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A quanto pare, il trip-hop è morto (i critici danno raramente queste notizie, forse le nascondono anche a se stessi per evitare di mandare due fiori ai funerali). La luttuosa circostanza riguarda i Morcheeba?
In realtà già ascoltando “Big Calm” la sensazione era che di tale stilema Skye e soci facessero un uso decisamente moderato, udibile giusto in certe canzoni dalla languida atmosfera. Ora “Fragments Of Freedom”, dopo un brano interlocutorio come “World Looking In”, che pare il cordone ombelicale che lega il trio ai primi due album, scopre le nuove carte con “Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day”, rhythm’n’blues nel senso classico del termine (non quello moderno, secondo il quale persino Whitney Houston e Destiny’s Child farebbero r’n’b). E dopo la fragorosa immediatezza del singolo, si passa al funky di “Love Is Rare”, al soul di “Let It Go”, agli echi “disco” di "Love Sweet Love”, o “Shallow End” (controllate il calendario: non siamo nel 1978), fino al rap di “In The Hands Of The Gods” o “Good Girl Down”.
Chi vorrebbe ritrovare le insolite commistioni tra black music e atmosfere acustiche caratteristiche di “Big Calm” non sarà del tutto accontentato: ce n’è qualche traccia in “Be Yourself” e nel brano che dà il titolo all’album, quello che recupera il giro armonico di “Stairway To Heaven” dei Led Zeppelin; ma nel complesso in “Fragments Of Freedom” è la black music a dominare in tutte le sue forme. Soprattutto però con un occhio al passato, al recupero di un’energia e un’anima sonora che proprio la musica nera che un tempo ne era intrisa sembra, oggi, avere perso.
E’ un bel disco, il terzo dei Morcheeba? E’ sicuramente meno accattivante di “Big Calm”, e devia (con coraggio o incoscienza) dalle sonorità che avevano conquistato la maggior parte dei fans del gruppo; ma potrebbe avere vita più lunga dei suoi predecessori, per la vitalità di certe ritmiche. Unica pecca, il fatto che la voce morbida e suadente di Skye non trovi la ballata sulla quale stendersi, mentre viceversa alcuni brani sembrerebbero adatti a interpreti dalle unghie un po’ più affilate. Ma l’album nel complesso ospita più brani piacevoli di quanti se ne ascoltino in un’ora di collegamento a qualsiasi network radiofonico, ragion per cui ne caldeggiamo l’ascolto.
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01 World Looking In ()
Angels
Smiling on my happiness
Danger
'Cause the scene is still a mess
( We can all be blessed )
Don't stop just yet
We' ve got the world looking in
Our window
Don't stop just yet
We' ve got the world looking in
Our window
Spacecraft
Spinning slowly out of sight
Policeman keep on chasing the wrong guy
( We'll see eye to eye )
Don't stop just yet
We've got the world looking in
Our window
Don't stop just yet
We' ve got the world looking in
Our window
We've got the world looking in
Our window
We've got the world looking in
Our window
Don't stop just yet
We've got the world looking in
Our window
Don't stop just yet
We've got the world looking in
Our window
07 In the Hands of the Gods (feat. Biz Markie) ()
(feat. Biz Markie)
Bicka-bicka Biz, bicka- bicka Mark...
I'm the drunk dance rocker,
But don't drink Vodka.
Never sang a song called Frere Jacques.
Rap rhyme schooler,
Composition Ruler,
In seventh grade I had teacher named Mr. Dooler.
I'm very unique and you will agree-ah,
One in a million like Mohamed and Aaliyah.
A self-believer,
An over-achiever,
Have more stunts than Coronel Seavers.
Ain't no other like B-I-Z,
M-A-R, K-I with the E.
Hang at the Rucker,
Got a Hummer Truck-ah.
Wouldn't trade the busy-boy cuz I'm no sucker.
I'll be bouncing like a ball,
When I say, "Yes, Y'all."
