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GENERE: folk metal alternative
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ETICHETTA: CinicoDisincanto
ARTICOLO DEL: 22/12/2007
Una vera esplosione nucleare, un disco di una potenza inaudita, totalmente deflagrante: questo è “Banditi”, l’esordio dei veronesi Jacinto Canek.
Una miscela di power metal, di timbriche etniche, dall’incedere punk con base folk, con inserti elettronici e suoni arabeggianti, il tutto creato ad arte e perfettamente assemblato e intarsiato tra loro, una musica che è potenza e genialità pura che fa da cornice a testi a dir poco eccezionali.
Tematiche di degrado, odio, amore, sofferenze e difficoltà, raccontate con una semplicità e realtà disarmante, la perfetta sceneggiatura di vita quotidiana della più profonda periferia.
Testi che passano dalla politica alla droga, alla ricerca del ritorno al passato e a un futuro migliore. Una voce in stile Vinicio, affiancata da una suadente voce femminile è un potente scream urlato a pieni polmoni, supportate da potenti riff metal, che precedono passaggi sonori etnici, creati dal Didjridoo e si alternano con liriche arabeggianti, mai sentito nulla di simile.
Un disco sensazionale in tutto e per tutto. Se volete un disco che sconquassi la mente e il corpo questo “Banditi” dei Jacinto Canek è quello che fa per voi.
Pur non incontrando il mio gusto musicale, non posso esimermi dal considerare i Jacinto Canek come, probabilmente, uno tra gli esordi migliori e più originali del 2007.
- gufetto.it
Discography
2004 JACINTO CANEK EP (6 songs)
2007 BANDITI (13 songs)
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Bio
Jacinto Canek were born in 2002. in Valpolicella, in the outskirts of Verona (Italy). The name of the band reminds us of a Mayan warrior of the XVIII century that sacrificed his life in order to save his people from the dictatorship and the oppression of the conquistadors. Their music: an outbreak of sounds. Hard and angry: they listen, they discuss, they try, they play, they aim at target and bang!: rock becomes syncretic and opens the door to different kinds of music like punk, ethnic atmospheres, electronic inserts and Mediterranean sounds. Oriental scales meet riff metal, African percussions invade pop melodies, reggae style leads to Balkan suggestions, punk meets synthetic arrangements and the over-bearingness of the lyrics makes a din at the echoes of didjeridoo. Their concerts, different every time, are amazing and full of energy. Definitely entertaining. In the last months, they’ve been going on tour through Italy and abroad in order to promote their debut album “Banditi” and that gained both critical and audience acclaim.
From April 2008, they’re having an important collaboration with US based band Kultur Shock.
Since last spring, the band from Verona, performed as the official opening act on the Italian tour of the cult band from Seattle. In August they also shared a mini tour in Croatia that has strengthened the mutual human and artistic esteem between the two bands. They both have a sort of a natural affinity that sinks the roots in popular tradition, rock and in the extraordinary liveliness of their live performances.
Innovation and singular style of Jacinto Canek has also conquered Margarita Jimeno, an American director (who recently filmed a documentary about Gogol Bordello) with whom “the Jacinti” have realized their first VideoClip, “Mio nonno”, broadcasted by many national and international music channels.
They have been selected to represent Italy at the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (BJCEM) that will take place in september 2009 in Skopje (Macedonia).
Chronology
2003. The band has won the “Soundpark RockContest” in San Pietro in Cariano (Verona).
2004. “Continua la Danza” is broadcasted by Radio Rai1 program, “Demo”. In spring 2004, the band puts out its debut album distributed by MP Records and presented at the FNAC of Verona, receiving critical acclaim.
2005. They record a promo CD with five songs, collecting excellent reviews. “Galleggio Leggero” is included in the compilation “Rock e Contaminazioni” by Healthy Records; after winning the selection, they perform at the Mesiano festival (Trento).
2006. The promo CD receives good reviews even in the USA, and the song “Galleggio leggero” is included in the “Buzzlighter Compilation” produced by American label Shuteye records. (www.shuteyerecords.com). In the meantime, they reach the final round of “Arezzo Wave Veneto” and “Mio nonno” is included in the compilation of the musical contest. In the summer, they choose Piemonte as the location of the videoclip for the song “Mio nonno” directed by New York’s director Margarita Jimeno, who was also collaborating with the Gogol Bordello on the documentary “Gogol Bordello Non Stop” (www.guespa.com). They start recording their first full-lenght album, “L'isola che non c’è” in Padova.
2007. The new year starts off on a good foot with concerts in many clubs of the Veneto, such as “Fucina controvento” in Marghera, “Banale” in Padova and “Glamour” in Verona and most of all, with the participation at the final rounds of the following competitions:
- “Primo Maggio Tutto l’Anno” at the Classico Village (Rome)
- “Sziget Festival” at the Kismet Theatre (Bari)
- “Heineken Jammin’ Contest” at Jungle Studio Station (Milan).
In occasion of the final round of “Primo Maggio Tutto l’Anno”, Jacinto Canek meet Cinico, immediately developing a relationship of complicity and collaboration.
The “hardy boys” become “bad boys” and in autumn 2007 they make their debut with the first album “Banditi”, produced by the independent record label “CinicoDisincanto” from Rome. 2008. Chosen to represent their district (North-East of Italy) at the national music contest "Primo Maggio Tutto l'Anno". Broadcasted by radio Rai2 8am program "Il Ruggito del Coniglio", the first track of their debut album "Banditi", "La Tetoja", has had the effect of a
thunder.
This is also the year of some new artistic collaborations.
Jacinto Canek opened the shows for Kultur Shock (Seattle-USA) in Venice and Milan, and were noticed by Stanislav Czwik, Kultur Shock's European tour manager, who gave them the chance to open for KS even in Slovenia and Croatia, during their summer tour.
2008. Thanks to the enthusiastic response in the Balkan area, Stanislav decided to organize a whole tour for the autumn: 15 gigs in Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia and Bosnia. They had time to come back to Italy just to perform at MEI (Italian indie labels annual meeting in Faenza), on the main stage.
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