Tuffarsi nei ricordi. Lasciarsi trapelare dalle spaventose e scroscianti onde del passato infranto.
C'è una donna bella, anzi, no, bellissima e se non è bellissima ha un carisma sorprendente. Mi guarda lontana con i suoi occhi da cerbiatta bastarda e una voce meravigliosa, da sirena jazz in grado di incatenarti alla sedia, senza speranza di fuga. La vedi pavoneggiare nei ritmi kitsch che si è trascinata dietro, in due album solisti non proprio eccezionali, la vedi esitare di fronte alle tamarrate retrò che fanno molto chic, ma che non graffiano. La vedi ostentare tutto con la voce, mentre la struggente e minacciosa ombra del passato le succhia il collo.
I Moloko. Dio bono, i Moloko.
Una delle più belle e poco considerate realtà musicali electro-jazz-trip hop di fine anni '90 e inizio '2000. Ricordati solo per un paio di singoli con i controcazzi come una scoppiettante "Sing It Back" e una meravigliosamente elegante "The Time Is Now", uno dei migliori modi per salutare il nuovo millennio che all'epoca era atteso con gli accendini danzanti. E con il 2003 salutano, disgraziatamente, la loro carriera breve, ma sicuramente incisiva. Non che abbiano inventato molto, ma hanno aggiunto polvere di stelle ad un genere che in quell'epoca sembrava fin troppo inflazionato. E non c'era miglior saluto che "Statues", un disco che è di una bellezza disarmante, passato quasi inosservato rispetto ai precedenti. Ed è un peccato, perchè mentre i precedenti dischi sgorgavano in un numero spesso abissale di canzoni, "Statues" in soli dieci pezzi ti racconta l'universo.
Omogeneo, ma mai ripetitivo. Involontariamente chic per un'eleganza mai forzata, rimane impresso in più momenti. Perchè bisogna proprio trovarli, scavando in palate di merda, dischi così sconcertatamente sensuali, che in apertura ti spiattella uno dei più grandi capolavori pop degli ultimi dieci anni: una favolosa, mastodontica "Familiar Feeling", quasi 7 minuti di continue ellissi vocali e vortici imperturbabili di ritmi e violini, che si apre con due minuti spaziali di puro ritmo affannoso, per poi distruggere completamente l'oasi danzereccia in quello che è un originale swing electro trascinante impossibile da cancellare. E sebbene l'incipit sia l'apice di un album che continua a sbocciare come una rosa, pezzo dopo pezzo, anche gli altri pezzi riescono a insinuarsi nei timpani dell'ascoltatore. Persino brani power come la pompatissima "Forever More", che in altri sette minuti sintetizza in tonalità più poesanti e danzerecce il sound Moloko, riesce ad assumere una veste elegante e sontuosa, curatissima ma non ambiziosa né autocompiaciuta: il ritornello facile, le movenze, i battiti studiati nel minimo dettaglio, lo sgorgare tremante della voce...tutto diventa paradossalmente intimo e vitale, un nuovo apèiron.
Sensazione provata anche nella splendida title-track, ballad jazz che riesce ad unire in un vortice di emozioni spirituali il caldo e il freddo, trasformandosi ad ogni nota, fino a che il ritornello pacato e dolce ci si avvolge attorno, fino a diventare parte stessa del corpo. Intima e sexy è anche "Blow By Blow", dolente ma non straziante, si mantiene sulla sua linea jazzy e sugli intrecci vocali, diventando uno splendido e semplice fiore da regalare a chi si ama.
"Statues" è uno di quegli album che va vissuto in ogni singolo attimo, che va scavato in profondità per capirlo meglio. Non tanto perchè sia di difficile ascolto, anzi, ma perchè è composto da una rete immagnifica di sensazioni primordiali, sospiri e piccole, grandi trovate musicali tutte da scopire, dove persino brani piccoli come "The Only Ones" nascondono un'anima immortale e dove semplicità e complessità si combinano, dando vita a trovate jazz come l'incantevole e coinvolgente "I Want You".
Un album che è il canto del cigno di una delle più belle realtà dello scorso decennio.
Se solo si trovasse il coraggio di riscoprirlo...
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
01 Familiar Feeling (06:33)
Nothing can come close (x3)
I never doubted it
What's for you will not pass you by
I never questioned it
It was decided before I asked why
It's all there ever was
And it's all there ever will be
How could you have questioned us?
It's yourself you deceive
Nothing can come close
To this familiar feeling
We say it all without
Ever speaking
x4
Hush now
No need to say the words
At first sight you perfectly heard
Love in all its entirety
Is no less than we deserve
I saw, your face
Some place
I felt this feeling before
Is it deja vu?
Do I somehow know you?
Nothing can come close
To this familiar feeling
We say it all without
Ever speaking
x3
Nothing can come close
To this familiar feeling
We say it all without
Nothing can come close
To this familiar feeling
We say it all without
Ever speaking
To this familiar feeling
We say it all without
Ever speaking
Nothing can come close
Nothing can come close
(Ever speaking)
Nothing can come close
To this familiar feeling
Nothing can come close
03 Cannot Contain This (05:41)
Don't put yourself down, don't be hard on yourself
You didn't do wrong baby, don't blame yourself
I know how you feel I've been there myself
It's what the devil may fare what do you care
Can you control yourself?
I won't stick around to watch you get colder
I know I couldn't be told, don't suppose, now I'm a little older
The fault was all mine, I don't blame you if you blame me
I know I was wrong, I just cannot contain this
Chorus:
I just cannot, just cannot contain this (4x)
just cannot contain this
And if it's a crime then can you explain to me
Where do I belong? I just cannot contain this
Can
not
con
tain
this
Just
can
not
con
tain
this
I just cannot contain this (2x)
Chorus
Just cannot contain this etc.
