Article by Marzia Picciano
What sound does a spacecraft that disappears in space?
Who can say it, moreover, we have been wandering on the noises of the tree that fell in the uninhabited jungle have been tightened. However, it will do something because it is quite obvious, everything makes noise. Since I feel inspired, I think sounds like as Voyagerlast single from Brx! TTorinese band (of Nichelino, to be exact, “A beautiful city that practically famous for having the lowest GDP in Italy“They tell me) formed by format by Davide Barbieri (bass, voice), Alessio Ferrara (battery) e Gabriele Ferrara (guitar), white flies tell them in a trapper area, and I would also say well guided, having had on their side (or rather having passed under the artistic direction of) Alberto Bianco (former collaborator and producer of Levante And Niccolò Fabito say someone, and songwriter of a Certain Regard in what is the Italian songwriter scenario). We see each other with them and we hear some time ago to get to know them better.
Why, who are the brx! T exactly?
The reference is not at all random. I am, I could say, a concept of bands that we no longer see around, perhaps; A band born and raised, matured, going and subtracting. A band that has not been afraid to change, as Alessio says he did. If with Living secretlytheir first album of 2023 which deserved an honorable mention on several newspapers and critical applause, a little seemed to chase that romantic ruling vision Andante well interpreted by Fask To say one (and everything from which the latter derive), that of recent years and production has been a fairly radical and obviously courageous change towards what they themselves explicitly identify as Heavy popthat is, putting Rock together and what has been made of experimentation in a more melodic (and certainly very digestible) format complex, but always at very high pressure.
Voyagerwith its punk obsessiveness (in any case rich, as the experience of every spacecraft that starts in space should be, other than the sound of the universe) is a clear example, even in the text, where the idea of relationship opens, metaphorically, in the idea of a journey on the borders of the possible, taking back, however (and here is the beauty of the song) the moments before the end, which are much more similar to what is seen outside the day. that happens to you inside. In short, like looking at the scene not on the side of major Tom. Anxiety, the previous single, was just as a taste.
But it's all new in the Brex! T, or maybe not. We said, the change is inherent in their current production. If I ask him why Brex! T, Davide has the answer.
“We called ourselves until 2021 Fratellislip, we did a sort of Brit Rock in English. And in 2021 we changed production, we decided to change genre, to change language, so to switch from that English Brit Rock to anything we do now in Italian. We already had such a passage in mind, and to call our EP “Brexit”. And when we decided to change their names, we had a huge list of names, and therefore the only way to put everyone in agreement was precisely to choose Brexit. Why that, then? That EP was never released … because he was killed by Covid. We could never actually take advantage of 100% as a name“.
But then in the end that did not come out, but something else came out.
“Yes, in the end, in the end we came out with the name Brexit, with Living in secret that it is our first and currently the only album, and in which among other things there are some songs that had to be part of that EP, heavily rearranged. There are songs that had to be contained in that EP“.”
A record, we said, particularly in line with the indie rock world of a certain type.
“That album is a little son of listening, in fact, of the indie rock, especially at the end of the 90s – early 2000, practically of the Italian indie rock. Among other things, the switch that said Alessio, not only was it precisely languages and everything, but also of listening, because we got to a type of rock a little late, especially with especially with the Verdena. Fask, a little bit of the Zen Circus though “.
Predicts aside, that of now is a fairly radical change.
Always Gabriele continues. “We have actually switched in a very heavy way. To say, we will make a run of individuals practically from here at the end of the year with the idea then, possibly, to collect them at the beginning or half 2026. The fact is that we are doing a parallel job, that is to write and publish, which is something that we have never done before, and it is something that allows us a lot to actually sweep. They are the three singles that will come out.“.
But there has also been an important change on training.
As Davide recalls, who has passed to be “The bassist in the corner to be the bassist in the center of the stage with the microphone “ Following the paternity of the previous singer.
“We are quite full of saying that we are a band practically who lives cycric revolutions, does not change only artistic but really structural. First the change name, then the change change, but this has never brought us down, indeed it has increasingly stimulated us“Says Alessio.
Davide speaks on Heavy Pop. “Heavy, because we like guitars, we disgust super metal sounds. Pop, because then in the end the vocal lines are very pop. He took separately, with another arrangement, they could be safely a pop piece from radio, let's say. I see a little about our way of writing. We have always been difficult to define, grunge, punk, rock. again”.
In an approach Song by Songso a single as anxiety from where does it come from?
“How long have you been born anxiety, guys? A year at least, a year ago. When they took me the weight of having to be the singer who writes the lyrics, songs, I thought of writing something that was common to all three. And anxiety is something we live all three daily, obviously in three different ways, sometimes completely different. Some lines of the text arise from the fact at that time just I wasn't doing well. I made a thousand visits, I didn't understand what it was, in the end it was simply anxiety“.
Gabriele follows. “Let's say it is also something that has changed since we have gone from four to three members of the band. Our writing method is always: one brings two agreements and an idea in general and we all work in the room. Today no. Anxiety was one of those cases in which Dave said: I have these two agreements and these vocal lines. And we put ourselves in the room, in a week we have well or badly closed in total package. “ An approach more suitable for mode Song-by -ons. “It is always a little similar, but not always. The songs are born either from an idea or from a jam session, but unlike the past the voice is immediately put on the instrumental. Today base and voice are born, they are born together ”.
Follow the flow, and this clearly has an impact, a different vision on production.
“For these songs, for the first we wrote, we decided to try alone to take the teachings that Alberto (Bianco ed) has given us, and find our way a little, with our legs. Nothing prevents in the future, because we remained not only in excellent working relationships, but also in excellent human relationships, to raise the phone and say: we wrote this song and we would like to see how many other roads can take. Because in the end Alberto's approach is that: that is, write a song and try them all, until you know if that version of the song is the right version“.” Also because they really live five minutes away.
And live? The Brex! T are for now working on the songs, as evidenced by the exit of Voyager, to put them in the ears. Carried out the summer presence atUnderground Festival at the beginning of June, which they organize themselves, to present Anxietyand some other initiative until the end of July, the big one, say, will come from autumn. “In the end the sense of making music for us and carrying it as far as possible by playing it live“.
Turin helps as a scene.
“Yes, there is a very varied scene. Because, instead of talking about the Turin scene, which is actually something on which we also do a bit difficult to call it 'there, we could talk about scenes, because there is so much stuff, many places that geographically are close but are diametrically one the opposite of the other in terms of gender, at the fashion level, at the level of people, at the level of everything. You are spoiled for choice. “ They remember their last evening in a Off topic Flame, in a context of a day with at least five evenings around the city.
Who knows that in trying one song after another, the Brex's Heavy pop! T does not become a scene, one of those of a Turin of the Indie that yes, today there is a lot. In the meantime, we can all continue to travel in space with these boys prone to structural revolutions. One song after another.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
