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LA PIRAMIDE DI SANGUE - SETTE
Year: 2014
Record label: Boring Machines, Sound of Cobra
Torino is a city crammed with dark apartment buildings. Layers of smog is hovering above and below the skyline, and people's life stories accumulate like filth along the sidewalk edges. Misery and a sense of abandonment is the feel of Torino. But from the ashes, there is also rebirth. It comes in waves. From aged peeling buildings, laundry and more lives are hung. Fumes rise up from basements.
Everywhere people are smoking, Living in Torino is like being in a film that makes the lungs impermeable. People smoke and drink. Less often, they eat. Always hanging out.
"Sette" seems to sound like that. Dirty and volatile. Like a gas.
The album possesses the nobility of dilapidated buildings and their toothless allure. It shares with Torino the subversive power of a family-like union among musicians, semimusicians and friends that have contributed in so many different ways to this project. It’s not immobile. It throbs by day and coughs at night.
La Piramide di Sangue returns to Porta Palazzo, the square in Torino, and the black centre of a city whose grip, as if in a torture scene, they cannot break free from. Torino’s mixed-blood parents have all traveled the road that stretches from North Africa up through Reggio Calabria in the south of Italy. Those guys at Porta Palazzo market know it all too well, they’re the proof of what really happened. Layer upon layer, generations of refugees and exiles accumulated. They are the true spirit of this nurturing city that did not refuse them. Every hole, every attic, every space was taken up.
La Piramide di Sangue has mixed blood too. And the seven instruments combined serves as,a symbol of alchemical transmutation. In much the same way, this record becomes a nocturnal road movie through neighbourhoods redrawn by time, dragging the listener further and further south of heaven. It speaks no language and may even be a hallucination: After all, "Sette" does not only mean the number "seven" in Italian, but also "cults". "Then I saw, amid the throne and the four living creatures, and among the elders, a Lamb standing, which looked like it had been immolated, and it had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God, sent to every corner of the earth."
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LA PIRAMIDE DI SANGUE - TEBE
Year: 2012
Record label: Boring Machines, Sound of Cobra
Thousands of perfumed rivulets invade the city streets of Turin and meet below the Egyptian Museum becoming stronger and melting into furious anthems. La Piramide di Sangue is a mosaic of meditative and restless sounds with no sonic boundaries which embrace spores of psychedelic rock of all ages, mediterranean cultures and wah-wah explosions.
The record has been recorded live at Blue Record Studio in Turin in one take.
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