::: 24/12/2008 :::   Considered I won't be able to neither attend the gig that Klimt1918 will held in Pescara this Friday, the 26th of December, together with their fellow-citizens Kardia (I'm not lucky at all with this couple of bands, as I haven't been ever able to catch 'em live together so far... :/ ), I take advantage of these Xmas holidays to add some other reviews of ''Just in case we'll never meet again'', respectively taken from the Italian webmagz Alternatizine, Il Cibicida, Metallized, Rock Action and Stereo Invaders - though I'd have an infinity to include, even in English, but I can add just these right now - as well as an Italian interview taken from Il Mucchio.
Furthermore, some beautiful live pictures of our Klimt1918 adored in occasion of the gig held in Rome the past 25th of October at Circolo degli Artisti, directly from Music Zone.
And I also just wanted to wish you all a MerRy Christmas, as well as a sensational 2009, just in case I shouldn't be able to update the fansite from here to end of the year!!! 

::: 14/12/2008 :::  Back to you with just a few live  pictures (because of flat batteries at the beginning of the second song already :P ) and the set-list of the gig held at the Zoe Club in Milan this last Friday, the 12th of December and thanks Stefano from Indie-Rock for sending, awaiting to get sooner or later a real live report, as he told me about a very good show and a nice feeling created with the audience!  

                                                                                                                            ^ back to the top
 

::: 30/11/2008 :::  So... just a short recap about the forthcoming live dates that Klimt1918 are gonna held during December, as you can read directly from the flyers of the shows here below. As for me, probably the only chance to catch 'em live once again within the end of the year, after the summer performance at M'Era Luna (if I ever decide to write here at pc the live report written down two or three months ago - and only in Italian...), is the gig in Pescara. Well, I hope I'll able to go down to Pescara, but at the moment I consider it somewhat remote. However I confide in someone of you out there that, among other things, already contacted me, to get some comments  and maybe even some nice live pictures after the concert in Milan fixed in a couple of weeks. And even for this month, that's all folks.

::: 16/11/2008 ::: More live pictures of the gig in Rome of the past 25th of October; thanx Dirge for sending! But is there anyone of you out there who can send me for the fansite some beautiful live photo respectively taken closer to Marco, Francesco, Davide and Paolo :) ?!?

::: 03/11/2008 ::: Live reports of the gig in Romania translated into Italian, as well as all the live pictures of this show.  
As regards the gig in Rome of the past week-end, it seems that the band has exactly reproposed the same set-list of the show in Romania and that there has been some technical problem, as usual.  Here you are some live pictures by Iselilja and several clips from youtube of some songs performed, shot by Iselilja, GidanRazorblade and jonny90rm: ''The breathtaking days (Via Lactea)'', ''Skygazer'' - clip # 1 and # 2, ''Snow of '85'', ''Rachel'' - clip # 1 and # 2, ''Ghost of a tape listener'' - the band has simply said that the official clip of this song 'is gonna to be released soon''... - and ''Nightdriver''.                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                          ^ back to the top

::: 19/10/2008 ::: A couple of live reports only in English this time - that's unbelievable, isn't it :) ? - of the gig that Klimt1918  held in Romania two weeks ago. Italian translation is not available yet, 'coz I'm comin' back from the show of Anathema in Milan and I'm completely still lost in their outstanding performance of yesterday nite to do anything else but just adding these reports :D Thanks a lot anyway to Dying atheist for sending and obviously many many thanks even to the authors themselves - namely cherrypick and Andreea23. Thanks even to AleX-O85 for some live pictures you'll find here and there (the others will be added during next week).
As to the gig of yesterday night in Rome of our Klimt1918 adored, I haven't known or read anything yet, but that the t-shirts from their merchandising were all extra-large, ah, ah, ah!!! So, before my eyes close for tiredness, as I drove for several hours (I'm a true Nightdriver...) and for the lot of noize I've done, just let me go lookin' for some comments about their set and, above all, news on the videoclip, which would've had to be realeased already the past month...