If you don't rock with me you won't rock at all.
So check me out,
With out no doubt,
I'm guaranteed to rock and turn the party out!
We gonna do right....
I'm on,
like popcorn.
Like a Saturday nite at the Autobahn.
Listen to the Brother,
Ain't no other can mess with.
The man with the plan,
with the most finesse.
I make you scream,
And I'll make you dance.
I'm guaranteed to rock the mike,
And put you all in a trance.
So listen to the Brother,
Ain't no other can stutter,
(unintelligable) "ah- whadda a-whadda ah-rock, rock"
MC-Butter.
The man to do the "Up, a one-two,"
or "ah hah hah hah hah"
I rock with you.
So listen to me,
cuz I'm THE
Original B-I-Z-M-A-R-K-I
out with the E!
BABE
I'm guaranteed to rock and turn the party out!
BABE
09 Be Yourself ()
Too much of a good thing
Has really burnt me out
I'm sick of satisfaction
And living in a drought
Just be yourself
Anyway that you want to
Just be yourself
Anyway that you can
Just be yourself
Anyway that you want to, baby
Just be yourself
Anyway that you can
The center of attention
Is living on the edge
The thirty-second floor
I'm standing on a ledge
Got to get this straight
Cos we're running too late
Just be yourself
Anyway that you want to, baby
Just be yourself
Anyway that you can
Just be yourself
Anyway that you want to baby
Just be yourself
Anyway that you can
Just be yourself
Anyway that you want to, baby
Just be yourself
Anyway that you can
Just be yourself
Anyway that you want to, baby
Just be yourself
Anyway that you can
Just be yourself
Anyway that you want to
Just be yourself
Anyway that you can
Just be yourself
Anyway that you want to, baby
Just be yourself
Anyway that you can
Just be yourself
Anyway, baby
Just be yourself
Anyway that you can
12 Fragments of Freedom ()
Sample : (ouh, maybe you're right)
When the party's over
You got no way to go...
13 Moog Island ()
Sometimes I get up feeling good but greed gets me down,
I try to think about the highs, the freedom we've found,
When the business in your life don't sit with your soul,
And they treat you like a child they need to control.
The music that we make will heal all our mistakes and lead us,
The music that we hear is always standing near to feed us.
We're all gonna rise above all things that we lack,
Good vibrations that we make will come bouncing back.
The music that we make will heal all our mistakes and lead us,
The music that we hear is always standing near to feed us.
The music that we make will heal all our mistakes and lead us,
The music that we hear is always standing near to feed us.
The music that we make will heal all our mistakes and lead us,
The music that we hear is always standing near to feed us.
14 Trigger Hippie ()
Tune in, drop out of love,
Pull the trigger, I'm a hippie,
So said a truth, and blood,
Alive and well,
You push the buttons.
Standing in line of fire,
For the whole,
My soul,
Step codes,
The drums,
And sing,
Love the children,
Learn to live with everything.
Love love love, i'm a trigger hippie, yeah
Love love love, we're trigger hippies, yeah.
Zoom in, cut out at sound,
Make it feel so trippy
Hung up, let down to ground,
Forget the kill it's far to sticky
Love love love, i'm a trigger hippie, yeah
Love love love, we're trigger hippies, yeah.
Love love love, i'm a trigger hippie, yeah
Love love love, we're trigger hippies, yeah.
Love love love, i'm a trigger hippie, yeah
Love love love, we're trigger hippies, yeah.
15 Summertime ()
Summertime
And the living is easy
Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high
Your mama's rich
And your daddy's good lookin'
So hush little baby
Don't you cry
One of these mornin's
You're gonna rise up singin'
You're gonna spread your wings
And fly to the sky
But until that
Nothin' can harm you
With mummy and daddy
Standin' by
Summertime
And the living is easy
Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high
Your mama's rich
And your daddy's good lookin'
So hush little baby
Don't you cry
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