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Good 1

by ALIX

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1.
THE SWEET-SMELLING ROAD THE SWEET-SMELLING ROAD LED TO YOUR DOOR I STILL REMEMBER HOW IT WAS BEFORE AND THROUGH YOUR WORDS I COULD FEED ON YOUR DREAMS I GAVE MYSELF TO YOU, BABY TO SET MY SOUL FREE WALKING THROUGH YOUR LAND I STILL EMBRACE YOUR SOUL AWAY FROM THE DARKNESS I NEVER FEEL ALONE THE WIND IS BLOWING HOW IT WAS BEFORE ON THE SWEET-SMELLING ROAD THAT LED TO YOUR DOOR TIME PASSES SLOWLY YOU’RE LOST IN A DREAM AND MY HEART TELLS ME THAT ALL CAN BE REAL WALKING THROUGH YOUR LAND I STILL EMBRACE YOUR SOUL AWAY FROM THE DARKNESS I NEVER FEEL ALONE THE SWEET-SMELLING ROAD
2.
Emotion 03:42
EMOTION TAKE IT LIKE AN EMOTION WITHOUT BARS AND WITHOUT CAGES TAKE IT LIKE AN EMOTION BLIND MAN RUNNING THROUGH SPACE THERE’S NO TIME FOR CELEBRATION GOT NO PLACE TO CALL HOME GIVE HER A SMILE WITHOUT A REASON AND NOW FORGET ALL THAT YOU’VE LEARNED AND NOW FORGET ALL THAT YOU’VE LEARNED LOOK ALL AROUND WHEN YOU MOVE YOUR HEAD, BABY LOOK ALL AROUND AND NOW FORGET ALL THAT YOU LEARNED TAKE IT LIKE AN EMOTION ROUND AND ROUND THE RING SHE GOES TAKE IT LIKE AN EMOTION NOTHING’S GONNA SHAKE HER LOVE THERE’S NO TIME FOR CELEBRATION GOT NO PLACE TO CALL HOME GIVE HER A SMILE WITHOUT A REASON AND NOW FORGET ALL THAT YOU’VE LEARNED AND NOW FORGET ALL THAT YOU’VE LEARNED LOOK ALL AROUND WHEN YOU MOVE YOUR HEAD, BABY LOOK ALL AROUND AND NOW FORGET ALL THAT YOU LEARNED LOOK ALL AROUND
3.
SOLID AS A STONE WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR YOU’VE BEEN ALONE TOO LONG IT’S SO HARD TO GET ON SOLID AS A STONE PLEASE, GET TO KNOW THE LIE KEEP IT BY YOUR SIDE I’LL TELL YOU IT’S TRUE I’VE GOT NOTHING TO LOSE SO WHEN I HAVE YOU I FEEL LIKE I’M RUNNING FREE YOU KNOW MY SONG IS NEW I’LL TELL YOU HOW IT’S TRUE IN A SKY SO BLUE I’VE BEGUN TO DREAM ABOUT YOU PLAY A NEW SONG FOR ME I HAVE NO ONE TO MEET YOU REALLY WANT TO LOVE SOLID AS A STONE SO WHEN I HAVE YOU I FEEL LIKE I’M RUNNING FREE
4.
Without You 03:49
WITHOUT YOU YOU COULD HAVE BEEN MY GOOD FRIEND YOU COULD HAVE BEEN MY SON I COULD HAVE STAYED BESIDE YOU I COULD HAVE STAYED FOR MORE I’M NOT THE ONE YOU WANT, BABY I’M NOT THE ONE YOU NEED AND THE WAY YOU’RE TREATING ME MAKES ME FEEL LIKE GIVING IN YOU CAN GUIDE ME OUT OF HERE LIKE A SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT TODAY IS THE DAY FOR ME TO RISE WITHOUT YOU BY MY SIDE SO IT’S TIME TO TAKE A RIDE FLYING THROUGH THE SKY WITHOUT YOU BY MY SIDE YOU COULD HAVE BEEN MY GOOD FRIEND YOU COULD HAVE BEEN MY SON I COULD HAVE STAYED BESIDE YOU I COULD HAVE STAYED FOR MORE SO IT’S TIME TO TAKE A RIDE FLYING THROUGH THE SKY WITHOUT YOU BY MY SIDE
5.
DON’T RUN AHEAD DON’T RUN AHEAD, DON’T RUN AHEAD I SMELL THE GARDEN IN YOUR BED DON’T RUN AHEAD ON BOARD THE TRAIN TO THE OTHER SIDE YELLOW MOON ON THE RISE WE’LL NEVER BE THE SAME EASY.. DON’T RUN AHEAD DON’T RUN AHEAD, DON’T RUN AHEAD COME BACK AND JUMP IN MY FRIEND DON’T RUN AHEAD WE CAN HEAR THE CALL THE LONG TRAIN OF DESIRE YELLOW MOON ON THE RISE WE’LL NEVER BE THE SAME EASY.. DON’T RUN AHEAD DON’T RUN AHEAD, DON’T RUN AHEAD I SMELL THE GARDEN IN YOUR BED DON’T RUN AHEAD DON’T RUN AHEAD, DON’T RUN AHEAD COME BACK AND JUMP IN MY FRIEND DON’T RUN AHEAD
6.
Good One 03:43
