GENEROUS MARIA
Command Of The New Rock

Lunasound / Audioglobe

This story begins with a monolith of stone in the sand � knowledge. Apes that are gathered around it and are learning their real nature: they will kill other apes in the name of conquer � evolution. Order, command, all this seems to flow in the Generous Maria music, but not controlled. They decided to focalize their attention on one of the Stanley Kubrick masterpieces movie, �2001: Space Odissey�. The music of the five Swedish guys is nothing more that pure rock, new rock maybe the term, and the command of evolution hits their souls too, and they�ve taken their weapons ready to kill for the conquer of their territory. �A Bed At The Edge Of The Universe� could be the soundtrack of our life, the growing of human specie, as �Soulflight� could be the representative of our life�s most introspective moments. The instrumental �Ashram Of The Absolute� instead let us think about a reprise, a sunny rebirth, of the path in a most aware life. The starting moments of the movie are perfectly reprised by the excellent artwork, and it seems just a flash on the beginning of what will be the human nature. Then the evolution is not always seen as something good and useful. The hidden message maybe: don�t evolve, stay faithful to your roots and believe only in which you come from�but it seems that Maria don�t want to listen to its subconscious, giving life to an evolved musical style, commanded by the voice of new-rock, or the new-stone�so it shall be done.

Ettore Bezzi

Grade: 8

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