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The art of a chef lies in the ability to mix ingredients, in daring to create a harmony of flavours. A few raw materials, reworked with great skill and combined with different flavours, give life to a perfect balance between sweet and savory, between delicate and decisive, between softness and strength.
Donning the hat of a chef (or perhaps of a magician alchemist), the Milanese quartet STUDIO MURENA does exactly this: mixes and surprises, building a sound that remains unique in Italy. The followers have not been able to bring their proposal to the same level, not even in terms of popularity.
The group blends atmospheres, rhythms and style of jazz – or rather nu-jazz – with the bars of old school rap; sometimes it seems that rap fits into the jazz flow, other times vice versa, but it doesn't matter. The result is a blend in which you recognize the ingredients, yet the strength lies precisely in the calibrated balance.
To this mixture is added an electronic seasoning and marked rhythms that make the sound recognisable. And Studio Murena have taken all this around Italy and are about to close the tour with which they present “Notturno”, the new album released last May, probably the most focused, centered and mature work of their production.
From the stage you are overwhelmed by a rhythmic flow, by powerful bars and above all by a groove that grabs you in the stomach and forces you to follow it with your body, with your arms or simply with your head. The band seems to move on two intertwined tracks: one is that of rap, with its liturgies and its needs; the other is the musical machine that grinds sounds and supports rhymes. There is no dystonia, but a profound harmony between the two elements.
The elaborate dish of the Studio Murena “chefs” is not apparently complex, but it is hot, tasty and exciting. The grooves are accompanied by two small tastes of pop and melody: one of these, “Luna Pieta”, is the single recently released featuring Francesca Michielin.
The setlist also includes covers, simply “quoted” or inspirational or revisited – “Fragile” by Sting, “Stakes Is High” by De La Soul, “Toxic” by Britney Spears, “Eleanor Rigby” by the Beatles – and a quote/homage to Ornella Vanoni with “Tomorrow is another day”. There is also a tribute to Maestro Piero Piccioni, whose soundtrack to “Scacco alla Regina” (1969) by Pasquale Festa Campanile is reinterpreted in their own way.
Furthermore, Studio Murena brings to the stage three unreleased, experimental songs presented live for the first time. “Divenire” opens the concert; “This City” and “2 December” are two crescendos: the first intense, which veers towards a hard rap; the second entirely marked by rap vocals.
An interesting and engaging concert, by a band that is acquiring more and more consistency in its musical choice: original, although not revolutionary, and in any case deserving of attention and compliments. The only element that leaves us perplexed is the placement of the voice in the mix: it often remains within the song, sometimes indistinguishable from the instrumental context. It seems more like a production choice than a technical problem, but the words struggle to emerge, even when Carma simply speaks between songs.
To be followed carefully.
THE LADDER
Intro
Become
Butterbean
Vienna (interlude)
Vienna
Baba Yaga
Nostalgia (stakes)
Stakes Is High (cover)
Long John Silver
Eclipse
Marble
Fragile (cover)
This city
December 2nd
Harp And Drum
Sawed-Off Barrels (Queen's Check)
Jazz Highlanders
Wadirum
Eleanor Rigby / rumble / Survivor (cover)
Toxic (cover)
Full Moon
Go Away
Encore
Monami
THE TOUR
20 December – Cagliari – Teatro Massimo
WEB & SOCIAL
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