Traumfabrick (Italy)

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Traumfabrick was a sound project conceived and played by a collective
of musicians and “non-musicians” with the intention of researching new
forms of musical language based on group knowledge and experience. The
name of the group was an obvious homage to the world of comics (Andrea
Pazienza and Filippo Scozzari, among others). Traumfabrick, which has
no connection to the German meaning of the word, dream factory,
intended to provoke active reactions from the listener, trying to
combat the indifference that often pervades him. “Traumfabrick is a
sound machine that intends to reawaken the sleeping senses of
contemporary man.” Formed in January 1995, the band, composed of
Stefano Maramarco (guitar and vocals), Giambattista Mele (drums) and
Salvatore Visaggi (guitar), made their first self-produced demo tape
(Traumfabrick, 1995) and a CD (Totentanz, 1997). After Totentanz was
released, bassist Matteo Bennici joined the group. With him they record
a mini CD (Città Violenta, 1998) and a split 7” in green vinyl, divided
with Erasermen. All the work was received very well by the specialized
Italian press (see slideshow). Città Violenta, aside from
being an homage to Ennio Morricone, came out as an enclosure with
the magazine Blow Up, and the book was an unpublished drawing by
Giuseppe Palumbo (Frigidaire, Ramarro, Diabolik). In 1998, they came in
third at the "competition for unconventional musical projects, sounds
and words... PREMIO DARWIN 1997" and, in the same show, they were also
awarded the critic prize for the "most progressively alternative work
of 1997". After a long period
of intense live performances (from Milan to Calabria) and important
collaborations, the group, on the verge of a new project in the midst
of the recording of new pieces that will never be published, and for
reasons of internal conflict, they split up. Thus finished the voyage
of one of the most interesting musical and artistic realities from the
Italian landscape of the late ‘90s. What you see and hear on this page
bears witness to that.

Google translated from Italian to English.  Taken from http://www.arlequins.it/pagine/articoli/alfa/corpo.asp?avar1=&ch=1937

 Francesco Fabbri wrote:

The astonishing technical skills of compositional lucani Traumfabrick,
now based in Florence, were already obvious in the first demo esaminai:
these peculiarities are regularly confirmed in this official debut well
extrinsic determination to get madness and lucidity. So not surprising
the apparent indifference with which the group allows you to mix in a
single pot hard-funky to Faith No More and especially to Primus (for
the bass soloist), free-jazz non-academic, stramberie zappiane, cutting
riff metal and opera choruses, stemperando perhaps all with
melodies'60s or a cover of Erik Satie ... E 'Judging from this exciting
form of crossover total, which rifugge easy approvals: I see the
Traumfabrick custodians of that spirit that animates, albeit with very
different practical effects, Deus Ex Machina and Nando Meet Corrosion,
band, the latter decidedly to warmly to open-minded lovers of prog.
What, then, Traumfabrick are not a bluff built in the studio I was
demonstrated by a concert on the outskirts, most convincingly that
despite the logistical structure far from optimal. Recite the book:
"The music is entertainment. The show is good. The music is good." The
'sound organised' destroyer is the aesthetics, speaker of ideas. The
death of music is essential because the sound alive the sound
organized. We encourage you to accelerate their death. "D'accordissimo!

Edited by Logan - July 23 2008 at 14:59