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LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
e v e n t i s p e t t a c o l a r i
Giovedì 29 aprile 2004 - ore 21,30 – ingresso 18 euro
TENAX – via Pratese 46 – Firenze – prevendite ticketone
ZERO 7
torna in Italia una delle rivelazioni del trip hop inglese
Graditissimo ritorno sulle scene fiorentine per Zero 7, il gruppo inglese fondato dai produttori Henry Binns e Sam Hardaker, giovedì 29 aprile al Tenax – inizio ore 21,30 biglietto 18 euro - per la presentazione del secondo album “When it Falls”: un disco che conferma l’ottima prova offerta dalla band Uk con l’album di debutto del 2002 “Simple Things”, intrecciando elegantemente folky e soul, trip hop e hip hop.
Nel 2002, con il progetto Zero 7, arriva la nomination ai Brit Awards per il bellissimo album d’esordio “Simple Things”. In pochi mesi, grazie all’album suddetto, passano dall’anonimato al successo internazionale, diventando la 'next big thing' della stampa inglese.
Dopo il successo di critica arriva anche quello commerciale: solo in Inghilterra l’album “Simple Things” raggiunge infatti il traguardo delle 200.000 copie.
Grande attesa quindi per il nuovo album degli Zero 7, “When It Falls”, che arriva nei primi mesi del 2004 accolto da recensioni entusiastiche.
Dal vivo, per tre date italiane in programma dal 28 al 30 aprile, gli Zero 7 si presenteranno con una formazione di ben 13 elementi.
Sito ufficiale: www.zero7.co.uk
Prevendite - in tutti i Punti Vendita TicketOne (per conoscere il Punto Vendita TicketOne più vicino visita il sito www.ticketone.it oppure chiama il Call Center TicketOne 899.500.022 - per informazioni e acquisto) - telefonicamente con Pronto Pagine Gialle 89.24.24 (attivo 24 ore su 24)
Info concerto Tenax: Le Nozze di Figaro tel. 0552638894
ZERO 7
- Question #1: What the hell have Zero 7 been doing since Simple Things hit the racks? It’s been almost three years… North Londoners Sam Hardaker and Henry Binns have been recording their lush, powerful second album, ‘When It Falls’, in their new studio. It’s a warm and absorbing record which takes the orchestral elegance of their debut and rockets it into emotive new territory. Then there’s the honey-coated remix of N*E*R*D’s Provider. And crucially, a year-long bus tour of the United States of…dusty American record shops.
“This record is more live than the last one, there are samples but this time we just used them to add a bit of dirt and flavour” says Sam. “It’s all we did on tour,” adds Henry. “We’d arrive in a town, wander round for half an hour and find a shop with ancient studio equipment and beautiful old gear sitting on crates and crates of records.”
The American tour influenced the album in more than sample-shaped ways. Firstly, by seeping the pair in West Coast Americana. “It wasn’t about specific artists really says Sam, “but the vibe definitely seeped in.” They met up with Janet Jackson who told them that legendary production duo Jam & Lewis (Janet, Alexander O’Neil, Change) had been mainlining ‘Simple Things’. “We were gobsmacked,” says Henry. “Jam & Lewis productions meant loads to us when we were kids – it was the sound of our youth.” The tour also created an opportunity to try out the new songs that would become the backbone of ‘When It Falls’. It didn’t quite go to plan. “We were on a revolving stage in front of 7,000 people. Shit was blowing up. A Rhodes piano caught fire, Henry started screaming and one of our singers nearly fell off. And the songs went down shockingly, hung out to dry in front of thousands.”
They took the bones of the tunes to a house in southern Spain, and turned them into gossamer-gorgeous songs and instrumentals, powered by hip hop soul, 70s jazz-funk and a perfectly-pitched line in understatement.
Question #2: Chris Martin once described ‘Trouble’ as a song that could make a bad situation worse. Can ‘When It Falls’ actually make a bad situation, well, a little better?
