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Cut The Tongue

by Julius Project

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Sven B. Schreiber (sbs) I got notice of this sublime contemporary RPI gem through a facebook post by "Maxophone's" Marco Croci, who plays bass guitar on this album, too. The mastermind behind "Julius Project" is keyboardist Giuseppe "Julius" Chiriatti. The album gets into considerable heights on its last six tracks, which is actually an epic piece in ten movements. I consider all of them as my favorite tracks, but since I can select just one, I chose the finale grande, "Wandering / Desert Way". Favorite track: Wandering / Desert Way.
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1.
The Fog 06:27
THE FOG NARRATOR - The wax on the floor, some pictures on the wall, you can even look at your face on the floor, it’s a typical, normal, common family. Mummy dusts and cooks and takes care of her son, daddy works and goes to the office every day, it’s a typical, normal, common family... But the fog is coming, the killer of the mind, it’s a shambles! Erasing everything, it destroys the reason, what a shambles! It’s easy to knock down even brighter brains when the fog opens its wide cloak. Here there was a little normal family, now there is a boy dazed and confused. He doesn’t understand what are those black shadows, spending hours staring at a fixed point, will he find the meaning of his life? Almost unconscious, he lives in a bubble. When the fog is coming, the killer of the mind, it’s a failure! Erasing everything, it destroys the reason, what a failure! It’s easy to knock down every right thought when the fog opens its wide cloak. And you can’t do anything but shutting yourself in the room, hoping that the fog disappears.
2.
In The Room 03:39
IN THE ROOM BOY - I’m trying to get out of this room for a long time, it will be my doom! I stay here, I feel strange, but now I’m trying to change. Help me please, find the key, break this lock, free me please!
3.
YOU NEED A PROPHET FAMILY'S FRIEND - Every day you can find him and listen to his sermon, black dresses and a black soul, he can reveal your most hidden fears. His language is so perfect, he speaks to you so softly, he shows to you the right path and the reason to follow it. If you want to blow away all your fog and an enemy in your mind threatens you, you may rent him for a day. Pay him! And you’ll be saved! I know you need a prophet, he’s the best in the market, he will be your great friend, you just have to ask and he acts. He will solve the problem, he will give the answer, he will see the future, he will be your lighthouse and your guide. If you want to blow away all your fog and an enemy in your mind threatens you, you may rent him for a day. Pay him! And you’ll be saved! If you want to blow away all your fog and an enemy in your mind threatens you, you may rent him just one day. Pay him! And you’ll be saved!
4.
MASK AND MONEY BOY - Sweet day, sunlight, my swan is swimming in total solitude. In the blue lake the time is frozen, the water is a glass, hold my hand. I have tried in any way to know how to smash the fog, but it's useless: cut head and tail, hit the body of disgrace, light my mind. THE PROPHET - Smiling mask, million pounds, easy life are the right answers, Boy! Fill the safe working hard, giving up all your stupid doubts. If you want a bright future you've to follow my advice: first, forget all your feelings, second, think about gold! Buy a car, nice clothes, golden watch and the game begins, gentle ways, friendliness and a smile even when your blood boils. This is your revelation and a treasure for you! Now please give me ten pounds and stay away from the sea! BOY - Sweet night, moonlight, my swan is gone, flew, and I'm coming back. The witch mixes her murky potion but I won't drink her cup and I’ll rise. I am tired of this dark forest and now I come to town. Seems to me that the prophet was clear, I really have to change: a new course.
5.
WELCOME TO THE MEAT GRINDER BOY - My eyes see colors and lights of this beautiful place, I am no longer a frightened Boy full of fog. During the day I work and gain, the night is only a spree. Piles of money and all for me, happiness, laughter and wealth. I'm a new man, now I can say I begin to know the meaning of life. Now I dress well, I play my part, everything is ok, I am the happiest man. INNER VOICE - ...while you’re working, on the holy sand, there’s a guardian so loved, lucky him... BOY - My eyes now see black and grey in this horrible place, I'm not so sure, maybe I am completely wrong. During the day there's only stress, the night is boring for me. Dissatisfaction and emptiness, sadness and uncertainty. This meat grinder has ground me too, now I am only a mess. Maybe I can fight, I'm preparing, everything is ok, I just need to run.
6.
Speed Kings 03:33
SPEED KINGS ORGANIZER OF CLANDESTINE RACES - Sorry but we’ve got to run, tomorrow is the new year, and we get drunk tonight, oh, really we get drunk! But we’re all already tipsy, the fears will drown in gin, so the big wings of speed will be on the shoulder blades. DRUNK DRIVERS - Do you like cars? BOY - I think I'm going mad! DRUNK DRIVERS - We can give you a car, we are the speed kings. Speedy, speedy, speedy, kings of speed! ORGANIZER - The mad rush led you out of this dreary town, this is not the right way, but now you want to sleep. It's midnight and you’ll throw your flashy golden watch and Morpheus embraces you, and then you dream the swan. DRUNK DRIVERS - But do you like cars? BOY - Now, not so much! DRUNK DRIVERS - Well, we'll let you sleep, we are the speed kings! Speedy, slimy, misty, steamy, dusty, dirty, sleepy, dream kings.
7.
Clouds pt. 1 03:05
CLOUDS PT. 1 BOY - Splitting the sky, the dawn of the New Year's Day is trying to warm this ice that covers everything, now. People are sleeping because the feast tired, the forthcoming aim is the Epiphany to celebrate, to get drunk. Trampling upon this ice my feet feel the pain, sometimes they stumble but there are my clinging hands now. It's awful to be wet and alone in these days, while everyone stays around a fireplace to celebrate, to get drunk.
8.
Clouds pt. 2 04:44
CLOUDS PT. 2 BOY - Clouds, I see some clouds that run away. Clouds, you run away and leave me alone. And my soul runs along with you and my eyes can't see another horizon. Cloud, a little cloud is running alone. Cloud, oh, little cloud, I'm the way you are. Where are you going, running away? When my eyes will see another horizon? And the prophet was a fraud! And the prophet was a fraud!
9.
CUT THE TONGUE GUIDING SPIRIT - Cut the tongue of every bad prophet. Cut the tongue of every man that tries to carry you out of your right thoughts. Cut our tongues to speak every language, the language of silence. Cut all the tongues because people speak too much and because we must learn to listen. Cut all the tongues because we must learn to feel the person that stays near us without speaking. I will not speak more but trust me: cut their tongues and mine too.
10.
THE SWAN BOY - A swan, coming from the sky, put her wings on me. She told me to wait for a call and a song “And when this will happen?” “Soon” – said the swan – “the answer is hidden inside you” But I don’t know how I could make, believe me, I don’t know! And the swan took a knife and so cut my tongue, putting it in a different position in my throat and so I can speak in every language that the world knows, I understand the world. A dream, maybe it’s only a dream and the swan flew away. And the sunbeams came in through the window, I am just surviving, but the spring will come and maybe the swan will come. ISLAND (instrumental)
11.
WE KNOW WE ARE TWO BOY - I can kiss you love, I’m looking for your red sweet lips. I don’t see your face, but I know you are thinking of me. We’re running, we are two hearts and we know we are two. You can kiss me love, you’re like a flower, you’re mad for me, you give me the light, you gimme smiles, you gimme the moon. We’re joking, we are two souls and we know we are two. I wish I was a fly to fly around your beautiful face, you wish you were my watch to be together even at midnight. We’re making love, we are two mouths and we know we are two. I SEE THE SEA (instrumental)
12.
GLIMMERS BOY’S THOUGHT - Sailor, don’t be sad if you must leave, take the rudder, you will face the storm when the rain will fall and wet the deck. Now you stay alone, driving the ship, she waits for you and you are thinking that when you went away she told you: “Listen to me, even if everything seems useless without me, remember that the glimmers on the sea are my wet eyes that see you and follow you everywhere.” “Listen to me, even if everything seems useless without me, remember that the glimmers on the sea are my wet eyes that see you and follow you everywhere.” CASTAWAY (instrumental)
13.
WOOD ON THE SAND NARRATOR - There’s wood on the sand, you can light a fire to warm your hands and to spend the night here. The sparks tell you where the gale sank the ship, numberless deads and the sea closed its gate. BOY - Swan, how long is the way to listen to your song? Swan, how long I will be here to wait for your call? NARRATOR - A bright and white cork floats on the sea tracing a line and then landing here. The wave’s symphony flies in the sky and so everything becomes to be ash, to be ash... BOY - Swan, how long, is the way to listen to your song? Swan, how long I will be here to wait for your call?
14.
WANDERING (instrumental) DESERT WAY BOY - Now I can begin to say to know the desert way, its sidewalks where I stay, the long and desert day that I live every day, the mistakes that I pay, the sun and every ray that lights this desert way, the lock and its key that close and open. Nay, I can begin to say that I love to forget the day to live in a quiet night, sending back, giving up to fight to leave and go away, to return in my desert way where I will try to find everything I lost in my mind, to spend a desert day without going anymore away.

