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Titolo: Kallocain - Paatos

Questa è la tacklist del disco che esce il 7 giugno prossimo (è prevista
anche una special edition con un DVD live):
01. Gasoline
02. Holding On
03. Happiness
04. Apsinth Minded
05. Look At Us
06. Reality
07. Stream
08. Won´t Be Coming Back
09. In Time
Questa invece la descrizione del disco che ho trovato sul sito della Inside
Out
Paatos: "Kallocain"
To put away three clichés right from the beginning: In winter, there are not
months of darkness in Sweden. Not all Swedish have blonde hair. And in
Sweden there are not only folk groups or harsh guitar rock à la Hellacopters
or Fireside. Furthermore, the quintett Paatos, based in Stockholm,
weigthlessly moves between musical worlds: a few passages revive improvised
rock from the Seventies, on the other hand singer Petronella Nettermalm
reminds of Björk's only seemingly naive charme. And when the mellotron
supports the music with soft strings, some listener feels as if reminded of
the hypnotic vortex of some Led Zeppelin passages - while Paatos use
daydreaming and melancholic moods in modern styles instead of riff power.
Melancholic? Okay, this one often used feature for Swedish music be
accepted.
As a kind of reference the name "Can" may be mentioned - at least, the band
members themselves think so who define their style as "melancholic post
 rock". Whereas experts of the Swedish music scene may find some parallels
to Landberk which hardly is surprising: When the bands Landberk and Ägg
performed in a rock club back in 1993, they liked each other so much that
they kept in touch, and meanwhile they are doing things together - first as
support band for female folk singer Turid, then under their own brandname
Paatos. "Paatos" is the equivalent to the Greek "pathos", and for reasons of
visual effect the Swedish have added another "a" to the name.
Singer Petronella Nettermalm, whose dreamy voice comes amazingly close to
the already mentioned Björk but also to Beth Gibbons from Portishead, often
composes the music with drummer and husband Ricard Huxflux Nettermalm: "I
consider it as a great bonus of our marriage that I already play with
Huxflux since three years. Though our artist's life is a kind of puzzle
which has to be coordinated for our little daughter regarding babysitters
and childrens' day care, but for this it's a real rock baby, she already was
on the road with us at the age of six months." Huxflux looks like a dervish
when whirling over drums and cymbals with virtuoso jazz rock gestures, while
adding the wildest breaks one to each other. As a session musician he knows
everybody and everything: he works with the synth band Covenant, the drums'n
'bass acts Baxter and Yoga as well as with John Norum or with Clawfinger.
And for Rammstein he worked during the recording sessions for their "Mutter"
album.
Guitarist Peter Nylander studied music at the Berklee College and made a
remarkable name for himself in the jazz scene, as sideman as well as with
his own quartet which will record it's debut album in June. Bassist Stefan
Dimle runs the record store "Mellotronen" in Stockholm. Finally Johan
Wallén, former member of the freaky dub formation Pro-Seed leads us back
into the good old times of the Seventies with his mellotron sounds and the
Fender rhodes when music was hand-made and more authentic than today.
To have a look back, by the way: Everything started at the end of 2001 when
Paatos were in the studio working on their first longplayer "Timeloss" and
suddenly getting the rush job to write the music for the silent movie
classic "Nosferatu", for use at a film festival in Umeå. The band
brilliantly masters this job and delivers the strongly improvised and live
performed music for the 2,5 hours long movie in less than two months. "Who
knows, maybe we will release it in some future time", Johan says today.
After this - in the literal sense of the word - creative break, the five
musicians continue to work in the studio and gain attention with "Timeloss",
a furiously jazz rocking debut with extended improvisations. Stefan: "This
album musically still was a kind of hybrid between Landberk and Ägg, which
was suddenly released by Universal. In comparison to that album, 'Kallocain'
is a perfectly made work. We carefully worked on the songs, they come out of
the depths of our souls."
The album's title refers to a science fiction novel by Swedish female author
Karin Boye. The story deals with a utopic society between Huxley and Orwell.
Obvious traces were left by Steven Wilson from Porcupine Tree: "He was a
gift of heaven", says Stefan. "He asked us if we could need help with the
mixing. He exactly knew where we were heading. Wilson has, so to speak,
added the gold powder to 'Kallocain'."

anche una special edition con un DVD live):
Sto ascoltando l'advanced e penso che bisognerebbe fermarsi un attimo
e chiedersi dove stia andando il prog nordico. 
Senza esprimere giudizi, mi sembra che l'eco del successo di band
geograficamente affini come ad esempio Sigur Ros e Mum stia
condizionando più o meno consciamente la produzione di gruppi come
Anekdoten e Paatos. 
Kallocain è Bjork + Sigur Ros + (ahimé) Porcupine Tree in salsa
mellotron e hammond. C'è molto anche dei The Gathering di If than
else. Ci sono belle atmosfere e belle melodie. La terza traccia,
Happiness, ha tutte le caratteristiche per essere un bel singolo.
Però... 
Però rimane la sensazione di qualcosa di ibrido, di un tentativo
ancora embrionale di conciliare *cose* e sentori diversi, lavorando
più di mestiere che di pancia.
Da riascoltare.
Paolo
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Editor - Wonderous Stories
www.wonderoustories.it

 mellotron e hammond.
Ottimo , non vedo l'ora : tre artisti che amo .
Comunque per maggiori info sul progetto :
http://www.iperborea.com/Boye.htm
Sarà ancora in catalogo ?
extra
17°scudo.