In the best possible form, La Municipàl returned to the stage.
Yesterday, September 27th, the Arci Bellezza in Milan attended a real live show, one of those that you have to go and find. Those are the evenings that, in the hurricane that envelops your daily life, bring a little order.
What was most striking was perhaps the intimacy of the space: a concert played almost always in the dark which gathered an audience of true fans who sang every comma of a discography that is the envy of many artists on the Italian indie pop scene.
Despite the non-functional acoustics in the most played pieces but perfect in the more acoustic ones, the effect was that of maximum involvement. It's as if after five records, a duo becoming a band or maybe not but damn, the bar has been raised again and again. “After all this time” is an album that is a hug, a confession. And how beautiful it is when the hug passes from the ears in your headphones to the person with whom you are there at that moment and from that person to the rest of the people who that evening at that time wanted to meet there to give them the experience of the concert .
A concert that saw the entire (or almost) entire repertoire of La Municipàl flow through, which on tour is made up of the voice of Carmine Tundo, the guitars of Roberto Mangialardo, the drums of Alberto Manco, the bass of Chiara Turco, and the voice and of Gaia Rollo's keyboards.
The complicity between them is visible as it has been with all the artists who have taken turns in the project over the years. “Our lost wars” (2016) perhaps remains pure avant-garde in the narrow circle of what was Italian indie pop in those years.
And today that pop is transforming much more into an intimate pop which in the live moment becomes sometimes rock, sometimes punk.
What remains is that hurricane I was talking about before, that simplicity and at the same time complexity of the emotions that pass through you that you can only decompress by singing them in a Circolo Arci in Milan on an evening at the end of September, “and then winter comes and we are alone.”
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