Petali del Cariglione's other project, Carillon del Dolore is black, more contemplative, poetic, and sweetly odious. Can't drive to this album. Can't lift anyone in the air. Can't talk on the phone. Can't put on clothes, turn on the lights, nor wake up. Can't go to bed. Can't feed the dog. Can't remember what Italo Disco is. Can't remember where I'll be in August. Can't
Carillon del Dolore - Trasfigurazione
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It is worth crawling through a thousand blogs to eventually stumble across an album like 'Transfigurazione', it backs up my thought that they was such a wave of sonic creativity in Italy in the late seventies and early eighties before it all became bland homogeneous commercial 'Italo-Disco' from the mid-eighties onwards (but it was the same here in the UK with the triumph of Stock, Aitken & Waterman and the seamless blending of pop and trans-corporate media structures....
...my pet theory and why Italian electronic music in that post-punk period was so original is the fact the entire country had lived through the deep politics of state-sponsored "terrorism" and false flag bombings, murders and kidnappings of the NATO/CIA/P2/Mafia/Vatican/Brigade Rosse nexus...everything was paranoia and tension and extremes; the ideal set of circumstances for creativity.
Onto the music! the first track just stops you in its backwards tracks and then the next few tracks remind me of what Psychic TV, 400 Blows and 23 Skidoo and other Illuminated/Fetish label bands were doing at the time, very original and very experimental at a time when "industrial" was more than NIN and facial piercings....but then it does what all the best Italians do (thinking Goblin here), it goes off at a complete tangent with the last track "La Fiaba"...just love those rolling Burundi/Rusty Egan electronic beats and when the guitars say hello at the end you wish it carried on till the next week, its that good!
Thanks so much for sharing such treasure that otherwise stays down the memory hole jealously guarded by an obscure vinyl elite ;)
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