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IRA

“This is not a review”, but rather a thought, or better yet, a reflection.

In the end, after almost a year and a half, "Ira" arrived.

And when it came, it did so like a speeding train, hitting me right in the head without even the thought of braking.

From the first listens in May 2021, the result was that if it had been a single record of 7 or 8 songs, it would have been a masterpiece; indeed, fool that I am!, I selected and crossed off the songs I didn’t like, that I found boring, as if you could remove a piece of the Mona Lisa or the Latin parts from "The Name of the Rose".

Then there were the usual 6 or 7 months of decantation, putting the record in a little corner without listening to it, waiting for the impurities to settle at the bottom.

And then I picked it up again in the summer, the least suitable time for a work like this, but at night, alone, with headphones, and I understood.

But how difficult it is to admit you’ve understood?!

This is not just a monumental record; it’s a work of art like we haven’t heard in decades, I dare say one of the greatest records since "How Deep Is the Sea", a manifesto of how you can listen to almost 2 hours of music and still want more.

It’s sweet and ruthless, nocturnal yet shining with light, it’s everything and nothing; it grabs you by the throat and squeezes, it pulverizes you, it kidnaps you as if in the end you don’t care about anything else but listening to it again and again and again.

It’s sung in so many languages and none that are Italian, a word for each to create an almost alien yet totally comprehensible language, that Paul Chain pales in comparison.

A complicated record that obviously needs time, today when almost no one has the time or the desire to invest it.

Once it was said “for refined palates”, but honestly to me it has always seemed like nonsense; it certainly requires a certain preparation, but all this is worth it for when He will arrive and won’t stop at anything.

A thousand layers of sound, of noise, of voices that hit you to form wonderful melodies, ethnic and at the same time homely, an initially incomprehensible soundscape that gradually becomes an indispensable soundtrack.
Incani sets a new bar, and now finding something to get excited about at these levels will be really tough.