Afterhours
Quello Che Non C'è

Some know it, others don't.

That name that stands out in the landscape and in the sky torn by lightning is a tribute. To love and to the art form of the Vevet Underground, the 60s band that perhaps more than any other sowed grandly (and with seeds of the highest quality!) in the field of 20th-century music.

Our band in question took its name from a VU song, not just any song, but the one that more than any other had nothing to do with the style of Lou Reed and Co. Why?
Being the sweetest and most carefree song of the band, it was in stark contrast to all their production (I mean the first 3 albums) and therefore the choice of name highlighted this contradiction in Manuel Agnelli's band: the noise (for others, because for me it is art) and the sweetness, despair and solution, punk/lo-fi/ and pop. These are the Afterhours of “Germi”, “Hai paura del buio?”, “Non è per sempre”.

In 2002 a turning point: the highest point of a grand and innovative career for the Italian music scene is reached once again, after the seminal release of “Hai paura del buio?” in 1997 which many consider the best Italian album. That pinnacle was not reached by “Non è per sempre” (1999), although of great quality. In 2002, this dark and intense work appears, with direct lyrics, emblematic phrases to write on walls, experimentation and psychedelia with plenty of mellotron, the courage to leave behind the past and move forward, perhaps towards the dark, or perhaps towards "Quello che non c’è".

A work filled with attacks and outbursts of anger at one's own personality, at society, at what surrounds the individual. It is, indeed, the unstable situation of the individual with the steric that predominates, in its facets of illusion, hope, loss of reason. The desire to find the strength to fight these situations prevails, in which the nation manages to pollute even a pure feeling such as love.
The first reaction is, then, to disobey; to get up from that bed that had seen you resigned for so long, with the desire to change the world. “Quello che non c’è” is a completed art form to not push even further into the abyss and a hymn to lost hope but also an act of strength of great humanity because it is “here in the air that you can understand how late it is to change your mind/it's too late to feel new/too late to hope/too late to change again”.

It has the charm and power to awaken minds long, long numb. Coincidentally as the Velvet Underground knew how to do.