Judging by opener ‘Warm Sound’, which features long-term collaborator Mozez, it’s a resounding ‘yes’. It’s like Radiohead exposed to heady sunshine or crackly, distressed West Coast psychedelic soul. “We wanted to put Mozez in a different environment. It’s not a straight-forward soul thing.” New vocalist Tina Dico appears on the dark and sparse ‘Home’, which has cross-eyed melodies and lullaby bass. She’s the only new girl: Sia Furler and Sophie Barker both reappear, the former adding smoked soul to the grainy folk-tinged ‘Somersault’. Mozez takes flight on the beautiful, mildly deranged ‘Over Our Heads’ while ‘Look Up’ is uptempo, drive-out-of-town instrumental bliss – and on ‘In Time’, Zero 7 have succeeded in creating a stand-out gorgeous pop moment. There’s a darkness and a confidence in ‘When It Falls’ which elevates it right to the highest level of new-generation British music. And more importantly, it simply sounds, well, lovely.
She rang us saying that she was organising a gig in honour of her father (who died in 1976) and would we play? She also said that she had a bunch of tapes of unreleased music that we could listen to.” Even hidden Stepney reels weren’t enough to keep the pair from finishing their own masterpiece. Which, for a pair of music-obsessed record boys, is quite some achievement. Question #3: Have you ever revisited the Honduran rum shack which gave you your name – if in fact it ever existed?
“It really did exist, and it was as ridiculously special as it sounds. White beach, rum and a cassette player churning out the same seven songs. We think about it a lot. It was some rum shack. But we’ve never been back.” With music like this, they don’t need to.
Info line
055 2638894
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
e v e n t i s p e t t a c o l a r i
Giovedì 29 aprile 2004 - ore 21,30 – ingresso 18 euro
TENAX – via Pratese 46 – Firenze – prevendite ticketone
ZERO 7
torna in Italia una delle rivelazioni del trip hop inglese
Graditissimo ritorno sulle scene fiorentine per Zero 7, il gruppo inglese fondato dai produttori Henry Binns e Sam Hardaker, giovedì 29 aprile al Tenax – inizio ore 21,30 biglietto 18 euro - per la presentazione del secondo album “When it Falls”: un disco che conferma l’ottima prova offerta dalla band Uk con l’album di debutto del 2002 “Simple Things”, intrecciando elegantemente folky e soul, trip hop e hip hop.
In attività da oltre due lustri, Henry Binns e Sam Hardaker hanno lavorato a lungo come produttori di studio: hanno conquistato gli onori delle cronache musicali grazie ad una coppia di Ep e ad una manciata di remix (tra cui canzoni dei Radiohead and Lambchop).
Nel 2002, con il progetto Zero 7, arriva la nomination ai Brit Awards per il bellissimo album d’esordio “Simple Things”. In pochi mesi, grazie all’album suddetto, passano dall’anonimato al successo internazionale, diventando la 'next big thing' della stampa inglese.
Dopo il successo di critica arriva anche quello commerciale: solo in Inghilterra l’album “Simple Things” raggiunge infatti il traguardo delle 200.000 copie.
Grande attesa quindi per il nuovo album degli Zero 7, “When It Falls”, che arriva nei primi mesi del 2004 accolto da recensioni entusiastiche.
Dal vivo, per tre date italiane in programma dal 28 al 30 aprile, gli Zero 7 si presenteranno con una formazione di ben 13 elementi.
Sito ufficiale: www.zero7.co.uk
Prevendite - in tutti i Punti Vendita TicketOne (per conoscere il Punto Vendita TicketOne più vicino visita il sito www.ticketone.it oppure chiama il Call Center TicketOne 899.500.022 - per informazioni e acquisto) - telefonicamente con Pronto Pagine Gialle 89.24.24 (attivo 24 ore su 24)
Info concerto Tenax: Le Nozze di Figaro tel. 0552638894
ZERO 7
- Question #1: What the hell have Zero 7 been doing since Simple Things hit the racks? It’s been almost three years… North Londoners Sam Hardaker and Henry Binns have been recording their lush, powerful second album, ‘When It Falls’, in their new studio. It’s a warm and absorbing record which takes the orchestral elegance of their debut and rockets it into emotive new territory. Then there’s the honey-coated remix of N*E*R*D’s Provider. And crucially, a year-long bus tour of the United States of…dusty American record shops.
“This record is more live than the last one, there are samples but this time we just used them to add a bit of dirt and flavour” says Sam. “It’s all we did on tour,” adds Henry. “We’d arrive in a town, wander round for half an hour and find a shop with ancient studio equipment and beautiful old gear sitting on crates and crates of records.”
