Very limited home-made CD-R with paintings by Matteo Uggeri and his two daughters of 6 and 3 years old, Olivia and Nora.
Each CD-R comes in fine cardboard paper with a different watercolor painting and pen drawing in each copy, labelled and numbered.
All the revenues of the digital and physical release will go to the charity established by the City of Milan: "Fondo di Mutuo Soccorso - Comune di Milano", to support those who more than others are now in difficulty by the consequences of the outbreak lockdown.
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We're at the gate
Another wait begins
Some walk in a hurry
Can be worth the effort
An uncertain reward
Hundreads of blind bets
Some walk in a hurry
Can be worth the effort
An endless march
A series of screams
An endless March
In a quiet night
Some walk in a hurry
Can be worth the effort
We're at the gate
Another wait begins
Some walk in a hurry
Can be worth the effort
We made it once more
We did it in time
We will paid
Will we end this up together?
Some walk in a hurry
For the warmest of the hugs
There is a story behind this song, as there’s a story behind any song.
We play instrumental music since our birth, late in more than 15 years ago now, and we usually rehears a lot in order to make a track the way we wish, trying each time to improve it more and more, up to the point it's time to record it, mix it and publish it on an album.
But we improvise a lot when we invent new tracks. We usually don't sing, anyway.
This does not mean that we never had voices in our previous records, but in most cases we borrowed the microphone to someone else, as guests. And even when we have been brave enough to record our voices, it was for covers (of Jackson C. Frank and The Clash), never daring to write our own lyrics.
“At the Gate” is our very first ‘real’ song, although it wasn’t born as such, especially because, apart from the basic beats made with Matteo’s laptop, all the other instruments (Franz’s violin and keyboards, Alberto’s guitar and Cris’ bass) have been fully improvised in only two attempts at the end of a recording session at Argolab Studios in Varese, by our friend and collaborator Gianmaria Aprile.
The recorded impro happened in a warm 29th of July 2018, then in 2019 Matteo wrote the lyrics during a job trip, and sent them to Alberto, who finally dared to sit down in his home studio and record his shy voice on the track.
So this is a sort of very spontaneous piece of music, where the lyrics and vocals have been added one year afterwards.
What you hear now is the result of this long process, and - funnily enough - when we decided to put it out in May 2020, during the worldwide lockdown due to the outbreak, we didn't realised how much the lyrics of this song, written long before this mind-changing happening, fit with the actual situation.
The single 'B side', a sort of instrumental and beatless version of the single, was mixed a few days ago in April, and includes a couple of field recordings done here in Milan before and after the lockdown.
Have a nice listening, and please don't give up.
credits
released May 1, 2020
Recorded by Gianmaria Aprile (SiG instruments) in 2018
and by Alberto Carozzi (vocals) in 2019.
Mixed by Matteo Uggeri.
Mastered by Marco Milanesio in 2020.
Published on the 25th of April 2020.
RESISTENZA RESISTENZA RESISTENZA!!!
supported by 43 fans who also own “At the Gate - single”
it takes a while, but the cover art finally starts to make sense: the entire album has been a sort of slow-motion takeoff. that feeling in your gut, where your stomach starts floating as if it’s weightless; that’s what anthéne does best. the last few tracks explode in turbulent walls of sound, with the titular track and light shade edging on the cinematic. as if by leaving the ground your memories are already fraying miso
supported by 43 fans who also own “At the Gate - single”
I love his ambient stuff , that ‘white landscape’ with deison thing and the nimh box set are both incredible. Don’t be afraid to be afraid. postthispostthat