2008-29-11
Out continues to rain, rivers flooding, the absurd has the features of a woman trapped in her car under four meters' water, on the outskirts of Rome , or has the words of a sad article on the condition difficult Alitalia employees and managers at the time of the transition to CAI. In these moments you feel an acute need flash back.
The Martha
I Marta sui Tubi are essentially two (or the two individuals that day they met to discuss Martha in a place full of tubes ): John Gulino and Carmelo Pipitone . Sicililani, are formed in Bologna, and then begin to produce music for acoustic guitars and voices to grapeshot, publishing a masterpiece like "Muscles and " and a second work less fun, but unattainable, "There are people which has sleep ( seems that the name is taken from the comments of the neighbors of our work during the germination ). Intense period of the first turn around the country give themselves a member of added-but-stable, or the drummer Ivan Paolini .
The popularity of the duo-trio is growing rapidly, so that the third-but-difficult album becomes an event to wait with bated breath, materializing under the title " Sushi & coca " this September (although ready for some time It seems that our wish to avoid saturating the market, having released a live DVD earlier this year ).
" Sushi & coca " is pure Marta sound, sang with a fast and neurotic, changes time popular, romantic ballads to the "Alex Britti indie" and pieces that seem drawn from the repertoire of a jester contemporary. Maybe a little higher than the predecessor, certainly not the first work phenomenal, less filled with instant classics. My problem with Marta is that I do not know if there are or ever do. Why yes, Gulino is good, is very appropriate words and melodies, but his songs seem a frullatone of beautiful phrases, catchy choruses built ad hoc, with the aim to stay ahead rather than the desire to communicate something of himself . Not bad, if the result still has this quality, and after all the music can also be true merely entertain, but the impression is that if they wanted to give a higher specific weight to their next album, would arrive Marta to produce something great of g capital. The concert
not three, but five "pipes", tonight joined cellist and keyboard player. It 's a very good news, because so Gulino still some adjustments to the microphone and voice, leaving him to do what he can do very well, without trials in well in the art of "sound strange" with the effettiera (damn ) that I have ever seen before at other times. The Marta are good, I was always impressed by live from the first time (early 2004 ? ) that I saw them in Rome, to support Moltheni. This evening also able to be more "ordered", caciaroni fewer, more focused. And the show makes money even further.
The live album features all new, giving little to the past: "there are people who must sleep " is the only " abandonment," while the "muscle and " are proposals, the title track , the ever-beautiful " post ( with intro vocals and more prepared than usual ), the always wonderful" old defects "and a" chronic constipation "partially improvised (with Gulino singing securities on the day of the Republic: they were the years that I hoped would do so ). Everything works fine. The same official, who accompanied me "blind" without knowing the band, have fun, ride to find the theatrical front man and congratulated me, at the end of the evening, for 
taking her to see something finally different from the usual rockers "on the Elvis" that I served up in recent times. Sooner or later I can convince her to Jon Spencer, but that's another story. small notes to close: " Sushi & Coca ," the last work, becomes, Romanization, " Preti & Sorce ": funny, yes, even if it trivializes the original, because the verses are less thoughtful (and therefore not suitable for capital, not to mention the parts that do not change anything c'azzeccano ). Nice idea, anyway (even though he knows some pimp ).
