Warm Spaced Blue is the
second album by Roman band Ingranaggi della Valle and was released in
2016 on the independent label Black Widow Records with a renewed line
up featuring founder members Mattia Liberati (Hammond B3, Mellotron,
Fender Rhodes Mk V, Mini-Moog, piano, backing vocals), Flavio
Gonnellini (electric guitars, backing vocals), Marco Gennarini
(violin, backing vocals) and Shanti Colucci (drums, percussions)
along with Davide Savarese (vocals, glockenspiel), Antonio Coronato
(electric bass) and Alessandro Di Sciullo (electric and acoustic
guitars, Moog, Mellotron, Roland TR 808 and TR 909, Akai MPC Touch,
Korg Kaoss Pad KP 3, electronics, backing vocals) plus some
prestigious guests such as Fabio Pignatelli (bass), Florian Lechner
(narrative vocals), Stefano Vicarelli (synthesizer) and Paolo Lucini
(flute). If compared with their previous album, the sound is darker
and, in some way, bolder and more experimental. According to the
band, this is a concept album sui generis, inspired by H.P.
Lovecraft’s literary work, ghost stories and Gothic atmospheres
dealing with the relation between self-conscious and collective
unconscious. Anyway, there is more focus on music than on lyrics
and you can enjoy the album even without the help of a Jungian key to
analyse the complexity of the concept while the art cover and the
pictures in the booklet by Jacopo Tiberi could give a clue of what
the music is about...
The disquieting opener “Call
For Cthulhu: Orison” introduces the subject matter with an
invocation to the return of a fallen god, the one who can sweep away
laws and morals overcoming the difference between good and evil,
restoring universal freedom... “The most merciful thing in the
world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all
its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of
black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage
far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto
harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated
knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our
frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the
revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of
a new dark age...” (quote from H.P. Lovecraft, The Call Of
Cthulhu).
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| Ingranaggi della Valle 2016 |
“Inntal” takes us in the
eerie woods of the Inn Valley drawing pastoral landscapes and
spectral shadows for a Gothic tale where fear can drive you crazy.
The narrative vocals in German, the short lyrics in English, the
music and the picture in the booklet evoke the ghost of a drowned
girl and the irrepressible force that can attract you in her fatal
arms and then push you into the void of the night...
The short instrumental “Call
For Cthulhu: Through The Stars” takes you for a nightmarish trip
into the deep ocean where you can experience an oneiric vision of the
submarine corpse-city of R'lyeh, home of
great Cthulhu and his hordes, hidden in green slimy vaults...
The
following “Lada Niva” is a bit lighter and dreamy. It
describes the troubles of the ghost of an old man hanging on his
memories and who can’t forget his old car and the sound of the rain
on its wind-shield, making very difficult for him the last step into
the afterlife. Then it’s the turn of the mysterious “Ayida Wedo”,
a beautiful instrumental track whose title refers to the Rainbow
Serpent of the Voodoo culture and to its double personality...
The long, complex “Call For
Cthulhu: Promise” evokes in music and words claustrophobic
atmospheres and cosmic journeys across the unknown territories of the
mind. The promise of a spiritual rebirth and the hope for a come back from the abyss close an album that is really worth
listening to...
You can listen to the complete
album HERE
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