Occult rock, il nuovo EP dei Psychedelic Witchcraft
In qualche sotterraneo di Firenze, celato allo sguardo dei non adepti, nascono i brani dei Psychedelic Witchcraft, band vintage rock capitanata da una mora Jinx Dawson. È uscito il loro EP in vinile “Black Magic Man” (Taxi Driver Records) che è andato subito sold out e ora si attende una ristampa per la fine di febbraio: un’edizione limitata in vinile colorato 12” con nuova copertina, curata dall’artista inglese Matt Wilkins, e una bonus track “The Dark Lord” un brano del 1969 dei Sam Gopal, band psichedelica inglese in cui suonava un giovane Lemmy Kilmister. In “Black Magic Man” c’è uno dei migliori occult rock nostrani: dalla prima traccia “Angela” ispirato alla protagonista della pellicola di Piers Haggard “Blood on Satan’s Claw” del 1971, alla title track che racconta di una strega che si libera dall’influenza negativa del Black Magic Man, fino a “Lying On Iron” e “Slave Of Grief” che chiude l’ep impregnato della voce sensuale di Virginia.
La band fiorentina ha gettato nel calderone la fascinazione per il mondo esoterico e gli acuti riferimenti a band come Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead fino ai Black Widow, mescolato sapientemente e stregato un buon numero di fan. Per i Psychedelic Witchcraft la magia non è nera, ma potente, e solo l’azione umana determinerà il suo essere buona o cattiva. Lezioni degli anni ’60, passando per Coven e Black Sabbath, tra i primi gruppi a parlare esplicitamente di occultismo.
Il 26 febbraio saranno al Lo-Fi di Milano in apertura ai Vintage Caravan, in attesa dell’uscita del loro primo album “The Vision”.
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I’m Luca Palazzi, leader and singer of “CRM – Customer Relationship Madness”.
We are an italian pycho-punk group. Last 22th November our debut album called “Who Are You Exactly?” was released by Seahorse Records.
The record has been positively reviewed by the main Italian webzine & magazines (Ondarock.it, Blow-Up).
We’d like you to listen it, for a possible review.
Here you can listen the whole record: https://soundcloud.com/crm-madness/sets/who-are-you-exactly-promo/s-MLnSd?idU=1
Here you can download it (WAV):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Vsx1Q5LhZ2M0lNaFmsI60Vep1fsoSi6d?fbclid=IwAR1cyV-BEYXjTtYsmzkyAhe0Cyy6hIbCp-QzM15xRgrmXWI5DMv9I6yE6H4
..and here you can watch our first video:
“People In Coma” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps72MzEd3HM)
This is our press release:
The “madness of the relationship with the customer” of CRM (Customer Relationship Madness) is a musical project that, through the lens of post-punk psychedelia, psycho-wave musical atmospheres, electronic sounds, noise and new wave focuses on the insanity that broods in a society dominated by individualism and delusions of omnipotence, cynicism and a tendency to self-destruction. Not accidentally, the intro of the first track of the disc, Pluton, is really the voice of Donald Trump, who better than anyone else represents this dissolving process in progress, to then continue drawing a path that in 8 tracks gives free rein to the inspiration of all the CRM members.
The name CRM refers to the same acronym that in the marketing world identifies the central activity of Customer relationship management, emphasizing how what is normally considered management, is in reality madness, a global game of manipulation of thought and desires. In “Who Are You Exactly” the CRMs do not express judgments, rather they return, as in the mirror with the many faces represented on the cover, the spirit of the time.
“Zeitgeist: the spirit of the time” was not by chance the title of the last show of the eclectic singer Luca Palazzi, in which he visually expressed what was later developed into music by CRMs, in a syncretic journey between visual arts and sound.
The band was formed following the meeting between the “Romans”, Luca Palazzi (main voice, lyrics, drum machine) and Francesca Ronconi (keyboards-synth), with Gianpaolo Rosato (bass), a former member of Black Sonar and the Florentines Francesco Degli Innocenti (guitar), ex of the Dreg Machine and the B-Backs and Elisabetta Caiani (vocals, choirs, kazoos).
Please let me know what you think about our project. We hope you’ll like it:)
Best regards!
Luca Palazzi
Grazie Luca!