Verdena rehearse every day (when they're not on tour) in their garage, where they have built a recording studio called the Henhouse. The hen-house is their sound laboratory--full many different instruments, like guitars, amplifiers, rhodes, mellotrons, and Korg synths. No digital stuff is allowed to get in!
They view the song like a painter would a picture: to work on by carefully adding more and more layers, yet keeping the big picture in mind. The result is much more than a simple song.
Verdena’s songs, which are stellar in and of themselves, have a new added value since the lyrics are written uniquely. They are not penned in a narrative, logical way. Rather, they follow a stream-of-unconscious style that is closer to the Anglo-American rock language than to the syncope traditions of the Italian language, which are so far from the aesthetics of pure rock. Alberto’s lyrics have always been one of the main characteristics of Verdena that stand out from the usual and reiterated formula of the Italian rock music.
Debut album:
Verdena
The debut album came out on September, 30th, 1999.
The first single went in heavy rotation on MTV.
The album sold 40.000 copies
EPs:
Two EPs were published after the album release: Valvonauta and Viba ep.
In the first one there were two new tracks. In the second one two new tracks and a cover of Sunshine of your love by Cream.
On tour:
The band played in the most important festivals (Imola Heineken Music Festival with Hole and Marylin Manson, Independent Day Festival with Deftones, Limp Bizkit, Arezzo Wave Love Festival with Henry Rollins). Between September 1999 and the summer of 2000 Verdena played more than 100 gigs.
July 2001; Verdena play in Turin before U2 exclusive show in Italy.
Second Album:
Solo un Grande Sasso
Released in September of 2001
The first single, Spaceman, went immediately in the top ten. Same as for the album (sixth in the top ten for three weeks and on the top forty for other four weeks). The record sold 35.000 copies.
Other EPs:
After the release of the second album Verdena published two more EPs in which they made cover of Thirteen Floor Elevator’s Reverberation and Melvins Creepy Smell.
Third Album:
Il Suicidio dei Samurai
Came out on January 31, 2004, two weeks before they played in Groningen, at Eurosonic. At the same time Verdena released the EP Luna. Suddenly it got number two for two weeks on the top ten. Then the album came out and it got to the seventh in the top ten. Made a club tour (30 gigs) most of the times got sold out. On summer 2004 they’ve made 40 gigs all over Italy. Then, once again, a club tour of 20 gigs. Once again sold out everywhere.
Fourth album:
Requiem
Released in 2007.
Spaceman
Verdena Lyrics
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la fine è qui e ti cullerà
io temo di vincerti
la vertigine in volo
nessuno saprà mai che in questo cielo
dovrò concluderti nel blu
io nel blu
Spaceman
e sarai simile a me
in ogni io che sei..tudutu..
in ogni io che sei..tudutu..
in ogni io che sei..tudutu..
in ogni io che sei..tudutu..
in ogni io che sei..tudutu..
in ogni io che sei..tudutu..
Spaceman
la fine è qui e ti cullerà
io temo di vincerti
la vertigine in volo
respira in vene lisce e questo è bene
dovrò concluderti
concluderti...
spaceman
spaceman
spaceman..
The song Spaceman by Verdena expresses a sense of impending finality and fear of defeat as the singer faces a spaceman who promises to meet and be similar to them. The spaceman represents an unknown entity, possibly death or an outside force, that will ultimately engulf the singer. The line "la vertigine in volo" (dizziness in flight) suggests a sense of disorientation and being out of control as they face this uncertainty.
However, the singer also expresses a certain comfort and longing for the spaceman's promised arrival. The repetition of "in ogni io che sei" (in every self that you are) suggests a desire for a connection with this unknown entity, and a belief that somehow they are similar. This dichotomy of fear and longing creates a layered emotional depth to the song that invites repeated listening and interpretation.
Line by Line Meaning
la fine è qui e ti cullerà
The end is here and it will comfort you
io temo di vincerti
I fear to overcome you
la vertigine in volo
The dizziness in flight
nessuno saprà mai che in questo cielo
No one will ever know that in this sky
dovrò concluderti nel blu
I must conclude you in the blue
io nel blu
Me in the blue
tu giura è qui che m'incontrerai
You swear it's here that you'll meet me
e sarai simile a me
And you'll be like me
in ogni io che sei..tudutu..
In every 'I' that you are...tudutu
la vertigine in volo
The dizziness in flight
respira in vene lisce e questo è bene
Breathe in smooth veins and that's good
dovrò concluderti
I must conclude you
concluderti...
Conclude you...
spaceman
Spaceman
spaceman
Spaceman
spaceman..
Spaceman...
Contributed by Elijah N. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@marcomastrolia2064
2000, 2001 e 2002, ovvero gli anni delle mie scuole medie. Sono stati anni difficili, non c'era praticamente nulla che andasse dritto allora nella mia vita: difficoltà a scuola tra lo studio ed il rapporto con i compagni di classe ed i coetanei, problemi in famiglia con e tra i miei genitori e per i problemi di salute di mia madre. L'anno più difficile probabilmente è stato proprio il 2001, l'anno di pubblicazione di questo disco. All'epoca, tra l'altro, non ero a conoscenza di questo disco e col senno di poi penso che è un vero peccato, perchè molto probabilmente mi sarebbe stato di grande conforto...
@homqwerty9809
E dal caro diario per oggi é tutto
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