A generational identity document, a box of little stories that we will never tell our grandchildren but that we will continue to carry around to remind ourselves who we were and who we are.
Parkour (lato A) is the second recording by Kaufman (Lorenzo Lombardi, Alessandro Micheli, Matteo Cozza and Simone Gelmini), a band that lives between Brescia, Bergamo and Verona.
It is a collection of eight songs, eight paintings of “superemotivo” pop, as they themselves define it. They are small direct stories, whose charm lies in the continuous reference of strictly pop images and conceptswith the great gift of synthesis, a bit like the stories of Instagram.
Musically speaking, the backbone is immediately fixed by drum machines and synth bass which pulsate just enough and allow the rest of the instruments, mostly pads, synthesizers and textured sounds to relax without ever too much adrenaline. There is a certain revival of the music of the last decades of the past millennium, a bit like in Judoin collaboration with Cimini dove the use of the trumpet immediately brings to mind the sound of the one who created it pop, in one of his crucial albums: Coal with the single Big big.
The voice represents more a narrating voice than a musical instrument, although, in the general simplicity of the song, there is a great musicality and immediacy that are not just a characteristic feature. What makes the difference are the texts which, as mentioned above, are heavily based on the use of images and icons of our present every day. There is a great search for the right metric, there is never a syllable out of place and each word becomes a perfect rhythmic cell.
The first piece is an example of great evocative capacity through precise images Bart Simpsona kind of But what is our fault “two point zero”, a kind of generational anthem launched there, without even taking it too seriously, ‘that this generation does not seem to be able to deserve seriousness.
Very beautiful are the investments of Legno and Cimino and the productive contribution of Dade and Rossella Essence who surgically manage to focus even more on the ideas and sounds of a record that already had an identity to sell.
In conclusion Parkour (lato A) it is a record with a lot to say and that deserves to be listened to even by those coming from other musical seasons, because it is a sort of generational identity card which contains all the characteristic features of a way of existing and being in the world. Listening is fluid and the ear remains well connected to the heart, because there are words to identify with for everyone, in each song. It also hits hard sometimes this record and that’s enough to not make you feel the lack of a change of metronomic pace throughout the tracklist. The production is excellent, each sound has its place within the sound spectrum and each song is compact and intelligible.
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The review Parkour (lato A) di Written by Giulio Pons appeared on Rockit.it on 2022-03-07 17:38:26
