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Fellow Alliances

by Fellow Alliances

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Jonathan Your body is so gentrified I sublet me a little room A pocket in your lap Boy, are we happy? Cuz love gets me so terrified Of all I stand to lose on you So I’m sharpening my knife But that’s why you love me And I love you too Jonathan You’re sweet You wanna get down on your knees Jonathan make a fool of yourself in front of my friend go ahead *So you got a passport So you gotta good job So you wanna fast forward Straight to the dull part Where you’re six months pregnant Y’all invite me to your wedding And he gotta good job Bet he wanna sing along* I’m the trophy of your whole world And the villain all along I was pure But so wrong Jesus be a personal rooster Stretch the back Make a alto from a soprano I greet my day ass-up *So you got a passport So you gotta good job So you wanna fast forward Straight to the dull part Where you’re six months pregnant Y’all invite me to your wedding And he gotta good job Bet he wanna sing along* It’s all on you This whole system is built on you If you lift a finger If you lift a finger It’ll all break This system will all break If you lift a finger If you lift a finger
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O mar é azul e transparente (The sea is blue and transparent) Há pássaros que voam felizes pelo céu (There are birds that fly happily across the sky) Há uma lua que brilha contente (There is a moon that shines gladly) E um sol que sorri pelas manhãs (And a sun that smiles in the morning) Mayday Mayday Mayday Planet earth sending mayday Planet earth sending mayday Mayday to the universe Sun and sky and planet earth Are sending Mayday Mon and stars sending Mayday Across the universe we are all sending Mayday Let us save planet earth Mayday Night and day Mayday Wind and storm all day Sending Mayday Sending Mayday Our planet is tired all day Sending Mayday Mayday
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Un tramonto di fine primavera. Andrew guardò fuori attraverso le cortine di foschia del crepuscolo che s’attardava. La notte stava sopraggiungendo lentamente come un messaggero del destino. Le luci dei lampioni si accendevano una dopo l'altra cercando di vincere la maestosa onda oscura della notte. Ritornò nella stanza. Era lì, tutte le sere a quell'ora, prigioniero per scelta, per lasciarsi avvolgere dal buio e dal suono. La radio gracidava caoticamente alla ricerca della giusta frequenza, mentre lui cercava di posizionarne l'antenna in modo da ricevere meglio le modulazioni nell'etere. Sul tappeto giacevano i suoi unici compagni: i corpi vaporosi dei cuscini disseminati sul pavimento. Beccata quella che gli sembrò la stazione radiofonica giusta si distese sui cuscini mentre il giro di basso che usciva dalla radiolina divenne l'attracco ad un'emissione notturna rivelatrice di un mondo sconosciuto. Quando lo speaker presentò quel pezzo e pronunciò il nome della band s'alzò di scatto, come se la sua memoria lo avesse identificato con qualcosa di conosciuto. S'avvicinò frettolosamente allo scaffale per controllare nella confusa raccolta di dischi che suo fratello maggiore gli aveva lasciato in eredità. Vinili che aveva imparato a conoscere attraverso il vecchio giradischi della madre: una valigetta bianco rossa che apriva di rado e solo per ascoltarne svogliatamente qualcuno. Non amava particolarmente quella collezione... però ricordava che c'era un disco alieno, diverso, nero, tra i pochi col titolo in inglese. Rammentava bene: la copertina era completamente nera tranne l'iscrizione di piccole onde bianche sul davanti e la minuscola scritta sul retro. Era quello! Apri la valigia giradischi e fece scendere la puntina sulla spessa nera liquirizia di plastica. Una secca batteria elettronica sibilò e poi s'accasciò, un basso pesante e grasso brontolò, una chitarra entrò pungente con un nervoso intreccio di corde e poi quella voce misteriosa e maledetta. Il lato A s'intitolava “Outside”, lato B “Inside” e quest'ultima cominciava proprio con la canzone appena sentita alla radio, che lo risucchiò dentro un vortice sonoro dal quale non riusciva a liberarsi . Quando la puntina gracchiò sull'ultimo solco del vinile Andrew s'alzò per togliere il disco dal piatto e riporlo nella nera custodia ed ebbe uno stordimento, un senso di mancanza, come soffrisse di un'astinenza sonora. Rigirò il disco e fece ridiscendere la puntina e si sentì meglio. Ripeté quel gesto molte volte finché non s'addormentò disteso sul pavimento abbracciato ai suoi amici cuscini. Si svegliò all'alba con le ossa rotte e col vinile che ancora girava nel piatto mentre la luce scavalcava l'oscurità della notte. Andò in bagno, si guardo nello specchio e vide il suo volto rigato dalle lacrime mentre dalla bocca usciva un piccolo rigagnolo rosso. Quella fu la notte che lo trasformò per sempre in un vampiro assettato di suono.
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The Source of Joy, from the Soul of Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks Love is a river, drink from it. Love is a river, drink from it. No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a down breeze has blown the veil from the face of God. A thousand moons appear. Roses open laughing. Hearts become perfect rubies like those from Badakshtan. The body turns entirely spirit. Leaves become branches in the wind. Why is It now so easy to surrender, even for those already surrendered? There’s no answer to any of this. No one knows the source of joy. A poet breathes into a reed flute, and the tip of every hair makes music. Shams salis down clods of dirt from the roof, and we take jobs as doorkeepers for him. A road might end at a single house, but it’s not love’s road. Love is a river, drink from it. Love is a river, drink from it. Rise. Move around the center as pilgrims wind the Kaaba being still is how one cley clod sticks to another in sleep, while movement wakes us up and unlocks new blessings.
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Fellow Alliances takes one out of their head and onto a faraway mystic dance floor. The collaborative-to-the-core album features over 22 musicians who live around the world, and as a result each track is vibrant, unique, and reflective of the individual artist’s (or regional) culture. The idea originated with producer and musician Marco Dianese who thought to test the limits of typical studio recording sessions by creating a sort of round-robin of recordings with friends (and sharing them electronically). Not wanting to influence or sway the artist in any direction or style, Dianese created (crafted/composed) ultra-minimal, almost monotone-ish beats, then sent them via email to the artists who in turn flexed their creative process by adding vocals, instrumental tracks, overdubs, and digital layers. Once satisfied, they’d send the track back to Dianese’s inbox in New York for it to be remixed and fine tuned.

