Like Italians Joycut collaborated with care

“Immediately after Christmas I was sent a pair of unquestionant remixes of songs of Songs of a Lost World and I liked them a lot”: so “Mixes of a Lost World” was born, a monumental reilaboration of the latest cure album, 24 songs, 3 versions of each song, practically three versions of the album. “The care have a varied story with all the genres of dance music, and I was curious to know how the entire album reinterpreted by others would have played. This curiosity has translated into a fabulous journey through all eight songs by 24 wonderful artists and Remixer and goes far beyond my expectations,” Smith says.

Together with Four Tet, Mogwai, Paul Oakenfold, Trentemøller and other international names, there are also the Italian Joycuts, with a wonderful version of “Drone/Nodrone”, between Ambient and Industrial., Included in the third CD, the deluxe version of the project. We asked Pasco about Joycuts to tell us about this collaboration and longtime friendship with Robert Smith. He sent us this text, and these beautiful photos: the one you see below are the Joycuts in the backstage of the Care concert in Seattle, with Robert Smith, Simon Gallup and Noel Gallagher. The photo took from Eden Gallup, son of the Bassista dei Cure.

Here’s what Pasco told us:

“I was thirteen when I fell in love with the care, literally_
In 2018, three decades from that original spark, with the Joycut already indelible seal of my existence, we receive an invitation from Robert Smith to participate in his Meltdown Festival at the Southbank Center in London_
A cosmic caress, a small magical consecration for an independent band_
During the final evening of the Festival, celebrated by a very intense set of care (in the form of Curæction 25), we meet Smith face to face: a sacred moment, a sprout of a loyal friendship, poetic and generous_
Since then his gaze accompanies our journey, and to him we owe an endless inspiration

Our ‘anti-gravitational’ version of “Drone: Nodrone”, included in the deluxe edition of the album, is the introspective fruit of an embrace to the infinity_
We suspended and lost … in a soft, radically personal universe, imbued with intimacy, kept by the ancestral urgency of moving away from this violated time, by this heartbroken contemporaneity, dissolved in the horror_
We had to detach ourselves from the ground and dive into the ecstasy, looking for a primary naturalness that was worth an innocent breath_
The pure voice of Robert Smith, a living material magnified by a galaxy of hidden harmonics, was the guideline, the essential contact point (he always kept the content of the emotion high) _

The result is an atmospheric, lunar, granular, saturated canvas, crossed by glimpses of light … inspired by an acoustic guitar just audible in the work of the care, yet surprisingly tuned with the oriental sensitivity to which we feel we belong_

We have thus returned to listening to a radically distant version from the perception of the song, a mix of a lost world emotional and visceral, pervaded by an unconditional love, permeated with our deepest gratitude for beauty, elegance, art, music, songs, the example that care have given us over the course of all these years_
And we could not do it except by not putting ourselves, becoming ourselves, offering ourselves, without the tremor of discovering ourselves “new” and “different” _ “