GOOD ONE YOU ARE REALLY SUCH A GOOD ONE OUR KISSES SWEET AND HOT LIKE A ROCK’N’ROLL SONG SWEET BABY, YOU’RE A WILD MAN YOUR SPIRIT’S HAPPINESS LIKE A ROCK’N’ROLL SONG LIKE A ROCK’N’ROLL SONG WE USED TO WALK IN A WHITE DREAM MIST ROLLING IN FROM THE SEA CHASING THE RUNNING STREAM TILL WE FOUND A SEA OF GREEN YOU ARE REALLY SUCH A GOOD ONE OUR KISSES SWEET AND HOT SWEET BABY, YOU’RE WILD MAN YOUR SPIRIT’S HAPPINESS LIKE A ROCK’N’ROLL SONG I KNOW FROM YOUR SMILE THAT TONIGHT WE’LL BE FINE LIKE A ROCK’N’ROLL SONG LIKE A ROCK’N’ROLL SONG YOU ARE REALLY SUCH A GOOD ONE OUR KISSES SWEET AND HOT
7.
Butterfly 04:18
BUTTERFLY YOU HOPE SO MUCH THAT YOUR RACE IS DONE BUT YOU’VE TO GO BACK TO WHERE YOU BEGAN LOOK AROUND, YOU’LL FIND THE SUN IT’S NOT TOO FAR FROM WHERE YOU ARE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THE WORLD SO BRIGHT BEFORE BRIGHT ENOUGH, TO LET IT GO TURN AROUND AND START AGAIN I’M GLAD I FOUND YOU ALONG THE WAY WHY DON’T WE MEET TOMORROW BETWEEN THE DARKNESS AND THE STAGE WHY DON’T WE MEET TOMORROW BETWEEN THE SUN AND THE CAGE ALONG THE WAY, ALONG THE WAY ON EVERY FACE, ALONG THE WAY I DON’T KNOW WHAT MAKES YOU KIND BUTTERFLY DON’T LEARN TO FIGHT YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THE WORLD SO BRIGHT BEFORE BRIGHT ENOUGH, TO LET IT GO TURN AROUND AND START AGAIN I’M GLAD I FOUND YOU ALONG THE WAY WHY DON’T WE MEET TOMORROW BETWEEN THE DARKNESS AND THE STAGE WHY DON’T WE MEET TOMORROW BETWEEN THE SUN AND THE CAGE ALONG THE WAY, ALONG THE WAY ON EVERY FACE, ALONG THE WAY I DON’T KNOW WHAT MAKES YOU KIND BUTTERFLY DON’T LEARN TO FIGHT
8.
Not Too Far 03:14
NOT TOO FAR NOT TOO FAR, HERE I AM TIMELESS, HERE I AM NOT TOO FAR, WILD THING HOW DOES IT FEEL, WILD THING WHY DON’T WE TRY, DON’T WE TRY LET’S ROCK NOT TOO FAR, WE COULD HAVE FUN WITHOUT FEAR, WE COULD HAVE FUN NOT TOO FAR, HOW DOES IT FEEL WILD THING, HOW DOES IT FEEL WHY DON’T WE TRY, DON’T WE TRY LET’S ROCK
9.
Do Not Wrong 03:48
DO NOT WRONG TONIGHT BABY TAKE ME HOME TAKE ME BY SURPRISE TOUCHING MY SOUL LIE DOWN BY MY SIDE TAKE CARE OF ME WHEN MINDS OPEN WIDE WE CAN BE FREE TIME HAS TOLD ME DO NO WRONG AND I JUST TRY TO GET AROUND DO NO WRONG TONIGHT BABY TAKE ME HOME WHEN THE DREAM COMES TOUCHING MY SOUL PUT ME IN A SAFE PLACE TAKE CARE OF ME A TROUBLED CURE FOR A TROUBLED DREAM TIME HAS TOLD ME DO NO WRONG AND I JUST TRY TO GET AROUND DO NO WRONG
10.
BIANCO E NERO RICONOSCEVO IN ME I SAPORI DI UN’AMARA VERITA’ E DAVO FORMA A QUEI MOMENTI CHE TRASFORMAVO IN LIBERTA’ IN QUEI MOMENTI MI SPECCHIAVO E MI MUOVEVO IN ARMONIA CHIEDENDOMI SE ERA GIUSTO RIMANERE O ANDARE VIA E LA NOTTE PASSAVA E PIOVEVAN LE STELLE LUNGHE OMBRE SOFFOCAVAN NEI MURI E SI CERCAVANO SENZA PIETA’ I GRANDI ALBERI ABBRACCIAVANO IL MONDO L’ACQUA SEGUIVA LE RIVE DEI SOGNI E I TAMBURI SUONAVANO NOTE E NOI.. RESPIRAVAMO NEL BUIO IL VERDE INTENSO DISEGNAVA IL TUO VISO IL BIANCO ERA AL POSTO DEL NERO LE TUE LABBRA CHIAMAVANO IL ROSA E LA SETE BAGNAVA I TUOI OCCHI IL SILENZIO CONTAVA I COLORI TRASMETTENDO UNA MUSICA SANA ED IO MI PERDEVO CON LORO FACENDO FINTA DI ESSERE VERA NUVOLE DI PROIBITO SI SCIOGLIEVANO NEL FREDDO E L’ODORE L’ODORE ERA FORTE PER IL LUNGO SONNO PROFONDO LA VERITA’ LA NASCONDEVO NELL’ARIA MOSTRANDO IL VISO ALLA LUNA SELVAGGIA E M’ACCORSI GUARDANDOTI NELL’OMBRA DI VOLERE ANCORA IL TUO FRUTTO

