Effervescent Elephants
From The End To The Beginning

LA RECENSIONE

Sweet is naivety and beautiful is kindness.

This is an album that smells sweet and brings tears to your eyes. Everything remains suspended. Observing without observing. Watching without watching...

And as if certain sounds were left closed in the cellar.

You open a box and they arrive like muffled, wrapped in the cocoon of time...

Then you perceive something childlike, the love of someone who madly loves something and gives it back with a freshness that just blows you away...

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No need to bring out the entire catalog, like the Orient, like California, like suspended ballads, like lysergic outings...

Let's just say that I feel at home...

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“Oh seasons, oh castles, is there a soul without flaws?”

As Enid Starkie said? Ah yes, Rimbaud's inner castle, like Saint Teresa's.

Are you familiar with Saint Teresa?

No, I'm familiar with a girl. Her name is Alice Castello and she lives in Alice's castle. Are you familiar with Alice's castle?

No, I'm familiar with Rimbaud's...

“Oh seasons, oh castles, is there a soul without flaws?”

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But Alice Castello is also the name of a village. That's where the Effervescent Elephants come from...

“The pachyderms in the soda,” as someone once said....

Certainly, kids, if you take your name from a Barrett song, you have a good chance of becoming my friends...

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Anyway, I remember you, an old interview in Mucchio I imagine...

And all those colors after the gray...

Are you familiar with gray?

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I type effervescent elephants in the search option of Debasio and under the review of this album appears the comment of the soul man:

“How did someone from Alice Castello, between smooth ballrooms scattered along Lake Viverone, live so intensely the technicolor dreams of London's Ufo club?”

Yeah, how?

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Sweet is naivety and beautiful is kindness...