New Trolls
Aldebaran

NewTrolls - ALDEBARAN - 1978

We had the BeeGees at home and we didn't notice!!

Oh my, what times guys--sob! I recall the theme song from Luna Park with the dancefloor-filling single Anche noi, that pumping bass squared on the kick drum in 4, with a groove that makes your feet take flight; I wore out that 45 ...and those stratospheric choruses of the Bearded Gib Nico di Palo, who echoed Stayin' Alive, he, who in a faded episode of Discoring wore makeup with a white jumpsuit and a choker like Barry of the Bee Gees. Oh yes... these are the truest, most notorious, and sold-out New Trolls, for 30 pieces of silver, delightfully in identity crisis, amid a disco-pop reflux mess that old fans didn't forgive so easily, oh no. And from which the band never recovered. Many admirers of the good world prog cried betrayal. But I, anima vagula, say no, have mercy, these are the N.Trolls I adore: forget about Concerto Grosso. Put the LP on a turntable, maybe a Technics or a Thorens.

The album, although questionable in its easy listening content, is of notable care, recorded even at the famous Chateau d'Herouville, that of Bowie, Elton John, and Bee Gees. The Suite disco is admirable, and like "Dancing", it is sung in English, and seems to have come out of "Saturday Night Fever" spiced with indigestible prog sorties, which are very poc. But do we want to talk about the second track? About the slow dances at the parties with this teen love slow jam? "Quella carezza della sera" is a classic, with fabulous choruses and lyrics so dreamy, that we still karaoke it all, right? If you listen to it with your eyes closed you can still smell those summer days while the radio played this fabulous song. This song was the pretext to release the album also in Spanish and became one of the cientos y cientos de discos para bajar!!! Just as beautiful and moving is Aldebaraaaan going, going far away always... I feel stars in my heart. I confess that I have to listen to it on days when I'm in a great mood, otherwise it makes me a little sad. All the other songs are of the same cheerful and carefree tenor: now brisk and danceable, now slow and dreamy. 

Parties, sea, sun and the sweet nothingness of the teenagers of that time... are the FM sensations emanating from Aldebaran. And perhaps it is just as well: it's better to believe in the body than the soul in those sweet ages. These songs take me back to how I had grown during the times of Ozii, and so I searched within and found myself again in the time of laziness, to dress the skeletons of memories with music. The satellite-spot on the cover is like an eye, a mechanical eye constantly moving across a child, and my brothers from back then are big now. I would have liked to tell some personal stories related to these songs, illuminate with a 1000W spotlight a still image of me with a girl more or less undressed like a disco-diva, with her body wanting to live, as we drown into a blue sofa starting a story... But tonight, with this winter sky, white, heavy, looming, telling about myself would just be another expired tape. Therefore, I bow out in a hustle step. Even Italian hustle.

Do you know what time it is? The clock has stopped, Don't go, come on, mom it's late but if you want... Anche noi.