Carlotta Corsi per TRISTE©

A volte si dice che i silenzi parlino più delle parole e, fondamentalmente, quello che sto cercando di interpretare è il mio silenzio.
Non è voluto, sia chiaro. E’ solo che al momento non saprei esprimermi diversamente forse perché adesso non ho nulla da dire e, tendenzialmente, questi grossi buchi di narrativa spesso trovano la loro colonna sonora ideale nel mio assente ascolto.

In questo periodo non ho seguito in maniera continuativa e profonda il lavoro di nessun artista e la cosa mi fa tanto male, ma un qualcosa almeno, si è riuscito ad insinuare nelle mie orecchie e a rimanerci un po’ più a lungo.

We love Constant Follower so much, you know. And we loved their debut album Neither Is, Nor Ever Was, which came out in 2021 on Shimmy Discs.
We talked about them a lot, we shared their music, their videos and their mixtape (which was a labour of love from them to us).

Now the Scottish band launched a Crowdfounding to get to SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas and shared a new 42 minutes video made by Scottish filmmaker Sean Hall. The Video, made to accompany Constant Follower’s full album Neither Is, Nor Ever Was was shot in and around Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute in the west of Scotland.
Watch it. It’s a beaut!

The Band: The Field Mice was Bobby Wratten’s first band. They began as a duo formed by himself on guitar and vocals, and Michael Hiscock on bass. They were school-friends from Mitcham, and released their first single (Emma’s House) on Sarah Records in 1988. Later they expanded to a five-piece (adding Harvey Williams – Another Sunny Day – on guitar, Annemari Davis on vocals/keyboards, and Mark Dobson on drums) and recorded six more singles and four albums, with influences from early Factory bands such as New Order and The Wake, early Creation and dance and ambient fields. When The Field Mice split, Bobby’s new project was Northern Picture Library, involving Annemari and Mark. They recorded two singles and an album for Vinyl Japan, and then returned to Sarah for their final two 7”s, Paris and Last September’s Farewell Kiss.