Okay,
here they are again...the MADE in NAPLES big release of the year!
Yes, however "illogical" it may seem, Planet Funk are Italian...The
first time I heard this group, when they released No Zero Sumness,
I fell in love with them immediately. Four guys (Sergio, Alex, GG,
and Marco) who get togheter and make some really good Music: they
expand to different sounds. They did it again with a new album,
entitled The Illogical Consequence,
that reaches out to the world with its elektro funky style plus
other mixes. Even though the guy they had as a singer on the first
album, Dan Black, has gone on a solo carrier (to form the band The
Servant) they still have him on board with 3 different tracks: Trapped
Upon the Ground, Peak (a very good rocky tune), and Out on the Dance
Floor. However, the big (nice) surprise of this musical project
is that John Graham is special guest on almost all the songs, including
the hit single at the time of my writing, called STOP
ME, also one of my console favorites! The lyrics of the
song reflect these troubled and "fake" times, where it often seems
that it's more important to look at the outside beauty and physical
aspect rather than real values and inner qualities...Another interesting
track, expecially for its contents, is Tear
After the Rainbow, that contains excerpts from an interview
with Julius Robert Oppenheimer (physicist who direct Los Alamos
lab during the development of the first atomic bomb-1942-'45) in
1965. Some lines of the song where he speaks: "few people laughed...few
people cried...most people were silent...I remember...". Words that
should really make one think on the consequences of war and destruction...
Hanno
colpito ancora...I PLANET FUNK sono tornati con un album dal titolo
THE ILLOGICAL CONSEQUENCE (La
Conseguenza non Logica).Un progetto musicale ke rapporta vari stili
ke vanno dall'Elektro al Funk al Rock, con tokate di House e Commerciale,
per continuare con brani anke molto melodici."Inhuman
Pefection" e "Dusk"
fanno parte di quest'ultima serie e sono perfettamente integrati
gli altri brani nonostante siano piuttosto lontani dallo uptempo
di questo gruppo Napoletano...E gia'! perke' Planet Funk sono prorpio
partenopei anke se il nome e' molto Inglese! Secondo me, LORO sono
unici per il suono, per la varieta' di strumentazione, per la produzione,
per le varie sorprese inserite, e anke perke' si avvalgono di varie
partecipazioni "cameo" (ospiti)...Questa volta abbiamo Jhon Graham
ke e' la voce portante di questo cd (infatti canta su sei brani,
tra cui il top hit, al momento dello scrivere, intitolato "Stop
Me"), pero' Planet Funk non si sono dimenticati di rikiamare l'Artista
Dan Black (ora con un suo gruppo The Servant), gia' partecipe del
primo album "No Zero Sumness", inserendolo in qualke brano ke sara'
sicuramente vincente, tipo Peak.
Infatti...mi piacerebbe pensare ke questo sara' il secondo singolo
uptempo!