::: 19/10/2008 :::  Awaiting next Saturday, when our Klimt1918 adored will perform in their beautiful Rome for the first time after the release of ''Just in case we'll never meet again'', here you are some other (Italian) reviews of the new album taken from Benzoworld, Indie-rock and Storia della musica, as well as a couple of interesting interviews taken from Music Boom and Storia della musica itself (especially for those who'd like to know more about the song ''Atget'', as the tales that Marco Soellner had start writing for Loudvision, after ''The Graduate'', unfortunately are late in comin'...; well, since also my English translations of these tales are even more late and these interviews are in Italian, here you are what Marco says about this song on the pages of Music Boom: << ''Atget'' is dedicated to Eugène Atget, who's a French photographer of the late nineteenth-century, whose special feature was taking pictures of the most hidden avenues of the town, those in which there was no man's track, and he did it in a period in which Paris overflowed of people instead. He left those streets full of people and looked for that hidden Paris that was going to disappear, and this thing has always fascinated me so much, even because I love photography very much and I often compose songs by images and in this case I've imagined a person walking the town in a moment like that, during the which in the rest of the town there was such a frantic life and he wanted to live that side of town instead, and of himself as well, that could give him relief. >>).
As regards the live date in Romania of the past week-end, the set-list should've more or less been the following (thanx POisoNblacK!): intro, ''The breathtaking days (Via Lactea)'', ''Skygazer'', ''Snow of '85'', ''The Graduate'', ''Rachel'', ''Ghost of a tape listener', ''Because of you, tonight'', ''They were wed by the sea'', ''Nightdriver'', ''True love is the oldest fear'', ''Parade of adolescence''. So, in the end, I just want to wish a great fun to all of those of you out there going to attend the gig of Klimt1918 this week-end in Rome, awaiting to know all details about their live set and maybe some nice pictures, you know!

::: 05/10/2008 :::  Another interesting poll on the Italian Forum of Anathema, 'Fragile Dream' (with further sections dedicated to Katatonia, Porcupine Tree, Opeth and Ulver): 'Klimt1918 - Best record' (included the promo ''Secession makes post-modern music'', which gained two only votes so far, who knows one from whom :D ...), mentioning the reason why of your choice, as well as your fave three songs taken from each record, nevermind which one you've actutally voted.
Furthermore, good news on the live front, since Klimt1918 are gonna perform in about twenty days only a gig in Rome, at Circolo degli Artisti, together with their fellow-citizens Kardia, exactly on Saturday, the 25th of October, the same day I'll be attending the come-back of Anathema in Milan... Once they play on Saturdays and even together with another band I like so much, I'm elsewhere for another show. And probably I'll be elsewhere for another gig even in occasion of the date of the 1st of November at Triora Halloween Gothic Fest.  (Dark Tranquillity/Poisonblack/Fear my thoughts) or just the week after for Antimatter in the Northern Italy, as I've never caught 'em live so far so, I have no other choice but thinking about going to Pescara, right after Xmas, the 26th of December, where they will play once again together with Kardia, though it's a long way by car getting there from where I live. For those of you abroad instead, there is a date fixed for Saturday, the 13th of December at Biomill in Laufen, Switzerland. I'm already waiting for some live pictures, comments and possibly a live report from the gig in Rome, you know! Perhaps those going to Rome may even have the chance to watch a preview of the first live clip of the band for ''Ghost of a tape listener'', since for the time being all is still...

                                                                                                                           ^ back to the top

::: 28/09/2008 :::  A nice Italian interview just published on Perkele.it (thanx Marco 'raingazer' Cavallini!) and a couple of live clips I've just found on youtube of Klimt1918 during the Dutch date of the last month at Summer Darkness, respectively with ''Because of you, tonight'' (by francobello, that you can listen to quite well, but watch so and so) and ''Parade of adolescence'' (by max1334, that you can better watch, but listening a bit worse).
In the meantime, September is almost over by now (this month has passed sooo quickly: some people here already talks about Xmas, while I'm still thinkin' about seaside and generally about summer holidays...) so, what about this first videoclip of Klimt1918???

::: 21/09/2008 :::  A couple of live pictures of Klimt1918 (thanx POisonBlack!) during the 8th edition of the Italian Roccolo Park Festival, that is yearly held in summertime in San Giustino, Perugia, centre of Italy, where they have more or less played the same set-list of M'Era Luna and Summer Darkness  (which you can find right here - thanx Ale!), except ''Rachel'' and it seems even ''They were wed by the sea'' which the band had to cut off, because of technical problems with Marco's guitar. Meanwhile it seems that the band is trying to fix some live dates for that Italian mini-tour announced during the unoccured gig in Milan, at Polirock Fest of early June. Yesterday I met a friend o' mine, who's a dj at Siddharta, a live club in Prato, near Florence: Paolo contacted him to see if there was a chance to play there on Fridays, but unfortunately he's been told that for that day of the week, the club is not interested... They're surely arranging some other live date and maybe it was convenient for them playing 'round here on Fridays, but usually that club organizes events and live gigs on Saturdays, though I remembered they played something more alternative/indie as well, but on Thursdays. By the way, some days ago I sent to Paolo a few more contacts and I just wanted to remember him that usually it's a club called Crayfish, always in Prato, that organizes gigs on Fridays, that perhaps is even more right for the musical vibes of Klimt1918 and, among other things, while I write here, it struck me that there are another couple of clubs and I'll of course sending him all details... you never can tell!