Each new song received served as a jolt of encouragement, and Dianese approached more and more friends who happily agreed, and thus Fellow Alliances went from germinating to full fledged flowering. Collaborator and co-producer Babara Gogan, no stranger to unconventional recordings, also played a major role in crafting the album. Several of the songs feature her guitar tracks, her vocals can be heard not only in her two dreamy, lyrical compositions but as backup in others as well, and of course the application of knowledge from her many years of experience in the music industry. Once a volume of songs had been collected and assembled, Dianese tapped friend and audio recording engineer Joseph Durniak to finalize the mastering of the album. Together, Dianese and Durniak added percussion, cleaned the tracks, and finalized the overall sound—with the exception of one, the title “Circle” was produced by the artists themselves. Durniak then mastered the entire compilation.

Listening to the album evokes the 90s’ era operatic dance (club kid partygoers galore), and will take one on a journey of celestial sound—through a crossover between ambient, electronic, classical, jazz, dance, dreamy, indie, and audio landscape.

Come una Mosca feat. Johanna Moffitt
America feat. Barbara Gogan & Marco Dianese
Hora feat. Laura Marin
Good Job feat. Natti Vogel
Magenta Psyche feat. Kirsten Morrison
May Day feat. Lucinda Sebastião
Forest feat. Morgan King & Joseph Durniak
Toujours feat. Dany Rohart & Luca Fadda
Aeras feat. Barbara Gogan & Charilaos Moiris
Zen feat. Romina Salvadori
Vampiro feat. Andrea De Rocco
Love Is a River feat. Elena Camerin & Khabu Young
Circle feat. Neha Sha & Miles Dean aka Copper Place
Audio Disruption feat. Nina Varner & Nick Dinnerstein
Vertex feat. Jean Sophie Kim
Whale Tale feat. Robbie Leaver

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released February 24, 2023

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Follow Alliances is a new project by Marco Dianese and Barbara Gogan. The album’s 16 tracks feature collaborations with different musicians from around the globe. This new project will take you on a journey of a mystical sound, experimental music and a cross-over between ambient, electronic, jazz, dance, dreamy, indie, and audio landscape. Will be released by Secret Lovers Records Feb. 24th, 2023 ... more

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