{"title":"Fortunato Durutti Marinetti","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"memory-s-fool","title":"Memory's Fool","description":"\u003cp\u003eToronto (soft) (jazz) (folk) rock poet Fortunato Durutti Marinetti (a Dan Colussi's moniker after Pinc Lincolns or The Shilohs). File it under: late Robert Forster, Bill Callahan, Leonard Cohen, Robert Wyatt, Serge Gainsbourg, Lou Reed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Turin and based in Toronto, Marinetti has been playing in bands of varying degrees of obscurity for the last twenty years, frequently touring North America in his Volvo station wagon and quietly self-releasing albums to an oblivious and oversaturated marketplace. \u003ci\u003eMemory's Fool\u003c\/i\u003e is his second release under his own name (following 2020's Desire) and his first time working with proper label support. Drawing inspiration from the restless, explorative spirit of 1970s songwriters like Lou Reed, Robert Wyatt and Joni Mitchell, Marinetti chose to first wrote all the lyrics before assembling a hybrid pickup band of jazz, folk and rock musicians to render the songs of \u003ci\u003eMemory's Fool\u003c\/i\u003e into a form he calls \"poetic jazz rock\". And indeed, \u003ci\u003eMemory's Fool\u003c\/i\u003e is poetic jazz rock of the highest order. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross it's seven patiently composed and meticulously recorded tracks, each song on \u003ci\u003eMemory's Fool\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds like a small essay or miniature treatise that focuses on inescapable human themes such as: sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, feeling hurt, feeling confused. We are all \u003ci\u003eMemory's Fool\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Marinetti layers Baroque rhythmic aesthetics onto a folk-rock skeleton, draping the resulting wonder in vocals reminiscent of Lou Reed\" -- Beats Per Minute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A finely rendered record that surrenders to the unknown and unknowable... it's easy to submit to the album's exquisitely cathartic ride\" – Dominionated. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You will hang onto every word that Fortunato Durutti Marinetti quietly utters...You will find yourself instinctively leaning into Marinetti as if he suddenly appeared before you, a soft-spoken man. He is frustrated by excess, capitalism, and the advice he receives. 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In the case of Toronto-based Daniel Colussi, the man behind \u003ci\u003eEight Waves In Search Of An Ocean\u003c\/i\u003e, his melancholic poetry cuts through with a clarity which calls to mind all-time greats from Annette Peacock through to Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurin-born Colussi has drifted through various bands, guises and styles over the past 20 years, but since settling into Fortunato Durutti Marinetti as a vehicle for his songs, he’s found a strong expressive impetus which transcends genre to become entirely hinged on the power of his words and melodies. The first album under this alias was a 2020 cassette album, Desire, later pressed on vinyl due to demand in tandem with the release of 2022’s \u003ci\u003eMemory’s Fool\u003c\/i\u003e. On each record, Colussi has found distinct arrangements of players to set the mood, ranging from gently lilting art and folk rock through to orchestrated balladry, but \u003ci\u003eEight Waves In Search Of An Ocean\u003c\/i\u003e widens the palette of Fortunato Durutti Marinetti to create an album in which each song feels like a tale unto itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColussi’s renewed approach is instantly apparent as album opener ‘Lightning On A Sunny Day’ unfurls, informed greatly by producer Sandro Perri’s input pursuing a hybrid electro-organic sound. The addition of drum machines and synths to the musical palette bring with them the strong connotations of pop while the sax and violin sounds similarly smooth and silky, and one can’t help but think of John Martyn’s slide into the digital sound of Sapphire or Kraftwerk’s bittersweet synthetic tenderness. Within this sound, there’s still space for the energy to fluctuate according to the whims of songs. ‘The Flowers’ turns inward with a soft-touch composition as delicate as the petals Colussi describes falling to the floor. ‘Misfit Streams’ and first single ‘Clerk Of Oblivion’ savour the fluid, luxuriant tone of fretless bass with all the 80s connotations intact. Colussi remains the central focus whatever happens around him, in possession of the kind of unforced charisma which drives a song deep into the listener’s heart. It’s at once entirely his own style and yet comforting and familiar. The lyrics might sweep you into the singer’s inner world, similarly to the experience listening to late 60s Tim Buckley, or you might well inhale the mellow jazziness of the harmonic movement like you would Joni Mitchell