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Peacock Eyes

by Solki

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1.
Puddle 04:30
In the puddle I live I found a taste for swimming I have no time for thinking me and my rage In the puddle I live I have no time for hiding I have no place for hide you and your rage I just want eat flags hit glass eat flags for dinner
2.
Fuck Youth 03:00
As she vacuums on my first head my second head is thinking about revenge but when I find it I fall asleep again I have enough to scamper every night In this huge hose with bed sheets like autumn crunchy leaves tilt my head, touch his breastbone with my forehead I can see your heart pumping so hard indeed I can see your joy pumping so hard for me I'm so bored so I get lost in the tough about that jump you talked So I just decided to relax and fuck my youth while moon is red and release your heart with her glowing smile for a long long time Look at you there's a hell on your hair! Someone honey left you dry Oh please stop talking in backwards, what your rulebook suggest to do while moon is red and release your heart with her glowing smile for a long long time
3.
Peacock Eyes 03:47
You're a bruise deep in my soul I can't go on in a violet mood Follow you without a clue just the red hair and a beautiful tail Ask my now if I am a clown well look all around the floor melt down Watch myself through peacock eyes I walked a temptation that left me dry Belong me belong me belong me or I kill you Don't hurt me don't hurt me don't hurt me or I kill you I was sure I saw the dawn stone is warm, the path is red I walk on that in a violent mood Peacock's eye is passing me through You belong me belong me belong me or I kill you Don't hurt me don't hurt me don't hurt me or I kill you
4.
That night on the bike Through the fog couldn't chase you You smiled and had fun I was sweating a river Turn turn! You shout Couldn't steer couldn't focus Your smile in this smokey place with liver's walls I won't be your new cage let me be your biggest brave Complain all day waiting for a date Not every time is the last time Waiting for a day waiting for a day Where every time is the first time This is the moment that You said me "Hi" and I said "Why your pants are white but colors fly?" I won't be your first cage let me be your biggest moon This is the moment that You said me "Hi" and I said "Why your pants are white but colors fly?" I had to lie
5.
Dishes on the shelf are breaking because of the noise We are tight on time and your heart is already broken Vibrations insinuating, snakes are choking me and this ink is so persistence I'm a dirty blot Because of the noise I'm a dirty blot I can see many directions and horizon's black Lick it please I want it white I want it clean I feel like a jellyfish under the sun My clearness is confused for an empty bag Dishes on the shelf are breaking because of the noise We are tight on time and your heart is already broken I feel like a jellyfish under the sun My clearness is confused for an empty bag Because of the noise I'm a dirty blot
6.
I want you do it right coz I know you know the best way to do it right to be bright I want you do it right coz you know and you know the best way the best way to be bright God got a song that is clung to the top of my roof Ghost got a soul that is clung to the top of my roof Got a soul that is screaming from the top of... They go on wriggling their arms while I smile I want you do it right coz I know you know the best way to do it right to be bright I want you do it right coz you know and you know the best way the best way to be bright to be bright to be
7.
In A Bounce 03:19
Couldn't wait to see you sit on that awesome bench on hills Secrets that you are bringing in I will shake them out Silence all around Looking you prepare this coffee I don't think I let you go Since we have it we can't go on thinking loud along This wire mash with holes I don't touch the ground I follow you in two bounce Even if you keep not sharing we all see you drive alone Since we feel it we can't go on thinking loud alone Looking you prepare this coffee I really think I will let you go Even If you keep not talking words are running out with a scary bounce I don't touch the ground I follow you in two bounce Now that I don't touch the ground I follow you in a bounce Now that you don't touch the ground I follow you in a bounce Now that I don't touch the ground I follow you in a bounce Now that I don't touch the ground you follow me in a bounce.
8.
Jealous Girl 04:00
You're rolling up just another day Without you coz it make you feel slave enough An ancient fault I understand now what a brave expected me I wish I could have another day Running trough on bale of hay so sweet to me Nothing to pay I got until now And jealousy just run to me I define a line I defend the night I define a line I defend that night You and I were high so high I saw her too looking hard for you She thinks of you laughing loud alone as I hate you know An ancient fault I understand now what a cage expected me I define a line I defend the night I define a line I defend that night You and I were high so high
9.
All this time you were alive and in a while you went so far And if my heart is on a hill What if my heart is on a hill waiting for a thrill? Once in a while You don't know how You don't know why You'll start to lie and in a while you'll go so wild And if my heart is on a hill What if my heart is on a hill in harmony?

about

The opposites do a full turn and touch each other.

The second album by Solki is an intricated domino game played by three players – Serena Altavilla, Alessandro Gambassi e Lorenzo Maffucci – and disclosed by musician-producer Alessandro Fiori. They chose the peacock as an image of frailty, beauty, contradictions in human connections.

“Peacock Eyes” is a concise argument about vanity and the mistakes that it both causes and looks for. The eyespots on the peacock train feathers reveal themselves as an open dilemma, hidden behind a gorgeous yet awkward symbol of rebirth.

“Peacock Eyes” achieves a fusion which is more solid and neater than the lo-fi game of Solki’s debut album, though the band essentially keeps their rooted dream punk instrumentation.

Serena Altavilla’s silvery vocals address the nine songs, laid against the guitar counterpoint and the radical rhythm phrasing carried out by a drum set shrunk to its strictly necessary elements.

A few other instrumental colors, such as violins and synthesizers, are spread over this fabric by Alessandro Fiori, who recorded the album – live, at the most – through a couple of days of springtime work at the Studio Rudere, in the woods of Tuscany.

«There is such an ideal place: an elevated point of view, a hill that overlooks a flatland. From above we observe different conflicts: vanity concealing despair and lack of attention; desire of possession tied to a person as we want him or her to be; desire and yearning for people that we don’t truly know. One can find, hidden in some dark region, the courage to appreciate the ugliness of beautiful things».

credits

released April 7, 2017

Serena Altavilla – vocals, guitar
Lorenzo Maffucci – guitar
Alessandro Gambassi – drums, synth

Lyrics by Serena Altavilla
Music by Serena Altavilla and Solki

Produced by Alessandro Fiori

Recorded and mixed by Alessandro Fiori at Studio Rudere, Casentino (Italy) in April and May 2016

Mastered by Giovanni Versari at La Maestà, Tredozio (Italy) in June 2016

Thank you: Silvia Facchetti, Carla Fiori, Renato Fiori

Thank you tech wisemen: Daniele D’Andrea, Lorenzo D'Anna, Luca Leone, Pasquale Mariniello, Emanuele Ravalli

Alessandro Fiori: violin (tracks 2, 3, 8); synth (tracks 3 and 5); boiler (track 3); harmonium (track 6)

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Solki Prato, Italy

Siamo i Solki e ci siamo formati il 26 maggio 2014. Siamo: Serena, Alessandro, Lorenzo.

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