You and I
on this riverbank
watch this boat
hand in hand

With this oakum
fire and pitch
now we caulk it
with our hands (bare hands)

May this river
lull us gently
may our love
be strong enough to sail

And I sing our song
whispering unheard
while the fire burns out
at the water's edge

And I sing our song
and we'll do our best
and we pray the breeze
to blow from east to west

And I sing our song
am I living in a dream?
Hell I am, still I
have just learned to swim





Produced by AMP + Matteo Borgognoni
Mastered by Marco Ranalli  http://www.andruidrecords.com

CONVENT UPON OHŘE

Hey Monica!!

If you cannot sing the song
get in the motorcity
If you cannot sing the song



I used to sing under the sun (the sun)
waiting for a girl to come
now I'm gettin' down
waiting for a girl 


Tammi Terrell's "Your Precious Love"
Mildred and Bertha, Norma and Cal
Florence and Mary Run Run Run
Diana Comes Seeing About Me

The Marvelettes look for a guy
While Martha dances in the streets
My Baby Will my baby….


I used to sing under the sun (the sun)
waiting for a girl to come
now I'm gettin' down
waiting for a girl 
singin' along


Produced by AMP + Matteo Borgognoni
Remixed by AMP + Davide Grotta
Mastered by Marco Ranalli www.andruidrecords.com
Drums by Stefano Di Gregorio

IN THE MOTORCITY - Ode To Monica C.

Produced by AMP + Matteo Borgognoni
Mastered by Marco Ranalli www.andruidrecords.com

Marine Girls' SECOND SIGHT

One step and you move outside
one more but i can't decide
You're at the phone while i'm in a state
what can i say...

Your name - it's true - reminds me
that summer dress
your naked legs and arms and grace
that summer dress


The first time i saw you,
I was so stirred
wrote a stupid verse

The second time 
got another chance,
walk on by and nevertheless

Fourth time
what a mess
you were not there...

all alone in the wilderness
that summer dress
your naked legs and arms and grace
that summer dress
turns into blue my sorrow








Produced by AMP + Matteo Borgognoni
Mastered by Marco Ranalli www.andruidrecords.com
Drums by Stefano Di Gregorio

SUMMER DRESS (That Marta Thing)

THE POPLOVER


I've seen Jeff Buckley with a pink t-shirt
And I've seen Mark Linkous, now they're both dead
I went to Florence to see Grant Hart
I've seen The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

I've seen The Orange Indie Crowd
I've seen J. Mascis playing very loud
I went to Pitchfork, I played my part
I've seen The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

I've seen Martin Stephenson and The Daintees
I've seen The Velvet and The Police
got in the crowd, was not too smart
I've seen The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
 
I've seen J L Pierce, in a small club
it was wild and crazy, lots of fun
for a 1000 lira selling beer apart   
I've seen The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
           
Well, I've seen Wilco, and Grizzly Bear
I've seen PG, inside a sphere
I've seen Beck twice, and Billy Bragg
I've seen The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

I've seen Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
I saw the man fallin' on his knees
The Primal Scream before Weatherall
I've seen The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

and I went to Rome, 1994,
to see  Nirvana but I got bored,
I was tired and yawning, right from the start
I've seen The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

I've seen Will Oldham wearing strange shoes
I've seen Dream Syndicate, I've seen Blur
and I saw Opal and Arab Strap
I've seen The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

I've seen Sufjan, and The Go-Betweens
and Motorpsycho, The Flaming Lips,
Yo la Tengo and GBV
and I see you, and you see me



Produced by AMP + Davide Grotta
Mastered by Davide Grotta 

THE POPLOVER

Ban-Off cover https://soundcloud.com/ban-off

CAPRICCI

Wide Hips 69 cover https://soundcloud.com/maryjane-sardaukar

STUPID BITCH

SHOE

When I woke up this morning
I got to writing a song for you
I felt soulful and inspired
as David Berman and The Silver Jews

You sleepy slip in the kitchen room
You look at me and you ask me:
"What's new?"

We had our breakfast, our coffee
an heavy silence and the tv news
I just mumbled a few words
about this song I wrote that I called shoe

a shoe, at the foot of the bed...
 