::: 07/09/2008 :::  Back to you after these last summer holidays, which passed too quickly in my opinion, sigh... I would've liked to start again with the live report of Klimt1918 and a few other lines about all the other bands takin' part to the 9th edition of the M'Era Luna Festival,  but considered that things haven't gone so well for me in this last year of (dis)grace 2008, I've tried to enjoy my holidays at the seaside more possible, without writing absolutely nothing, somewhat embittered by a welcome that I expected a lil' warmer towards Klimt1918, as they released their third album by now, and in part because of some ways of saying/doing that maybe I'll explain you better later on when I decide to write down something about the first day of the  festival.
So, awaiting to watch this holy first clip of the band, on which obviously they didn't tell me absolutely nothing (I'll try at least to translate into English for you those several lines written in Italian only on their space), and waiting for the inspiration to write something about the festival, even one month after (greetings to my good fellows Chiara & Ruben as well as, and in spite of all, a huge thanx! to the whole Klimt1918 group for givin' me the chance to enter for free during the first day of the festival), here you are some live pictures and not of ours, the new tale written by Marco for Loud Vision, inspired to the fourth song of the last album, ''The Graduate'' (of course, when I say that I haven't written anything, it means that I've never translated into English these 4 tales written so far, sorry guys...) and the review taken from the Italian mag DarkRoom.   

                                                                            
                                                                                                                           ^ back to the top

::: 29/07/2008 :::  More Italian reviews taken from Dagheisha, DeBaser (double review! And there is even the review of "Undressed Momento", very detailed, although published 3 years after the release), Raw & Wild, Rock Impressions, RockLine and Silent Scream, as well as the new tale of Marco written for Loud Vision, inspired by the third song of the new record, "Ghost of a tape listener".
And that's all for this month, folks! I'll be comin' back to you in September, with some comments about the live performance of Klimt1918 at the forthcoming M'Era Luna 2008 edition and maybe with some pictures (guess we'll catch the same flight to Germany, unless the band doesn't leave one day earlier than me...), as well as with the English translations of the tales published so far (I think I'll miss all those which probably are gonna be published in August...). Well then, have wonderful summer holidays!!!

::: 20/07/2008 :::  The review and the interview taken from :Ritual: now are even scanned, just to have a look at the original graphich arts. Furthermore, I've also added new reviews taken from the Italian webmagz Kronic (interview too)  and Metalitalia, as well as the new tale of Marco written for Loud Vision, inspired by the second track of the record "Skygazer", which I'll translate into English together with the first one of the past week during summer holidays hopefully.
And since I've mentioned the material taken from Kronic, I would also like to tell you that it's just been released the 5th issue of Advent 'zine, 'The Watershed issue', obviously dedicated to the new album of Opeth, that is edited by the same guy who wrote the articles in question, Eugenio Crippa. This time it may be of interest even for you guys abroad, bcs it's written even in English so... check it out now!
I would've also liked to tell you something about the release party of early July, but actually I haven't known so much about that night and, to tell you the truth, I haven't had so much time to look for some news in the web. By the way Klimt1918 didn't absolutely perform live and seems they're planning to make some gigs during Autumn, including the North of Italy, as well as playing soonest in their Rome. 

::: 10/07/2008 ::: Here is the review as well as the interview taken from the last issue of the Italian magazine :Ritual:, as advised in the previous news.

::: 06/07/2008 ::: The Italian webmag Loud Vision has just put on line a sort of 'special' (thanks Max!) dedicated to the new album of Klimt1918, with several and interesting articles: a double and particular 'review' of "Just in case we'll never meet again", an editorial dedicated to the old musical support on cassette , and the first of eleven tales personally written by 'no less than... / I can't believe!' Marco Soellner, inspired by the opening track of the album, and namely "The breathtaking days (via lactea)". I hope during summer holidays I'll be able to translate into English for you all the tales will be published before I leave, because you must absolutely read Marco's beautiful words. Unfortunately it's a work I can't do right now and I have to postpone it, but you'll get the English tales for sure. There is also the review of "Undressed Momento" taken from Loud Vision, which had never mentioned here, awaiting that someone will soon review even "Dopoguerra" and maybe even the promo "Secession makes post-modern music", so that the nice work is complete!
There is also another Italian review 'which should be put on line for Perkele and, perhaps, even for Classix!' (thanks  Marco! :D). From Perkele itself, I've also added the review of "Dopoguerra" (that, among other things, is exactly the same already appeared some years ago on Benzoworld, as reminded me by Marco).
During the week I'll try to add both the review and the short interview done for the last issue of the Italian magazine :Ritual:. More reviews and interviews from everywhere hopefully will follow in the next couple of weeks or so, gigs and summer holidays permitting. I'm always glad to mention first the material I've been told about directly from writers of the webmagz, I really appreciate such things, it's important for me, even if outside there are about 40° and I'd prefer baskin' in the sun, instead of sittin' in front of a pc, ha, ha, ha!

