The nightmarish opening track, “Sogni infranti” (Broken dreams), starts with a spacey atmosphere and slowly draws you into a menacing illusion you can’t get rid of. All around you there’s nothing but a dark cosmic void, then a heavy sheet of metal appears in the sky weighing you down. Your energy is running out, your strength is fading and you are chained to this new, gloomy reality made of broken dreams...
“L’illusione dell’oblio” (The illusion of oblivion) alternates bursts of energy with calmer parts. It describes in music and words raging waves that drag you into the vortex of a dark reality and make you desperately fight against the tide to survive. Many questions haunt your mind but there is no answer and you end up to dream of forgetting everything to rest and slowly slip into oblivion...
“Catarsi” (Catharsis) is an introspective piece that tells of a surreal oneiric experience: an inner journey through the labyrinth of a man’s mind, the consequent meeting with his soul and the return to the centre of his real ego. The protagonist flies above the shadows of his steps under an enchanted rain, he can smell strange perfumes and hear thundering thoughts. Eventually he wakes up in the forest, under the branches of some beautiful trees. Now the clear sky is just the canvas where he can paint new flights in a dream of purification and rebirth…
“Apologia di reato” (Apology of crime) begins with a tense atmosphere that could recall Goblin. The music and lyrics tell of a very particular, paradoxical crime. A man is put on trial. What sin did the defendant commit? What crime is he charged of? What did he do that was so bad? What wickedness stains his soul? He did something that wears your soul out and tears it apart. But what he did was nothing other than telling the truth. He killed falsehood causing infernal pain and now he is proud of his crime...
“Isolazione” (Isolation) describes in music and words a strange sense of solitude, the feeling to be helpless and out of place in the world, disconnected from an oppressive reality. The protagonist feels alone even among of millions of people who have lost their critical sense and keep on talking without saying anything. He has been given a number and a role but he refuses to comply. He feels like as if he should die without reacting...
“Madri di niente, figli di nessuno” (Mothers of nothing, children of no one) is another track full of dark energy and nightmarish atmospheres. The lyrics here paint disquieting visions on the musical canvas and every now and again the narrative vocals might recall Pholas Dactylus. The protagonist perceives obscure plots to manipulate him. There’s someone who wants something from him that he doesn’t have, someone who wants him telling something he doesn’t know. Then, theatrical vocals evoke metal bars falling from above to imprison him and the protagonist feels that now he’s chained to his eternal scaffold: his existence. Hypocrisy, lies, deception, extreme fanaticisms and distorted conceptions of life are represented with vivid colours on this crazy tableau...
The last track, “Miraggi remoti” (Remote mirages) begins calmly, the pace is slow and evokes a long, tiring journey across an undefined desert. The protagonist is plunged in a kind of collective hallucination among figures of non-existent men surrounding him and strange faces all around observing him. How long will his trip last? How many mountains will he have to climb before he can see the sky above the sea? Ha can’t tell and calls for help...
On the whole, an excellent work!
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