on Hejira.The emotional direction of each track is never linear - ‘Smash Your Head Against The Wall’ snarls its rhythm section before the strings sow their aching beauty to cool the song’s temper, winding up as a track of distinct halves jabbing at each other. “I Need You More’ leaves space for spiralling flute solos and strangely stiff, militaristic drum rolls in the midst of a sweet, slightly sad synth ballad, the final wave receding back into the tidal undulations of Colussi’s unique exploration of his muse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe artist himself dubs his musical expression as “poetic jazz rock” with a sideways glance - it’s not exactly poetry, far from trad jazz and it doesn’t really rock, yet the tag feels uncannily like it fits, just like the curious music it’s used to describe.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFOR FANS OF :\u003c\/b\u003e Destroyer, Tindersticks, Bill Callahan, Cass McCombs, Lambchop, Plush\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINFLUENCES :\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Wyatt, John Cale, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Kevin Ayers\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quindi Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50531239428427,"sku":"2052973","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Eight_Waves_in_Search_of_an_Ocean_eed607fb_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728100706"},{"product_id":"bitter-sweet-sweet-bitter","title":"Bitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKnown on both sides of the Atlantic for his baroque, poetic approach to songwriting, Fortunato Durutti Marinetti returns with \u003cem\u003eBitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter - h\u003c\/em\u003eis most sweeping, absurd, and emotionally acute statement to date. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInspired by the iconoclasts—Annette Peacock, Rickie Lee Jones, Donald Byrd, Brigitte Fontaine, Fabrizio De André—Marinetti follows his craft wherever it leads. There are echoes of Tindersticks, Destroyer, Lambchop, Leonard Cohen and Bill Callahan here, but also something singularly his: Maximally Graceful Funky Eloquence, as he puts it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe title, \u003cem\u003eBitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter,\u003c\/em\u003e nods to Anne Carson’s Eros: The Bittersweet, a book that launches a thousand ideas into the air: the impossibility of translation, the contradictions at the heart of desire, and the fluid spectrum between seeming opposites. That duality animates this album—from its two-headed dog cover art to its songs that twirl between beauty and grotesquerie, euphoria and dread. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile his previous album, \u003cem\u003eEight Waves In Search Of An Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e, sought sonic hybridity, \u003cem\u003eBitter Sweet, Sweet Bitte\u003c\/em\u003er marks Marinetti’s dive into excess. Written with the intent to push his songwriting to absurdist extremes, the album features long, chorus-less compositions swirling in 6\/8 time, packed with words, brass, and string flourishes. Recorded live with a nimble six-piece band in a cramped Toronto attic studio, the record captures raw performances—often tracked in first or second takes—and overlays them with meticulous arrangements.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe songs on \u003cem\u003eBitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter \u003c\/em\u003egrapple with empathy, ego, surveillance, spiritual exhaustion, and love in its various shades of delusion. Lead single “Full of Fire” opens the album with an explosive ode to romantic recklessness in the tradition of Thelma \u0026amp; Louise. Elsewhere, “Beware” offers bitter advice for bitter times, “Call Me the Author” references Joan Didion by way of Brigitte Fontaine, and “My Funeral” imagines a self-delivered eulogy set to sombre jazz-noir. The instrumental themes (“Theme I” and “Theme II”) give the band room to stretch, underscoring the record’s musical vitality. The album features contributions from a revolving cast of heavy-hitters, including New Chance (co-vocals on “Beware”) and Jay Arner (clavinet on “Beware”), who also mixed the entire record. A longtime friend and collaborator of Colussi’s, Arner (of Energy Slime, also on We Are Time) brings a deep familiarity to this fourth recorded collaboration, giving Bitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter its surreal, shimmering final polish.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quindi Records","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":52020526416203,"sku":"R6406-3775","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/QUI018WAT018.jpg?v=1749339198"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/fortunato-durutti-marinetti.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}