“Traumfabrik Again”: Millet and resistance as a creative act
“To the resistance, the inner turmoil and the cracks of our time”. This is where it takes shape “Traumfabrik Again”the new album by Milethe result of two years of writing and production and published by Peroni Recordsa label founded by Pierpaolo Peroni and part of the universe HOM (House of Music)a creative project born from the vision of Asian Fake. The work moves along an unstable equilibrium made up of shocks and adjustments, emotional alternations, personal experimentation and an urgency that has never gone away. Miglio recounts a time crossed by artificial affections, spasms and attempts at recomposition, by choosing direct music, at times brutal, as a tool to free oneself from superstructures and “extra-artistic” languages. Uncertainty, instead of being rejected, is welcomed as a cognitive force. In “Traumfabrik Again” individual stories and collective tensions coexist, fragments of everyday life and visions that intercept the fractures of the present. More than programmatic declarations, the tracks function as intuitions: glimpses of the world told with poetic, never explanatory writing, which leaves room for listening and interpretation.
The album speaks openly of resistance, understood not only as opposition, but as a vital posture. A necessary reaction to inertia, which also takes on a political value in its broadest meaning: the urgency to demonstrate, to create bonds, to escape passive silence. The album is thus placed in a border area, between intimacy and chorality, between private experience and shared need. The title has its roots in the countercultural history of Bolognathe artist’s adopted city. There “Traumfabrik” it was, between the late seventies and early eighties, a occupied apartment that became a creative laboratory and meeting point for musicians, cartoonists and outsiders. Miglio recovers that name without nostalgia, transforming it into a personal and contemporary space. “Traumfabrik”, in German “dream factory”, becomes an ambivalent image here: production of visions, but also need to reinvent possible worlds in unstable times.
On the sound level, “Traumfabrik Again” was born from the collaboration with Francesco Fantinicomposer and producer with an international background between experimental electronics and music for images, already active with Lorenzo Senni and Warp Records. The choice was to work by subtraction: few essential elements, capable of supporting the lyrical strength of the songs. The result is a landscape of pulsating electronics, analog synthesizers and controlled, mechanical drum machines. The album consists of ten tracks and hosts significant contributions from the contemporary scene, including remixes of Plastic And Whitemaryand the intervention of Rodrigo D’Erasmo to the arches of “Love never love”. The focus track is “True to the line”a piece that layers contradictory images and opens the individual dimension to a broader ensemble, transforming fragility and private obsessions into collective matters. With “Traumfabrik Again”Miglio builds an imaginary marked by Central European and post-industrial atmospheres: concrete, solitude, glitches and emotional loops they live with a strong desire to belong. His dream factory is neither bright nor consolatory, but crossed by real tensions. It is the passage from individual trance to a chorality that becomes, at the same time, poetic and political.
