Who knows me also knows how I truly dig music millions of light years from my ecstatic drones that I do as DuChamp. I like to dance, to begin with. I love a lot of loud rock music, the louder the better! So, it happens that in between 2020 and 2021 I had really a lot of time, spend like all of you in waves of anxiety, depression, despair etc. Well, we all went through the pandemic (I actually have Covid right now that I am writing, but being I’m three times vaccinated, it’s still ok) so don’t need to explain. I found myself with time to make music, but with my practice room closed. And my DuChamp music is the music of extasy and I was so far away from that. So I decided to do, as exercise, the following. I had to come up with at least a song for session. The session were in my bedroom, and I was using my Tascam 4-track only. I only had 4 tracks so I had to decide. Actually one track was always the drum machine, so I had 3. I sat there to play, and then, as it always happens, music comes. It turned out to be quite personal, although most songs are very political (personal is politics, right?). Since my husband published his home recording album (The Post Spiderhole ensemble), and it was very well received (it is actually absolutely amazing), I decided that my album should see the light of the day as well. So we publish on Kitchen Leg records. Recording it was a journey, a hard but amazing one, I was literally devouring Tape Op and all interviews with Susan Rogers (the engineer of Prince in “Sign O’ Times”) and then what I learn, is that you have mostly to trust your ears, on tape you got no other clues. I spend one entire day to set up the mic in order to have the guitar sound I wanted. I decided to record the bass on D.I. only, as my bass is absolutely gorgeous (it’s an Höfner!). And couldn’t do punch in by myself, so I had to repeat any time I played wrong, that was aweful, but it also teaches you something. So, those are the songs. “Solida” is a song, that weirdly came out in Italian, about the need to girls and females of being assertives and say “no” when they want, without justifications or excuses. “We despise you” is a song against the cops. It was inspired when I went to a demo for the housing right and there was a lot of cops in front of new buildings, while during the demo of the no-vax, often violent and threating, cops were almost no there. Let’s not call defense or protection of citizen. (For the record: in the last year I had an encounter with a cop that was a very good person, still as a whole don’t like them). “Musicbox” is a piece of heart, is dedicated to the record shop where I used to go as a teen, a wonderful place where I discovered all I know, more or less. “Spinterogeno” is a surf/exotica song. I am crazy for exotica, everyone knows it. “Time” is modeled on “A love bizarre” and I had my husband to sign on it. Talk about time, it’s in between Seneca and Luigino Bruni articles on lithurgy. “Future Tense Bolero” is my anarchist anthem, is about building the future we want NOW and not get discouraged, never, because it will be. “I’m Not” is about the fact that despite I get older, still I don’t care about a lot of things I should, like make career, having the right friends, and sit properly on a chair. “Step Back” is about serial monogamy. I know is better to be alone for a bit to enjoy your own company and set your boundaries, but it never happen to me. “Null Hypothesis” is about the scientific method, First, you should trust your data, and then get other to trust to. Logic and deduction! “Work of Wonders” is for my mom, that left me almost two years ago. As you all know, she was my fist fan, and she was such a wonderful and unique being. I will do a lot of things as artist thinking about her, and the first one is here.
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