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When you attend for the first time the gig of a
band that you've been appreciating for its records since several years, you fear
kinda delusion more than usual, at least for me it's like this. It was April
2005 when a web acquaintance o' mine told me about Klimt1918 and sent me a
couple of mp3 to convince me to buy ''Dopoguerra'', which was released
exactly the 25th of the same month. I trusted him and I'll never stop to thank
that guy for the advice. Time passed and I don't hear talking about this band
anymore, but I'm used to play ''Dopoguerra'' every now and then and each time
this record gives me the same emotion of the first listening, as only true
masterpieces can do. Only some months ago, after 3 years from the release of
the record said above, I find out that they're back and suddenly I have the
honour to interview Marco Soellner
by phone, to be satisfied with my request to get the promo of the new album in
the cassette version (what an indescribable sensation taking the cellophane
away from a new musical tape in 2008), to review it and, especially, to realize
that the band went through a very important artistic path in the meantime. I just
needed to catch 'em live to complete the picture, and I can't deny there was
the terror that all the good impressions I had from the listening of the
records and from the talk with Marco revealed only a castle of paper, once the
band would've been on stage.
The Zoe Club looks pretty renewed for me tonight, if compared with the time I
had been there in the past years. Especially the stage can finally be defined
like this, and it doesn't surprise me that lately more and more bands are
playing here. I was even curios about how many fans Klimt1918 could've here in
Milan and when the band enters the stage, the presence of the audience is more
or less as I expected, not so high, but actually neither so low, let's say
something half way.
 When
a band is able to play live, you can often already understand it from the
first chords, and realizing that my fears were completely groundless, it was
such a very sweet sensation. In the opening the band proposes the first three
songs from the last album and it's immediately clear how, on one hand, its
technical skills are not a studio product, but are absolutely real and how, on
the other hand, even alive such skills are the only way to make the listener
feel the extraordinary emotional potential beloniging to Klimt1918 repertory.
 This
is valid either on the instrumental point of view, since the band
distinguishes itself for the big variety of solutions by the drummer Paolo
Soellner and the solo-guitarist Francesco Conte, as well as vocally, with the
voice of Marco Soellner who's got the right power to stand out in the most
proper way above the sound of the instruments, maintaining the same
 expressiveness
which characterizes the studio versions. If there is a thing I've never
been so much deep into Klimt1918, it's the lyrix, but the line saying 'with more sky than words I live'
involves me very much each time I hear it and when Marco intones
it at two meters only from me, I'm really in seventh heaven. After these first
three songs, almost all the rest of the gig - a couple of other new songs
apart - is dedicated to ''Dopoguerra'', a choice that forestalls me on one
hand, since I expected more material taken from the last album, but makes me
happy on the other hand, because being the first time I catch 'em live, is a
pleasure listening even the songs of a past I loved so much. You can easily
notice even on stage the difference of sound between these two records, and
the fact that the
arrangements of ''Dopoguerra'' are more elaborate, doesn't put the band in
trouble or better, exalt the technical and emotional qualities I told you
about a few lines before. The performance is always more overwhelming and the
end seems
 coming too much soon, and not for the lenght effectively limited of
the set, but mainly because the trip we were making was so beautiful and its
end could not be welcomed than with regret. There is a fact
which must be considered and that's the reason why the audience could be even
more deeply plunged into the world of Klimt1918, and namely the pretty strong
connection created very soon among who was on stage and those who were under.
It was Marco to mainly talk with the audience and even if he didn't launch
into huge conversations, his way of being pure and simple was his weapon for
dragging even more fans on his side, of course already favourably disposed
towards the band since the beginning of the show, but that in the end have
seen their love for the band growing stronger even for the leader's attitude,
further to the way the four played. In short, a perfect evening, at the end of
the which there can be one only wish: that in the future there may always be
more occasions to see them live again.
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