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25 December 2009

CRY

Once upon a long ago I went mad about an anime (japanese cartoons) called "Kodomo No Omocha". Though the show was quite crazy and absurd, I recall an episode for having been particularly sad and touching. I tried as an experiment to write a song about it for a girl, but we never got back to that first rough demo from 1998. Although I came to give it a listen from time to time during the years, since some months ago I found myself even playing it with Clint, my acoustic guitar. And it was good! I was amazed how still good that song was, so I decided to work on another demo. Was it good? Here it is...

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!

Diagonal was really crowded, and the show was really succesful, possibly being the "Walk Away Renee" from Left Banke cover the best song played, having anyway the warmest feedback from the hall when Bando (one of the two AirPop DJs) came on the stage to croone The Smiths classic "Please Please Please"

Thank you Magic Mushroom. It was a real pleasure indeed :)



23 December 2009

Alla vetta!

Salve e ben tornati di nuovo a "I learn Prosciutto", la rubrica in Italiano dedicata a Mic Leffe per introdurlo nel giusto mood che deve accompagnare le sue meravigliose interpretazioni alla batteria (sapere quando non deve fare lo stacchetto di "Daitarn 3" e robe del genere).

Recentemente abbiamo cominciato a provare "TOP", che ho a mia volta tentato (FAIL!) di proporre in versione acustica all'ultimo concerto, con il risultato positivo di avere entusiasmato molto Porlock! (su cui conto per un fantastico tappeto di piano martellante quando la incideremo per l'album tra due anni o giù di lì)

"TOP" è nata da da un giro di chitarra che mi ha mostrato Dendrix. "Zonda, fa qualcosa con questo giro..."

Dal giro di chitarra in MI ho fatto una progressione (o meglio, una regressione) di un tono, e da quel momento in poi la canzone è diventata un'accozzaglia ben riuscita di plagi. L'inciso, che sta fisso in MI per delle ore, l'avevo in testa da parecchio, e mi è sembrato naturale fare evolvere il brano in quella direzione. La mia intenzione era quella di reinterpretare una sorta di jingle pubblicitario anni 80, ma poi è venuta fuori la solita vena Costelliana, che mi ha buttato fuori a calci nel sedere prendendo il possesso della canzone arrivati al ritornello. Nell'inciso ho cercato di tirare fuori combinazioni di note per gli accordi naif, viscerali, non convenzionali, con Charlotte Hatherley ben presente negli ascolti più recenti. Poi chiaramente un amico chitarrista ha spolverato via un po' di magia tirando fuori nomi di accordi irricordabili spiegando anche il perchè stavano bene legati assieme. Una delle mie più grandi paure è quella di non riuscire poi a ricordarmeli di nuovo una volta che la riproveremo live (tipo ora). Il tutto per un inciso che dura neanche 20 secondi.

Il testo? Forse è la cosa che interessa di più a Mic! Ci che cazzo parla "TOP"? Ho cercato di tirare fuori il solito polpettone cosmopolita intellettualoide alla Declan McManus, cercando di incrociare il substrato di un vecchio videogioco chiamato "Top Gear", dove un commmando americano cerca di distruggere una fortezza pseudovietnamita nella giungla, al quanto possa essere sottovalutato l'arrivismo e la brama di potere che puà portare insospettabilmente una persona popolare a trascinare una democrazia in una dittatura, specialmente in tempo di crisi e con la facilità con cui siamo portati a dimenticarci di certe lezioni del passato. (nel "secondo tempo" della canzone sostanzialmente Obama si tarsforma in Hitler)

Non so effettivamente questo giro quanto un delirio del genere possa essere utile a Mic. Vi lascio ad una libera interpretazione del testo.

"Prendere il potere, i soldi, la gloria
e poi prendere una facile via di fuga
Non lasciando traccia dei Berretti Verdi
buttando fuori buona parte dei migliori

Impennando le ruote di una jeep nella giungla
e sventolando le strisce dalla bandiera
Facendo attenzione alle mine dai significati ingannevoli
lasciando il passato sotto la cenere

Perchè ora arriva la follia
un viaggio all'Inferno per due
Lascia fare allo sciacallo
e assicurati che siano tutti sulla jeep
La fortezza rossa
non è mai stata così vicina
La SquadraSpeciale Tiny
Fa irruzione con alcuni VAI VAI

Fino alla cima
Per un giorno sarà io il tuo boss
alla cima
della cima di tutte le cime
Alla cima
Non hai sufficiente credito per fermarmi
Va a piangerne in giro

Alla cima
per un giorno me ne starò senza fare nulla a guardarvi
alla cima
di tutti quanti i nomi
sulla cima
non c'è moneta che mi possa trascinare
di un posto più in basso

I campi da basket mi emozionano quando gioco
Ma i pantaloncini ti vanno un po' stretti quando cresci
I compagni di classe si divertono a pulire le zucche
ma io ho qualche buon seme da piantare in giro

Tempo per un cambio, ed è strano quando il sole acceca
tutte le regole dell'alba
Una grande crisi per grandi coalizioni
E la reginetta della festa viene incoronata

Perchè ora arriva il Nazista
Un olocausto fatto apposta per te
Lascia fare al killer
e assicurati che il re ne sia all'oscuro
La fortezza rossa
E' incatenata dalle trattative
La Squadra Speciale Tiny
Sta seppellendo il Sergente Quint, avete perso!


