RadioSpia 08 – Motionless Thinking
Sis Felix – Motionless Thinking [2 songs]
Label: RadioSpia
Release date: Jan 6th, 2016
UPC: 889211922123
Catalogue: RadioSpia 08 – RS 08
Genre: Post-punk / Dark-wave
Comments: Existentialist
![Sis Felix - Motionless Thinking [2 songs]](https://www.radiospia.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/8-Motionless_Thinking.jpg "Sis Felix - Motionless Thinking [2 songs]")
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SONGS:
– 1 – Motionless Thinking [4:28]
Composer: Roberto Pellicano – Publisher: RadioSpia Publishing (BMI) – ISRC: IT-WIW-15-00002
Performed by:
– Matteo Mucciarone: Drums, percussions
– Sandro Brescia: Bass
– Giuliano Parisi: Electric Guitar
– Giuseppe Mallardo: Electric Guitar
– Davide Cavallo: Synth, Keyboards
– Roberto Pellicano: Vocals
and also Marco Maffei on Synth, e-bow and guitar
– 2 – Sorrow [3:28]
Composer: Roberto Pellicano – Publisher: RadioSpia Publishing (BMI) – ISRC: IT-WIW-15-00003
Performed by:
– Matteo Mucciarone: Drums, percussions
– Sandro Brescia: Bass
– Giuliano Parisi: Electric Guitar
– Giuseppe Mallardo: Electric Guitar
– Davide Cavallo: Synth, Keyboards
– Roberto Pellicano: Vocals
and also Marco Maffei on Synth, e-bow and guitar
“Sis felix, Caeli, sis in amore potens” (Catullo, Carmi)
Biography:
The Sis Felix band was born for the first time in 1985, after an idea of Roberto Pellicano (singer) and Sandro Brescia (bassist). They were old friends and wanted to spread their passion for post-punk and dark music in their city, Foggia, in Apulia.
In 1987, the band produced a demo tape with 4 original songs, which had a nice review on “Rockerilla” magazine, placing Sis Felix among the new generation of Italian Rock bands.
The band broke up, and then reunited in 2012, joining new musicians around Roberto Pellicano and Sandro Brescia: Giuliano Parisi and Giuseppe Mallardo on guitars, Matteo Mucciarone on drums (from 1st Pseudofonia lineup) and Davide Cavallo on keyboards.
After resuming the live shows, mostly in the city of origin, the band was noticed by the head of RadioSpia records, already a fan of the band in the ’80s. The seven guys, thus, started the production of two new songs, “Motionless Thinking” and “Sorrow“, focusing on an imprisoning search for answers to the existential questions.
The songs express a pounding anxiety and a gloom belonging to dark-wave, updated with contemporary sounding solutions.
After months of work, the band and the producer have brought to light a record made of a conscious balance of fat precise sounds, which reports Joy Division, The Cure and David Bowie to these days, without imitating any of them. A modern musical style which enhances the dark side of each one of us and proposes itself as a chilling solution.
Credits:
-The cover picture was taken from the Agostino Iannone’s engraving, named “Allorchè il sasso si spaccò ” (1999) – Thanks to his parents for the kind permission.
-Lyrics language consultants: Giuseppe Cantelmo, Marco Maffei
-Cover Art: The Gorky
-All songs arranged, recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Marco Maffei at Mastering.it audio labs in Mar / Oct 2015.
-Executive production: Mastering.it audio labs (Italy)
-Artistic production: Marco Maffei
-(C) and (P) RadioSpia records – All rights reserved
-Publisher: RadioSpia Publishing (BMI)
Some Instruments used:
Gretsch, Yamaha drums and percussions – Hand made B1, Fender Stu Hamm Urge II and Fretless Jazz Bass ’62 – Fender Stratocaster, Telecaster and custom made N2 electric guitars – Vox AC30, Fender and Pignose guitar amps – EKO 12 strings ac. guitar – Jen, Arturia, URSS, Davoli synths – Neumann, AKG, Telefunken and Sennheiser microphones – Drawmer, Joemeek and Focusrite preamps – TC, Universal Audio, Urei, DBX, Waves and Focusrite dynamics – Lexicon, TC, Yamaha, Roland and Alesis outboards – MOTU ADC / DAC – Apple Logic Pro recorder and editor. Mixed with Mastering.it hybrid digi-log technology.
With their debut, Sis Felix grasp the essence of reality and the questioning about their desires. They wrap and exorcise the fear with these two post punk / wave songs, which end with a solution: “We stop… and then have the strenght to start again“.
Motionless Thinking – Lyrics (Roberto Pellicano)
Our thoughts lie motionless
Without real solutions
On this dense atmosphere
Full of unclear denials
Solutions vanishing in the void
Reserved space for / an eternal parking lot
The time makes us lose the hope
Of substance
Time makes us lose the hope
Of concreteness
Distance rules and takes over
So we are thinking motionless
And just our mindful introspection
Can shed some light on us
Solutions vanishing in the void
Reserved space for an eternal parking lot
The time makes us lose the hope
Of substance
Time makes us lose the hope
Of concreteness
They vanish, vanish, vanish, vanish in our minds…
Sorrow – Lyrics (Roberto Pellicano)
The face who knows and no longer lives
Lost among faces and swaying in the dark
Will this Oblivion ever end?
It’s depriving us of essential reality
It doesn’t make me feel so good
Killing my potential energy
It doesn’t make me feel so good
This peace makes me waste my faith
New emotions take my expressions back
Your eyes stare at eternal emptiness
Waiting for a waking that never comes
There is something that doesn’t live in me, now
It doesn’t make me feel so good
Killing my potential energy
It doesn’t make me feel so good
This peace makes me waste my faith
To start again, we start again.
We stop and then have the strenght to start again