credits

released November 25, 2020

Julius Project

Bianca Berry - lead vocal, backing vocals (1, 3, 6, 14)
Filippo Dolfini - drums & percussions
Marco Croci - bass, lead & backing vocals (6)
Dario Guidotti - flute, lead vocal (3)
Francesco Marra - lead, classic & 12 strings guitar
Mario Manfreda - lead & 12 strings guitar
Paolo Dolfini - keyboards, Minimoog (9,11), piano (4,9,10), strings arrangement (11,14), backing vocals (14)
Julius - keyboards, Hammond Organ (11), lead vocal (1,13)

Special guests

Richard Sinclair - lead vocal (9)
Martina Chiriatti - the Prophet’s voice (4)
Egidio Presicce - tenor sax (8)
Daniele Bianchini - guitars (9)
Flavio Scansani - lead & 12 strings guitar (12, 14)

Written an recorded between 1978 and 2020 at: Valkiria Studio, Lecce - Dodicilune Studio, Lecce - Km97, Lecce - Acme Studios, Brugherio (MB) - RecLab Studios, Buccinasco (MI)
Mixed and mastered by: Larsen Premoli at RecLab Studios
Paintings (acrylic on canvas): Domenico Ragone
Artwork: Alessandro Pozzi
Lyrics and music: Giuseppe Chiriatti ©2015-2020
Arrangements and musical production: Paolo Dolfini
Executive Producer: Julius

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Physical copies in Digipack CD format are available at G.T. Music: www.gtmusic.it/it/compact-disc/4237-julius-project-cut-the-tongue-cd-8022556280820.html

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Julius Project Lecce, Italy

Progressive rock project lead by keyboardist Giuseppe "Julius" Chiriatti.

The debut album Cut The Tongue was composed between 1978 and 2020.

© 2015-2021 Giuseppe Chiriatti

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