For art in general, describing the feelings is a constant challenge that, we regret to say, is almost never
successful. The description of the topic that we are dealing with, which is always very personal, can become
either too banal or overly dramatic, if not thorough. In most cases, the drug is considered too much or too
highlighted given its inevitable cause and effect on any person who was the victim of this unfortunate traumatic
substance. Among the various arts only music can, and not always, rebalance and re-create those deep moods
that make strong any real feeling, as long as the composer who is currently dealing with these sensitive topics,
is a great Maestro, or as in our case, a collection of great masters, among which stands out the name of Ennio
Morricone. The music, if it is well conceived, well-orchestrated and well done, touching those strings that are
secretly hidden, enables to revive feelings that are deeply hidden and personal, projecting the listener on an
ever-changing sensory world. If the same authors who have composed the music also play it, the result is
extremely positive because they give us back full musically their own feelings so processed and amplified. One
of the most thorny and sensitive issues that engage and disrupt our society is undoubtedly that of the drug and
those using it. To create artistically and musically this distressing subject is a hazard few musicians have been
challenging themselves directly. The group of masters of “La Nuova Consonanza” is committed not only in this
rough and dangerous topic, but they explored it , musically highlighting the difference between a substance and
the other, arguing the lifestyles to which social drug reference. The first ominous song "Warum" (Why 'inGerman), tells us that the teachers have asked themselves what is the trigger that has a pressing need of the
drugs and they immediately understood that the main cause is a request for help, musically well-evidenced by
the trumpet played by Maestro Morricone that imitates to perfection a strangled cry accompanied by a slow
background of drums and distorted guitar, while other instruments are involved in sporadically emphasizing a
state of constant discomfort. Then, the rhythm suddenly becomes insistent, almost bad, as if anger had reached
its climax and something inside finally broke and then back to the same initial state of mind. In RAPTUS the
music gives a pulse of high intensity leading to a state of anxiety and it portrays a state of mind where you feel
a momentary loss of ability to understand and a compressed violence ready to explode. Percussion instruments,
membranophones and idiophones, are used to describe the song "AGHI". The extreme use of timbre and sound
capabilities of these tools and their wise overlap do not make us regret the absence of traditional acoustic,
electric or electronic instruments, and it emphasizes the aspect of cold metal needles that inject the drugs into
the human body. During the mega concerts of the sixties and seventies, which lasted for days and days, the
most used drug was hashish, because it was cheap and this drug flowed among the youth“La Nuova
Consonanza” recreated in "HASCHICH" moments and feelings that a boy of that time felt under the influence
of drugs. A base made up of drums and electric bass accompanies small interventions of a spinet plucked with
the fingers which reproduces distorted yet catchy themes. In the central part a melancholy flute is accompanied
by an electric guitar and a bass that fade at the end of the song. EROINA, METEDRINA E OPPIO are similar
songs that show, in a purely imaginary way, the more or less heavy effect on the human being that these drugs
cause and in these songs every Master has highlighted its interpretive skills by playing his personal instrument.
We thank all the Masters composers / performers of "LA NUOVA CONSONANZA", for giving us with their
skill and their sensitivity, these amazing songs.
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Total Time: 40’ 31”