Last Friday was a Suicide Girls day for me! Absolutely by chance, I met two Italian Suicide Girls. Well, actually one is an ex-SG, the other I don't know if still active, since she hasn't posted a set since a lot, but anyway. First of all, I was travelling by train in the afternoon to reach Bologna. In the evening there was a very interesting live performance by one of my favourite Italian bands of the last years, Post Contemporary Corporation. These guys are completely crazy, there's no way I can describe what they do! I will cut and paste a review of their CD I wrote for the Filth Forge webmagazine, in order to, hopefully, expose more people to their brilliance:
POST CONTEMPORARY CORPORATION
"Gerarchia Ordine Disciplina"
"Finally here we have the official debut CD of this unique entity that has been dwelling in the Italian underground for quite some years now. Post Contemporary Corporation rises from Bologna, Italy, and is the result of combined efforts by individuals with quite different roots, most notably Dario Parisini (founding member of cult shock-rockers Disciplinatha) Roberto Passuti (involved in the past with Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, of CCCP/C.S.I. fame), and Giulio Sangirardi (leader of psychedelic post-rock band Votiva Lux). Ideologist, lyrics writer and vocalist of this multi-faced creature is Zekkini, unpredictable and amazing character who easily moves between underground literature, music, visual art, teaching, and a lot more.
The sound of the Post Contemporary Corporation is a particular hybrid of danceable electronic rhythms and indie rock guitars, creating an effective and appropriate background to the hallucinated declaimed vocals. There's quite a lot of variety in the musical solutions: "Madre De Dis (Martinette)", for example, has a powerful house beat combined with thrashing guitar riffs, while "Onnagata" is more trance and atmospheric, "Mondo Fluttuante" is a bit jazzy, with its saxophone and piano who move side by side with the dancy electronics, and "Tra 40 Anni (Elogio Della Senilit)" starts as a (theoretically) melancholic acoustic ballad to then turn into an experimental post-rock ride. The oddest and probably less convincing track is final "Corporate America, Wake Up And Dance!", a demented oriental mantra of probably not too serious nature.
Zekkini's lyrics are a total parody of the TV preacher ("oily TV preachers", as he call them in "Mondo Fluttuante"), the politician, the opinionist. He declaims with emphasis crazy apparently non-sense cut-up texts that actually mock, whip and deride post-contemporary society, its deformities and absurdities, with corrosive irony and a vocabulary of unique imaginative power. Futurist free-word poetry is to be regarded as an inspiration, and not by chance the CD opens with "Manifesto Di Fondazione Del Futurismo (1999 Remix)", a techno version of Marinetti's famous Futurist Manifesto. All lyrics are in Italian, so maybe English translations included in the booklet would have helped non-Italian speakers to approach Post Contemporary Corporation more easily.
"Gerarchia Ordine Disciplina" is surely one of the most original and distinctive Italian underground releases of the last six years, out of any scheme, genre, category and style. Give these neo-Futurist post-contemporary poets a chance to lead you in their crazy world of free-words and music, you'll hardly regret it."
Back on topic, while on the train and while reading an antology of Lester Bang's best articles, my eyes were caught by the tattoos on a girl's arm, who was walking in the corridor together with other two friends. I realized that I had already seen those particular and complicated tattoos, and I started to wonder where. All this happened in less than 2 seconds, don't imagine that I spent too much time on it. Anyway, once my eyes crawled on the girl's arm reaching her pretty face, I recognized that she was Aiki aka Miss Violetta Beauregarde. Well, it was cool to see her in the flesh, especially since different people told me she looked a lot better in the pics than in real life, but I have to say I don't agree at all.
Later, after the amusing live set by Post Conteporary Corporation, the venue was invaded by a horde of boring "alternative people", who started to dance to a predictable 80s' chart hits disco night. Among these people, there was fortunately someone a lot more interesting: yet again, my eyes were caught by a tattoo, this time on a girl's shoulder. And once I reached her face, I recognized Tying Tiffany. Which was cool, I had already seen her in concert in my hometown last year and it was fun.