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ALIX
“GOOD 1”
A masterpiece!
Alice & his friends cooked a perfumed cake with a lot of elements from stoner culture perfectly mixed with heavy-blues riffs and classic rock sounds...
“The Sweet-Smelling Road” opens the album on a kyussian atmosphere surprising for the vocal approach by Alice...near to Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon style!!!
“Emotion” produces hypno-sound vibrations and “Without You” runs very near to classic delta blues sounds...
“Butterfly” presents the vocalist Alice Albertazzi as the new Janis Joplin and the band (Pippo De Palma on guitars, G.Franco Romanelli on bass and slide guitar, Andrea Insulla on drums) tries to be the new Big Brother & The Holding Company...
The closing song “Bianco e Nero” is for me the only negative note: is a beautiful Italian pop song but it seems very far from the band style!
Class A production by the Magician Steve Albini.
Great musicians and original vocals: the evolution of stoner-rock!

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ALIX
“GOOD 1”
Alix è la band che tutti vorremmo ospitare tra i sub-woofer almeno una volta al giorno, per rifarsi i polmoni di vero rock’in che torna a suonare – spurgato da trendy e atrofismi - allo stato solido, hard-gasly, che dire….. metedrinico. Fanno e ammaestrano uno psychedelic groove rock che trascina per i capelli al centro del vertigo del loro strepitoso cd “Good 1”, slabbrato woodoo distorto pronto a colpire - per la varietà delle canzoni - fin dentro le più profonde deviazioni di un cut’n’past sfacciatamente bello, senza ritegno. A me questi bolognesi fanno venire in mente gli Ojm, i Miracles Worker dell’era Butler , quando quest’ultimo faceva la mano morta con i Flamin’ Groovies, Iggy Pop e Ozzy Osbourne; nel senso che in questo disco primeggia un’estetica sonica al servizio di splendidi intrecci blues, stoner, sludge, serviti su di una porzione di Bay Area e umidosità da Everglades che viene la voglia di morderlo tanto è ghiotto boccone. Alice Albertazzi, la vocalist, resta in sella a queste dieci tracce con il fare lascivo e deciso di Polly Harvey; voce ammaliante, asetticamente lussuriosa che concilia il chitarrismo bruciante di Pippo Di Palma, il muro di pelli di Gianfranco Romanelli e il basso laido di Andrea Insulla in un suono totale dove le paratie di contenimento di un unico style sono state divelte lasciando noi poveri recensori sotto le macerie a soffrire finalmente di felicità. Ricercato nei dettagli, puntuale negli insert, “Good 1” è l’album ineccepibile sotto ogni punto di ascolto, tutto voltato – per un senso circolatorio, mantrico, del marchingegno strutturale – a stordire ; alzate il volume e chiudete gli occhi, potreste essere ovunque adesso: nella Detroit sudicia degli Stooges con “Emotion” e “Solid as a stone”, a fabbricare joint con i Grant Lee Buffalo o Snakepit tra i grovigli sliddati Southern di “Without You”, fare la danza indiana a suon di watt assieme a Bif Naked in “The sweet-smelling road” o roteare estatici come Dervisci nel deserto di Sonora in “Don’t run ahead”.
Registrato e mixato da Steve Albini al Red House Recording di Senigallia e masterizzato a Chicago da Bob Weston, il disco degli Alix è una delle scatole sonore – che proviene dal girone emergenti - più pure e incontaminate da criteri ebeti che possiate ascoltare se avete orecchie ancora “vergini” per farlo. Tenete ancora serrate le palpebre quando ascolterete il mandala serpente di “Butterfly” che vi colonizzerà le meningi o “Bianco e nero” – unica traccia in italiano – dove tenere ferma la testa prima che chieda asilo agli empirismi di chitarra alla Eric Sardinas potrebbe risultare ostico; poi a suono fermo e a distanza di cinque minuti, risollevate le palpebre. Scoprirete che tornare “in terra” è una transizione che può riservarvi subdole insidie di vuoto, di abbandono.
09/11/2008 | di Massimo Sannella

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