“Wow”, how much Beatlesians are Verdena
The Beatles played in Italy for the first and only time sixty years ago, in 1965in different cities. That historical passage was recently remembered and celebrated, and on some sites of enthusiasts, as well as on social networks, In several they asked the question: but today, in our country, what is the most Beatlesian band in Italy? Difficult to answer: the Beatles are the Alfa of most of today’s music, they have influenced everything and everyone, but there is a training that to the Fab Four, not entirely consciously, He “dedicated” a double album that when he came out in 2011 he had fans and experts widening his eyes. It is the “Wow” of the Verdenathe fifth project of the Bergamo band made up of twenty -seven traces.
The album was recorded in a former chicken coop used as a recording studio, Henhouse Studio, which has become a place of worship for Verdena lovers. The group had played in this particular space since 1992, but only by “The suicide of the samurai” onwards was chosen as a recording studio for the realization of the discs. “Wow”, for his psychedelia, for the use of the voice, for the open and dreamy songs imbued with a refined simplicity, is considered the most Beatlesian chapter of the two brothers Luca and Alberto Ferrari together with Roberta Sammarelli. Alberto has always explained that, having listened to the Beatles since childhood, it is normal that in his music there are those echoes, but that he has never decided at the table to dedicate a record to the Liverpool quartet. Also because it is “wow”, however Beatlesian, with other references to the beach boys and Lucio Battisti, is always a Verdena album. So decent, shiny, even in the balance between glory and despair.
“Rossella Roll Over”which voluntarily recalls in the first notes to “Ob-la-di, ob-la-da“And that after a while he distorts himself and changes in a dark piece, is an example of this mix of worlds. On the presentation tour tour, the piece “Choose me” was anticipated on the floor by some notes of “Golden Slumbers”but even in this case the song changed skin. The title of the piece “She said” is a quote from the song “She Said She Said”Obviously always of the Beatles, from the 1966 “Revolver” album. The words, throughout the disc, are spread on the melodies and are used as notes, meaning is not important, but as they sound, exactly as the Verdena school provides. “Wow ”, which some in a somewhat fearless way wanted to compare the” white album “of the Fab Four, is linked to a certain universe Because indirectly resumes some splinters, chews and spits giving life to a project symbol of the Bergamo band. “Razzi Arpia Hell and Flames”, in this sense, is a manifesto: it is a meeting, under acid, between the Italian and English band. At the time on Rockol they give him the highest votes. Even today he has not lost his nail polish and he is certainly One of the best Italian rock discs published in the last fifteen years.