I just had to meet my other favouirte Italian SG, Stellae, to make it a perfect day.
POST CONTEMPORARY CORPORATION
"Gerarchia Ordine Disciplina"
"Finally here we have the official debut CD of this unique entity that has been dwelling in the Italian underground for quite some years now. Post Contemporary Corporation rises from Bologna, Italy, and is the result of combined efforts by individuals with quite different roots, most notably Dario Parisini (founding member of cult shock-rockers Disciplinatha) Roberto Passuti (involved in the past with Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, of CCCP/C.S.I. fame), and Giulio Sangirardi (leader of psychedelic post-rock band Votiva Lux). Ideologist, lyrics writer and vocalist of this multi-faced creature is Zekkini, unpredictable and amazing character who easily moves between underground literature, music, visual art, teaching, and a lot more.
The sound of the Post Contemporary Corporation is a particular hybrid of danceable electronic rhythms and indie rock guitars, creating an effective and appropriate background to the hallucinated declaimed vocals. There's quite a lot of variety in the musical solutions: "Madre De Dis (Martinette)", for example, has a powerful house beat combined with thrashing guitar riffs, while "Onnagata" is more trance and atmospheric, "Mondo Fluttuante" is a bit jazzy, with its saxophone and piano who move side by side with the dancy electronics, and "Tra 40 Anni (Elogio Della Senilit)" starts as a (theoretically) melancholic acoustic ballad to then turn into an experimental post-rock ride. The oddest and probably less convincing track is final "Corporate America, Wake Up And Dance!", a demented oriental mantra of probably not too serious nature.
Zekkini's lyrics are a total parody of the TV preacher ("oily TV preachers", as he call them in "Mondo Fluttuante"), the politician, the opinionist. He declaims with emphasis crazy apparently non-sense cut-up texts that actually mock, whip and deride post-contemporary society, its deformities and absurdities, with corrosive irony and a vocabulary of unique imaginative power. Futurist free-word poetry is to be regarded as an inspiration, and not by chance the CD opens with "Manifesto Di Fondazione Del Futurismo (1999 Remix)", a techno version of Marinetti's famous Futurist Manifesto. All lyrics are in Italian, so maybe English translations included in the booklet would have helped non-Italian speakers to approach Post Contemporary Corporation more easily.
"Gerarchia Ordine Disciplina" is surely one of the most original and distinctive Italian underground releases of the last six years, out of any scheme, genre, category and style. Give these neo-Futurist post-contemporary poets a chance to lead you in their crazy world of free-words and music, you'll hardly regret it."
Back on topic, while on the train and while reading an antology of Lester Bang's best articles, my eyes were caught by the tattoos on a girl's arm, who was walking in the corridor together with other two friends. I realized that I had already seen those particular and complicated tattoos, and I started to wonder where. All this happened in less than 2 seconds, don't imagine that I spent too much time on it. Anyway, once my eyes crawled on the girl's arm reaching her pretty face, I recognized that she was Aiki aka Miss Violetta Beauregarde. Well, it was cool to see her in the flesh, especially since different people told me she looked a lot better in the pics than in real life, but I have to say I don't agree at all.
Later, after the amusing live set by Post Conteporary Corporation, the venue was invaded by a horde of boring "alternative people", who started to dance to a predictable 80s' chart hits disco night. Among these people, there was fortunately someone a lot more interesting: yet again, my eyes were caught by a tattoo, this time on a girl's shoulder. And once I reached her face, I recognized Tying Tiffany. Which was cool, I had already seen her in concert in my hometown last year and it was fun.
I just had to meet my other favouirte Italian SG, Stellae, to make it a perfect day.
This event seemed to be cool. And your article is interesting. I should listen to PCC those days!