L'album "Hotel" del 2005 uscì anche in edizione speciale di due dischi. Il primo, che conosciamo tutti, è appunto quella chiavica di Hotel: un inutile, scarno e patinato esercizio di stile, con poche idee ma tanta semplicità. Per deviazione professionale mi è piaciuto anche quello ma non lo ascolto più perchè il dottore mi ha sconsigliato di mangiare plastica. Il secondo disco è invece quello di cui parlerò in questa sede, denominato appunto "Hotel: Ambient". Per come la vedo io il buon Richard avrebbe fatto meglio a far uscire questo invece di Hotel. Avrebbe venduto meno della metà ma perlomeno non sarebbe stato bistrattato dalla critica di mezzo mondo per l'evidente caduta di stile, o ancora meglio, non avrebbe fracassato i maroni per settimane con quell'aborto kitsch che risponde al nome di "Lift Me Up". Dettagli di marketing a parte, andiamo alla musica del suddetto. Dio. La verità è che sto recensendo quest'album non perchè avessi particolarmente voglia di scrivere, ma più che altro per rendere pubblicamente grazie a questo piccolo grande uomo che forse più di chiunque altro mi ha fatto innamorare della musica quando ero ancora uno sbarbatello. Farò dunque due descrizioni, una obiettiva e una no. Decidete voi quale saltare e quale leggere:
Obiettività (questa sconosciuta): Si tratta di un buon album di musica ambient, senza troppe pretese. La struttura dei pezzi è per lo più circolare, creata (probabilmente) con l'utilizzo di pc, tastiera e piano. Ai brani aggiunge talvolta beat lontani e distensivi (vedi "Homeward Angel" o "Blue Paper"). Non vi si trovano in verità nè molti effetti nè molti strumenti. Come nella più classica tradizione Moby si da molto spazio alle melodie (alla Vangelis, ma molto più semplici, esempi sono i due pezzi già citati, o anche "Chord Sound") ma anche alla cornicialità strictu sensu, come dovrebbe essere per un disco ambient Enianamente inteso ("The Come Down" su tutte). Ci sono un paio di eccezioni nella parte centrale (a mio avviso, le peggiori) in cui Moby divaga senza una direzione precisa (vedi "Not Sensitive" e "Lily") invece di seguire uno schema circolare. Tutti gli altri pezzi hanno uno svolgimento ben preciso, atto a creare progressivamente un'atmosfera di quiete e serenità, sottolineata dal suono particolarmente toccante scelto per le tastiere. Capitolo a parte è invece la techno-ambient a cassa dritta dell'iniziale "Swear", memore del periodo club di Moby. Chiudiamola qui? chiudiamola qui.
Soggettività: Amate le melodie semplici, dolci, toccanti? Siete depressi? Pensierosi? Innamorati? Sensibili? Vi vengono le lacrime agli occhi davanti ad un film drammatico quando subentra inevitabilmente quella tristissima colonna sonora? Insomma, possedete un minimo di umanità? Allora fatevi un piacere e accaparratevi il disco. Punto. Per me è qualcosa di sublime. Certo, sicuramente non è un capolavoro, è inutile pigliarci per il culo. Esistono dischi più ambient di questo, più vari di questo, più seminali di questo, ecc ecc. Eppure, in tutta la sua semplicità (o forse proprio per quella) in questo disco Moby riesce, nei momenti migliori, a toccare le corde più profonde della mia anima con una intensità che non ha eguali. Va dritto al punto e infierisce. Poi non so voi, ma per quanto mi riguarda al primo ascolto della short version di "Homeward Angel" mi sono messo a piangere senza che avessi motivo apparente di farlo. Capirete quindi perchè preferirò abbandonare l'obiettività nella valutazione. In fondo non siamo tutti umani, alla fine?
Grazie ancora Mr. Richard Melville Hall!
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03 Beautiful (03:11)
Come on baby,
Come on girl,
Come on baby,
Come on girl,
I love you baby,
I love you now,
I love you baby,
I love you now,
Look at us we’re beautiful,
All the people push and pull but,
Let’s just go out and ride,
Talk about the things we’ve tried
Look at us we’re beautiful,
All the people push and pull but,
They’ll never get inside,
We got too much to hide
Come on baby,
Come on girl,
Come on baby,
Come on girl,
I love you baby,
I love you now,
I love you baby,
I love you now,
Look at us we’re beautiful,
All the people push and pull but,
Let’s just go out and ride,
Talk about the things we’ve tried
Look at us we’re beautiful
All the people push and pull but,
They’ll never get inside,
We got too much to hide
Look at us we’re beautiful,
All the people push and pull but,
Let’s just go out and ride,
Talk about the things we’ve tried
Look at us we’re beautiful
All the people push and pull but,
They’ll never get inside,
We got too much to hide
Look at us we’re beautiful [x7]
Look at us we’re beautiful (yeah!)
