POST CONTEMPORARY CORPORATION - Gerarchia Ordine Disciplina
(Cd, Musica di un Certo Livello/Misty Circles/Old Europa Cafè, 2006)

POST CONTEMPORARY CORPORATION

"Gerarchia Ordine Disciplina"

MCL / Misty Circles / Old Europa Cafe - 2006

CD

Finally here we have the official debut CD of this unique entity that has been dwelling in the Italian underground for quite some years now. Post Contemporary Corporation rises from Bologna, Italy, and is the result of combined efforts by individuals with quite different roots, most notably Dario Pasarini (founding member of cult shock-rockers Disciplinatha) Roberto Passuti (involved in the past with Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, of CCCP/C.S.I. fame), and Giulio Sangirardi (leader of psychedelic post-rock band Votiva Lux). Ideologist, lyrics writer and vocalist of this multi-faced creature is Zekkini, unpredictable and amazing character who easily moves between underground literature, music, visual art, teaching, and a lot more.

The sound of the Post Contemporary Corporation is a particular hybrid of danceable electronic rhythms and indie rock guitars, creating an effective and appropriate background to the hallucinated declaimed vocals. There's quite a lot of variety in the musical solutions: "Madre De Diós (Martinette)", for example, has a powerful house beat combined with thrashing guitar riffs, while "Onnagata" is more trance and atmospheric, "Mondo Fluttuante" is a bit jazzy, with its saxophone and piano who move side by side with the dancy electronics, and "Tra 40 Anni (Elogio Della Senilità)" starts as a (theoretically) melancholic acoustic ballad to then turn into an experimental post-rock ride. The oddest and probably less convincing track is final "Corporate America, Wake Up And Dance!", a demented oriental mantra of probably not too serious nature.

Zekkini's lyrics are a total parody of the TV preacher ("oily TV preachers", as he call them in "Mondo Fluttuante"), the politician, the opinionist. He declaims with emphasis crazy apparently non-sense cut-up texts that actually mock, whip and deride post-contemporary society, its deformities and absurdities, with corrosive irony and a vocabulary of unique imaginative power. Futurist free-word poetry is to be regarded as an inspiration, and not by chance the CD opens with "Manifesto Di Fondazione Del Futurismo (1999 Remix)", a techno version of Marinetti's famous Futurist Manifesto. All lyrics are in Italian, so maybe English translations included in the booklet would have helped non-Italian speakers to approach Post Contemporary Corporation more easily.

"Gerarchia Ordine Disciplina" is surely one of the most original and distinctive Italian underground releases of the last six years, out of any scheme, genre, category and style. Give these neo-Futurist post-contemporary poets a chance to lead you in their crazy world of free-words and music, you'll hardly regret it.

- Simon V.

Contact: pccorp@email.it

Website: http://pccorp.altervista.org