The first thing I want to say is that the vintage leather suitcase holding symbol from the band there. It contains an aerosol of the singer. is not the first time I went to see the Locomotif live, but this time I can also watch the soundcheck. That might seem a dead time, but instead reveals a multitude of things that would otherwise go unnoticed. The dynamic between the band members for example, or their way of making music.
The room is almost empty, but Federica just sing a few notes that may be filled with elegance. Seeing her off the stage seems to be your cousin, but when he goes on stage he surrounds himself so accurately the charm of his voice that seems to find a French singer of the Roaring Twenties. Its elegance is not oldie, but a different and more contemporary to transmit the teachings of the greats of the past. Billie Holiday for example, which shows that his muse, but then also to think about those sounds Zero7 and B-side able to take you to a different kind of atmosphere.
Besides Federico Faranda the Locomotif are Barchitta Luca on drums, Gianluca Ricceri on bass and Carmine Ruffino to Rodhes. An integral part of Locomotif is Sergio Sallicano , this musically as the author of three of the songs from their album Twimog (his are Twimog, Lost on the run and Drunken Dreams).
Carmine me is referred to as the "dictator" of the group, the one who takes care of keeping the direction of the band and worrying that everything goes as planned. " I am very precise when it comes to music, I think it must be done in a professional manner even if it is 'only' a passion. I can not conceive - continued - how to improvise on stage. It 'not necessary to have a professional approach attention to detail. "
This is not a dictatorship, which marks the band's artistic choices that I prove to be the most diverse and varied. At the center of everything there but the voice of Federico and his jazz training, which requires special regard to the time of composition. " Yet I feel that a bit 'in the margins of all - confesses -. Although them to follow me, I sometimes find myself in trouble because my explanations are resolved in general indications that the rest of the band must be able to follow . "
Carmine is also the passion for vintage suitcase-represented first by the famous symbol, but also the choice to use on stage Rhodes tells me that a plane electro-weight of 60 kg. An original piece that was repaired at a time during the course of years.
Their music is a steady crescendo that seems to explode at any moment, but it stops just when you expect an opening. The result is an eternal tension and a climate of expectation that unfolds almost erotic never complete, fully capturing the attention of the public. In this climate facing different musical influences that are hidden for a moment before being captured. Peep their other musical moments, including one can see even drum & bass and electronics, but they disappear soon after incorporated as fish from the waves.
" The choice of not having a guitarist is precisely this - I said Carmine -. Besides the fact that by nature I can not get along with them, our choice is precisely due to this climate of tension that we intend to keep. Guitarists but can not hold back and explode in endless solos, plunging the expectation that had arisen. The explosion took place is not one of our specific choice .
On stage lack the bells, played by Federico, because the "king" was stolen during the previous evening. " I would like to know if that makes people a little bell " he says, disappointed.
A concert started, the room is full and no longer just me with the musicians. At some point something happens that more than anything else, is able to explain what this band is able to engage with his music listener. The audience begins to shut, with increasing insistence, the few bad people who are talking during the concert. "This music needs to silence " I hear. At the end of the concert, the audience calls for an encore. So far everything is normal. But the trio also asks that the Locomotif grant until the "goodnight" peremptory Federica not the end of the concert.
E It is no coincidence that the concert will end with "Passer-by that of all the pieces of the album is one that" opens "more, coming to an end almost to explode and solve the climate of emotional tension that had the whole concert created. And when you're there, you're almost there, the song ends abruptly. Leaving it there, like a fool.
As a lover abandoned.
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