25 December 2009
CRY
Tiny Tide - CRY
Maybe it deserved to be more rocky and energized, but I promised a girl a sad song, and here it is :)
Lyrics:
"And I've been waiting for this moment for so long
But in my heart I always knew that it was wrong
Sometimes the truth is not as good as a good lie
I will not blame you for this life is not that crap
Staying away, stay away, stay away
Crying, crying daughter, even her mother is crying
Now that I know you and I know that you're the one
I look in memories where you are not my past
I don't know how but if your did guess you can
regret a baby from the day of her own birth
Staying away, stay away, stay away
Crying, crying daughter, even her mother is crying"
24 December 2009
Sweet Tooth For XMAS
Hell yesss. Against any kind of probability,I got the chance to play for once in a lifetime with "The Magic Mushroom", the Christmas Indie Cover Band leaded by A Nice Person playing once a year for Christmas during the seasonal "Chistmas Pop", held at Diagonal in Forlì by AirPop DJSet. It was great! Manuel was in there too (Manuel was actually STEALEN from The Magic Mushroom) and with Frapiccini on bass+guitar I had nothing to worry about than using three fingers to play Osamushi (my Alesis Micron Synth), the glockenspiel (somebody was thinkin I was gone insane and decided to crush an iMac with a stick) and doing some backvocals. The hardest part? I knew I had to play in there 4 hours before playing the songs for the first time! Keep it indie!
23 December 2009
Alla vetta!
e sventolando le strisce dalla bandiera
Facendo attenzione alle mine dai significati ingannevoli
20 December 2009
SHE
One of my most "Costellian" songs, lyrics are really simple indeed. Being Top of The Pop they're not so meaningful at all, they just picture the scene of this absent minded girl walking out of her home sleepwalkin in the desert town during the night, forgetting of all day's troubles. Here's the demo and the lyrics anyway. Feedback appreciated as always.
(I swear Fabio... I didn't used Chours, except for a little bit on the acoustig guitar solo :D )
Tiny Tide - "SHE"
"She was a girl with a mind on her own
She wasn'tsure she was wake and alone
Off on the floor was she called by the night
Fading from a curtain on her humble dressing gown
Here she's walking
Sleepwalking
Night birds and shadows are amazed and turn their heads on while the girl keeps on walking
Souls locked in prison are amazed by such a vision
still hey won't do the talking
and the girl keeps on walking
Through the park and the cold rails
Far away from the montains
She's walking
Sleepwalking
Bedtime stories
Will fad out in the morning
but the girl keeps on walking
Moon ground crowling just to see things falling
on the way of her strolling
but the girl keeps on going
She was a girl with a heart sour and kind
She was so tired of a life so untied
She closed her eyes as she laced off high tops
Turning all a sudden she's back from where she started"
13 December 2009
Mumarcord
9 December 2009
Complimentary Us
It was nice playing on Giodì. Why? The place was reeeeeally nice, and all our best and supportive friends where there too! :)
> Needful Things (video)
> Go Ego Go (Lacrosse) (video)
> Valentine Disco Night (vide)
8 December 2009
XMARS Time!
5 December 2009
Enchantment Under The Cesuola
4 December 2009
(VULP-0002)
30 November 2009
The White Tides
"They say there’s a certain kind of rum that you’ll have the chance to taste only in the worst bars in Caracas. Still Caracas is the Latin America’s most expensive City. Strange, isn, it? As strange as Mark Zonda and Mic Leffe playing in a small Italian town after midnight in a small place nearby a river..."
29 November 2009
Let's rock the Cesuola
Domenica 6 Dicembre al Giodì di Cesena (sembra verso le 20.00)
See ya there!
21 November 2009
News From the Heavenly Loom
Tiny Tide, dal vivo
Sabato 28 Novembre
A MEZZANOTTE
Bar Notturno (Ponte Nuovo Cesena)
"Una volta convintosi che non c'era alcun elemento dannoso palese, cominciava a elargire consigli e a correggere il feuilleton"
15 November 2009
A New Tiny Round
LaVigna it’s not a big venue for sure, but what’s fun in playing there it’s its great acoustic, due to the fact that everything in there is surrounded by… wood! I really enjoyed playing with Tiny Tide in there, especially because sounds were great indeed and suitable for an acoustic punk act and me and the mates played at our best, with the exception of my voice, that was quite completely gone.