04 Statues (05:29)
So goodnight my dear
Hope you're feeling well
Hope your�re feeling very clear
In this song and rhyme
Thoughts of changes that
Keep ourselves intact
And yes
It's hard to fake but I'm faltering
In the steps I'm about to take
I am sure it's true
What is all for me is much the same to you
If all the statues in the world
Would turn to flesh with teeth of pearl
Would they be kind enough to comfort me
The setting sun is set in stone
And it remains for me alone
To carve my own and set it free
So we wait and see
How this backward chapter reads
In verse inadvertently
And it feels like fading light
But that's all that's left
Only what's left is right
If all the statues in the world
Would turn to flesh with teeth of pearl
Would they be kind enough to comfort me
The setting sun is set in stone
And it remains for me alone
To carve my own and set it free
Jumping from a balloon
A carried aloft by a parachute in June
Twisting round and round
Well I hope the ground is what you find
The setting sun is set in stone
And it remains for me alone
To carve my own and set it free
05 Forever More (07:24)
And if I drown in this sea of devotion
Just a stone left unturned
My need is deep
Wide endless oceans
Feel it furious
The fire burns on
Let there be love
Everlasting
And it will live eternally
Will we receive without ever asking?
I'm just curious
Gotta find me somebody
But there's nobody
To love me
And it's driving me crazy
There's nobody, to love me (pause)
(oooh baby)
Somebody tell me
How could there be nobody
Nobody to love me
And this life is so empty
There's nobody, to love me
Endless tears
Forever joy
To feel most every feeling
Forever more
Endless tears
Forever joy
To feel most every feeling
Forever more
Endless tears
Forever joy
To feel most every feeling
Forever more
Endless tears
Forever joy
To feel most every feeling
Forever more
And if I drown in this sea of devotion
Just a stone left unturned
My need is deep
Wide endless oceans
Feel it furious
The fire burns on
Let there be love
Everlasting
And it will live eternally
Will we receive without ever asking?
I'm just curious
Don't want you to see me crying
Just want you to see me flying
I need to get so high and
Want somebody to blow my mind
Don't want you to see me crying
Just want you to see me flying
I need to get so high and
Why don't you blow my mind
Blow my mind
Blow my mind
Got to find me somebody
But there's nobody
To love me
Anybody could love me
And it's driving me crazy
There's nobody to love me
Anybody could love me
Somebody to hold my hand
Someone who understands
Somebody to help me write
The poetry of life
Someone to love me
Someone who loves me
Ooh Baby
Endless tears
Forever joy
To feel most every feeling
Forever more
Endless tears
Forever joy
To feel most every feeling
Forever more
Endless tears
Forever joy
To feel most every feeling
Forever more
Endless tears
Forever joy
To feel most every feeling
Forever more
Gotta find me somebody
But there's nobody
To love me
And it's driving me crazy
There's nobody to love me
Most every feeling
To feel most every feeling
06 Blow X Blow (03:14)
I cant forgive and
I cant forget
Its never simple that way
Too proud to let you know
Oh know I wish it was so
It frightens me to say
Why dont I let sombody new
Take me home
Lately I feel so alone
Somebody new would make it easier
For me to let you go
Oh no
So be it
Let it be so
Its better this way Baby
Well you can take me down
What a way to go
Blow by Blow
Its how it always happens
In the throws of passion
Is it any wonder
Its no wonder at all
Just to live a lifetime
In the space of a lifetime
Well its the hardest thing to do
But therell be nothing after you
Blow by Blow
Kill me slow
Blow by Blow
What a way to go
Hey hey hey..........
You didnt mean those things you said
You didnt mean those things
07 100% (05:16)
Sure as a circle
Just keeps coming round
Sure as we've reached
The speed of sound
Sure as the sun will rise
In the morning sky
We'll never say it, never say goodbye
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Je t'adore
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Just as there's beauty
In everyday things
There is joy universal
When the bird sings
As sure as there's changes
We will all stay the same
The immortal pose
Just pictures in a frame
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Je t'adore
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Je t'adore
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Je t'adore
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Je t'adore
Show me amore
Trust in every sign
So be gone the space between us
There's no doubt in heart and mind
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Je t'adore
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Je t'adore
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Je t'adore
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Sure as a circle
Just keeps coming round
The speed of sound
Sure as the sun will rise
In the morning sky
We'll never say it, never say goodbye
Never say goodbye
08 The Only Ones (04:16)
If often in the still of night
Thoughts turn out twisted
Well unwind
Uncurl and lay the worries of the world
By any fire you find
Dreamers only believers in their sleep
Under archievers take a leap
Tell her the secrets that you keep
So close and yet too far out
Maybe someday you'll hear
Sweet somethings whispered softly
Into your ear
To those with afflictions
Prone to addictions
To users and to losers
Doubters and their daughters and sons
Your Angel will come
Maybe she's come and gone
Already lost the one
What have you done
You lost the only one
If you came from something
And you're headed nowhere
Out on the run
Allow this thought to crystallise
It is better in the long run
To never get there
And let the journey decide
In all this doom and this gloom
And pessimistical visions
Came all condemned men
All fatalists in metaphysical fear
How could love be here
To those with afflictions
Prone to addictions
To users and losers
Doubters and their daughters and sons
Your Angel will come
And to those with intentions
In all three dimensions
To jokers and to the joke
Doubters and their daughters and sons
(maybe you've found the one)
Maybe she's come and gone
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