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Il titolo dell'album coincide con il
modus operandi. Fedelissimo all'"etica compositiva"
dell'house music (ovvero musica fatta in casa), in Around
The House, predecessore del fortunato Bodily
Functions, confluiscono e l'autentica passione per l'house
music e quella per la "musica concreta" di Matthew,
musicista versatile da diverso tempo apertamente schierato, a
differenza di tanti altri suoi colleghi, contro l'uso
eccessivo e il riciclaggio di musiche preregistrate, tanto da
sentire l'esigenza di redarre nel 2001 un vero e proprio manifesto -il
Contract for the Composition Of Music (Incorporating
the Manifesto of Mistakes), secondo alcuni la versione musicale del
Dogmefilm di Lars Von Trier-, che obbligava quanti si fossero
impegnati ad osservarlo alla ricerca di uno stile personale.
Proibito pertanto ogni tentativo imitativo, proibizione che viene
estesa da Matthew anche alla scelta dei suoni, i quali non dovevano
essere degli emuli degli strumenti acustici.
Queste le considerazioni di Matthew ai tempi dell'uscita di Around The House (risalente al '98 e ora ristampato dalla K!7):
"When you start
building something, you've got to have a vague idea of what it is
before you start. So with HERBERT it was house, a house.[...] The form
is the same, it is still a house but with new décor, my style, more
personal. When changing stuff around I found some of my old
instruments in boxes in the cellar - electric bass, guitar and even
the violin I spent 18 years learning. It was time for songs. With
Dani, she sang. [...] With one or two exceptions, they are not drum
machines, they are my sounds. The sounds of the environment singing in
ways you need a microphone to hear. But this is not important. This is
really important.Take a step back and look at it from the outside. It's
a bit wonky and I fluffed up a few times but the shape is roughly what
I had in mind and you can't see the end of the garden.This time I've
left the roof off for you to look in and I'm also thinking about
adding another level, maybe next year next time."
THE
LAST BEAT
ARE YOU DREAMING ME? SHOULD WE CARRY ON? IS THIS WHAT YOU HEARD? |
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01.1
02.So
Now...
04.Close To Me
06.Going
Round
07.This Time
08.We Still Have (The Music)
10.Never Give up
11.We
Go Wrong
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Pagina a cura di Vito Camarretta 8 / 06 / 2002