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2005
"KJW2137 (I've Risen Through The Ranks)"
2006
"The White Trade Rhapsody"
"Forceps"
2009
"Spongiform"
"No Use To Get Angry With Red Co-Ops If Your Cousin Killed Himself By Beating A Dishwasher With His Head"
2010
"To Infinity And That's It!"
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KJW2137 a) Proem [0:00-1:19] b) First Cantica [1:19-9:51] c) Intermission [9:51-13.41] d) Advertising Parenthesis [13:41-19:02] e) Second Cantica [19:02-27:10] f) Closing Credits [27:10-28:06] 2. Adagio (7:26) (3.) KJW2137 (I Have Just Begun To Rise Through The Ranks As A Remixer) Remix by K-Conjog |
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An out-and-out radio channel surfing, the one by Davide Carrozza's KJW2137, transformed with musique concrète and instrumental inserts in a non-genre scattered in the ether, made of shreds of TV newscasts, crumbs of found sounds, samples, silences, real pieces of music. Everything pressed in I've Risen Through The Ranks, divided in two tracks, the first one - tonally orgiastic and divided in six parts - is 28 minute long, the second one is 7 minute long. Among vanilla-slice-style stratifications and moments of stasis, dispersions and returns, we realize this is a risky, radical, borderline proposal, with memorable moments and some naiveties: a lonely ride deserving 6.3/10 more for its courage and the will to break the schemes than for the melodic vision of the whole.
(Fabrizio Zampighi, Sentireascoltare.com, "We Are Demo", march 2007, translated by Davide Carrozza)
In how many ways can we interpret the music, marry the most magically abstract art in the Universe to everything surrounding us?
Let's pretend it's a movie, or a radio broadcasting, or a dialogue. Let's assemble melodies with everyday's sounds. All of this, with some eclecticism, too many listenings to His Majesty Mike Patton and a little bit of will to provoke, is more or less, for what can be said, Davide Carrozza. Nearly 40 minutes in two tracks, in which the apparent sound anarchy gives us a glimpse an exceptionally patient work of circularity and concept, a meaning built by degrees, by forms and, every once in a while, by musics. The first track, "KJW2137", is divided in six acts, like a teathrical performance. Like an epic poem, it begins with a "Proem", a clock ticking, slowly lapsing in the everyday national life of the "First Cantica", among TV newscasts extracts, multilanguage voices and radio transmissions. What about the music? A cleverly made background ambient music with moving violins offering a considerable emotional contrast. In the half of the piece, it's time to show off some pop culture. "Intermission" opens thanks to the superfamous rhythm of "Song 2" by the superfamous British band, going slowly up to the solitude and an exceptional rapping coming to the rescue. With the moving background music, the contrast becomes more indistinct. At 13:41, "Advertising Parenthesis" opens with a famous hit I don't remember (Avril Lavigne?) mixed with the famous jingle from teenage TV-series "O.C." (maybe the only famous Phantom Planet song). An intelligent, funny, eclectic mix that would make anybody smile. An electric guitar in the end, a helicopter and some panning game bring us to the most musical section of the track, the "Second Cantica". A strange beginning with a sad acoustic guitar, elevating while a more moving flute entering and a lo-fi riff become magically tangled. The soundtrack of this moment is a simple melody, but well tangled, moving and meaningful. It's the best moment in the album, an excellent prelude for the final "Closing Credits", the simple circular return to the clock ticking.
"Adagio" is the second track of the disc, it's simpler and compact, seven minutes of voices, robotics and melodically sweet backgrounds, like in the end of a movie. Another set of extracts from stories and visions.
So, this is Davide Carrozza. A behavioural experiment, an album of indefinite vicissitudes surrounded by instruments with a strong emotional impact. It's very hard to say how possible (and who) is to or not to appreciate this album. Maybe the most brave listeners, to testify the courage of the composer, maybe the smartest. Or maybe the naivest. I can't say, I can only say this proposal is an avantgarde musical interpretation of the present and the future. In his "radio-friendlier" ghost track, Davide Carrozza says "I Have Just Begun To Rise Through The Ranks As A Remixer". We believe it, so why wouldn't we want to listen to the sequel? (7.5/10)
(Doriana De Marco, Ondalternativa.it, December 8th, 2008, translated by Davide Carrozza)
