Loud (03:21)
Like the leaves at my face
He is a victim of gravity
The unbearable color of things
Gets him down
And as his raincoat covers me
We know it was never raining
Sorry it was me
Was I thinking out loud
Sorry it was me
Was I thinking out loud
Sorry it was me
Was I thinking out loud
Sorry it was me
Was I thinking out loud
Like strings in a fan
The shoelaces aren't done
The solitude reflection of his face
Gets him down
And as the shadow covers me
I thought he was only sleeping
Sorry it was me
Was I thinking out loud
Sorry it was me
Was I thinking out loud
Sorry it was me
Was I thinking out loud
Sorry it was me
Was I thinking out loud
His clothes on the floor
Under a silver light
The smell of lavender and tar
Brings me down
If the telephone should ring
God knows it could never be him
Sorry it was me
Was I thinking out loud
Sorry it was me
Was I thinking out loud
Sorry it was me
Was I thinking out loud
Sorry it was me
Was I thinking out loud
12 Serenade (03:37)
No world for me
Picture as in it stands
Midnight calling
Moonlight shadows start to dance
For the dark finds ways of being
Engraved in the light
And the heart bears in temptations
Of yesterdays hurting child
And now we will run with smiles
Tomorrow will heal the night soul
Morning comes
Midnight make fast with the sun
I can hear my name, baby born
When the cloud within the sky beneath the door
Oh why
Serenade the door
Serenade the door
Serenade the door
For the dark finds ways of being
Engraved in the light
And the heart bears in temptations
Of yesterdays hurting child
And now we will run with smiles
Tomorrow will heal the night soul
Morning comes
Midnight make fast with the sun
I can hear my name, baby born
When the cloud within the sky beneath the door
Oh why
Serenade the door
Serenade the door
Serenade the door (door)
Da da da da dum dum
Da dum dum
Da da da da dum dum
Da dum dum...
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