Rock/jazz/prog band Metronhomme from Macerata, aroused a considerable interest both in the national and international context with “4”, its last LP (2019), distinguishing for musical originality and for the project plan always open to an inedited research. Now the band is ready to add a further chapter to its discography, announcing the release of a new work that will take place in two different steps straddling the quarantine period. In such a difficult moment all around the world, due to the Coronavirus emergency that forces everyone to stay secluded without social connection, Metronhomme focused on the virtual element, exploting its potentiality. During these weeks, a lot of musicians (the famous ones and those of the undergound scene) undertook musical initiatives on social media, whilst Metronhomme decided to realize an entire new album “from remote”.The new songs are the expression of a whole month of compositive work, performed toward feverish chat connections, comments, remarks, mails and shared files.Recordings were made using the only instruments each musician had at home, as it was not possible to attend the rehearsal room or the recording studio: in many cases everyday objects found at home and readjusted for the purpose. This modus operandi deeply influenced the new work, conferring a new and original sound to it with respect to previous ones.The album doesn’t speak directly of the lockdown: it does not talk about the suffering of this period and doesn’t represent a chronicle approach to it, but it
captures all the emotional charge felt and expressed by Metronhomme in such a peculiar moment.The band explains the project design: “the passion we feel for music and sounds, the time we spent to prove and prove again a song, is an integral and essential part of our lives. Composing defines us, it provides us with tranquillity and push the band to undertake new project. Summarizing: without music we feel not comfortable. Lockdown prevented rehearsals; a long period without playing together would have been something unbearable”.For these reasons Metronhomme, firstly made an attempt to compose a song from remote, followed immediately by the idea of realizing a whole album tocollect and relate in music the strong emotional feelings aroused by this extraordinary contingency.That is why you will not hear the sonority of “4”, Metronhomme last work, published in 2019. “Tutto il tempo del Mondo” presents 7songs, difficult to place in a specific kind of music and, for the first time it contains twosinged songs, a real innovation for the band, always producing instrumental piece of music. This result derives from the new composing method; everything took place via internet, starting from multiple musical hints of each band member. They were the ground on which each other added his arrangements, ideas and parts by turns, shaping little by little the music, with often unexpected results.The creative drive was widely fed by this new and extraordinary circumstance that forced each component of the group to compose music with what they had at home. This situation limited the band, but stimulated new musical solutions through the utilization of new or old unconventional instruments, as: sofa, sheets of paper, hairbrush, cutlery, mirrors and basins, used for the rhythmic parts(NO electronic drums, all handplayed). “A strange and powerful energy arose and pushed us to mature the idea of realizing a whole album by remote”, the band says.The new work, entitled “Tutto il tempo del mondo”, will be released in two different steps during this global seclusion time: a first part, named òikos, realized at home, composed by 7songsin digital format on all the platforms of musical streaming; a second part will be realized “in open air” once this emergency will have an end. At the end of this in fieriroute, the intention of the band is to collect the two parts in one physical album, as an indelible picture of these “strange days”.Thephysical format of the albumwill be released for the Italian label M.P. & Records and distributed by GT Music distribution.“Tutto il tempo del mondo –1.òikos”is published by Vannuccio Zanella’s Micio Poldo edizioni musicali.