After a former member who lasted one month and a half in the band crawled over Cling (my acoustic guitar) after 4 rounds of sake, we were thrilled and ready to begin. The “Intro - Kitty Jesus - The Psychopath At The Club - Ginger Genie” sequence is becoming my favourite part of the show! I was really glade to show our fan the live version of “AAA”, that’s actually my favourite song to play so far. I think the best part of the show was when Manuel started to take a seat in the audience playing from their perspective and we started to imitate him, with me jumping over the chair to end the song. After we were unexpectedly called to an encore (the show was quite long) there was even an “aftershow” with the formed sake member at the drums and Dendrix going heavymetal. A sweet night to remember.
CLIPS:
Tiny Tide @ LaVigna 2009 - “Intro - Kitty Jesus - The Psychopath At The Club”
Tiny Tide @ LaVigna 2009 - “The Smiths & The Cure”
Tiny Tide @ LaVigna 2009 - “Mask Me Mask Me Mask Me”
Tiny Tide @ LaVigna 2009 - “A Song for EMI”
Tiny Tide @ LaVigna 2009 - “AAA”
Tiny Tide @ LaVigna 2009 - “Go Ego Go (Lacrosse Cover)”
Tiny Tide @ LaVigna 2009 - “February”
Tiny Tide @ LaVigna 2009 - “Girls From Ronta”
14 November 2009
We Are Pressed
4 November 2009
TS+TC
Facebook is the drug.
Yesterday I was so surprised when a bloke replied to a thread right with "it recalls semantica". It was clearly a chinise whisper for our track The Smiths & The Cure "rings bells on semantic calls". After I pointed out that the early version of that part was "not Belle & Sebastian", I was asked why I haven't left everything to make of pop music my only occupation.
17 October 2009
14 October 2009
Sometimes Always
Mattatoio's gig with Santa Dog was for sure the main turning point of our band. Looking back to these videos it's impressive how far we're improved, still that night we became aware of our potential after a couple of very bad gigs of how good we could have been in time, and it was totally unexpected!
11 October 2009
Rock in The Video
25 September 2009
Tiny, Band in the Vigna
13 September 2009
Intifada nights
"It was promoted as a secret gig, still eventually many people were able to find the place despite all the enigmas. Halfway between Aladdin Sane, Elvis Costello and MGMT, Mark Zonda and Tiny Tide came back with a tight and not so horror rocky show on the stage of Intifada, sharing with the audience the old classics from a debut album that keeps its distances from seeing the light of its debut and the tracks of Tiny Tide last EP: “The Wildheart EP”.
1 September 2009
Wildy Tiny
Tiny Tiny
"Helmed by one Mark Zonda, Tiny Tide is a pop band from the beautiful Italian city of Cesena. Their illustrious beats flow through the orchestral strings like rivers running through towns. Under their belt, Tiny Tide have released two EPs, The Ronta EP (2008) and the recently released The Wildheart EP. This EP is an electronic experience through the eyes of Wildheart, their arranger. " ...
Hi there everyone! Here's an interesting review of the "WildHeart EP" from "Stop Sleeping, yo!". Check it out :)
22 August 2009
Dall'Ambasciata
Walk Away Renee
I felt in love with "The Left Banke" the very first time I had the chance to take part at a "How Does It Feels To Be Loved" night, by one of the coolest indie clubs in London.
Randomly suggesting songs via Facebook, Fabio Benni from Le Man Avec Les Lunettes felt in love with one of their most popular hits: "Walk Away Renee".
The author of the song wrote it when it was only 16 years old, being inspired by the cute girlfriend of their bass guitar player. The song is dealing with us finding the force of saying goodbye to a happy period of our life. Which could represent the most our feeling of being sad leaving a summer of freedom, sun and fun?
"Walk Away Renee" featured a young still unknown Steven Tyler on choirs. After Macca & Costello, Bowie & Mick Jagger, Dalla & Morandi... here it is Mark and Fabio sharing with you this everlasting classic.