PRODUCED BY AMP + DAVIDE GROTTA
MASTERED BY MARCO RANALLI www.andruidrecords.com
DRUMS BY LORENZO MAZZAUFO

  

SHOE

She says romantic, I say naughty,
he’s a hell of a charming man.
He says dodgy, I say sweet eyes,
he’s so lovely when he tells a lie.
He says he wants to play with me, 
but then he takes me for a ride;
you know he’s a busy guy,
and a whole lot more besides.

I’m spiralled down this junk, Valerio Funk,
I’m spiralled down this junk.

You say romantic, I say FUNK.
You say naughty, I say FUNK.
You say dodgy, I say FUNK.
You say sweet eyes, I say FUNK.
Funk.


Funk

It’s not to be disguised, it may be fear;
she’s a chameleon girl.
A tiny Yera Allon in a coat,
my soliloquy partner.
Her life is an incessant work of art,
she’s our Cindy Sherman in bodysuit.

She may seem cold and so elusive, in her arty way,
but she’s the friend of the girl I love and I love her.

Girl In A Bodysuit

We are:

We are the Myctophids of the night,
swimming so languid in the deep blue sea,
a feeble whisper through the noise,
slipping invisible and turquoise…;

but then we glow.

All of our photophores explode,
that blue in the dark,
shines in a spark,
means that you are trapped
and we are here.


The Nazi - Twins

His daughter goes to school with mine,
his wife, she works along with mine;
he wears the same jacket as me,
he plays with guys who played with me,
ain’t that enough to write a song?

And he writes for that magazine
we’ve been reading since the days
our love grew so strong and unforeseen
and he lived in Preston, Lancashire,
never knew why, never knew why,
never knew why.

And there’s a juke-box in his house
with awesome music from The Troggs,
The Modern Lovers, The Ramones
and “Sunflower Suit”
from Buffalo Tom.


Man - Well

4) Shoe

5) Summer Dress

MOPE

So sleep, sleep, 
willowy reed 
and sleep, mountain peak, 
gullys and cliffs 
After the fight, the pallid harrier 
rests in the moorland and dreams 
...dreams, of naked lizards? 
And what about you? 
the ranks withdrew. 
You've just slaughtered mine, 
and sleep... 

And sleeps, her anguished sleep 
the firstborn, the Phobetor's bliss, 
and while the little one dreams of a kiss, 
I sit alone at the computer, 
singing "do do de de dam dam" 

Should I stay there 
or by your lips, 
and hold you?



A bedroom recording. Recorded and piano played by the sweetest Davide Grotta.
Split single with the awesome Giorgio Tuma as special guest. 
HOME SIDE: A Minor Place's "ALONE AT THE COMPUTER MONITOR"
GUEST SIDE: Giorgio Tuma's "HAPPINESS IS A STUPID SONG"alternative take, with Studio Davoli.
Cover art by Marta Balducci

Alone At The Computer Monitor

JESUS' HONEYMOON

NOT THE SEA

AND YOU AND I

LICORICE

COMPLETE CONCORDANCE

THE STORY SO FAR

A Minor Place è marito e moglie. 
A Minor Place si è addormentato una sera di gennaio del 1973, davanti alla tv, subito prima della proclamazione del vincitore di quella edizione di Canzonissima...: sullo schermo, l'orchestra della RAI tuonava gioiosa. Si è risvegliato 40 anni dopo, nel 2013.
A Minor Place è 8 persone, milioni di trombe, cozzare di asce, parole d'amore.
Quando è sveglio, A Minor Place cerca - vanamente - di ricreare la magia del suono di quell'orchestra...; ma non sa, né potrebbe. 
A Minor Place è un ossimoro, una contraddizione. Le sue canzoni parlano di sodomia e di vecchi, di volpi e specchi.
Una parla di pesci.

A Minor Place is husband and wife.
A Minor Place fell asleep one night, January ’73, in front of the tv, just before the announcement of the winner of that famous variety show…: on the screen, the RAI orchestra thundered joyful. Woke up 40 years later, in 2013.
A Minor Place is 8 people, millions of trumpets, clashing of axes, words of love.
When awake, A Minor Place unsuccessfully tries to recreate the magic of that orchestra sound. He does not know, nor could.
A Minor Place is an oxymoron, a contradiction. His songs are about sodomy and old people, foxes and mirrors.
One is about fish.

a minor place

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