Monday, March 14, 2011

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Waines live @ San Cataldo

I did not want to write, not this time, I swear. I went to a concert with the conviction that, for once, only, and only one of the public. But how could I not tell you what happened on that stage?

It 's been almost a year since I last saw Waines on stage and now find them on the eve of the official debut of STO, their new album out in April.


What you notice immediately, since the first agreement, a new power and other, more subtle and internal, that also contaminates the songs from their previous album. I expected the Waines ever, the ones I have come to know well on stage, and impress them instead reinvented himself again, with a more structured sound created by only two guitars and drums.

Fabio Rizzo, Roberto Cammarata and Ferdinando Piccoli are "only" three and it seems almost impossible that you are able to do it all alone on stage without using bases or prerecorded harmonic turns mandates loop. But everything is there, naked and raw on stage, simply played by God, without bass or synth: no a miracle, only true musicians who know how to do their job.

flawless execution and stage presence, capable of pulling the hair to the public on their side, I can say without a shadow of doubt and without fear of contradiction that Waines are made to other stages, the largest and certainly international.

The public is kidnapped and stops in the middle, with his mouth open, watching what happens on stage, with Ferdinand demon behind his drums, Rob seems to have been teleported from the 70s and fingers Fabio you can not follow the neck of his guitar.

It is the pure rock, blues is a genuine one, but it is also a brothel and electronic experimentation. The difference between the old and new tracks can be seen instantly and is more of a feeling skin, with new songs that are full of energy that takes you in the stomach, gets inside you and I do not know the fever me is going up or whether they are, I feel my legs tremble. It is difficult to talk about their music without resorting to sex.

I Waines are professionals who, I repeat, they deserve to be sent out to kick at the top of the charts and boxes for special occasions. And if you do not believe my words because I am a did not think their fans and objectivity, I challenge you to go see a concert and find in them something is wrong.
The only one who can do it is that Fabio Rizzo, accurate to the millimeter, say that you can always do more, there is always to improve.

new parts, the impact of the new album on the public and what is behind STO but I'll get but after the official presentation of the disc Candelai April 15 to April 16 in Palermo and the Lomax Catania.

you time to come and see for yourself if I'm telling you shit.

Vanessa Castronovo

Monday, March 7, 2011

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The Ants - Reports from the estate

Those who thought that, 150 years exactly from the Unification of Italy, the idea of \u200b\u200blarge estates was now largely superseded, they're wrong.
Perhaps there are, at least on paper, the serfs, but just do a quick analysis of the situation in Italy to realize that, fundamentally, nothing has changed since those days. A state divided between the large "landowners" who, from their luxuries and their villas just outside the city, they decide the fate of the small working class, true servants of the owner, exploited and deprived of any social dignity and staff.




is not surprising therefore that, from a land historically exploited and squeezed to the bone like Sicily, adds load anger, "Reports from the estate " Ep de The Ants registered in one of the most interesting production of the island, "The Cave" in Catania.

Like the plantation slaves of the U.S. vent their grief in the blues, in the songs, soul and gospel in the prayers addressed to God, who seemed to have abandoned, so The Ants sing their anger, bleeding and sweating over their simple work tools, guitars, bass and drums. A simple disk deliberately, intentionally directed, punk attitude (those who know Joseph Minasola , Carmelo Drago and Roberto Calabrese remember their early days as Box11a, punk sound and lyrics to Backyard Babies vitriol) and warm sounds like the best tradition of the blues / rock.

The "Reports from the estate de The Ants stories are fleeting, split the daily life of a proletarian (in this regard, very good idea to record and reproduce in " Now I do not like" the sounds of one of the markets of Palermo, the heart of the people), refrains simple texts and ironically cynical (" from the mirror every morning I see an idiot / what do you think of change, chance and your street / no use break your bones / I can not change my life ).

