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Ci sono persone che nascono con l'arte che gli scorre nelle vene, quasi come fosse sangue, e che, bene o male, sono destinate a diventare prima o poi degli ottimi artisti. Ce ne sono altre invece che ricevono questo dono solamente in seguito a qualcosa di inaspettato nella loro vita, qualcosa di grande e, nella maggior parte dei casi, non esattamente piacevole. Emilie Autumn è stata entrambe le cose. Conosciuta al pubblico come una ninfa dark dai capelli scarlatti, pochi sanno che, prima dell'aborto e del tentato suicidio, con conseguente reclusione per qualche tempo in un'istituto psichiatrico, l'oscura violinista californiana era qualcosa di completamente diverso e quantomai distante dal delirante personaggio che è adesso.
Una differenza, quella tra il passato e il presente dell'eclettica musicista, riscontrabile a livello d'immagine e di musica in maniera ugualmente considerevole: in "Enchant", album di debutto della Autumn, del sound allucinato e inquietante di "Opheliac" non vi è alcuna traccia e le tetre atmosfere da manicomio vittoriano sbiadiscono in favore di aure fiabesche che immergono l'ascoltatore in boschi irlandesi in cui la natura è ancora incontaminata, quasi mistica. In uno scenario di questo tipo Emilie si muove come un'aggraziatissima fata e con voce quasi angelica ci guida, attraverso le 14 tracce del disco, in un viaggio musicale in cui il violino, suo strumento prediletto, si intreccia con una raffinatissima elettronica e cori à la Enya dando origine a un interessante pop-rock dalle sfumature celtiche ("Across The Sky", "Rapunzel", "Remember", "Save You"). Non mancano però momenti in cui l'atmosfera magica lascia il posto a sonorità lounge sapientemente ricreate dal pianoforte (la fumosa "Second Hand Faith", "Heard It All", "If You Feel better"); sempre il pianoforte è poi il protagonista assoluto di delicate ballate quali le stupende "What If" e "Ever", che ricordano molto Elton John e la Tori Amos di "Winter". Non manca poi qualche momento più rockeggiante ("Chambermaid") e qualche riuscito ammiccamento all'elettro-pop ("Juliet", "Rose Red", "How Strange"), con l'onnipresente violino che fa quasi da collante tra tutte le canzoni, che, per quanto spazino tra diversi generi, suonano sempre unite da un ben implementato file rouge.
"Enchant" è dunque un album molto vario e completamente diverso da ciò che Emilie Autumn ci ha abituati ad ascoltare, un disco che potrebbe spiazzare chi la conosce solo per i suoi deliri "ofeliaci" (passatemi il termine) e che per il suo essere molto più easy-listening di "Opheliac" e "Fight Like A Girl" potrebbe non piacere a tutti. Per chi invece ancora non conosce la talentuosa violinista californiana, potrebbe essere un buon punto di partenza per cominciare ad avventurarsi nei suoi lidi musicali seguendo il suo percorso artistico dall'inizio. Poco importa in realtà, perché in entrambi i casi è innegabile che "Enchant" sia un disco egregiamente realizzato e interpretato e rappresenti una piccola gemma da (ri)scoprire per chi cerca musica non troppo impegnativa, ma ben fatta e piacevole e rilassante per le orecchie.
