Gruppo Palude took form in 2012 in Merone, a small town of the province of Como, and, according to the band, their name refers to a swamp on the banks of the Lake of Pusiano. After a first immature demo in 2016, in 2021 they released an interesting debut album, entitled Arché, on the independent FIL1933 label with a line up featuring Ruben Nese (guitar, synth), Angelo Panichella (guitar), Michele Ripamonti (bass), Riccardo Zerboni (drums) and Tommaso Severgnini (vocals, flute). It’s a concept album dealing with an inner journey, the search for a lost ego to overcome a personal crises and find new energies. The overall sound draws on many different influences, from seventies prog and hard rock to metal and even rap...
The opener “Mayday” starts by a sound of hooters in the background and a first part describing a disquieting inner silence where even a simple hiss could be deranging. Then, with a sudden burst of energy, comes a desperate call for help as the protagonist feels like a passenger on a sinking ship in the middle of a raging sea. When the alarm is over and the calm comes back nothing is the same...
“Stop. Go!” begins softly but after a while the rage explodes. It is difficult for the protagonist to stand still wearing a mask of apparent calm when he’s deeply troubled and overwhelmed by his inner crises. He’s put into check and can’t get out of it, he’s getting mad in a crescendo of stop and go...
“Stop. Go!” begins softly but after a while the rage explodes. It is difficult for the protagonist to stand still wearing a mask of apparent calm when he’s deeply troubled and overwhelmed by his inner crises. He’s put into check and can’t get out of it, he’s getting mad in a crescendo of stop and go...
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“Pillola azzurra” (Blue pill) tells in music and words of the deep sense of bewilderment of the protagonist who’s losing himself in a vortex of contrasting feelings and sensations while the following “Il canto delle sirene” (The song of the sirens) describes a nightmarish night where all the senses of the protagonist are in fire and every chance of help sounds deceitful like the old charming songs of the sirens...
Next comes “Prosopopea” (Prosopopoeia) whose title refers to a rhetorical device in which a speaker or writer communicates to the audience by speaking as another person or object. It’s a reflective, melancholic track that describes a feeling of helpless dizziness with the protagonist sinking to the bottom of a dark, inner sea, lost in the breaths and glances of lovely people who seem to ignore even his presence...
“Il guerriero” (The warrior) describes the protagonist observing from the outside his life crumbling like a castle. He’s in an ethereal state between fear and resentment, he can’t understand any more what is flesh and what is stone, he can’t say if there’s a winner behind this loss and if he will rise again from the ruins of his life. He feels like a warrior who, in time of peace, lashes out at himself...
The following “Nostalgia” conjures up the image of a broken mirror reflecting the face of the protagonist. Selfishness took its share and now what’s left is a deep sense of solitude. He feels something inside him that is feeding on his feeble heartbeats, the memory of fragile dreams and a wistful affection for the past...
“Hey Man” welcomes a new awareness, what’s reflected in the mirror is not a monster and the protagonist finally recognizes his own face. He would like to fly like Icarus, but not too high to avoid the fall... Now he can come out of the darkness where he felt safe and look again at the colours of life...
The following “Piangere da soli” (Crying alone) marks a step forward, beyond good and evil the protagonist now looks up and accepts his reality, breaking his inner chains... Then, “Ora e qui” (Now and here) ends the album with a positive mood and a heartfelt call for freedom.
On the whole, a good work that deserves a try.
You can listen to the complete album HERE
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Next comes “Prosopopea” (Prosopopoeia) whose title refers to a rhetorical device in which a speaker or writer communicates to the audience by speaking as another person or object. It’s a reflective, melancholic track that describes a feeling of helpless dizziness with the protagonist sinking to the bottom of a dark, inner sea, lost in the breaths and glances of lovely people who seem to ignore even his presence...
“Il guerriero” (The warrior) describes the protagonist observing from the outside his life crumbling like a castle. He’s in an ethereal state between fear and resentment, he can’t understand any more what is flesh and what is stone, he can’t say if there’s a winner behind this loss and if he will rise again from the ruins of his life. He feels like a warrior who, in time of peace, lashes out at himself...
The following “Nostalgia” conjures up the image of a broken mirror reflecting the face of the protagonist. Selfishness took its share and now what’s left is a deep sense of solitude. He feels something inside him that is feeding on his feeble heartbeats, the memory of fragile dreams and a wistful affection for the past...
“Hey Man” welcomes a new awareness, what’s reflected in the mirror is not a monster and the protagonist finally recognizes his own face. He would like to fly like Icarus, but not too high to avoid the fall... Now he can come out of the darkness where he felt safe and look again at the colours of life...
The following “Piangere da soli” (Crying alone) marks a step forward, beyond good and evil the protagonist now looks up and accepts his reality, breaking his inner chains... Then, “Ora e qui” (Now and here) ends the album with a positive mood and a heartfelt call for freedom.
On the whole, a good work that deserves a try.
You can listen to the complete album HERE
More info:
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