Tiny Tide w/ Fabio Benni - "Walk Away Renee" Virtual 7"
20 August 2009
FIX
This song started with the melody. The melody started on 1993. I was involved in a sort of role game based on the Star Trek universe, some kind of "real" fictionary Star Fleet Academy. In order to conquer a fictional character I wrote this song, which original Italian lyrics were about tractor beams, distant stars and Romulan weapons.
Year passed (more than 15.... SCARY!) and I tried to blend that melody with an even previous one that I had in mind since... 1988-89 I suppose (the part in which I sing about "Avalon").
The intro was taken from one of the first demo I ever recorded once I had my first polyphonic keyboard, by an Italian brand called "Viscount" (I just 'bought a mixer from them, discovering that they're actually Italians). It was recorded over a tape a friend of mine lent me with their family secretly caught fighting over a very expensive telephone bill. The instrumental track was called "Blacksabbadesse", and was sent right back on the mutual mixtape I gave back to my friend with their family going insane voices on it. Now it has astronauts :)
So "FIX", what it's alla about?
Maybe my friend Dan is right after all. It might be as well my "Pinball Wizard", since "FIX" was the sign a friend of mine had when he played on old penny arcades. He was simply the coolest kid in the block. He knew every single game's trick as a Bible, leading him to play blind any arcade till its final stage living his notorious mysterious sign, "FIX", since nobody was albe to beat his name in the hall of winners, even the ambitious "TOP" (hey! Someone made a song about it!), "WIN" and so on...
This was in the glorious past. The "Parker Lewis" syndrome. What in present days? Life is little bit harsh than a video game, and it kicks. What's up to us? Choose between acceptance and integration or live like some kind of strange lunatic on our imaginary world.
"What you're gonna do in Avalon?"
It's up to you.
Tiny Ride - "FIX" (Demo)
Here's the lyrics
"Fix is
just a name in a machine screen
and circuits
running high scores on a dark board
any single cabinet
hold three letters hard to get
Wonder
who will ever top that perfect best now
Fix will
come again another summer
picking
brand new ace songs from the dance box
Any single that we play
is a a moment meant to stay
listen
it's the sound of our perfect best so
What you're gonna do in Avalon?
Are you gonna play and sing alone?
What you're gonna do ina Avalon?
Are you gonna stay and get along?
Face it
You felt better with your cheat codes to
break it
saving time for second chances
while now moving with no clues
it's the hardest thing to do
Nothing
Looks like how we always thought it should now
Feels like we're trapped in the wrong box
With no supplies at all, but tools
Nobody holds the instructions
to get rid of all the troubles of this clock-work hard to handle, so now..."
16 August 2009
Night Fever?
Tiny Tide - Night Fever (Bee Gees Cover)
Plain Little Game
Recently I startet to collaborate with an American artist called Marilyn Roxie. She's gotta a tooth for vintage keyboards and electronic sounds and experimentations, but - above all - her tracks (mostly instrumental) inspired me working on some musical directions that I really own and I never have the chance to explore (it's not a plain little game trying to beat Brian Eno in its own ground). So a "Plain Little Game" was done! That's the title of the song you'll find on first Marilyn Roxie collaborative EP called "Earth" (a second one called "Water" will be out soon).
You can download EP and song by clicking here.
Hope it's only the first move.
6 August 2009
So less to say
That's me acousting "I Would Say". You can find a smoother electronic version of the song on our last EP, with a terrific solo by Dendrix at the end of it.
4 August 2009
Attention Attention Attention
O così potrebbe apparire agli occhi di un ascoltatore italiano. In realtà in America "A.A.A.", il titolo di questa nuova canzone, sta per America Automobile Association. La canzone chiuderà il secondo album "TenneT", di cui sto ora scrivendo le canzoni (mentre stiamo cercando di terminare le registrazioni di Febrero col gruppo).
