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Marco Philopat has perfectly captured what the 80s were for the Italian punk and alternative movement in his beautiful “Costretti a sanguere”, a book in which he has finally put order into disordered memories and distant emotions, making “history” what for many of us who lived through that period risked remaining just a scratch on the skin, glimpsed every now and then with a thread of nostalgia. Among the myriad of groups that gave life to the Italian scene at the time were the Friulian Soglia del dolore, authors of a single 7′, released posthumously in 1986, two years after the band broke up. They were supporters of a strongly politicized, pacifist, animalist anarcho-punk that had as its model the great Crass and the whole world that revolved around Crass Records. Then the group stopped producing anything, and the members spread out across the world in various ways, continuing to operate in the alternative scene and even crossing paths with the goth world, through the collaboration of the current singer with In the Nursey. Then, in 2004 the band reformed with some of the original members, and now what a great gift this 2984! Behind the Orwellian digipack are 15 songs, only a small part of which are a re-release of the unobtainable 7′ debut: from the vinyl come “Non voglio”, “Veste i tuoi sogni”, “Non sopporto” and “Ipocrisia di Pace”. In these pieces, although rearranged and with the addition in some of a second female voice, we find intact all the typical sound of those unrepeatable years: lightning-fast speed in some, hypnotic, raw and distorted sound in some others, exasperated singing and often with the Italian metrics of explicitly politicized lyrics to fight with the instruments. And the thought goes… But then the other songs, what a surprise! In part, the group proposes the stylistic features of its historical anarcho-peace-punk, to reiterate how, surprisingly, the spirit has remained virgin, more than twenty years later: and here is “L’Italia brucia” or “Vita morta” or “Senza televisioni”, an almost philological reconstruction of the 80s sound, or the anthemic (and ironic) “Alternativo standard”. But elsewhere, other panoramas open up: in the beautiful, very hard “Gaia” the text, typically peace-punk, is supported by an almost post-punk sound framework; in “Chernobyl” the originality of the whole is striking, mixing political reading, underground sounds almost batcave and hardcore quotes. In “Superstringhe” it seems to hear the first CCCP seasoned with industrial – noise sauce, with experimental use of the sax. Wave and post-punk sounds also animate “La fine arrivato” or the very particular “Multinazionali”, where the cry of the sax returns. In short, really not a nostalgic song, but a totally new proposal, radical without compromises and perhaps for this reason destined to remain (ineluctably?) niche. Congratulations.
Label: Final Muzik
