{"id":3602,"date":"2009-10-29T13:11:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T12:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodoflight.com\/en\/?p=3602"},"modified":"2016-04-02T13:39:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T11:39:05","slug":"metallized-about-materioteca-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodoflight.com\/en\/press\/metallized-about-materioteca-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Metallized about Materioteca 08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strong>Metallized sees an excellent potentials on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodoflight.com\/en\/discography\/materioteca-08\/\">Materioteca 08<\/a>: &#8220;the band has managed to achieve this goal because actually the Wood of Light has its own style with a very personal sound&#8221;.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.it\/translate?sl=it&amp;tl=en&amp;js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=it&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodoflight.com%2Fen%2Fpress%2Fmetallized-about-materioteca-08%2F&amp;edit-text=\" target=\"_blank\">&gt; Read the review translated in ENGLISH by Google \u00a0&lt;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttfmake-alert ttfmake-important\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I Wood of Light nascono nel 2005 da un progetto di Osvaldo Indriolo e Martino Vittori, con l&#8217;intento dichiarato di realizzare della musica che si discostasse dai normali canoni del metal e del progressive e proporre qualcosa di nuovo e stimolante.<br \/>\nAl fine di presentare la propria musica ed il proprio stile, la band ha realizzato un primo EP\u00a0nel 2008, intitolato <em>Materioteca 07<\/em>, seguito da <em>Materioteca 08<\/em>, pubblicato quest&#8217;anno, che ci accingiamo a commentare in questa sede.<br \/>\nEntrambi i due EP\u00a0evocano gi\u00e0 nel titolo l&#8217;idea di una sorta di raccolta del materiale finora prodotto dalla Band, anche se si riscontra una certa omogeneit\u00e0 di fondo che fa pensare in realt\u00e0 a delle elaborazioni concepite e create alla luce di un progetto e di un contesto ben preciso.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <em>Materioteca 08<\/em> \u00e8 composto di tre tracce, mediamente di lunga durata. I titoli dei brani sono sicuramente tra gli aspetti pi\u00f9 originali, visto che il significato appare in verit\u00e0 abbastanza ermetico.<br \/>\nIl primo di essi, gi\u00e0 per farsi un&#8217;idea immediata, s&#8217;intitola infatti <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodoflight.com\/discografia\/materioteca-08\/project-i-c\/\">ProjeT.I.C<em>.<\/em><\/a> L&#8217;inizio del brano appare influenzato dai Dream Theater, con le tastiere in bella evidenza; dopo un inizio dalle sonorit\u00e0 tipicamente metal prog, le strofe hanno una veste pi\u00f9 melodica, con effetti particolari creati dalle tastiere, che imitano anche il suono del theremin. Sul ritornello i suoni s&#8217;induriscono nuovamente, con la voce solista sempre alta e dei cori che quasi duettano con essa. I temi ad ogni modo cambiano ripetutamente (tra essi vengono anche inseriti due begli assoli, rispettivamente di tastiere e di chitarra), dando l&#8217;idea di una struttura dinamica e a <strong>forte connotazione progressiva<\/strong> del brano.<br \/>\nLa seconda traccia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodoflight.com\/discografia\/materioteca-08\/dyingasping-for-breath\/\">Dyngasping for Breath<\/a>, si apre con un delicato intro con il piano, il cui arpeggio viene ripreso poi con le tastiere accompagnate dal resto degli strumenti.<br \/>\nSi tratta di uno strumentale dove \u00e8 presente solo una voce sussurrata (avete presente quando avete la voce bassa la mattina appena alzati?), a parere di chi scrive la cosa pi\u00f9 brutta del disco. Il brano prosegue tra un susseguirsi di scale ed assoli, alcune anche di stampo neoclassico, pure in questo caso all&#8217;insegna della variet\u00e0.<br \/>\nChiude <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodoflight.com\/discografia\/materioteca-08\/00-74-am\/\">00.74 AM (The Secret)<\/a>, probabilmente il pezzo pi\u00f9 intrigante ed ambizioso tra quelli proposti nel disco. Il brano si apre stavolta in maniera rilassata, con dolci melodie e raffinati arpeggi di chitarra, in un&#8217;atmosfera quasi sognante, che diventa pi\u00f9 intensa e coinvolgente al momento del ritornello. Il risultato \u00e8 particolarmente convincente e <strong>la band davvero riesce ad emozionare per tutta la durata del brano<\/strong>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Una volta fatta questa sommaria analisi del disco, ci sembra di poter dire che <strong>la band \u00e8 riuscita a centrare il proprio obiettivo primario, come sopra enunciato, perch\u00e9 effettivamente i Wood of Light presentano uno stile proprio con delle sonorit\u00e0 molto personali, difficilmente paragonabili ad altre band<\/strong>, bench\u00e9 di certo siano riscontrabili molteplici influenze, specialmente in ambito metal prog, ma non solo. Certo, va anche detto che non sempre il song-writing sembri brillare per originalit\u00e0, a dispetto della complessit\u00e0 dei brani, risultando un po&#8217; derivativo proprio nei pezzi pi\u00f9 tecnici ed aggressivi, che dovrebbero probabilmente costituire il loro principale biglietto da visita.<br \/>\nDal punto di vista puramente sonoro, ci sembra che andrebbero sicuramente meglio valorizzate le chitarre, che da quanto possiamo sentire non sembrano possedere tuttavia sempre un suono ottimale, risultando inoltre a volte un po&#8217; sacrificate rispetto alle tastiere, in certi frangenti troppo in evidenza rispetto al resto degli strumenti.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Naturalmente, queste sono semplici considerazioni di fondo che, per inciso, non inficiano la buona qualit\u00e0 del lavoro, <strong>sicuramente un ottimo punto di partenza per una band dalle grandi potenzialit\u00e0 ma gi\u00e0 in grado di presentare spunti particolarmente interessanti.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Vedremo peraltro cosa deriver\u00e0 dai recenti cambi di line-up, essendo subentrati alla voce Simone Colman al posto di Paolo Guerra e Davide Schimd alla batteria in luogo di Martino Vittori.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <em>A cura di Elio Ferrara &#8220;Holydiver&#8221;.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Read on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metallized.it\/recensione.php?id=3245\" target=\"_blank\">metallized.it<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metallized sees an excellent potentials on Materioteca 08: &#8220;the band has managed to achieve this goal because actually the Wood of Light has its own style with a very personal sound&#8221;. &gt; Read the review translated in ENGLISH by Google \u00a0&lt; I Wood of Light nascono nel 2005 da un progetto di Osvaldo Indriolo e 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