                                                                                                                             ^ back to the top


 

::: 29/06/2008 ::: A couple of things only, 'coz I've been through such a sunny (I'm catchin' fire!) and busy day of music (and beautiful people, of course!) at Gods of Metal and today I just want to relax a little.
Let's start with the sms received on Friday evening from Paolo - among other things, I also met him yesterday at Gods! - saying that next Thursday, the 3rd of July, Klimt1918 will held a party for the release of the new album at Big Star, in Rome, 22:00 h. Unfortunately I won't be able to go there, 'coz I have to work, so I hope that someone from Rome or wherever who may attend the party, will send me some pictures or a nice report about the night.
Second thing, after three years from the release of "Dopoguerra", Klimt1918 this summer will perform once again in Hildesheim, in occasion of the 9th edition of the M'Era Luna Fest. (sometimes I can't believe I've been attending this fest for almost ten years by now...), and exactly in the afternoon of Saturday, the 9th of August. So, though I miss the release party, I'll have the chance to catch 'em directly live with the new songs, yahooo!
In the Italian version, I've also written about a very interesting interview done with Marco for Metal Hammer, in which he says a blessed thing about dowloading, but maybe you'll be able to read something like that somewhere else for sure, in case he had to answer the same question about that subject, tapes, cds, iPod and so forth.
Talk to you soon.

::: 20/06/2008 ::: Awaiting to lay my hands on the original cd of "Just in case we'll never meet again" during next week, which is gonna be such a mess, 'coz of my work, Gods of metal and several troubles, here is the first and very positive review of the new album, taken from the Italian webmag Music Boom. But since you cannot read it, for is in Italian, look what the postman delivered early this week (thanks a lot Paolo!)... 

... the promo cd of the new album, but especially the tape version for my 'old fashioned & outomoded generation',  with lyrix inside, obviously with several illegible verses, as good tradition in Klimt1918's family, he, he, he, not to mention the 'celestial' ones of the opener "The breathtaking days (via lactea)", which are written on the contrary :)  With lyrix in hand afterwards, as well as after repeated listenings, my musical opinion on some passages from the last 3 songs, which didn't convince me so much in the beginning, now has definitely changed. I won't say anything else about lyrix and relative subjects, even because you can perceive 'em just reading some titles of the songs. And even because you must read 'em from the booklet of the original cd when you get it, hoping to find some spare time for buying my own copy during next week, digipack version of course...
Actually, I would've really liked updating the fansite with some nice live report o clip from the gig in Milan of Klimt1918 of early this month, but unfortunately their performance was cancelled, for several problems with the organizers of the festival. A couple of them directly wrote a few lines on the Italian forum Fragile Dream, but it's no use to translate into English for you, trust me. Among other things, I just wanted to tell you about another interesting (and very wicked!) poll always from that forum, 'Klimt1918 or Novembre? To you, the hard sentence...', though the bands do not have musically so much in common anymore and actually never had, a couple of collaborations apart, but, nevertheless it's by now considered as two of the most beloved and followed  bands from a certain Italian scene nowadays. Just vote you too!
 
::: 07/06/2008 :::  So here you are those few (...) lines about "Just in case we'll never meet again" as promised in the news before: obviously it's just some impressions o' mine right after a few listenings to the new album that I heard for the first time only one week ago, without having any kind of promo info or anything else; simple feelings only dictated by the music, the vocals, the lyrics or at least by those verses I've been able to catch without the booklet at hand, that's it. That then is like it must exactly be, or at least it should...

