Country: Multinational
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock, Fusion
Label: Clenchedwrench
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: August 25, 2014
Tracklist:
- Animal Farm Tango - 5:03
- Alain - 4:15
- Nanos' Waltz - 3:18
- Skinny Cat - 3:44
- Mountain Top - 3:26
- Il Sogno Del Fienile - 3:11
- Auslander - 3:56
- Stucazz?!! - 2:55
- Sailor Blues - 5:16
- Us in Their Land - 3:53
Andrea Belfi - drums
Stefano Pilia - guitar
Mike Watt - bass
Description/Reviews:
The bulk of Canto Secondo was recorded with all three members in the same room at the same time, and it shows in tracks like the instrumental “Alain”, with its lopsided prog ambulation propped up by Watt’s melted-rubber low-end, and “Mountain Top”, a circular, gently jangled meditation that has the feel of a post-punk koan.Read the full review by Jason Heller at pitchfork.com
“Sailor Blues” is Canto Secondo’s longest track, and at a trim five-minutes-plus, it demonstrates just how concentrated and concise the trio’s internal language has become. From Pilia’s knotty yet fluid guitar lines to Watt’s punching, dancing bass, the song descends into an ethereal wash of soft-focus distortion and playfully unresolved bends of melody. The touchstones become more sharply defined on “Us in Their Land”; in a start-stop fit of squealing virtuosity that anxiously mashes My War-era Black Flag into Starless and Bible Black-era King Crimson, the song hastily builds a scaffolding, clambers up it, then pulls it out from under its feet. Pilia’s whispery, heavily accented poetry not only clicks, it evokes a strange kind of dreamy menace, working strictly on a level of phonetic atmosphere.
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Links:
Mike Watt's web page
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