La Fame Di Camilla
Buio E Luce

THE REVIEW

"People who only pretend that

From the moon, warmth can be felt" - Don't Love Me Like That

Lunar atmospheres. From darkness to light, and back. Fairy tales that become reality, from earth to the moon and among millions of stars. Stories of love and loves. Human fragments. Pure, universal emotions, piercing through and through. The artistic imagery of La Fame di Camilla is nourished by the deepest truths of the human soul: its (un)covered threads, its hypersensitive corners, its experiences that flow but are not forgotten. An imagery in which the listener, through music, traverses themselves.

Far from sentimental rhetoric or whiny self-indulgence, the horizon sung by the Italian-Albanian band presents itself with refined audacity, weaving the staff with the only words it could/wants to embrace. Lyrics and music are born from an irrepressible internal labor that presses, becomes urgency, emergency, fury. An emotional intelligence that makes its way through the strings of electric and acoustic guitars, the chords of a keyboard, the rhythms of the drums, the digital impressions: that "pa-ppa-da-da-da-da" returning, from the second verse of "Buio e Luce", lightens the chromatic cold, metallic, ecliptical sounds; that "uh-uuh-uuuh" in "Campi di Grano" completes the precious freshness of the song, an invitation to open up to the other, to meet them, to truly know them; and again, what I call the Spiral Staircase effect, as in Siodmak's famous 1946 film, or if you prefer, the Hitchcockian shiver effect of "Globuli", testifying to anxieties, tremors, balancing acts, narrating silences, sensitivities to be questioned and human passions too human, starting from the etymological aftertaste of suffering.

These young musicians paint stellar images on scores, warming them from the inside, at the center. Each song is a travel proposal, to the heart of ourselves. It is singer-songwriter music. "Normal too much a song born because something inside me lives", "Campi di grano". A constant in their repertoire is the theme of the double, starting with the title of the second album "Buio e Luce": strength/fear, mother/children, crying/laughing, fairy tale/reality, hopes/lies (consider the frequent use of the verbal voice 'pretend'),... The dark sides of the self, of the other, of the world and of worlds, known and/or imagined, are lit up, declared, freed. This awareness expresses the consciousness of feeling (a)normal in feeling alive, that is, special (let's listen again to Like the sun at midnight, for example); at the same time, this consciousness revives the desire, for more, the will to 'become better', to com-prehend, to understand-oneself: self, others, the universe-worlds-human, living and vital. Immersing oneself, in this journey that is life, into the marvelous. Of marvelous.

The gaze around oneself, open to the sky and beyond, into the blind and lit space - a figure of living and being - intuits a tension towards infinity, experiencing it beyond the perimeters and circumstances, rediscovering it within oneself and in each of us.