In this new record, I think there is not so much that can remind of what done on the first record "Undressed Momento" (and I say this, 'coz I remember that when I talked to Paolo at the end of December 2007, he told me that some people who had already listened to the new record, found that the material was similar in what contained on the debut album...), if not for the unfailing and very powerful drumming by Paolo, though actually there is no double drums bass. In short, those few metal sonorities we heard on the debut and in part even on the following "Dopoguerra", have practically disappeared, while it's fully came out their wave-indie rock component, as well as something shoegaze (hey, have you seen Marco's & Francesco's shoes? I'll come back later on...), especially as regards the dreamy and sometimes almost childlike vocals by Marco. Basically, I think this is not the most original material of their career, 'coz here and there Klimt1918 still remind of many other bands of course but honestly, although it may be a rather inspired records once again - just like the couple before were it in their own way - I find it such a beautiful record, just perfect for the period in which has been realised and exactly like I expected it would've been, how I would've liked it sounded. There are many of those references to the best episodes from "Dopoguerra" or simply some of those vibes and sensations just slightly mentioned in that record, which here in have better developed. I think that especially the first 8 songs from this new record fully represents Klimt1918 nowadays. Because probably from track no. 9 onwards the interest is not exactly the same as for the previous excerpts. Mainly because it's songs more relaxed and quiet, while in the previous moments the band results always very involving (to tell you truth, when I started reading again what I wrote for the Italian version in order to translate into English, and therefore about one week after, I've completely changed my opinion on the last 3 songs, although I would've expected a finale in grand style, as "Sleepwalk in Rome", to be clear...). In the end, it's Klimt1918 100%, 'coz a voice such as Marco's one actually I've never heard it elsewhere (alright, the pronunciation sometimes is not excellent, but what's the matter? In Italy there is who can't be absolutely heard singin' in English at times, while his accent in my opinion gives more peculiarity to the band's proposal and really represents a trademark) and, between his voice and that way of playing that could of course remind of this and that band, after all doesn't let come out any name in particular, if not only the one of Klimt1918. I just want to say that when I decided to dedicate a fansite to this band back in the late months of 2002, I was completely right, that's all! And with this brand new album the band has perfectly hit the mark once more (or almost...).

The new album finally begins with a real song (instead of the usual intro which opened the first couple of records), "The breathtaking days (via lactea)", a song that we had already had the chance to hear alive, thanks to a clip taken from the Stufstock Fest. of 2007 in Romania, and that honestly didn't do justice for real, but it's obvious that on the record the technical trix are well others than what maybe live you're not always able to reproduce with the same vibes or various effects. They couldn't chose a better song than this one to start the new album, better than those intro used before; we want to hear the music they've always addicted to, as well as the melodious voice of Marco and in the opener there is all this and more, pure emotion, a very evocative song, definitely 'breathtaking'. Perhaps guitars remind a lil' of U2, exactly as happened on "They were wed by the sea" which opened the previous record "Dopoguerra". This is not a song, but a trip! And it's just the beginning... Then it's turn of "Skygazer": we had the chance to already listen to even this one directly from their space in the past days: I've madly adored it since the first listening, though it terribly reminds me of another song of the late 80s/early 90s (and I'm not referring to "With or without you" of U2, as I've been suggested talking on msn or by e-mail with someone of you), even if I can't remember the band nor the title of the song, but sooner or later I'll remember it for sure. It's dreamy and catchy, especially in the vocal motif, but the musical ground is intense the same, particularly the drumming, also guitars. Maybe qualitatively the best song of the whole new record and that well sums up the musical and lyrics influences of Klimt1918. In "Ghost of a tape listener" (that's me, so old style still goin' around with the walk-man and cassette player in my car radio even if, it hadn't been for my new iPod, probably I would haven't been to play again and again this new record in this last week, he, he, he!). Marco sings almost like a child even if, right after the first bars, the song becomes pretty heavy. However, remains a romantic excerpt, almost a 'love declaration'. Outstanding drumming, powerful and precise. Guitars vaguely remind me of Editors. Who knows why, but when I listen to the "The Graduate", I think immediately about Marco's white shoes in the new promo pictures of the band: it will be because they make very 'graduate' even if, considered the period, at least here in Italy, they make more Holy Communion or confirmation (in short, those white shoes can't be seen... not to mention those of the guitarist Francesco, which make very 'chessboard model', ha, ha, ha! Well, it'll be even comfortable, but to me can't be seen...). Joking apart, it's the song that together with "Skygazer" we had already heard from their space and from which comes out kind of a musical component that reminds of a certain Italian pop music. It's a slow and soft track compared with the songs before and the following ones. In my opinion maybe reminds of the vibes of the title-track from the debut album "Undressed Momento". Guitars rhythms and the drumming get quicker in the following "Just an interlude in your life". The vocal motif is very catchy, almost 80s, with that continuous 'together... forever...'. For a while it came to my mind an old hit of Rick Astley, even if this song is definitely less pop, but winning the same. It's odd that even the title of the song after starts right by 'just', and namely the title-track "Just in case we'll never meet again", another song besides "Skygazer"  that for me better synthesizes the sonorities of the new record. Well, it's got a very dance tune, can be softly sung, it's free and easy and so forth, but I like the refrain pitch and just how it 'sounds' Marco's pronunciation. It reminds of a few things proposed on "Dopoguerra" and in my opinion it's gonna be the live song for sure, the one will make you move, jump, dance from beginning to end. Exactly like the following "Suspense music", already played and played so many times in streaming from the label's website, stylistically very much similar to the immense vibes of "Sleepwalk in Rome" that closed the record before, a true musical crescendo, and I even like the lyrix. Definitely another of the best songs from this record, with that bass running after guitars... It reminds me a lil' of Explosions in the sky, probably 'coz I attended their gig only a couple of weeks ago and sometimes Klimt1918 seem being instrumentally inspired by this wonderful act. Don't know why, but "Disco awayness" is currently my fave song. Maybe because I find it kind of 'irriverent' and for certain aspects it's the 'extreme' piece of the record, the one which still makes bang your head, jumpin' up and down, you know. Maybe because it reminds me of the secondary school, where I had such a lot of fun. I like sooo much Marco's pitch, though I feel that there is some additional vox here or however some kind of effects on the voice. By the way, what fun!!! Can't wait to get the whole text. From "Atget" onwards, as already said above, it's like the record becomes a bit more 'anonymous' in my opinion, although the tranquillity of the last 3 songs inspires an additional sense of grandeur to the music of Klimt1918. Then, after repeated listenings, time shall tell and we will see if I still find 'em as the less interesting songs of the whole record (thing that, in fact, I've already denied, as I've started appreciating very much even these last songs and relative lyrics. Maybe it's just the more intimist songs of the record and that's all). I find  "All summer long" quite representative instead, especially from the point of view of the title song, because in my opinion "Just in case we'll never meet again" , although it can be once again a nostalgic and gloomy record as the previous ones, it'll even be perfect as soundtrack of the forthcoming summer, for it however transmits energy and wish of living. And summer is here. Such a sweet song, with a shy-singin' boy. "True love is the oldest fear" is definitely intense, in the vocals and relative lyrics, although it reminds me a bit of "Never ever" from the bonus track cd of "Dopoguerra", here quicker anyway - but even "Rachel" as to the vocal pitching. But it varies a lot, though it doesn't surely closes the record on the same level of the previous couple of records and even the promo (incomparable to me, in spite of the musical style almost totally changed from what Klimt1918 is nowadays and, although all the years passed and the several trends, currents, musical influences and so forth which we have attended in the last years) and such final sounds a lil' bitter, like unfinished. It'll be that love, like Katatonia sing in "My twin", 'it feels like fire, but it won't last', at least from my point of view... At least, after this last record, I can say for sure that Klimt1918  nowadays have absolutely nothing to do with Katatonia anymore, though the references to the Swedish had always been very vague... Perhaps these last three songs are somewhat intimist and pay attention to the instrumental aspect, while the previous were more direct. Then, as I've already said, maybe with the booklet in hand and with time, I'll even start thinkin' it differently (and that's it, in fact...). For the time being they just sound like a stopgap (whaaat? Naaah, absolutely, even these last 3 songs are beautiful, I've been too nasty last night, I was tired... :P).  'And now it's sooo different...'

