Just ask Tim Burton to make a portrait of Robert Smith of The Cure: what comes out is Nicholas Carnes, nested-haired singer from Palermo, already considered a good reason for the small Sicilian musical genius. 's music Nicholas Carnes is a small world in the balance between reality and dream built around a clever architecture of words, with the lyrics of his songs that have already become an icon for a generation of young people.
folk guitars, new wave keyboards, drums and vocals noise from songwriting. Nicholas Carnes manages to mix in a personal and unique sounds obscure British with the Italian sun and more sincere. His musical reference points are admittedly the Cure, the Smiths, Battiato, Tenco, Ciampi and De Andrè. These are big names that appear in music Nicholas Carnes of only as intangible and insubstantial presences, ghosts conjured up just to try to give a coordinated music to his art.
Although someone has already compared to Dent, Nicholas Carnes manages to undermine any comparison vividissima leveraging the power of expression in his lyrics, which is undoubtedly one of its strengths. You go from wistful evocation of a better life (I want to go to Zanzibar ) looking for something that can cover a distance of all'algida unrequited love (My scaldasonno , with the momentous final phrase "the life can be summed up in a song, is that nothing lasts longer than three minutes). shiny and bitter criticism of an unhealthy passion for the entertainment (Hollywood dreaming) is however balanced by the celebration of the great film legends ( Cineforum ). A light-hearted bitterness that emerges from a seemingly harmless girl who dreams to meet Ringo Starr ( Matilde), and glossy pop to end it will break down the body mass cole ( Shot ).
But his manifesto ed'intenti is without a doubt " I have little imagination. " And if "the problems are not enough to write songs" Nicholas Carnes must have found another device and a secret way that allows him to write songs that through word of mouth and the Internet have already become live a poetic manifesto.
success and low capillary to Nicholas Carnes, that without the clamor of the circuits cultural official, has managed to create a substantial group of dedicated fans across Italy, thanks to full-bodied tour that has seen around the company premises in the shadow of confidentiality Francis "Foggy" Pintaudi on guitar and synth and passionate exuberance of Just the opposite current to the battery.
Nicholas Carnes is also one of the few cases in which a singer is able to gain visibility the Italian indie scene and to is known to a large number of people without having yet made a record (in this time registration for the Malintenti records).
And if the words do not believe so much the better: go and see him live.
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