Liebe Fourtrack Friends,
kommt vorbei zum letzten Fourtrack-Abend im Jahr 2019:
Mittwoch, 11. Dezember, Schokoladen WOW + Instant Voodoo
Ackerstr. 169, U8 Rosenthaler Platz
Eintritt: 6-8 Euro | Einlass: 19 Uhr | Beginn: 20 Uhr, ab 22 Uhr DJ PartyTypos (Collage Collective, Listen Agency) | FB-Event
WOW (Rom, Italien)
Intimacy as a sacred path, intimacy as a weapon, intimacy as a reaction, a nighttime ritual that becomes an eloquent but essential survival routine. WOW’s fifth album ‘Come La Notte’ (literally ‘Like Night’) is rooted in trying to figure out these questions, can night living keep protecting us? Is this where we can breathe fresh air and find our place in society?
To me, WOW, has always been the secret gem, one of the shiniest and most vital expressions of art coming out of Italy’s now disastrous political landscape. A reminder, if any needed, of the incredible tableau of music, cinema, experimentation, poetry and craft the ‘bel paese’ generated day in an out for years. Based in Rome and centered around the creative partnership of China Wow and Leo Non, WOW have been writing beautiful songs for years, assimilating and embodying the uncompromising spirit of their Pigneto neighborhood, the visual mesmerization and flickering lights of early Cinecittà, the ramshackle purity of rock’n’roll and primitive punk and the undeniable glory of the Italian 60’s canzone, where dream voices such as Mina and Patty Pravo were supported by otherworldly musicianship that could bring the listener to its feet with a single drum-roll.
Instant Voodoo is - jokingly speaking - the resident band of the Kitchen Leg records mansion. It's a duo started in the living room of the two owners of the label, experimenting with sounds and rhythms using a whole array of analogue machinery. Together they create an evocative, pulsating music that in its trajectory crosses day and night. Or, as they like to define in two words, extra dust and magic.