Psycho Kinder
Diario Ermetico

The Psycho Kinder project is positioned in that peripheral fringe of the Italian musical galaxy that hosts the most intriguing, original, and often unpredictable things of our local scene. Demonstrating that the most active artistic and cultural dynamics can make a difference in the face of an increasingly bogged-down mainstream market with its now prehistoric, sterile, gaudy pop standards.
Baptized by the Marche native Alessandro Camilletti at the end of the last decade, Psycho Kinder is in fact a solo project where its curator works from time to time with the collaboration of other musicians and authors. After releasing a handful of self-produced works that have as a reference point various well-known realities (Current 93 above all, but also Death in June and similar entities), this year he has planned a new concept album, summoning for the properly musical part a composer certainly not of the second tier, namely Federico De Caroli "Deca." A relevant and capable character able to instill immediate assurance in the project, Deca has given life to highly varied sound contexts that serve as the backdrop to Camilletti's recitatives; who, with an almost always detached and unavoidable voice, presents the verses of his "Diary": thoughts, reflections, aphorisms that give the sensation of being almost inked in blood on thick artisanal paper and assume a theatrical aura of great impact on the listener.
The author cites among his reminiscences the pre-Socratics and early Greek sages, biblical sapiential texts (Ecclesiastes, Book of Job), and some modern authors like Cioran, Michelstaedter, Andrea Emo. But in one of the most evolved and fascinating tracks of this album, we also find original voices from Jodorowski and Bergman films, as well as Ezra Pound's verses read by Pierpaolo Pasolini. This indicates that there is a dense and layered fabric of writing, which seems to look in multiple directions while maintaining an underlying coherence that sails between nihilism and existentialism. With the admirable support of Deca's soundscapes, ranging from cosmic echoes to melancholic piano sonatas up to unhealthy industrial loops, Camilletti's poetry is credibly consolidated even where it might be accused of a certain predictability. The global framework of the Hermetic Diary is not only in the words of its texts but in the sense of icy and prophetic individual awareness in the presence of one's failures, doubts, illusions. In this sense, the cohesion between text and sound becomes essential to involve the listener and make them in turn a participant in these reflections.
The album's graphics are captivating, minimalist, and allegorical, with a pen-nib individual identifying the essential centrality of the thinker-writer role. Something that harkens back to the publishing of a century ago and envelops everything with a vintage patina without "aging" it.
A work not for everyone, but one that many should procure.