Il cielo abbisogna di luce per fare andare le tue giornate
A FUOCO
La corrente si sta ritirando
lasciando piccole tracce
della mia vita con te
Sono arrivato qui quasi per sbaglio
non pensavo proprio a nulla
Non ho potuto fare a meno di fermarmi e provarci
Giusto per passare il tempo
In realtà cercavo solo uno sguardo
a quell'incantevole campagna
guarda la malia della sera che mi fa cieco
mentre ruba la mia corsa
E' stato inaspettato
non sapere cosa fare
Non potevo fare altro che perdere
Dipingono giunchiglie
in una linea senza fine
sfiorato il sogno mi intrappola la sua visione
Il cielo abbisogna di luce per fare andare le tue giornate
A FUOCO
La corrente si sta ritirando
lasciando piccole tracce
della mia vita con te
Associazione per il soccorso pubblico
fai presto e ripara la mia macchina
mi sono sempre preso cura di tutto
e ora proprio non vuole partire
Controlla pure la mia assicurazione
dimmi che è tutto in regola
Ho pagato tutto quello che era dovuto
Ora tirami fuori da questa merda
Mi dicono che è fuori servizio
mentre meriterei un soccorso immediato
Mi sento proprio in panne
quindi vedi di arrivare presto
Penso di essermi smarrito
Non so dove trovarti sulle mappe
Ho bisogno di assistenza
Per tornare a seguire la giusta direzione
Ogni piccolo segnale puà essere tortuoso o accidentato
Ma è la strada che fai, la strada che fai..."
19 July 2009
'bout fairies
The Big Louis Recording Company
16 July 2009
13 July 2009
Say Goodbay To Tacoma
From WildHeart to PressedHeart
5 July 2009
Plain Little Game
Recently I started collaborating with a little genius Californian girl. Here name is Marilyn Roxie, and she's the new Brian Eno. That's what's happening on our first experiments. Guess every Brian needs his Bowie. Check it out
Mark Zonda & Marilyn Roxie - "Plain Little Game" (Take#2)
Lyrics:
"It's a long long time babe
still we're stuck here once again
Human race can still wait
gotta solve this riddle first
I will conquer your heart
just a step inside your square
In this plain little game
In this plain little game that we play
In this plain little game
In this plain little game that we play
Kings and Queens sure made things
Yeah, now I don't give a damn
It's just you and me dear
They will learn from out mistakes
Gotta make your move, mate
all the apes will do the same
In this plain little game
In this plain little game that we play
In this plain little game
In this plain little game that we play
We're so real
We're so real
We're so real
In this real wicked game
We're so great
We're so great
We're so great
We're so lost and afraid
We're so fake
We're so fake
We're so fake
In this plain little game that we play
Here's my white crown old sir
Hope your present's just the same
It's not rocket science
yet it's hard to understand
both of us are losers
that can't figure out the end
Of this plain little game
It's a plain little game that we play
In this plain little game
In this plain little game that we play"
3 July 2009
Narrative Between Gigs
From SleepWalKing Magazine....
This is Mark Zonda reporting on his band, dears. Two very close gigs, but I swear that Tiny Tide will disappear beyond sun umbrellas and sand dunes of not so far Adriatic Coast beaches (don’t you trust me? You’re probably right). It was more than a simple showcase. This time we had an extensive 1 hour show (and we even cut off songs) opening a new sweet place in Cesena called “Ex-Macello” (any city in Italy has got one).
I was really glad the crowd enjoyed the show, even if we didn’t practiced the old stuff since a lot (we were buisy setting up the new songs) and I misteriously lost my voice on “The Smiths And The Cure”… to have it back right in minutes for “Road to fairies“. Unexplicable! I was also glad we had the chance to finally debut on stage with Osamushi (each instrument of mine has a name), my new Alesis Micron Synth. We played with him for “Scrambled Eggs“,“Joanie don’t you worrie” and “S♥L“ (though maybe the latter wasn’t enough good as it deserved to be, withoud Dendrix on acoustic guitar it lost the feeling…). I’ll leave you with some moments of the show. Enjoy it and see you at some sunny beach.
Tiny Tide - “The Psychopath At The Club” (Clip)
Tiny Tide - “Ginger Genie” (Clip)
Tiny Tide - “Tiny Trains” (Clip)
Tiny Tide - “Scrambled Eggs” (Clip)
Tiny Tide - “Joanie don’t u worrie” (Clip)
28 June 2009
Dis Moi Que Tu Ne Pleures Pas
Grazie a Adriano Zoppolato per le foto.
