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Six years after the last album «Le luci di Hessdalen» and some appearances in split and various artists, ARGINE come back to the scenes with an album inspired by Autumn, the season that brings with it shades of gray and short but intense days, charged of an energy which marks the return to normality after summer idleness. An awakening, an impulse, a real and harsh approach to life, a longing that exudes the sense of challenge with one’s own self and with the world for a personal achievement that at times has the meaning of a conquest of always new living spaces and sometimes of pure survival. In this alternation of emotional states, the now unmistakable ARGINE sound is congenial, with lyrics that are sharp and delicate at the same time, describing the coordinates of madly contrasting emotions: «In Autumn, the falling rain lets us look and spreads in our feelings the need to |
follow that never ending flash: the explosion is its uproar…» [Argine – Umori d’autunno]).
Argine are:
Corrado Videtta: vocals, acoustic guitar, classic giutar, electric guitar on «Dicembre», synthesizer on «Novecento»;
edo Notarloberti : violin, accordion, mandolin;
Michele De Finis : bass, electric guitar, bass noises and objects on «Insofferenza», backing vocals on «Dicembre»;
Alessio Sica : drums, percussions, glokenspiel, fender rhodes electric piano on «Risveglio», synthesizer on «Dicembre» and «Parole e segnali conosciuti»
Special guests:
Martina Mollo: digital piano on «Novecento» and «Risveglio»;
Magi Petrillo: spoken voice on «Novecento»;
Ilaria Troise: spoken voice on «Parole e segnali conosciuti».
Music and lyrics by Corrado Videtta except «Ad una finestra» (music: traditional) and «Il lungo viaggio di una foglia cadente» (music: traditional).
Recorded and mixed by Salvio Imparato at «Orange bug» studio in Naples between December 2009 and March 2010.
All arrangement by Corrado Videtta, edo Notarloberti, Michele De Finis and Alessio Sica.
Cover painting by Giuseppe Amisani (1881 - 1941). Oil on canvas.
Argine photos by Annamaria Amura.
Artwork by Rossana Rossi.
The first edition comes in a beautiful digipack and it's limited to 500 copies.
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