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03 Chambermaid (03:14)
Show your face
Don’t hide
Take off the mask now
Underneath is a deep dark secret
Take me for a ride
Upon your white horse
Take your love
‘Cause I don’t want to keep it
I am out of place
And honey you are out of time
I’d tell your fortune
But the words don’t rhyme
Chorus:
I’m not your chambermaid
You’re not my lord
All the fine games we played
Have left me bored
I never want to see you come around my castle
‘Cause I just can’t afford to love you
I’m not your chambermaid
You’re not my lord
Tell me what I have to do to make you
Understand it’s a lost cause lover
Tell me while you’re at it how it feels to
Hold me close when you’ve been thinking of her
I don’t want to hear you say you love me
You’ve been gone such a long time
Won’t you turn around
Before I have to see this
Face I once adored
Don’t you see
I am out of place
And honey you are out of time
I’d tell your fortune
But the words don’t rhyme
Chorus
You have no hold over me
What’s in your cards now let me see
I hope you’ve got what you wanted
There’s just one thing I know will never be
Chorus
04 Rapunzel (03:57)
In a courtyard
Used to sing as loud as she could
Locked away here
She’s been quiet, lovely and good
But no one listens now
She lost her voice
She had no choice
Chorus:
If you sing loud and clear
Someone passing by will surely hear you
No you can’t be afraid
If you ever want somebody near you
If you sing loud and clear
Someone passing by will surely hear you
No you can’t be afraid
Tore the curtain
Put her hand outside of the frame
Let her hair down
Sat all day and nobody came
But when the sun went down
The stars came out
She heard them shout
Chorus
But when the sun went down
The stars came out
She heard them shout
Chorus
07 Juliet (05:42)
You’re in my stars you know
Don’t need no crystal ball to tell me so
Whispering in the air
Hoping that my words find you somewhere
Even when I close my eyes
I’ll never recreate the time that flies
The consequence is hanging there
The sky will fall but I don’t care
Chorus:
Meet me beneath my balcony and say
No one but you could ever fill my night
Be the sunlight in my every day
Underneath my balcony I’ll say
No one but you could ever fill my night
Be the sunlight in my every day
Your love is haunting me
And all I want is more to set me free
Whispering in the air
Hoping that my words find you somewhere
Do you hear me call your name
I know we will never be the same
The consequence is hanging there
The sky will fall but I don’t care
Chorus
10 Castle Down (03:52)
You can see that I swim
Through the sea of painful
You have watched as I pull
Myself from the floor
And you were there when I
Built my tower like pebbles in the rain
Trying to balance all that I had left
With what I didn't have anymore
CHORUS
But would you tear my castle down
Stone by stone
And let the wind run through my windows
'Til there is nothing left but a battered rose
Would you tear my castle down
Stone by stone
And let the wind run through my windows
'Til there is nothing left but a battered rose
You seem so devoted
Your love is unconditional
You were self-promoted
I never asked you
You were my everything
My apparitional faith
Where are you when I am screaming to my God
What am I coming to
CHORUS
If I had another place to go
Would you break me, is it that you know
I have no choice but to rebuild again
I'm tied so hard I can't remember when
I last walked free upon these feet of mine
But I'll draw the line
There will come a Time
When I am stronger
Your words won't hurt any longer
CHORUS
'Til there is nothing nothing left
'Til there is nothing nothing left
'Til there is nothing left
Will you tear my castle down
Will you tear my castle down
Will you tear my castle down
12 If You Feel Better (04:49)
If you feel better
Telling me I’m cruel
Saying I’m unfeeling
I don’t mind
If it’s necessary
If it helps you out
Crying that I’m heartless
It’s alright
Chorus:
And I’m sorry to cause you so much pain
And I’m sorry to bring you down again
But I’ve reached the end and I won’t fight anymore
I don’t know what you really want from me
But I don’t fit in your reality
How can any man be so blind
But if you feel better
I don’t mind
If you feel safer
Keeping to yourself
Placing trust in no one
I won’t cry
If it calms your conscience
Making me the guilty one
Take my reputation
Ain’t worth much
And it’s alright
Chorus
Won’t make me sorry ’cause I’m cruel
Won’t hurt the feelings I don’t have
Won’t break the heart that isn’t there you’ll find
But if you feel better
Telling me I’m cruel
Saying I’m unfeeling
I don’t mind
I don’t mind
I don’t mind
13 Save You (04:53)
How do I save you from a fate so sweet
As being torn to pieces by a loving hand
How do I save you from a voice so soft
As that which acquiesces to your each demand
How do I look upon the eyes I love
And send them down this path, I know it isn’t right
How do I make you realize my love
That there is more to fear than strangers in the night
Chorus:
How do I save you
How do I set you free
Behind the curtain waits a darker world
If I can’t make you leave
How can I save you from me
I think you’ve had enough experience
To differentiate between a heart of gold
And what you cradle in your gentle arms
Can you not recognize a soul already sold
How do I save you from the things I’ve been
I can’t deny the past, it’s written on my face
How do I save you from the mess you’re in
When I can’t make you leave this torturous embrace
Chorus
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Di ghigno92
Il capolavoro del disco è la traccia di apertura "(Prologue): Across The Sky", pezzo che riassume in sé l’intero album.
La musica di Emilie è magica ed eterea, con una voce molto fiabesca arricchita dal fedele violino.
