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-English Version Below-
“When we wake up we are all facing the same sun.
But still we try to tell everyone where they belong.
It doesn't matter where you're from,
'Cause you can choose who you`ll become
And in the end, we are all the same
We all just want to live
We all just want to
We all just want to
We all just want to live
'Cause we are all the same” – We Are All The Same
Se c’è una cosa che dà lustro ai servizi di streaming come Spotify è l’infinita caccia al tesoro celata al loro interno.
Ogni volta che vi entriamo appaiono in prima pagina le playlist più gettonate, gli artisti maggiormente in voga, i singoli più ascoltati.
Ma poi, scavando un poco sotto la superficie evanescente di questa musica effimera, si trovano luci soffuse, gemme sepolte ad attendere che un ascoltatore le porti alla luce del sole.
Selina Cifric ed il suo ep “We Are All The Same” mi hanno raggiunto in una di queste giornate di “scoperta”, attirato dal titolo e dalla copertina degna di un vecchio album blues.
Non ci è voluto molto, dopo l’ascolto della title track (posta in cima alla tracklist del disco composto in totale da 6 brani), per rimanere stregato da questa giovane ragazza.
La sua voce graffiante, in simbiosi con l’incedere cadenzato del brano che si apre in un chorus corale, impone da subito alla mente un’attenzione maggiore.
Si ascoltano così le parole di Selina, terribilmente autentiche ed emozionanti, in cui i confini divengono muri insormontabili, da varcare ad ogni costo, e le coscienze dilaniate dalle perdite, i corpi umiliati dalla guerra, cercano un nuovo inizio oltre una line immaginaria tracciata su di una mappa.
People come and go, you can't control
Who's gonna stay 'till the end
“So don't stop and never give up
'Cause you'll never know how the road will bend
All we have is now
Oh it's now or never” – Hey Now
Nelle tracce successive l’importante vena sociale ed introspettiva di Selina riaffiora a più riprese, come ad esempio in “Hey Now” (in cui si parla dell’importanza del “qui ed ora”, del cogliere l’attimo vivendo appieno il presente) o nella bella ballata rock che chiude l’ep, “Old-Fashioned Love”, dove la musica sembra inizialmente placarsi mentre l’anima continua a struggersi per la propria incapacità di venire a patti con una società feroce ed in perenne movimento, ma anche terribilmente vuota nei legami sociali che tesse tra le persone.
“Feels like I was born in the wrong decade
People don’t get that beauty will fade
All that remains is the soul
And I'm so tired of this immature love
And I'm so sick of superficial talks” – Old-Fashioned Love
A sorreggere musicalmente queste riflessioni vi è di sovente la chitarra (nell’ep figurano anche: come voce ospiti Andre Schondelmaier, Andreas Faber, Andreas Prinzbach, Sebastian Maier, Lukas Gangl, Mike Tascona, Marvin Hemberger e Dimitri Albert, mentre alla batteria troviamo Tobias Eppinger ed al basso Benjamin Knoke) come colonna portante su cui poi ogni altro elemento, dai cori, alla struttura ritmica, vanno ad aggrapparsi per creare strutture musicali intrise di venature blues e suggestioni che rimandano al rock più classico.
Il risultato finale è un album accattivante nei suoni e profondamente empatico nei testi.
C’è bisogno di curiosità, della volontà di guardare ogni tanto oltre la propria “comfort zone”, per scoprire l’esistenza di artisti come Selina Cifric e ricordarci che “We Are All The Same”.
“I've showed you all my demons and you're still here
I've never had a friend like you before
I was a stranger to myself
Like driftwood along the shore
But you made me see myself again” – Please Bear With Me
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-English Version-
“When we wake up we are all facing the same sun.
But still we try to tell everyone where they belong.
It doesn't matter where you're from,
'Cause you can choose who you`ll become
And in the end, we are all the same
We all just want to live
We all just want to
We all just want to
We all just want to live
'Cause we are all the same” – We Are All The Same
If there is one thing that brings prestige to streaming services such as Spotify it is the endless treasure hunt hidden within them.
Every time we enter it, the most popular playlists appear on the front page, the most popular artists, the most listened singles.
But then, digging a little under the evanescent surface of this ephemeral music, you find dim lights, buried gems waiting for a listener to bring them to the sunlight.
Selina Cifric and her ep "We Are All The Same" have reached me in one of these days of "discovery", attracted by the title and the cover worthy of an old blues album.
It didn’t take long, after listening to the title track (placed at the top of the tracklist of the album composed in total of 6 tracks), to be bewitched by this young girl.
His biting voice, in symbiosis with the rhythmic gait of the song that opens in a choral chorus, immediately requires greater attention to mind.
Thus we hear the words of Selina, terribly authentic and exciting, in which the boundaries become insurmountable walls, to be crossed at any cost, and consciences torn by losses, bodies humiliated by war, looking for a new beginning beyond an imaginary line drawn on a map.
People come and go, you can't control
Who's gonna stay 'till the end
“So don't stop and never give up
'Cause you'll never know how the road will bend
All we have is now
Oh it's now or never” – Hey Now
In the following tracks the important social and introspective vein of Selina resurfaces several times, as for example in "Hey Now" (in which we talk about the importance of "here and now", of seizing the moment living fully the present) or in the beautiful rock ballad that closes the ep, "Old-Fashioned Love", where the music initially seems to subside while the soul continues to yearn for its own inability to come to terms with a ferocious society and in perpetual movement, but also terribly empty in the social ties that weaves between people.
“Feels like I was born in the wrong decade
People don’t get that beauty will fade
All that remains is the soul
And I'm so tired of this immature love
And I'm so sick of superficial talks” – Old-Fashioned Love
To musically support these reflections there is often the guitar (in the ep also include: guest voice Andre Schondelmaier, Andreas Faber, Andreas Prinzbach, Sebastian Maier, Lukas Gangl, Mike Tascona, Marvin Hemberger and Dimitri Albert, while on drums we find Tobias Eppinger and on bass Benjamin Knoke) as a backbone on which then every other element, from the choirs, to the rhythmic structure, go to cling to create musical structures steeped in blues veins and suggestions that refer to the most classic rock.
The end result is a captivating album in the sounds and deeply empathetic in the lyrics.
We need curiosity, the will to look once in a while beyond our own "comfort zone", to discover the existence of artists like Selina Cifric and remind us that "We Are All The Same".
“I've showed you all my demons and you're still here
I've never had a friend like you before
I was a stranger to myself
Like driftwood along the shore
But you made me see myself again” – Please Bear With Me
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