Would you ever have guessed that one of the most interesting bands of the national pop landscape comes from the very heart of the Tuscan province, from Montepulciano to be exact? Well, so it is, and in that little bit of land quoted for its wine and landscaping beauties, the Baustelle project was created.
In the year 2000 "Sussidiario illustrato della giovinezza" is released (Baracca&Burattini Edel distribution), debut album that gathers immediate and all-round success with the press and music business people (at the end of the year it was the best new band album for a couple of magazines, among which the prestigious Musica e Dischi).
The band links its name, ironically, to the label Americans place on all that, although it comes from them, at the same time is "other" than them: "spaghetti". Baustelle's spaghetti-modern-pop sound is above all a declaration of independence from Anglo-American pop stereotypes: "spaghetti" therefore as a "mythogram" that recalls Italian comedy, Pasolini, Sergio Leone, Gian Maria Volonté, Carosello, De André, Argento, Diabolik, the possibility of being revolutionary with scarce means, reconstructing in an original way, reconstructing in a new way the ideas our overseas and British cousins try to impose to provincial youth situations.
The tension to "modernariat" that can be felt listening to the "Sussidiario" can be intended as the manifestation of a precise intention to play and experiment inside cultures that are already crystallised, whether these be the sixties' beat and boom, the seventies' punk and progressive, or the eighties' new wave. What is important is playing mass avant-garde, creating melodies and tunes that aspire to perfect pop.
The band' influences are various: Pulp, Air, Morricone, Gainsbourg, the 70's soundtracks, Italy's most refined author music: a perfect balance between author rock, evolved pop and pretend-adolescent pruderies. A word of advice: don't miss seeing them live!
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