Friends Of Dean Martinez
A Place In The Sun

LA RECENSIONE

You will love this album and you will love the “Friends Of Dean Martinez”.

I had always wondered what a western-Morricone sound could become, re-interpreted at the turn of the new millennium… This review-celebration arises from an explicit request by “massimo ultima eclisse”, the unfortunate double reviewer of the last album by the “F.O.D.M” and the Live… after 18 days he still hadn't found a scrap of comment, an insult, a damn it… depressing! But how is it possible?

Who can guarantee a melancholic, desolate, poignant, reflective, bitter, and cinematic tex-mex sound at the same time? Who can transport the listener to nocturnal and gloomy places, dragged by chasing guitars or by a wrenching organette accompanying a spine-chilling slide-guitar?

Who can cradle the sad listener curled up in a corner of their room on a day of pouring rain or thick fog? Two geniuses like Bill Elm and Tom Larkin gave me the answers with the help of the happy gang from Tucson.

The choice of the album landed on a “frontier” record between a predominantly desert, dry, and sunny area of the first 3 albums (1995-97-99) and a decidedly darker, mysterious, and shadowy one, almost sealing the atmospheres of the new millennium, of the last three (2003-04-05). "A Place In The Sun" can guarantee both the scorching midday sun of the Red Shadows desert and the damp cold of the acid rains of Blade Runner… the sounds will be very emotional… there will be those who will prefer the light and those who will prefer the darkness…

I don't know what I would give to be able to relive the sensations they gave me upon their first listen… How I envy you…