::: 02/06/2008 :::  Back to you right after having spent one day in Rome, even if  unfortunately I couldn't meet no one from Klimt918, who were in Tallin, Estonia, in occasion of the 3° edition of Paljassaar Rock Fest 2008: Paolo told me that their gig went really great and that the weather was very hot! Even in Rome, trust me  (among other things, I just wanted to greet Paolo from Kardia for having spent the afternoon with my friend and I and good luck with "Kaleidocristo"!!!). I'll immediately start looking for some live clip and pictures or, even better, if there was anyone who had attended such fest and wanted to write something for my fansite, I'm right here waiting for your live reports. 
Unfortunately I haven't received yet the cassette version of "Just in case we'll never meet again", but I had no doubt that within end May someone would've kindly given me the chance to listen to the whole new record before the official release date (thanks a lot Federico, but even to all the other faithful ones who offered to send it! Thank you guys, never forget about me :D): unlike the end of March 2005, one month before the release of "Dopoguerra", this time I couldn't resist and wanted to immediately hear the remaining new songs, further to those  3 or 4 that I had already played and played in the past days, though I presume the cassette is arriving... Some lines I wrote down during my return trip to Rome will follow soon this week, bcs yesterday I've walked for about 12 hours in the streets of Rome and I'm lookin' forward to go to bed, 'coz I feel sooo sleepy, ha, ha, ha, and I can't really translate into English all that I've already written for the Italian version of the fansite.  Shame on me, yeah, I know, but that's it, sorry! Talk to you soon...

