It also includes “Second Best”, a short, rock hymn to second choices; the creepy ballad “We Don’t Like Bleeding Hearts”; “Watch The Sink” an indian suggestion to stay away from danger; “Fifth Sheet”, which talks about my Grandmother; an immersion in indian music called “Twiddle Your Thumbs” and the dance “Hipcow Selfoo”.
This song is about people believing that the word you use to define something is more harmful or more important than the concept or the back thought itself, and fight wars for words.
I noticed that in the ’90, italian Serie A had players like Paolo Negro or Marco Negri, while nowadays there are names like Błaszczykowski or Szczęsny. As the sportcasters would have had hard times telling the names of the first ones, and would have been branded as racist, I fantastise that a new software automatically turns politically incorrect surnames into senseless sequences of characters. A useless trick that make people think they’ve solved the problem of the racism.
The video, that you can find on my Youtube Channel, tells about the invention of a software that removes the evil form the objects, but it all turns bad.
The single will be available from 6/5/2022 on Spotify.
On this day in 2012, first Slig’s album “Salamanderland” was released.
It took his name from an old, now dismissed, amphibians farm, leaded by a man called Gunter, and on the cover appears a specimen of Salamandra salamandra bernardezi.
It was my first music made on my own, where I tried to explore everything that Cubase could offer, like a child in a candy shop.
I had no electric guitar back then, so everytime you hear one, it’s a distortion on an acoustic fender.
It starts with High Cut Nappies, remnant of the Low Battery experience, goes on with Enormous In Basins and Glass Frogs From Berlin, both played with sitar and esraj and an indian touch.
After a bit of rock with Chicken Breast, it turns sad with Drink To Maz, last minute addition for the death of my cat Mazzola.
Musicians Use To Wear Obscene Shoes (n. 6) and I’ve Killed A Girl With A Swordfish (n. 8) are a clear tribute to Blur, while Dance On A Bench is about death on holidays.
It ends with and experiment, Aerosol Land, which has a refrain but 4 different verses, and, above all, 5 different arrangements in less than 4 minutes.
If you want to hear it, you can go to my Spotify page, or just scroll down this page.
This single was written during the 2020 lockdown. While people were clapping at the window, it was almost clear that they were going to turn even worse and more selfish than before.
The drums is made by samples of sounds of things I had at home, more specifically a computer chair (kick), a ps1 game jewel case (snare) and the tin lid of a perfume (cymbals).
This one is about being ignored for cooler stuff. It’s the second single for the incoming album “Hipcow Selfoo” and, after the strings of “Naked But Happy”, we finally have drums, bass and guitars!
You’ll find it starting from 12/3/2022 on my Spotify page and on all the other stores. It will be accompanied by a video (that may be almost cool or very poor, depending on some casual circumstances occuring during the week), that you will find on my YouTube channel.
This song’s about underpaid (or for free) work, played with no guitars and drums, just strings and a trombone, to underline the deference to the solemn legal practice.
It will be available on Spotify starting from 4/2/2022, and it will be released with a delicious video that you will find on my YouTube Channel.
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