The first piece of the album "Do not laugh more " begins with an exciting cross-riff guitars drums and voices, that seems to say: " Ok, now listen to what we have to say and urlatelo with us." It is no accident in fact, in my opinion, that the same riff is also repeated in the closing track, this time with only the items in the foreground, symbolizing that the time has come to be heard clearly.
In less than three minutes of the initial piece The Ants leave immediately understood their purpose, to involve the listener in their stories, making it an integral part of a song, lyrics, choruses.

second song is "Dust and rules "old war horse of Box11a, taken in key ride blues, echoes of country rock and bluegrass (the backing vocals that give impetus to the verse and mandolin played by Roberto, a versatile drummer).

In less than five minutes has already reached the third song, "Now I'm not going ", which is also clearly printed rock'n'roll, and it feels really thrown in ' The universe de Ants (which, let's face it, it is common to most of us - musicians, students, graduates, workers, unemployed - or at least those who "do not have the father the municipality or the mother to the Region (...) and breaks the kidneys (...) not to do a few bucks for the guitar, but to eat ") and you find yourself unconsciously become part of three, ten, hundred, thousand voices of the chorus, shouting "Now I'm not going." Yes, the ants have achieved their goal, now I'm not the only ones to scream, but the people are serfs to shouting, singing, to point the finger.

It is no coincidence the last song on "Reports from the estate " Italian is a great cover of a certain Giorgio Gaber "I do not feel Italian . "An ode to a pillar of collective music" socially useful "Italian, at the end of deliberately popular album.


Perhaps, the lyrics and searched the music technically unexceptionable, can be a great food for the ears, but when you finish listening to a disc as directed, written by kids 20yo, our soul and our conscience it helped enormously. And let me, we all have a great need.
Vince Matassa
Pictures Ramona Fernandez

Friday, March 4, 2011

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HANK! live @ Catania

is certainly not the first time I see the HANK! In concert, but it is not the first time I see these "new" HANK! perform on stage. The difference is that they were in three, as the training records the abandonment by Joseph D'Angelo and then the synth.

And in fact at first glance seem a bit 'more naked than usual, but on the other hand, the arrangements are full of different sounds, more mature, and especially the guitar finally comes out strongly, leading to a size much more punk rock and a little 'less electro indie that I personally prefer. A play on the stage then there are Augustine "Finance" Burgio, loaded with a bad power more than usual, Claudio "Kloddy Gambino with the inevitable tight pants and Converse, and Francis" Foggy "Pintaudi the voice, guitar and synth. And that something is changed it can be seen on the stage where, unusually, the band now presents a more homogeneous.

that their sound has changed it is felt particularly in the slower " Although no use " who manages to pull out of the new guitar sounds and melodies of Francesco that he does not expect one.

The song loses some of the more "love The program, which is a bit 'the manifesto of the band, but the lineup is enhanced, however, a beautiful soft version of" In flight "and a new exciting change of pace in" When I see you .

are mostly new songs to better represent those who are HANK! now, are not new HANK! , as a band that has those who had gained the power of beginnings. Very beautiful the new " haplo" with an attractive use of the cowbell and an intense final instrumental part and even better "Live evil" that closes the concert.

sorry only find them in a room so small, in which the audience is seated rather than mosh and dance as it should, especially now with this new power they have acquired and which literally shook the floor.
And just feel sorry that you fail to grasp the words of the texts of Francis and his sharp irony that can not let go even when speaking with the public.

you like it or not, whether or not you love the "punkammerda" what we can say objectively is that HANK! They finally passed adolescence.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

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Miss Apple live @ Catania

sight of him.

The first time I listened to the EP by Miss Apple I thought the snow. That feeling that fills you when you sit on the stretch of ice and throw him look around. Alas! Snow aside, I've never seen a concert Miss Apple , aka Rebecca La Mela having had the opportunity . And I was wrong. The reference to snow is not random and prophetically in the room just by the pure white of the walls immediately takes me back to the feelings described above and the cold of the evening complete the illusion. Check in advance with Raffaele Marsullo , formerly known as Wilda tonight alongside Rebecca on a few tracks. What little it takes to assemble the evening and a few minutes later (a delay of half an hour, more than anything else) comes the star of the show: Miss Apple .

