Eight Waves In Search Of An Ocean, by Fortunato Durutti Marinetti

Eight Waves In Search Of An Ocean

by Fortunato Durutti Marinetti

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manfuoco retro futuristic pop with a captivating poetics Favorite track: Clerk Of Oblivion.

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1.	Lightning On A Sunny Day 06:19	lyrics	buy track
Lightning on a sunny day Deep flame across the sky Deep vein across the skin A whip of light, a knife of light cuts right through the still of things And after the flash all that’s left are ghosts to keep to you company How do you leave something behind? A wish made in a dream dissolves just as it arrives You wish that you could stall You wish you could prolong You wish you could defer You wish you could postpone ‘Cause something heavy’s coming down Just don’t let it touch the ground, Don’t ask me to explain The spirit of the thing The quality of light The distorted logic of dreams Or the chances of extreme possibilities Such as lightning on a sunny day Do you know what I mean when I say Lightning on a sunny day?
2.	The Flowers 04:13		buy track
3.	Misfit Streams 06:06		buy track
4.	The Movie Of Your Life 04:52		buy track
5.	Clerk Of Oblivion 04:38 video	lyrics	buy track
Heaven’s doorman gets paid to stand just outside the kingdom Are they ever going to let him in? Burning Man, he’s the guy who gets paid to burn alive Swirls of smoke rise from the ashtray of his head from the ashtray of his head, where the ashes collect Where echoes reflect from side to side Clerk of Oblivion you get paid to work the void But you’re so delicate, you’re a statue made of porcelain Standing headless and with several limbs missing “Severely damaged but still functioning” Standing naked through the storm Nine million rainy days pour down on you Clerk of Oblivion Nine million rainy days pour down on you
6.	Smash Your Head Against The Wall 05:43		buy track
7.	Tomorrow's Poem 02:07		buy track
8.	I Need You More 06:33		buy track
9.	Lightning On A Sunny Day (Sandro’s Version) - Digital Bonus 06:59		buy track

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With its tenth record from Fortunato Durutti Marinetti, Quindi continues to celebrate songwriting and storytelling framed by curious musicality. In keeping with the label’s trajectory to date, this is an album which draws on a universal human sentimentality and presents it with an uncommon flair. In the case of Toronto-based Daniel Colussi, the man behind Eight Waves In Search Of An Ocean, his melancholic poetry cuts through with a clarity which calls to mind all-time greats from Anette Peacock through to Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen.

Turin-born Colussi has drifted through various bands, guises and styles over the past 20 years, but since settling into Fortunato Durutti Marinetti as a vehicle for his songs, he’s found a strong expressive impetus which transcends genre to become entirely hinged on the power of his words and melodies. The first album under this alias was a 2020 cassette album, Desire, later pressed on vinyl due to demand in tandem with the release of 2022’s Memory’s Fool. On each record, Colussi has found distinct arrangements of players to set the mood, ranging from gently lilting art and folk rock through to orchestrated balladry, but Eight Waves In Search Of An Ocean widens the palette of Fortunato Durutti Marinetti to create an album in which each song feels like a tale unto itself.

Colussi’s renewed approach is instantly apparent as album opener ‘Lightning On A Sunny Day’ unfurls, informed greatly by producer Sandro Perri’s input pursuing a hybrid electro-organic sound. The addition of drum machines and synths to the musical palette bring with them the strong connotations of pop while the sax and violin sounds similarly smooth and silky, and one can’t help but think of John Martyn’s slide into the digital sound of Sapphire or Kraftwerk’s bittersweet synthetic tenderness.

Within this sound, there’s still space for the energy to fluctuate according to the whims of songs. ‘The Flowers’ turns inward with a soft-touch composition as delicate as the petals Colussi describes falling to the floor. ‘Misfit Streams’ and ‘Clerk Of Oblivion’ savour the fluid, luxuriant tone of fretless bass with all the 80s connotations intact. Colussi remains the central focus whatever happens around him, in possession of the kind of unforced charisma which drives a song deep into the listener’s heart. It’s at once entirely his own style and yet comforting and familiar. The lyrics might sweep you into the singer’s inner world, similarly to the experience listening to late 60s Tim Buckley, or you might well inhale the mellow jazziness of the harmonic movement like you would Joni Mitchell on Hejira.

The emotional direction of each track is never linear - ‘Smash Your Head Against The Wall’ snarls its rhythm section before the strings sow their aching beauty to cool the song’s temper, winding up as a track of distinct halves jabbing at each other. 'I Need You More’ leaves space for spiraling flute solos and strangely stiff, militaristic drum rolls in the midst of a sweet, slightly sad synth ballad, the final wave receding back into the tidal undulations of Colussi’s unique exploration of his muse.

The artist himself dubs his musical expression as “poetic jazz rock” with a sideways glance - it’s not exactly poetry, far from trad jazz and it doesn’t really rock, yet the tag feels uncannily like it fits, just like the curious music it’s used to describe.

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released November 3, 2023

Eight Waves In Search Of An Ocean was performed by:

Josh Cole : double bass, electric bass

Daniel Colussi : vocals, guitar, bass, keys

Jessica Delisle : vocals

Paul Erlichman : electric piano

Craig Fahner : synthesizers

Brandon Gibson-De Groote : violins + arrangements

Alex Hamlyn : saxophone

Stefan Hegerat : drums

Blake Markle : Fender Rhodes, electric vibraphone

John Nicholson : saxophone

Anh T. Phung : flute

Kevin Schmidt: bass

Sandro Perri : Engineer, Record, Mix, Production + synth overdubs - tracks 2-8

Jay Arner : all synths, drum programming + mix - track 1

Heather Kirby / Dreamlands : Mastering

Recorded at Studio Z March 2022

Additional overdubs : Craig’s basement + Jay Arner’s apartment

Kevin Schmidt: Photography

Jenifer Papararo: Layout + Design

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