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L'Info Musicante

We are in the early 1990s when teenagers Sandy, Crallo, and Mora, known as Sandro, Carmine, and Maurizio Morandi, engage merely for fun in recording sounds in their neighborhood, the peripheral and alternative suburb of San Polo Nuovo, Brescia. There are urban, suburban, and animal noises of all kinds in their tapes. If it weren't for Sandy's ambition and Mora's modest compositional abilities, the work would never have come to light.

I am talking about "L'info Musicante", Media Records label, a small record company from the Brescia province, which emerged after the collection of an impressive amount of sounds. The CD is a summary of an entire life of late childhood, including parental calls and nocturnal shouts, roars of dilapidated motorbikes, and vandal emotions. The initial idea was an assemblage of the most interesting sounds, without logical thread, that would provoke only hilarity. The inclusion of some electronic musical themes, with a clear punk-chic matrix, introduces small local anthems performed that summer in the area parks.

A kind of prehistoric rapping deejays, assemblers of any phrases, in the triumph of musical and literal non-sense. A playful matrix that evokes collective hilarity. The image-non image of the three young men, who from exhibitionist clowns become ambitious preachers, transforms intentions into concrete planning. The ever-growing following and the entry of an all-purpose vocalist, intent on promoting the group with DIY posters, give the band confidence. When the jam sessions have reached an abundant quantity and the style and material are outlined, the group embarks on finding a label to accept their demo. It's a gigantic demo that will be skimmed multiple times to achieve the final product form "L'Info Musicante."

The most absurd pieces to remember are mainly the pseudo-rapping electronic bases with inhuman screams and alternating Piaggio roars (the small Vespa often ended up on stage as well). "Suoni" is a 25-minute musical feature where the life of the neighborhood is summarized through its noises. Romantic is the intervention of the Sunday bells or the closing of the newsstand's shutter, the buzz of the central bar with dialect expressions and the puffs of the minibuses restarting. Amusing is "L'intervista" where emotional testimonies of embarrassed minors are collected, rhymed, and set to music. A classic of demented origin, but with a clear reference to the sound of unit parties, is the piece that gives the album its title (hear sample). There are 16 very different and incredible tracks, a summary of a demented creativity, but not too much, a bit of a symbol of the bygone times of the peripheral neighborhood. Times, noises, that will never return. A small stupid document. A note on the band's name: it's the fusion of the nicknames of the three boys, decided by a fourth person (the so-called vocalist), after repeated stage quarrels to identify a band without a name for a long time.

The group will invest all its economic resources to realize its teenage dream and will attempt to distribute the CD locally with modest success. Then nothing more, each went their own way. But so many memories.