During the brief soundcheck really the two artists playing everything from Pan to the Oasis of the devil through the Rolling Stones. In fact Raffaele has clear ideas on what to play as Rebecca brought featuring just 24 hours earlier. The evening begins to take shape: there's the patrons of the restaurant and between them there is one very special, Adam Ficek. I guess that this name does not suggest anything. Well, the Babyshambles? Ok, he's behind the drums for the band of Pete Doherty. The room fills up in minutes with people perched on comfy ottoman intent to have a drink.

Rebecca his embraces the EKO, the agreement and the way to the concert, while Raffaele sitting to the side, waiting time to enter the scene. The concert runs off with ease but Rebecca is able to create a good emotional tension, full of empathy. The lineup consists almost entirely of original songs contained on the EP "From The North Song" and some nice cover done in a personal and tasty, with the help of the exposure Wilda on second guitar. Together they discussed the implementation of Wild Horses, Rolling Stones song of the historic 1971, Wonderwall and Do not Look Back In Anger by Oasis, all performed with highly charged emotional. E 'was easy to see that the inclusion of a second guitar has greatly benefited the sound of Miss Apple . I do not ever I'm happy, I saw a very good bass nell'ensemble. He won perhaps greater depth and variety to the whole performance.

to bring the proverbial tendency to become distracted during the live of Rebecca, a crumb thrown by a friend in the audience do the swearing in the middle of the concert and another friend-yeah, that friends! - Blows to the laugh during a very intense song. A sign that faces the stage and the audience with great ease, that is clear, but the professionalism also passes through these things. A good performance, not at all boring, but the project must grow and must renew his proposal to find a not yet reached maturity.

I'm pretty sure it's only a matter of time.

Johnny Cantamessa


Vista from her.

For one night Rebecca La Mela abandon the console and go back musician, returns to the guitar, returns to being Miss Apple.

The t-shirt with the Union Jack is the one that betrays his true inspiration, but prefers to talk about his guitar-style American folk. And it is his guitar to speak better than what is the world of Miss Apple , much of the lyrics and his voice. "Songs from the Noth," his Ep, is made of introspective songs backed by a beautiful harmonic basis and a guitar able to move to an agreement. And Miss Apple manages to evoke a past with his songs of rock music made the old fashioned way, one of the origins, but is also careful not to totally immerse yourself in it, managing not to get too with the ghosts of the past. It is music that takes you into another dimension, but is penalized by a voice with a vocal timbre not suitable. Good songs if they were sung by someone else or if Miss Apple decided to stick to more subdued tones and lower notes leaving the treble.

to give her music stand also Raffaele "Wilda" Marsullo engaged to fill with the sound of his guitar the cover of "Wild horses " the Stones. Excellent choice to propose a soft version of "Wonderwall and of coinvolgentissima enter the "Do not Look Back in Anger " by Oasis, as always capable of triggering the public a karaoke effect immediately.

Yet the show does not mesh. And the cause is above all the distraction of Rebecca, who sings his songs seems almost absent-mindedly and think of something else. And consequently the public's attention is diverted and you find yourself looking at the pictures in the room and ask that you make a rectangle of metal screwed to the floor. Miss Apple seems to be one of his concerts and walks away from the microphone too often to greet his friends who come and go from the room, burst out laughing for a face of a friend and let destroy the pathos that " Sea song" was created because of a crumb thrown by a fan. constant interruptions that are not of a certain good live.

" Suonaci plastic Love" are calling on the public.
" Carmen Consoli must choke with a frog " she says.

And Rebecca "Miss Apple " The Mela is also this.

Vanessa Castronovo