Disciplinatha
Un Mondo Nuovo

Every day, when I wake up, I look out at the sky and the city surrounding me, realizing that our earthly globe is not in very good condition. Wars proliferating left and right, deceitful and hypocritical politicians, and "yooots" who believe they can find an escape from reality exclusively in hard drugs without realizing they are reaching a point of no return.

"Life, days, nights, weeks, months, years
time passes and you are never happy
say it’s not true, say it will change
it's the same, the same always
you went out with your friends at night
and boredom gripped your throat
you went out, you went out but where are you going?"

These are the moments when I wonder when a new world will come. But not a world like the one described years ago by Mr. Aldous Huxley. Something more.

And already three men and three women declared, in 1994, their hope in "A New World."

"We will create a new world, and it will be you who decides"

A world described through rock, industrial, and a hint of electronics (with some possible nods to the early Nine Inch Nails), with the powerful singing of Cristiano Santini, the angry voice of Valeria Cevolani, the furious guitar riffs of Dario Parisini, the dirty, gritty, hard, raw beat of Daniele Albertazzi, the synthetic effects of Roberta Vicinelli, and the choruses of Dalia Zipoli.

A world that we ought to decide ourselves how it should be ("It Was You Who Decided"). Where one might realize that we need to start all over from scratch, correct everything that is "Wrong" and rebuild it from top to bottom.

A world far from stereotypes that are the same as themselves, from that "contemporary music that brings us down" ("Up Patriots To Arms", cover of Battiato), from false myths without art nor part, from that "Crisis of Values" that spreads everywhere.

A world where one can also remember how politics has evolved from its earliest days (the persistent "Do You Remember That April 18th") to understand the subsequent arrival of various thieving governments, shadow-governments, defunct parties, and so on.

"I don’t see the privilege

It slips from hands

I am blind before

The sharp moons

To the beauty of the game

That there is"

A world that sooner or later will arrive. It could be our "Last Labor", or it might not be. Perhaps this dream is about to come true, maybe it’s already visible from afar ("Far Shimmering"), or maybe not. Who knows.

This is the world according to the Disciplinatha. Now dead and buried, and at the time misunderstood. Equipped with an almost unique musical formula and with the production of CPI, they were among the most interesting realities of our national rock over the last decade.

And their music leaves me with many hopes for the future.

[Note: the cover you see comes from the second printing of the work in question. The original one depicted an example of a "happy family", taken from an old Jehovah's Witness poster.]