La vostra memodia vi ingannerà
La vostra memodia vi ingannerà
Probabilmente state solo perdendo del tempo

Perchè ora arriva la hit
La major cinematografica
Sputa missili teleguidati
ma ancora non sei a portata di tiro
Il palazzo presidenziale è diventato un carrarmato imperiale
si allontana nel tramonto
mentre cerchi di sfasciarle quella testa di pietra."


20 December 2009

SHE

"SHE" is the last song of the series I came up to the notorious day I decided to shut the radio off on my way back to home and starting to sing. My voice was surely at top that day... because nowadays I find each of them really hard to sing! I got the melody of that one in my mind FOR MONTHS, and bits of the words too, so it was really quite easy spending my cold friday night writing the lyrics and having the demo finished on saturday 2:00 AM

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

Tonight I've been buisy writing a song. This time for another band, called "Le Mulin Blanc". They're into a project called Neo Italo Movement, basically a revival of new songs in an old Italo Disco Style. Guess what? They've been so quick that a first demo is already aviable... here! Here's the lyrics...

"There's no poin denying it
It won't go away
just unfreeze reality
and prepare yourself
keeps coming back
face to face
that dope dudette
in hellish awesome shirt
was she so bad
batcaver out of deck

My My Mumarcord
She's stepping out tonight
to my Mumarcord
No better place to run
dance and remember
never surrender
to failures and romance
at my mumarcords

Fighting crime on nightlife
Was never in my plane
But Hanna is a character
a Secret Squirrel fan
We had a laugh
on flash and lights
those blurry days of freedom
let's celebrate our youth right there
Barbera pours on my

My My Mumarcord
Gather all your friends
to my Mumarcord
Private room access
Drink and remember
Old' time romancer
Excess and brunettes
My My Mumarcord

Slow down broadies over there
Put your corny jokes away
Devilishly clever villains
deserve to escape
it's not too late"

One of the rules of this movement was dealing with the possibility of writing a love song about nightlife. One of my favourite places in Cesena was called Amarcord (it was a pizza house), and I was thinking that the Fellini reference would have been... exquisite! Starting singing the choir on my (my) mind, I began to look for some kind of double maning such as "Mama Hardcore", still I wasn't able to fit it in the metric of the song. So I cheated and I went for an even more incomprehensible "Mumarcord". The Secret Squirrel references were all put in the song to please a DJ friend of mine :)

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" never went so good, and our first live execution of "Valentine Disco Night" was a blast! I was not too sure 'bout my rushed first presentation for "TOP", but Porlock (he was in the audience with our first drummer Joe Pistocchi) seems to have liked it a lot, along with "Silver Star", another track that is getting better all the time! (Just quoting Beeedols!)

We began a little bit late, so the landlord asked us to rush our way to the finale. I asked to the audience if they prefered "February" or "Mask Me Mask Me Mask Me". Guess what? They went for the latter! "February" is possibly our second most popular track, and I was really proud seing this new song getting more and more popular each time we play it. Good! :)



8 December 2009

XMARS Time!


Once upon not so a long ago, I was guested by Alessandro and Paolo from the Italian radio show Geek Radio for a Christmas special edition 'bout Sweden and Japan celebrating winter holidays.

Alessandro (he still sings in "Le Man Avec Les Lunettes") asked me to collect some artists for a Japanese Christmas pop for the next year. A further edition of Geek Radio wasn't meant to be, still my friends from the band HajimePop was still willing to contribute with a festive song.

So here we are, with this virtual split, our Christmas Gift to you all!


Here's bands' spaces

5 December 2009

Enchantment Under The Cesuola




Possibly best performance ever, just me and Mic Leffe Tiny Tide was sliced in a garage duo, just for one night, and since far to obvious comparsions with other bands started to pop up few days from the concert we decided to mock our own name on "The White Tides". I was so electrified by that idea that I decided to start the show with Chuck, my dark 80's Gretsch. It was a good show indeed, with a lot of covers and friends crowding possibly the most dangerous bar in Cesena, starting to play at 00.00 a.m. Being only a a drum and a guitar gave us space to a lot of ideas and solo moments, starting from the blues intro with harmonica and a psychedelic post-rock aftershow with double drummers and a shoegazian Zonda being pointed as a Michale J Fox on acid at the end of his rock performance on Back To The Future's Enchantment Under The Sea.

Well. Beside that last moment of the show (that lasted quite 20 minutes so far) (there's a bit took from Matt Share) the whole show was filmed by Luca. Thank you Luca!





4 December 2009

(VULP-0002)

Oi there! Watch us as we're promoted as the second band appearing on the american label Vulpiano Records with the maxi single "The Smiths & The Cure". Cheers up for the American Fox!