Möbius
Project come from Sapri, a town in the province of Salerno, and began
life in 2005 under the name Sphera drawing inspiration from bands
such as King Crimson, Yes, The Beatles, Focus, Camel, Weather Report,
Balletto di Bronzo, Area or Osanna just to name but a few. The
current name of the band reflects the common interest of the members
for astronomy and mathematics and refers to August Ferdinand Möbius, a German mathematician and
theoretical astronomer who is best known for his discovery of the
Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one
side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space. In 2014,
after many years of work, the band self-released an interesting debut
album titled Ra Me
Nivar with a line up
featuring Massimiliano Amato (guitars, vocals), Lucio Filizola
(guitars, vocals, keyboards, sitar), Tony Guerrieri (bass) and
Francesco Magaldi (drums, percussion) plus the guests Brunella Gianni
(vocals) and Gino d'Ignazio (flute).
On the beautiful three folds art
cover by Ennio Lanzo you can recognize Möbius and his strip in the
character in the foreground and in the strange spectacles he wears,
along with other elements that in some way try to describe the album
content: a kind of magician's box filled with strangeness, irony and
a pinch of madness, a mirror, an Oriental carpet, mathematical
formulas on the wall...
The
opener "Ra Me Nivar" starts softly, with spacey ambient
sounds. Then the rhythm takes off and the music swings from hard rock
and funky to a soft, jazzy finale while the lyrics conjure up images
and colours from the outer space such as stardust falling upon silent
altars, strange spectral synthesis based upon celestial mechanics,
threatening black holes devouring everything around them, colliding
worlds breaking through the doors of perception... By the way, the
title is taken from the pages of Oceano Mare, a novel by
Italian writer Alessandro Baricco, and is a word in an imaginary
African dialect that means "man who can fly".
"Scorci
di vita su nastro di Möbius"
(Glimpses of life on Möbius
strip) features Oriental influences and sitar passages. Here the
music and lyrics describe with a funny sense of irony a journey to
India where vanity and richness contrast with honesty and poverty and
where the horizon ends up to swallow your identity between false
perceptions and mirages.
The
following "Entanglementallistically Speaking" recalls the
Beatles and Pink Floyd. It's sung in English and here you can find
particles riding through the time, masses colliding one against each
other in the space, Maxwell's equations broken with a silver hammer
and Tesla's war of currents in a huge and creepy world that's almost
impossible to decipher.
The
beautiful, introspective "In fuga dal destino" (Running
away from destiny) features dark vintage sounds and evocative
atmospheres. The poetical lyrics describe a man running away from war
and fear, trying to savour life in its multiple aspects, writing
intense pages in the book of his life. It leads to the conclusive
"L'equilibrista" (Tightrope walker), a complex track
divided into three parts that depicts a dreamer strolling in a city,
blasé. He's metaphorically walking on a tightrope above the
void of a cruel reality, actor of his soul, breathing freedom, his
spirit flying into his inner space... A great track!
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