The American tour influenced the album in more than sample-shaped ways. Firstly, by seeping the pair in West Coast Americana. “It wasn’t about specific artists really says Sam, “but the vibe definitely seeped in.” They met up with Janet Jackson who told them that legendary production duo Jam & Lewis (Janet, Alexander O’Neil, Change) had been mainlining ‘Simple Things’. “We were gobsmacked,” says Henry. “Jam & Lewis productions meant loads to us when we were kids – it was the sound of our youth.” The tour also created an opportunity to try out the new songs that would become the backbone of ‘When It Falls’. It didn’t quite go to plan. “We were on a revolving stage in front of 7,000 people. Shit was blowing up. A Rhodes piano caught fire, Henry started screaming and one of our singers nearly fell off. And the songs went down shockingly, hung out to dry in front of thousands.”
They took the bones of the tunes to a house in southern Spain, and turned them into gossamer-gorgeous songs and instrumentals, powered by hip hop soul, 70s jazz-funk and a perfectly-pitched line in understatement.
Question #2: Chris Martin once described ‘Trouble’ as a song that could make a bad situation worse. Can ‘When It Falls’ actually make a bad situation, well, a little better?
Judging by opener ‘Warm Sound’, which features long-term collaborator Mozez, it’s a resounding ‘yes’. It’s like Radiohead exposed to heady sunshine or crackly, distressed West Coast psychedelic soul. “We wanted to put Mozez in a different environment. It’s not a straight-forward soul thing.” New vocalist Tina Dico appears on the dark and sparse ‘Home’, which has cross-eyed melodies and lullaby bass. She’s the only new girl: Sia Furler and Sophie Barker both reappear, the former adding smoked soul to the grainy folk-tinged ‘Somersault’. Mozez takes flight on the beautiful, mildly deranged ‘Over Our Heads’ while ‘Look Up’ is uptempo, drive-out-of-town instrumental bliss – and on ‘In Time’, Zero 7 have succeeded in creating a stand-out gorgeous pop moment. There’s a darkness and a confidence in ‘When It Falls’ which elevates it right to the highest level of new-generation British music. And more importantly, it simply sounds, well, lovely.
Let us, for a moment, go back in time to the tail end of the 1980’s. Sam and Henry go for the same Tape Op interview at Mickey Most’s RAK studios, where Henry’s old school-friend Nigel Godrich is working. Henry gets the job, leaving Sam to hang about, messing around with a four-track until, as he says, they gave him a job. “It was a really wack period in studio history,” reckons Sam. “Bands were spending a fortune living in the studio, doing cocaine and making ugly records. It was a cynical time, anyway they all slowly fucked off and we brought some love to the studio.”
Henry, Sam and Nigel spent all their time at RAK. Henry would be in one room, working with the Young Disciples. Sam would be doing the Pet Shop Boys in another and Nigel would be working the Fine Young Cannibals somewhere else. “We’d meet in the kitchen, make sixteen cups of tea and console each other,” adds Henry. “We hung out in a small room under the stairs, bought an Atari computer and plugged it in at night. Nigel would do his bands during downtime and we’d be programming beats. Plus ça change.”
In time, the under-the-stairs sessions became Zero 7’s debut album, ‘Simple Things’. The Mercury-nominated LP, which also scored American nods in the shape of a Shortlist nomination, sold 800,000 copies and, with ‘Destiny’, gave the pair a chart hit. It marked them out as electronic soulsters of the highest degree, a Z to Air’s A, and companion album for those who loved Charles Stepney’s Rotary Connection, the wintery charms of Röyksopp or Stereolab’s blissful French pop. In fact, Charles Stepney’s daughter has been in touch.
She rang us saying that she was organising a gig in honour of her father (who died in 1976) and would we play? She also said that she had a bunch of tapes of unreleased music that we could listen to.” Even hidden Stepney reels weren’t enough to keep the pair from finishing their own masterpiece. Which, for a pair of music-obsessed record boys, is quite some achievement. Question #3: Have you ever revisited the Honduran rum shack which gave you your name – if in fact it ever existed?
“It really did exist, and it was as ridiculously special as it sounds. White beach, rum and a cassette player churning out the same seven songs. We think about it a lot. It was some rum shack. But we’ve never been back.” With music like this, they don’t need to.
Info line
055 2638894
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