Perchè un po' di nuvoloni ci sono stati proprio in cima al terrazzo del Diagonal, dove stavamo per suonare. Come chi? Mark Zonda e i Tiny Tide, anzi, per l'occasione GC e i Tiny Tide. Le prime ad arrivare sono state proprio "le segreatarie", più deliziose che qualsiasi ragioniera, più intelligenti di qualsiasi velina, rimediate da Dendrix a San Giovanni sono state veramente scaltrissime e hanno portato da subito una sferzosa dose di allegria (ragazzi, se avete a cuore le vendite, investite su delle psicologhe, non su contabili. Qualcuno al governo l'ha capito). Poi è stata la volta dello scontro tra fotografi nello sfondo steam-punk del locale, dove è stato improvvisato un set fotografico post-atomico degno di uno dei tanti Godzilla Vs Gamera. Poi amici, fan, avventori, Robbie che ci ha aiutato ad attaccare palloncini e i manifestini elettorali con Moz, Robert Smith e Mark Zonda in stile Obama e Lorenzo, che si era autoconvinto di credere per disperazione che fosse il mio compleanno. Chiaramente ultimo è arrivato Mic Starr!
Airpop DJSet sublimi. Mic lo abbiamo sistemato su un rialzo, come il suo e-mulo beatlesiano. Il suono era talmente buono che sound-check e tecnici non servivano neanche, tanto il mio nuovo mixer simula qualsiasi ambiente di risonanza, se giravo una manopola il terrazzo del Diago diventava un grotta. C'è il sole anche se fa sera. Meno male. Addirittura un caro amico DJ di Bologna. Anzi, mi sa che non avete capito: BO*LO*GNA! Si può partire.
"Salve. Siamo i Tiny Tide. Qualcuno penserà che è la mia festa di compleanno. E invece è la festa di compleanno del nostro nuovo EP. Si chiama The WildHeart, è pieno di tastiere e cose strane. Oggi ve lo presentiamo in chiave rock."
Stappiamo un Berlucchi, portato dall'amico fotografo Tomaselli. E parte "The Smiths & The Cure". Dicono che abbia avuto molta più presa che la versione in studio. In realtà mi è partito il volume della chitarra a mille e la cosa mi aveva un po' destabilizzato. I brani dopo sono andati meglio :)
A risentirla da fuori (l'unica canzone di cui ho visto una registrazione) "I Would Say" è venuta molto "Conor Oberst". Alle spalle l'ultimo inconveniente tecnico. Non si sentiva il violino di Manuel.
Piccolo tributo a Jako, morto proprio il giorno in cui presentavamo l'EP, introdotto da una battuta su un'altro psicopatico rimodellato dalle plastiche che non ha fortunatamente colto nessuno sugli assoli "Beat It" di Dendrix. Parte "Man in The Mirror", pausa, "Yuriko has come to town". Non so a chi dei vecchi fedeli che a casa hanno una copia di "Feel the Blank" abbia emozionato risentire dal vivo un brano del 1998 mai eseguito dal vivo (non avevo neppure una band). Per quanto mi riguarda è un piacere suonarla, e con il tocco di Manuel e i ragazzi ha perfino assunto delle connotazioni molto Blur. Mic ha tirato fuori una parte di batteria incredibile per l'inciso di questo pezzo. Ma se l'è dimenticata, quindi la sentirete la prossima volta (mercoledì all'Ex-Macello, tipo). Tutto rego sui classiconi, "February" e "Tiny Trains", mentre mi sono divertito molto nella mia pantomima Bowiniana su "Needful Things", dato che non suonavo la chitarra e avevo le mani libere. A mio avviso questa nuova versione fa molto versione beat di "Alice Cooper".
Finalone con "Road to Fairies" (con la coda strumentale suonata in arpeggio da sdraiato mentre Dendrix sfavillava note degne di Prince in Purple Rain) e l'apprezzatissima "Do Mean It's A Mess" (chi ancora penserà che sia sano di mente dopo un'introduzione che parlava di appostamenti sotto il parcheggio del Diagonal e bombe atomiche?), con un piccolo tributo ai Cardigans.
