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The Church gruppo Australiano formatosi nel 1980 dal cantante, autore nonché bassista Steve Kilbey (voce unica nel suo genere), dal chitarrista Peter Koppes, dal secondo chitarrista Marty Willson-Piper e dal batterista Kick Ward e attivi ancora ai giorni nostri…
Gruppo di abili ricercatori nonché miscelatori di raffinatezza pop – psichedelica che non avrà mai un fine. “Starfish” è uno dei loro migliori Album, il più venduto ed il più criticato per aver contrariato i loro precedenti lavori portando una creazione di mielose sfumature pulite e poco rumorose, ma decisamente concrete e fondamentali, infatti il risultato è stato raggiunto dalle vendite a picco. L’Album si apre con “Destination” ottimo riscaldamento per introdurre un travolgente successivo ascolto, e qui si parla di “Under The Milky Way” che sarà il loro capolavoro, un sogno melodico e vellutato di dimensione sproporzionate, e che dire delle successive “Blood Money” e “North, South, East And West", tutte tracce dove la presenza fondamentale è caratterizzata dagli arpeggi delle chitarre acustiche che a volte accompagnano assoli di cornamusa.
Proseguendo, “Spark” il pezzo più accattivante e progressivo, interamente condotto dalla chitarra di Willson-Piper, “Antenna” è di una strabiliante solarità che premette una ipnotica sbalorditiva elettronica di “Reptile”, che si va a miscelare nel richiamo degli anni ’60 di “A New Season” e “Hotel Womb” . “Starfish” accoglie atmosfere uniche e ogni brano è notevole, come notevole è da sottolineare nuovamente, il continuo basilare lavoro delle chitarre acustiche che si rincorrono in una “porporea” pop – song psichedelica che ha colorato positivamente gli anni ’80. Dieci tracce che ti dirigono in una dimensione al di fuori del dark o dalla new wave che campeggiava fortemente in quello straordinario decennio.
“Starfish” è una fantastica storia reale che arrivò dall’oltre oceano inondando ogni paese del mondo.
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01 Destination (05:52)
Far below the surface, where the women sway
Green shadows greet another day
Drowned for the moment, on an empty ocean bed
And I cannot lift my head
Late for an appointment, clothes everywhere
I cannot find my memory anywhere
Ah disappointment just doesn't care
Off in the distance just waiting there
Take back her keys, what shall we do today
Maybe a little lunch down at the ghost cafe
Sand in my sandals, my blood feels like red wine
They say, hey everything will work out fine
02 Under the Milky Way (04:58)
Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty
Sound of their breath fades with the light
I think about the loveless fascination
Under the Milky Way tonight
Lower the curtain down in Memphis
Lower the curtain down all right
I got no time for private consultation
Under the Milky Way tonight
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
And it's something quite peculiar
Something that's shimmering and white
Leads you here despite your destination
Under the Milky Way tonight
(Chorus)
Under the Milky Way tonight
04 Lost (04:48)
Sometimes I'm wondering under prehistoric skies.
I feel it's all beginning right before my eyes.
I must go back, reexamine my love.
Here she comes with the penetrated stare.
I don't know when, but I wish I knew where.
Quick calculation, there's not nearly enough.
Because we're lost, because we're lost.
Cold desert stars, feel them sparkle and frost,
They are so lost.
Follow her down to worship some god.
Who never speaks to me, I wonder if that's odd.
Then he says you're never listening.
The pursuit of adulation is your butter and your bread.
It's an exquisite corpse and its lips are red
And its teeth are glistening.
But you are lost, but you are lost.
Now hang up 'cause the lines are all crossed,
You are so lost.
If you're alone and you're feeling blue,
Everyone in Persia probably feels like that too.
I just hope they don't believe like you do.
Here she comes with her unforgiving web.
Almost forever I've been drinking these dregs.
It must be time to change our brew, cruel, view.
Before we're lost, before we're lost.
Look at the map, add up the cost,
Before we're lost.
06 Spark (03:45)
I'm saturated. I'm wet with your tears, you spill so easily.
In reflection I'll see you again.
Approach me, soak me.
Faith, faith, breathe.
'Cause it's here, it's where the air is clear,
Where far off things could be quite near.
No repairs are needed, just a spark.
I'm interested, you've always been a subject, that I could learn.
Splendid hills, unconquerable mountains.
Climb, don't ever turn back.
Seed, seed, grow.
(chorus)
(Repeat first verse and chorus)
07 Antenna (03:50)
Why do you always wrongly assume
That you're so well aware of what's happening there,
Right here in this room?
You're just an antenna, you're just a wire.
There's a thousand tongues wagging in your ears tonight,
And you turn around and you call me a liar.
Lightly babe, oh the fine lights cannot find you.
She stay out my way, it's the pulse I am aligned to.
And everything you say, you'll need that breath one day.
Well, you're just an antenna, you're just a code.
You translate like a book, the fuses all cook.
You eat humble pie and it tastes of the road.
Lightly babe, oh the fine lights cannot find you.
She say, that's the way, that's the fate I am resigned to.
And everything you say, you'll need that breath one day.
You're just an antenna, you're just a gauge.
You disturb my slumber and round up the numbers
And put them inside your velvety cage.
Lightly babe, oh the fine lights cannot find you.
She say, make my day, and the sunlight will not blind you.
Lightly babe, oh the fine lights cannot find you.
I may never pray to the fortune that's behind you.
08 Reptile (04:56)
Too dangerous to keep.
Too feeble to let go.
And you want to bite the hand.
Should have stopped this long ago.
Go now, you've been set free.
Another month or so you'll be gorging on me ("poisoning me" on 2nd and 3rd times)
With your lovely smile.
I see you slither away with your skin and your tail,
Your flickering tongue and your rattling scales
Like a real reptile.
Had you coiled around my arm.
How could you ever know
How I loved your diamond eyes?
But that was long ago. (Chorus)
And I should have believed Eve.
She said we had to blow.
She was the apple of my eye.
It wasn't long ago. (Chorus)
10 Hotel Womb (05:40)
Volcano pierce the air, ashes block out the sun.
Down in the lair, well I met her there
With a price for everyone.
I paid eighty dollars for this wedding ring,
I couldn't take it off if I tried.
And the cactus sure tastes strangely sweet
As it goes down inside
I dream I'm safe in my hotel womb.
Soft and soul made, it's a wonderful room.
I wish I'm back in my hotel womb.
Slip through the crack, to that wonderful room.
Sudden voltage in the night, with a rainforest girl.
As we float downstream to the Amazon River
Where the black waters swirl.
I say, why are you people wearing those masks?
I say, can we be reconciled?
She says the mother of the storm has to roam the sky
Searching for her child. (Chorus)
Morning comes at last, and she's lying by my side.
She's got the face of the widow who keeps following me
And the body of my bride.
I say, why are those buildings swaying like trees?
I say, can we stop for a while?
She says, can't you hear the city that's hidden in there?
It's just another mile.
(Chorus)
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Di JonatanCoe
Starfish è stato l'apice della parabola dei Church, il canto delle sirene.
'Under The Milky Way' più che una canzone è una dimensione, uno stato emotivo.