                                                                                                    ^ back to the top
 

::: 24/05/2008 :::  Here is a 'preview' of another new song (so to say, since I've been playin' and playin' it in this last few days, but I didn't have so much spare time to update the fansite from the past week-end :P) taken from "Just in case we'll never meet again" (further to the live one taken from the tv in Romania, that we've already had the chance to listen and listen again since some months ago - and I haven't understood yet if is "Skygazer" or   "Ghost of a tape listener", which practically were that couple of new songs that Klimt1918 proposed live during their last gigs in 2007): the song at issue is entitled "Suspense Music", reminds me of what already done on tracks taken from the previous "Dopoguerra", such as "Because of you, tonight" or, even more, "Sleepwalk in Rome", but it's such an 'intense'' song for real.
And after about 5 months (...) from my last contact with Paolo, I received an sms in which he asked for my home address to send me a tape: of course, I hope is the one of the new album, but I'd almost be happier if the guys from band kept in touch with me a lil' bit more often... Meanwhile I'm gonna play again this unbelievably intense new song again and again and again and again and again, together with another couple of new songs I've just noticed on their slightly renewed space, and namely "Skygazer" e "The Graduate" (therefore I presume that the song from the Fest. in Romania is "Ghost of a tape listener"; that afterwards I realized having bad presumed, since I would've listened to the whole new album a few days after only, and it was instead the opener "The breathtaking days (via lactea)" - Mery's note)!

::: 18/05/2008 :::  Some live news, since in about a couple of weeks, and namely on Saturday, the 31st of May, Klimt1918 will take part to the 3° edition of Paljassaar Rock Fest 2008, which is a one day open air fest that is yearly held in Tallinn, Estonia, every month of May since 2006 and where the past year even played Novembre: further to Klimt1918 will also play Turisas, Singer Vinger, Loits, Negura Bunget, The Nymph and Consciousness Removal Project. Furthermore, on Thursday, the 5th of June, ours will also play at the Polirock Open Air Fest. in Milan, here in Italy, together with some other Italian acts such as Naughty Whisper, Brandon Ashley and the Silverbugs, Portrait of tears, Undersmokingdoors and Missenso. Then I've read on their space that is foreseen even another date in Romania, Cluj-Napoca, for Saturday, the 11st of October, but meanwhile let's try to enjoy the summer months, supposed that it comes...
To conclude, I just wanted to tell you that Klimt1918 should be interviewed for an Italian radio from Rome called Radio Città Aperta; the interview is fixed for the afternoon, of Sunday, the 22nd of June, more or less at the same time of the release of the new album, hoping that someone of you out there may record some passage and put it on line, thanks... as well as some nice picture or clip during the live dates above said in Tallin and Milan :) 

                                                                                                                             ^ back to the top




::: 23/03/2008 ::: The following text is what I would've had to already put on line about one month and half ago, waiting for titles of the new songs to be filed, but that until today it haven't been 'allowed' me to tell to everybody of you out there who read my site, write me or simply talk to me on msn, asking all the times if there is any good news about Klimt1918. Then, since tonight I read that the news was finally 'official', I've rightly thought that even my 'moment' had finally come therefore, I want to exactly write what I had already prepared some time ago, so that my work isn't a waste of time, awaiting that someone will ever turn up 'round here sooner or later.

::: 15/02/2008 ::: Finally (considered that I could've already given you some info during January/February 2007 and hence more than one year ago...) I can tell you something new about the long waited 3rd record of our dear Klimt1918! The new album should be entitled "Just in case we'll never meet again (Soundtrack for the cassette generation)", it will be released once again for the German Prophecy Productions and will contain 11 songs, recorded not anymore at the Outer Sound Studios of Giuseppe Orlando from Novembre, as done for the previouse couple of records, but at the Acme Studios of Mauro Munzi, ex-drummer of Dahm and Web (the new guitarist Francesco played in this last mentioned act for a few years), mixed and mastered at the Swedish  Fascination Street Studios. As to the artwork, I have no information sorry, but here you are the titles of the songs which are gonna compose the new record:

