Il Teatro Degli Orrori
Live @ Magnolia - Segrate 05.11.09

THE REVIEW

An important return. A sort of new debut for TdO in a place where they have always been greatly loved: the Magnolia, where even a night of heavy rain did not deter an attentive and loyal audience. Familiar faces are encountered.

Youtube had given us a preview of the entire album, allowing us to savor what, listen after listen, revealed itself to be a true masterpiece.

The Teatro throws our contradictions at us, the hedonism of a generation of failed 40-year-olds under the shadow of false certainties. Capovilla is the damned Baudelaire of our times starting with "And she came". His theatricality is not just about giving himself to the audience, there’s the facial expression, the ability to declaim like Carmelo Bene, the dirty aggression of David Yown from the Jesus Lizard to whom Pierpaolo is certainly connected, also for crowd surfing, there’s almost the spoken song of "The Odessa Apple" by Demetrio Stratos, the "Majakowsky" whose text can only invite us to think, sung vaguely in the style of Gaber's If I Were God.

It’s a sort of concept, the live performance. The theme of responsibility recurs, with every action resulting in an effect, and the incapacity to generate a future worth believing in. From the Teatro, you don't get a message of hope, it confronts us with our responsibilities and faults. So who will be to blame?

For everything around us, for our daily lives built without any ethical principle questioning to whom we will leave this world. The Teatro tells us "all this will be yours" and simply takes responsibility in "It's my fault". The blame for our negligences, our venial and mortal sins ("The disturbance of jealousy"). And all we can do is pray not to be led into temptation and recite an "Our Father" that more than a consoling prayer is a plea for liberation from evil, from curses, a sort of exorcism rite

"In cold blood" precedes a deadly version of "Due" to hand over the baton to the perfection of "Compagna Teresa", the highest point of the whole performance.

Closure with the "Tom's Song" and then again "Life is short"

Talent. Poetry. Curse. All of this is Teatro degli Orrori. A project so grand it transcends the boundaries of music to become something much higher, reaching out to a higher form of expression that combines art with the ethics of the mission of its work, which is to make you think and instill doubt.