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Another essential band for Marco's musical & compositive growth are The
Cure of Robert Smith. In December 1999, exactly 10 years after its official
release, he buys "Disintegration", an immense album for him,
that probably made him discover one of the greatest bands of the last 20 years.
Since 1998 he had already bought and assimilated many cds of other glorious bands of
the past, such as Bauhaus ( 'She’s in Parties', 'Dark Entries', the cover of 'Ziggy Stardust' are real must), Joy Division,
Tears For Fears (those of "Songs from the Big Chair"), Siouxie and
the Banshees, Talk Talk ('Such a Shame', 'It’s my life'), Duran Duran, The Smiths
and New Order, but however nothing
comparable to the band of Robert Smith. The melodies of The Cure, as well as the
all consuming poetics of their lyrics, immediately conquer him. And thus, put aside death metal, he
gets lost in 'Apart', 'Plainsong', 'Doing
the unstuck', 'Charlotte sometimes', 'The kiss', The drowning man', 'Just like
heaven', all songs which become his fixed listenings. The more appreciated
thing of The Cure is the ability that their songs have to blend melancholy and
joy of living, something of absolutely faraway from the restless and redundant celebrations of a great part of gothic metal bands (see the discouraged lyrics of
Katatonia and those irremediably sugary of
H.I.M. and good company;
opinion that personally I don't share at all - Mery's note). So he thinks
that if he wanted to create a band, he had to at least be able to equal The Cure
in this.
In November 1999, vocalist/guitarist
of Another Day, Fabio Brienza, leaves for the U.S.A. and
meanwhile even the bass-player Adriano Neri isn't of the party anymore. The well known
Novembre, after the premature abandonment of Alessandro Niola, the historical
bassist who played on the album "Classica", urgently need a session-bass player and Adriano seems to
exactly be the right person for them, so that a
few weeks later Novembre leave with him for the European Tour.
Marco and his brother Paolo remain all alone. Marco says that for some a
certain period they're the only two guys rehearsing in the room, that is terribly
empty, and the vibe isn't very encouraging. Marco thinks many times that,
although the idea of arranging new songs is exciting, the step which separate
them from the definitive end is very brief.
They just don't give up instead and contact Francesco Tumbarello, a friend of
Adriano's, as well as old acquaintance of Another Day themselves and very valid guitarist,
and so decide to make some rehearsals together. The first songs arranged are 'Schmerzwerk
1976' and 'Fever', two songs on which the band had already started
working with the previous line-up. They add some harmonizing of guitar and Marco
writes some new vocal melodies. Our guys immediately feel fine together and decide
to continue like this.
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