One year ago Marco told me that the new material represented an ideal crossroads between the old Klimt1918 and bands such as Slowdive, Catherine Wheel, Radio Dept., I love you but I've chosen darkness, Interpol and Editors and that therefore I should've imagined a sort of very heavy shoegaze-wave. In his latest mail, he says that the comparisons heard around done with the debut album "Undressed Momento", have nothing to do with the brand new album instead (among other things, it was right his brother Paolo, when I met him in Rome a couple of months ago, who told me that someone had found the new songs reminding of the 1st record...), but that surely is a much more personal record and perhaps even autobiographical - though it doesn't deals with a particular concept - produced by the band so far. Definitely an important step ahead and not only as far as concerns the production. Therefore, there will be several musical references to which this new album should be inspired to and here I want to report you exactly Marco's own words: 'There's a shoegaze impression, another one indie, another rock and just another one more post-rock. There's a bit of psychedelia, there's a lot of reverberation, there's a lot of delay in the guitars, there's the powerful drumming by Paolo, there's melody, much nostalgia but even happiness. It's a Klimt1918 album, but not only. There is no double bass, there aren't so many guitar's distortions. Italian's been abolished and the seven strings too. But "Just in case we'll never meet again"  is maybe the most powerful record ever recorded. It's the squaring of the circle, the answer to the crucial question that the band had asked itself some months ago and namely: is it possible being powerful and heartbreaking without being 'metal'?'.
Release date unfortunately hasn't been fixed yet. On the other side, production was over only at the enf of January. As the band, I also hope that it will be released within summertime and that some live dates to fairly promote it will follow soon! And if indeed, as Marco wrote one year ago, '... it's evident that for everybody klimt1918-fever.net represents the only, true and reliable site about the band, much more precise and attended than the official one', I really hope I won't have to wait for another long year or so before getting some good news on the band... Thank goodness I can manage quite well even by myself, right?

This is what I wrote down last month. 1) Unfortunately I'm not sure about what mentioned regards the recording studions: have asked for more info so, I hope to be more precise when I get a reply; 2) As to the release date, just like read on the label's website, it's fixed for June 2008, and the new album will be available as limited Digipak  and Jewelcase cd, as well as in format cassette; 3) As regards the artwork, for the time being we can only enjoy the cover, hoping to throw light on the couple portrayed in the photo and even more soon.

It's right to say that personally I'm going through a period pretty 'down, down, down underground' - Unleashed docet \m/ - since the past summer, that's the reason why of some acid way of saying said above. 

                                                                                                                            ^ back to the top

::: 31/01/2008 ::: An interesting poll on the Italian Forum of Anathema, 'Fragile Dream' (with further sections dedicated to Katatonia, Porcupine Tree, Opeth and Ulver): 'Jonas 'Lord J'. Renkse†Katatonia vs. Marco Soellner†Klimt1918 - which vocalist do you prefer?'. Although this thread didn't get particular hits so far, since only 10 persons voted (Lord J. is leading by 70% over Marco, 30%), and even if the Forum is in Italian, here is a short translation on the comments read about Marco's voice, either positive or not: that is too boring, that alive his voice loses a lot, that he's got a lil' dog-English and that sometimes he forgets the words of the songs, that he could even sing while selling fish at the market (actually this is too much...), but that in the end he ain't got such a very bad voice, that is one of the absolute fave vocalists and that mostly gives emotion . So if you don't know this Forum and like the above-mentioned bands (among other things, this in an outstanding Forum, trust me!), perhaps just subscribe and vote you too. If I was subscribed, who would I choose? Considering my long time support for over twelve years, Lord J. obviously , but since I'm here for Klimt1918, my vote naturally goes to Marco .

A few  lines more about The Foreshadowing and their gig of the past month in Rome to present the debut album "Days of nothing". Maybe meanwhile you would've even already watched 'em, but since I could do it only recently, I wanted to mention even here the links to some live clips taken from the gig said above and namely: "Cold waste", "Departure" and "Eschaton". Quality of the shots is not so excellent, but the audio is pretty good. Furthermore, on their myspace there should also be some live pictures. Awaiting they will be able to play soon some other live gig, even round here, as Alessandro told me.
Comin' back to you soon with some good news about our Klimt1918 adored!

::: 06/01/2008 :::  Happy New Year everybody!!!
Last Friday, the 28th of December 2007, I went to Rome for the gig of Kardia at Traffic, an interesting act from the capital, singing in Italian (hi guys and thanx again a lot for the dinner, the show, your company and everything else!); Muven performed before them in which, as probably someone of you myspace users already will know, even plays Paolo from Klimt1918 who, among other things, has also took care of the artwork of the debut album of Kardia themselves, "Kaleidocristo", that will be released around the end of February. Considered the I've not been hearing anymore from Marco & Paolo for months, as already mentioned in the News of December, as well as also personally said, I didn't have so much to say and I can only tell you that Klimt1918 have still to mix 3 new songs and, if I well remember, 'coz I was a lil' pissed off and somewhere else with the mind, that the sounds came out a bit more like those from the debut album "Undressed Momento", rather than the following "Dopoguerra". Shall see, but 'sounds' good.
In the meantime, Davide and former guitarist Alessandro, will perform a live gig to present the debut album "Days of nothing" of The Foreshadowing, next Friday, the 11th of January, at Jailbreak in Rome, with another interesting band of support and namely The Sun of Weakness: would be a nice way to celebrate my birthday, but unfortunately Xmas holidays are over and for me isn't absolutely possible going to Rome on Fridays :/ Good luck and have a good time!

                                                                                                                           ^ back to the top