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New Stories
“All you’ve ever wanted can never stay the same”
In the first “This Is Our Music” we spoke of songs that become hymns. However, just as occurs with books we’ve never read and films we’ve not seen, there are also groups and songs that have stories to tell, and they want to tell them to us. This edition of FIB Heineken features great figures and new names and it is, without doubt, a privileged occasion to make some discoveries. All the groups, like closed books and people we do not know, have stories to tell.
Jennifer Cardini, for example, is a name behind which the dirty electronic music of dawn, à la Hell, lurks. Behind the beats of her reconstruction of the “Amoreux Solitaires”, popularised by Lio, there lies hidden an open-ended story of the night – like in those books in which you have to make choices in each chapter to reach a determined ending, although those you have not chosen would be equally as valid. This wide array of possibilities is just what Jennifer herself proposes as a welcome to her Website: “The night is sexy! (But then again, so is the morning)”.
In the case of zZz, it is clear that the end of their story is an eternal dawn, regardless of whether it is day or night. When their music is playing, it’s always the early hours – otherwise they wouldn’t be able to conceive songs like “Ecstasy”, a muddy craziness and psychobilly worthy of the Cramps themselves. Besides, at these hours you will surely have no problems pronouncing their name exactly as they intend it to be pronounced: “like the French say ‘Jazz’, but without the ‘j’ and without the ‘a’…” Along these same lines, there’s also She Wants Revenge, and their fighting lyrics determined to avoid the traps of night-inspired love in “I Don’t Wanna Fall in Love”: “Right face wrong time, she’s sweet / (But I don’t wanna fall in love )/ Can’t sleep, can’t eat, can’t think straight…”
More day time, although no less intense – with a different kind of intensity – there’s The Organ. In the tradition of people like The Smiths and the incomparable The Cure, and with some traces of Electrelane, this Canadian quintet sets tasks as titanic as memorizing a city in “Memorize the City”: “I walk through the streets and memorize the city / I count every light until I reach the shore…” A difficult task to undertake during the Festival with so much music to choose from, yet it still proposes a more than valid way to trace a sentimental map of our geography. Art Brut (with Bloc Party and The Fall as reference points) also trace their emotional memory going back to the past (that past that has points of connection with the pasts of one and all) and to adolescent loves to remember someone that they’ve not be able to forget in “Emily Kane”: “I’ve not seen her in 10 years, 9 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes and 5 seconds…”, although they also take delight in their decision to dedicate their lives to music on “We Formed a Band”: “We formed a band, look at us, we formed a band… / We’re gonna write a song as universal as Happy Birthday… / We’re going to take that song and we’re going to play it eight weeks in a row on Top of the Pops…” It remains to be seen if they will changing the programme now that Top of the Pops is leaving BBC…
Others who will be visiting us for the first time are Morning Runner, with their debut, “Wilderness Is Paradise Now”. Their unmistakably British indie-rock sound has earned them gigs opening for the all-powerful Coldplay. They also have some stories to tell, although they give us their best advice in “Work Morning”: “What’s the movement if you don’t move…” So, what are you waiting for?
Text: Silvia Terrón
NEWS
Domingo, 20 de Julio de 2008