Look at us (yeah!) we’re beautiful (yeah!) [x 3]
Look at us (yeah!) we’re beautiful
Look at us we’re beautiful [x4]
04 Lift Me Up (03:19)
Plain talking (Plain talking)
Take us so far (take us so far)
Broken down cars (broken down cars)
Like strung-out old stars (like strung-out old stars)
Plain talking (Plain talking)
Served us so well (served us so well)
We travelled through hell (travelled through hell)
We know how we felt ( We know how we felt )
Lift me up, lift me up
Higher now ama
Lift me up, lift me up
Higher now ama
Plain talking (Plain talking)
Making us bold (making us bold)
So strung out and cold (so strung out and cold)
I'm feeling so old (feeling so old)
Plain talking (Plain talking)
Has ruined us now (has ruined us now)
You never know how (you never know how)
Sweeter than thou (sweeter than thou)
Lift me up, lift me up
Higher now ama
Lift me up, lift me up
Higher now ama
[4x]
Oooooooohhhhhhhhhhh
Higher
Lift me up, lift me up
oh la la la la
Lift me up, lift me up
oh la la la la
[4x]
(Feeling so old)
05 Where You End (03:22)
Some things fall apart
Some things makes you whole
Some things that you find
Are beyond your control
I love you and you're beautiful
You write your own songs
What if the right part of leaving
Turned out to be wrong
If I could kiss you now
Oh I'd kiss you now again and again
'Til I don't know where I begin
And where you end
Thought I fell in love the other day
With an old friend of mine
I was running kisses
Down every inch of her spine
We had the roof down
The sun came shining in
The black fact is
That I was thinking of you
If I could kiss you now
Oh I'd kiss you now again and again
'Til I don't know where I begin
And where you end
I slept in the sun the other day
I thought I was fine
Everything seemed perfect
'Til I had you on my mind
I tried to love you
I did all that I could
I wish that the bad now
Had finally turned into good
If I could kiss you now
Oh I'd kiss you now again and again
'Til I don't know where I begin
And where you end
If I could kiss you now
If I could kiss you now
If I could kiss you now
Oh where you end
Is where I begin
Oh where you end
Oh where you end
Oh where you end
06 Temptation (04:55)
Heaven
A gateway to hope
Just like a feeling
I need, it's no joke
And though it hurts me
To see you this way
Betrayed by words
I'd never heard
Too hard to say them
Up, down, turn around; please don't let me hit the ground
Tonight I think I'll walk alone; find my soul as I go home
[2x]
Oh it's the last time, it's the last time
Oh it's the last time, it's the last time
Each way I turn
I know I'll always try
To break the circle
That has been placed round me
From time to time
I find I lost
Some meaning
That was urgent
To myself
I do believe
Oh, up, down, turn around; please don't let me hit the ground
Tonight I think I'll walk alone; find my soul as I go home
[2x]
Oh it's the last time, it's the last time
Oh it's the last time, it's the last time
And I have never met anyone quite like you before
And I've never met anyone quite like you before
[2x]
And I've never met anyone quite like you before
Oh, up, down, turn around; please don't let me hit the ground
Tonight I think I'll walk alone; find my soul as I go home
And I never met anyone quite like you before
Up, down, turn around; please don't let me hit the ground
Tonight I think I'll walk alone; find my soul as I go home
Up, down, turn around; please don't let me hit the ground
Tonight I think I'll walk alone; find my soul as I go home
[2x]
07 Spiders (03:45)
We just had to ask
Maybe some one out of heaven
Would hear us down here
We couldn't bear to stand
How the people leave us waiting
For something up there
Oh, why did you leave?
Why won't you come?
And save us again?
Come back to us spiders
Come uncrush my hand
Let peace and beauty reign
And bring us love again, like you can
We just didn't know
Someone there outside of heaven
Heard us down here
We couldn't stand it here
How the people leave us longing
For something up there
Oh, why did you leave?
And why won't you come?
And save us again?
Come back to us spiders
Come uncrush my hands
Let peace and beauty reign
And bring us love again, like you can
[2x]
So much time, we need to ask everything
How did it go, you need it I got it
Come back to us spiders
Come uncrush my hands
Let peace and beauty reign
And bring us love again, like you can
[2x]
Like you can
08 Dream About Me (03:21)
Babe, oh dream about me
Lie on the phone to me
Tell me no truth if it is bad
There's enough in my life to make me so sad
Just dream about colour fills our lives
Just dream about someone else tonight
And babe, oh dream about me
On the phone talking quietly
I want to be yours, oh won't you be mine
Against red skies for all time
So dream about us when you're alone
Just dream about how I will let go
And
And
Babe, oh dream about me
Lie on the phone to me
Tell me no truth if it is bad
There's enough in my life to make me so sad
Just dream about colour fills our lives
Just dream about someone else tonight
Just dream about colour fills our song
Just dream about how I will let go
12 Slipping Away (03:39)
All that we needed was right
The threshhold is breaking tonight
Open to everything happy and sad
Seeing the good when it's all going bad
Seeing the sun when I can't really see
Hoping the sun will at least look at me
Focus on everything better today
All that I need and I never could say
Hold on to people they're slipping away
Hold on to this while it's slipping away
All that we needed tonight
Are people who love us and like
I know how it feels to mean it
Oh and we leave here, you'll see
Open to everything happy and sad
Seeing the good when it's all going bad
Seeing the sun when I can't really see
Hoping the sun will at least look at me
Focus on everything better today
All that I need and I never could say
Hold on to people they're slipping away
Hold on to this while it's slipping away
So long
So long
Open to everything happy and sad
Seeing the good when it's all going bad
Seeing the sun when I can't really see
Hoping the sun will at least look at me
Focus on everything better today
All that I need and I never could say
Hold on to people they're slipping away
Hold on to this while it's slipping away
Hold on to people they're slipping away
[14x]
13 Forever (03:39)
Two simple places
We wanted to go
Two simple things
You wanted to know
Everything around
I could not see
I wish I'd known
How much you loved me
Oh
We could feel this way forever
[2X]
I watched the sun
Cause it touches you while you sleep
You gave me something
That I wanted to keep
I see you smile you smile like a little child
And hold you crying when it all goes wild
Oh
We could feel this way forever
[6X]
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