No Strange Mutter Der Erde

(The Turin combo seems destined to write for a long time rich and fascinating pages of its history and those of psychedelia in Italy. This 180 grams vinyl album, with attached digital coupon, is then printed with a flipback cover, just like the albums released in the 60’s in UK
)The Turin combo seems destined to write for a long time rich and fascinating pages of its history and those of psychedelia in Italy. This 180 grams vinyl album, with attached digital coupon, is then printed with a flipback cover, just like the albums released in the 60’s in UK. But here are the notes of Rossana Morriello, rock journalist, to introduce us to their new album ‘Mutter Der Erde’.

< Mutter Der Erde, Mother of the Earth, is the new album by No Strange, the cult psychedelic band of the 80’s that after a long break, in 2011 reappeared on the scene and since then recorded four albums.
Mutter der Erde is the fifth album since their reunion and still confirms the great vitality of the band, which is able to reinvent itself on every release, with a lineup each time renewed around the original members, Ursus and Ezzu, and the involvement of guests and collaborators. In this work, there are many excellent collaborations with different geographic provenance and musical background. First, the collaboration started with Jutta Nienhaus, voice of Analogy, the Italian-German psych-prog band of the 70’s, but interrupted by her premature death. The German title is a tribute to Jutta. Then, with Armenian singer Rita Tekeyan, in a song from the music tradition of her country with lyrics by poet Komitas. Also, two musicians with a classical background, cellist and flutist Simona Colonna and viellist and violinist Stefania Priotti, get alongside Riccardo Salvini and Gabriele Maggiorotto, bassist and drummer of the young psych rock band from Torino Indianizer.
Different souls that come together in a cultural and musical melting pot for an inspired and intense album, in which ethereal psychedelic atmospheres often give way to prog digressions and rock rides, then coming back again to the fascinating suggestions of ancient music, from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, that sound incredibly modern.
A polyphonic and multifaceted album which carries on the music route started many years ago, still able to give emotions>.
Bertrand Tappaz – Chronique 2018 – 05/06/2019 – VOIX DE GARAGE GRENOBLE

Parfois (pas toujours, mais parfois) l’histoire derrière la réalisation d’un disque dit beaucoup de son contenu.
Le travail sur cet album à débuter en collaboration avec la chanteuse Jutta Nienhaus (du groupe Psych-Prog italo-allemand des 70’s Analogy) qui est malheureusement décédée prématurément, le titre de cet album en allemand étant un hommage qui lui est rendu. Le travail s’est poursuivit avec la chanteuse Rita Tekeyan, et deux musiciennes issue du monde de la musique classique Simona Colonna et Stefania Priotti, et a intégré également le bassiste et le batteur d’Indianizer (l’excellent groupe Indie Psy italien).
Voici déjà le 5ème album de No Strange depuis leur réactivation en 2011 et force est de constater que l’inspiration est toujours présente. Dopée par de fécondes collaborations qui élargissent leur palette musicale, qui, cependant reste extrêmement cohérente comme le prouve bien l’unicité stylistique des pochettes toutes de la même main, dans le même esprit et tellement illustratives du contenu.
On navigue en pleine extra corporalité, la musique est ici presque irréelle entre Weird Folk proto chants grégoriens, Rock languide, voyages spaciaux-temporels, musique folklorique du fond des âges et des terres reculées, baroque, et Pop planante.
C’est parfois tellement beau que ça vous brûle l’âme !