Che dovesse scattare il bis non era una sorpresa: la gente ci aveva già minacciato di morte da settimane nel caso non avessimo fatto "Girls from Ronta". Quello che non mi aspettavo era l'incredibile risposta che ha avuto il brano, come non mai. E' bastato l'attacco di chitarra perchè la gente cominciasse a battere le mani. Mi sono scatenato. Ho intinto le mani nella coca cola ai miei piedi tirandomi tutti i capelli all'indietro e liberandomi degli occhiali, che considerando i salti che ho fatto attorno al microfono è un miracolo che siano scampati illesi. Interminabile. Ogni volta che finiva la riattaccavamo con qualche variazione. Mi sono divertito molto!
Quello che non mi aspettavo è che la gente... chiedesse un altro bis! Cavo della chitarra ormai irrimediabilmente aggomitolato con quello del microfono, microfono pericolosamente in bilico sull'asta, ho rinunciato allo strumento dopo pochi accordi per lasciare suonare "The Psychopath At The Club" i Tiny. Senza occhiali, bagnato, con i cavi scombinati, non ho minimamente preso in considerazione chi mi chiedeva di suonare un'altra canzone!
La festa è proseguita grazie alla meravigliosa disponibilità dei ragazzi del Diagonal e la buona musica degli AirPop, che hanno alternato un indie-pop da antologia a originali e cover di Smiths e Cure. Superlativi, da fare una compilation! Ci hanno fatto rimanere fino a tarda serata, mentre scarabocchiavo cazzate d'autore su fogli strappati di un vecchio RollingStone. Porlock, che è più pazzo di me, ha addirittura cominciato a collezionarli. Speriamo che siano solo i primi di una lunga serie. Ma anche no.
Infine, visto che come avrete capito questo post manca completamente di oggettività, vi lascio con la trascrizione di alcuni SMS che mi sono giunti sul telefonino
"Ti cadono gli occhiali! E' ora di passare alle lenti a contatto"
"Do Mean It's A Mess è quasi Style Council. Dovresti tirare fuori la tua voce alla Paul Weller"
"Nel finale di Ronta potresti mordere le corde della chitarra di Denrdix come Bowie faceva con Ronson"
"Con quel bottiglione di Berlucchi sembrava avessi vinto il Gran Premio"
When You're Wild
Cut+Pasting the article from SleepWalking Magazine...
(Picture by courtesy of Adriano Zoppolato)
That’s it. It’s me reporting on our show. Tiny Tide having a party for “The WildHeart EP” launch at Diagonal. A release party as it was meant to be in the past. Cool friends, theme music, a lot of baloons, poster on the walls, nice food for everyone, wine and beer walking on a big terrace. I didn’e even wanted to play, but a friend of mine (Robbie from AirPop Djset duo) insisted so much that Tiny Tide had a little semi-acoustic presentation of the tracks from the EP in the middle of the event. A pure uninformal showcase.
The theme of the night was “The Smiths OR The Cure? Tiny Tide”, and AirPop found some marvellous covers from both worlds that deliced the guests along with other indie-brit-and-sweden pop pearls. “Tiny Tide” live show was no more than “The WIldHeart EP” played live in an unique energic way, in a compitely revised way instead of all the electronic stuff of their latest work. The band had the misfortune to present their EP the day The King of Pop died, so they payed a little tribute to Michael playing a bit of “Man in the mirror” before starting with the new “Yuriko has come to town”, already heard on Mark Zonda debut “Feel the blank” and now brought to new life in a very Blurrish version. As a singer of the band I didn’t expect people handclapping on our encore (“Girls from Ronta“)… still not even being called for a second one! (“The Psychopath At The Club“). Not being able of being objective I’ll leave the last words to the messaged I recieved on my cellphone:
“Your new glasses are sleeping off! It’s time for lens..”
“Do Mean It’s A Mess it’s almost Style Council. Bring out Paul Weller’s voice!”
“At the end of Ronta you should tooth-tear Dendrix guitar’s strings just like Bowie used to do with Ronson…”
“… That Berlucchi bottle made you look like you just won the Grand Prix!”
24 June 2009
Scrambled Eggs 2.0
Why we decided to share with you that song? Quite simple! Andrè's computer... crashed! We have to start back to the start, and this mp3 is quite all we've left from those recordings. So take it away, it's....
... Tiny Tide + Stars In Coma - "Scrambled Eggs 2.0"