interview
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a more defined sound
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have faced? Can you explain the choice of
the title?
After the first lp, for a year and a half we
played very much; while touring the pieces of
the first record have changed and grown, we
can say that we have a more defined sound,
we found our precise identity approach. This
made it easier when we finally managed to
take a break to work on new songs, so in a
few months we were ready and we went in the
studio. The title... well on one side it is an lp
made up of short pieces and self-contained,
like Rimbaud’s Illuminations from which the
hey started calling it “Italogaze”, to
define the new wave of shoegaze that
some significant Italian band are pushing, including records, festivals, tributes
and collaborations. Among the bands that
surfed on this significant wave there are Rev
Rev Rev, who released the album Des fleurs
magiques bourdonnaient and were among
the protagonists of the last Cosmosis Festival
in Manchester. We asked them some questions.
After the success and the praise for your
debut, as the work on your new album you
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quotation of the title.
Each piece has its own
story, you can hear regardless of everything.
A sort of anti-concept.
Affinity is also on the
themes and atmospheres, from the same
phrase “magic flowers
buzzed” with this synesthesia that seems
suitable to describe our
sound, as more generally the imagery of the
works of Rimbaud and
Baudelaire.
Have you made changes in your way of
working between the first and second lp
or things have remained more or less the
same?
Yes, there is a fundamental difference in the
approach: the first record begins with a way
of doing things, the second part by the feelings and moods that we want to create and
it dates back to the possible sonic means to
achieve them. And so, in search of hypnotic
suggestions I tried to introduce in the songs
on the one hand the so-called brainwave entrainment, or particular frequencies that are
studied in psychology for their properties to
induce meditative states, the other the tanpura, Indian instrument that produces sound
waves with the same properties acoustically.
The tanpura that Tatiana Scalercio has played
in several songs on the album, I also have
“copied” the tuning for the guitar Nightwine.
Another difference from the first album was
a greater emphasis on melody, and finally the
synthesis: we are children of the post-punk,
and we do not want to forget it.
You recently played at Cosmosis Festival in
Manchester: can you tell this remarkable
experience?
When you go to download your stuff and
find the Jesus and Mary Chain who do the
sound check, you have to wonder if you have
the wrong place... What can I say, it’s been a
wonderful experience, we have seen many of
our favorite bands and played in front a beautiful public and who appreciates this kind of
sound.
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and listen to
“Des Fleurs
Magiques
bourdonnaient”
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