Disciplinatha
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THE REVIEW

Prejudices, musically speaking, are rampant and it’s very difficult to shake them off. If we’re talking about Disciplinatha, one might easily use this as an excuse to dismiss them or, worse, condemn them outright: they are fascists! So let's clarify this right away: this band did not intend to celebrate the fascist era; they simply emerged on the music scene as anti-CCCP, mocking their philo-Soviet punk style and lyrics.

Now let’s talk about the album itself: it’s their debut EP, released in 1988. It was published by Attack Punk Records, the same label behind the legendary “Affinità-Divergenze” by Ferretti and company. It’s a tremendously powerful record, Cristiano Santini’s voice delivers the words in English in a devastating manner, the sound of the guitars is distorted, the overall impact is tremendous and leaves no escape, thanks also to the drum work. The first track, “Addis Abeba” stands out for these sounds but especially for the opening; at the beginning, you hear a speech by Mussolini on the eve of the Ethiopian War from which Disciplinatha derive the album’s title. Parisini's guitar dominates in almost all the songs, starting from the second track “Canto Del Potere”; the obsessive repetition of “Disciplinatha” is something incredible, decidedly different from Ferretti’s “Fedeli alla Linea” in “CCCP”, also interesting is “Retorika” with a punk interpretation of the TG1 theme song and with greater presence of the drums. The album concludes with “Attacco Dal Cielo”: an out-of-this-world guitar solo, 100 seconds where the brain is first stunned, finally overwhelmed and defeated.

It’s not an album to be taken lightly or listened to casually; on the contrary, it requires the opposite approach: listening to it you’ll be faced with something that has few precedents in the history of Italian music.