microgroove No 13 - Milan Alcatraz Concert Verdena - Saturday, February 19, 2011
The microgroove on Soft Cell I had pointed to "Wow", the double album Verdena had not yet been published, just to give you a boost of contemporary corner disk ("Ah just co '' is that New Wave and Post Punk, music, seems to have existed only the period from '78 to ' 84 " -" Oh why did not you? "-" Oh no I forgot Nirvana ").
Now the disc came out, but more than "Wow," I think "Dunno." Aided by the fact of not having yet heard enough and that is perhaps the most difficult of the trio disc orobico (expression, "orobico trio", copied from the review of Metro, not straw!) And therefore requires a certain commitment.
I tried, therefore, to do with an idea through the two live performances, which I had the good fortune to attend, just recently: The presentation live at Fnac and the concert last night Alcatraz.
Moreover, to realize who they are and what they sound the Verdena, you have to see live: they are on the "stage closet" of FNAC, or "shelf / courtyard" of Magnolia or the mega amplified dell'Alcatraz their commitment and their anger is always the same.
So because their songs live in it for them and I have not listened well "Wow," I try to do with an idea in the field.
Open the evening there is an opening act called "Spread" (or so I think I understand, when they announced) that debut with "Good evening, we will drink of the Verdena, in practice, you break your balls for about twenty minutes before the arrival of Verdena".
And in fact hold the promise: that kind of attack with a powerful chitarrone, changes of pace, acceleration, and texts on the edge of insane "one of my cock juice in a glass of crystal or a part of "as long as the boat goes, let her go."
Although an opening act, playing at the same volume then the stratospheric reserved Verdena, which is not always going to supporters of the moment, and rather than break my balls to the public, deflower.
After the shock treatment of the Spread, finally, our heroes take the stage. There is already a novelty: Alberto sits behind a keyboard like "flat fender", and embraces the guitar until the third or fourth piece. Use the floor in distortion, mo 'rhythm guitar.
pieces of "Requiem", their previous album, with whom they began their work of deconstruction of the song form in favor of lengthy improvisations, appear the "easy listening "to compare the pieces of" Wow. "
I Verdena today are pure instinct, experiment, do not look for the melody and I must say that, frankly, I regret it "space rock" and the psychedelic ramblings of "Requiem". The new material, to tell the truth, do not excite me, perhaps because the facts in order not to excite, but to go even farther, to dare more, come what may.
fact, the real explosion, with a lot of the pogo furious first ten rows, and some rash that flows and gets transported back and forth from the hands of crowd that supports him above the heads (the so-called "Crowd surfing"), you have the pieces from "the secret of the Samurai" or their first album (play "in Sharon") and "Requiem" the their penultimate album.
Absolutely epic "Clouds of Isaac," just comes from the latter, perhaps the best piece of the concert, these are the Verdena that I love, in all their psychedelic fury, with feedback, the voice of excruciating Alberto split with the echo, the powerful low distortion in Roberta.
Maybe "Wow" is a hard of way and the next album will be more defined, though I live clear his head (the new songs I like it or not, Boh!).
The concert sold out already for a month, but it's great and i Verdena is a real triumph.
Mai 11 € (and I say 11Euro! Ticket) were better spent.
And as always, it was a pleasure! CIAOOO Mauro .
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