Kelvin
8x8

I discovered this band by chance a few years ago during a concert, but it wasn't on that occasion that I was impressed: it was only after purchasing one of their albums (CD*01, from 2002) that I began to truly and intensely appreciate this band from Padua.

This is a project that started nearly ten years ago, and after several lineup changes and departures, since 2004, it's become a duo composed of Walter on guitar and vocals and Anna on drums. The former, coincidentally, is also engaged as a guitarist with Putiferio, a new project by the ubiquitous Giulio Ragno Favero, who, among other things, also participated in the recording of the aforementioned "CD*01" (thus solving the mystery).

The recording label is once again Ancona's Sweet Teddy Records, which had already collaborated on the release of the previous work by Kelvin, a double CD that gathered a reissue of the band's material and the solo work of the "frontman" under the name Woolter.

And so, in 2006, this strange album comes out: strange both in format, as it is a 3" mini CD, and in substance, as it consists of four fiery songs. Recorded in analog in a single afternoon, "8x8" is seven minutes of pure madness and noise. Sharp guitar with metallic sounds reminiscent quite a bit of Albini's Rapeman, heavy and essential drumming, played without having to impress (with skill, not with malice). The result is a vintage noise-core, almost delirious and a bit extreme in its wildness.

The first track, "Me So Ciamà Pentio", starts with a piece from "La Classe Operaia Va In Paradiso," a film with Gian Maria Volontè, and you immediately wonder what you've stumbled upon: in thirty seconds' time, it starts pounding, with guitar charging ahead and drums following. Then it moves on to the second piece, A Coa Del Musso, a bit more garage and accompanied by the singer's tremors; "Hey" sounds like a Karp song under the influence of hallucinogens, while the concluding "Scusa Se Me Peteno" is another episode of pure madness and mysticism perfectly summarized by a piece from David Lynch's film "Lost Highway," added right at the end of the track as a background.

So, a lot of cinema is present in this mini album, but above all, lots of noise and madness, which make this duo a great bet in the Italian underground.