Back from the Grave - “F(r)âme(s)” Album

In the shadows of one own life, in the anonymity of being just one gear in a huge machine, how do we break through? is our day to day life offering the context for the scenarisation of a cathartic other, one that can scare, dance, conjure, cast a spell, and transform us in a shamanistic presence that can be reborn when visited, that can live again when taking out of the deepness of our soul. A soul, when is not moved becomes a cold grave.

Lyrics:
I don’t remember anything
You’re ruining it
I’m not sharing what I saw

From light to shadow
I’m looking out of a hole
I’m crawling out of the ground

Prepare yourself
Everybody is sleeping??
I hear someone laughing far
Give me a pen
Let’s change this song

I’m coming back from the grave
 I’m done with the run

You don’t remember anything
I’m ruining it
I’m not telling what I saw

I don’t remember anything
You’re ruining it
Let’s change this song 

My Own Discomfort - “F(r)âme(s)” Album

 When reality, even the one that you have helped to create is too oppressive; a flight - reflex is triggered, one that is going up, up, up, skyhigh!

Lyrics:
I float away
From the things that do good to me
I moved away
From her mood and my challenges

And it is long ago...

I stayed on place
In my own discomfort
I lean afraid
Looking straight into my shadow

And I tried hard enough
But I haven’t said it all...

When I see my hopes and my real life they don't fit at all
I sense the pain I cause when I have you all by my side
And when I still recover and a little sober I always realise
I just want to go up up up

Silence remains the only way out

Try Cry Not [the Truth] - “F(r)âme(s)” Album

How different and how equal are we really? The answer is, depends on what you believe, in what you consider the fundamental truth of your life and this will guide all your actions and your consideration of what the human species is.

Lyrics:
In a way I feel the same
In a way we think the same (in a)
In a way we had to take
We just like to make our own fools

In a grain we see the same
In a far world there is no escape (in a)
In a word of emptiness
We will only live from our truth

Your truth
We will only live there

“F(r)âme(s)” Album - THE QUEST

EFF, as said in the precedent post introducing Hi! Pulpo album, are “a generation with no identitarian struggle or in need of a political recognition but rather, a forgotten part of society that is struggling with its own levels of comfort” Still for the band member it is impossible to distant themselves from how global reality is represented and how these same dynamics set structural limits that can only be trespassed by art production. 

And this global reality, this general frames are: identity politics and the subjective adaptation to market capitalism; it is the conviction that we ARE through the identification of a body of knowledge, values, practices etc. This “whole” concede us our individual sense in the world and set us apart to the ones that would like to end this holy order that make us “the people”;

Whether it is familiar, religious, ethnic, sexual, political, gender, alimentary and/or national appartenance, these movements create binary, partial and reactionary ways of conceiving one's role in society. And all this having as a background a regent systemic order of how we should be fitting in the world; which depends on how productive, focused, connected, successful no matter what, no matter how, we have to be. 

In this schizophrenia of ideological regimes, time use and self construction EFF Music Experience identifies what we are supposed to be as a day to day drama build around us and within ourselves, even transposing such drama as a normality, as this indefinite quest for sense, as pillar of our contemporary world.

They regard this and produce 10 pieces under the name of F(r)ame(s). The fundamental assumption and leading concept of the album is that our painful quest for sense is the result of the lack of transcendence and meaning and the continuous push to be someone rather limited, without contradictions, useful, and well adapted you can add all other adjectives in a job application… stress resistant and the likes… we are longing for and made of frames.

Cheers, Abelardo

“F(r)âme(s)” Album - INTRO

Frames

Fame

Âme

EFF is striping down the world created by words to recreate the multi meaning characteristic of everything.

EFF is taking down the parenthesis or the overused quotations marks that convey relativity as a frame of meaning, to put themselves in the quest for the essential, for the Âme of everything. And they try to answer fundamental questions:

What are we?

What are we individually?

and how how do we articulate socially and mentally in the collective? ...

Is there a real conscious construction of the self or we just take what it is available and we fit in, we find the best middle ground between what we think we are and the dominant dynamics of our society?

And this would be: a mishmash of odd and old (revisited) moral values with capitalistic productivity and online persona construction… and maybe a strong conviction that you have to build where you belong to, because the world, as it is experienced today, it is just succession of ideological trenches and the subjectivity; is lived as a battle between normative narratives and strong feeling of wanting to be free, whatever that means.

The third¹ album of EFF tries to unveil these dynamics in 11 acts. 

Cheers, Abelardo 


¹ their second entirely online album, their first is just a rare edition where only around 10 hard copies were published.

The Pulpo Series: Hi! Pulpo

Introducing "Pulpo & Friends" Album

The invention of DIY in contemporary artistic expression; 

 

 

The notion of place has been replaced by the notion of fluidity. A small contextualisation comment.

Art has acquired its legitimacy by being produced, advertised and reproduced in geographical centres that monopolise knowledge and the informational networks derived. By this occupation of such knowledge and tradition, a discourse of what it is considered to be Art is legitimised. So Art would be transversely compared to trends of Luxus, Entertainment and Societal discourses in "vogue" to be named after them to validate Art as a binary response to such trends. The conversations of the Elites.

But the importance and stability of such of art;culture producing centres is being slowly depleted of their relative importance. Street Art has showed us that!

a "Place" of Art production is any given human symbolic interaction embedded in time that is consciously identified as worth of being shared, its the construction of our own subjective fragile concept of beauty, of happiness and of transcendence.

All of these concepts are being worked in the first new album of EFF Music Experience, a "situated art" producing collective whose artistic standpoint can be resumed in using intimate artistic expressions as a way of catalyse of modern woes in Young Families which life are not represented or poorly depicted in mainstream media. It is a generation with no identitarian struggle or in need of a political recognition but rather, a forgotten part of society that is struggling with its own levels of comfort. Drowning in career expectations, boredom and kids.

Since there is no emergency or real threat to this population, (we all are dying slowly of and by asking to ourselves: what should I be really doing now? Does this have any sense?) EFF ME attempt consists in ordering ideas and emotions to produce a dialogue with reality that could be somehow appreciated. It can be seen as just as a stone thrown in the ocean but the process is still that of sucking up sense out of pain and moments of weakness and be able to produce something intimate; theirs, special... EFF Collective is producing art to be able to look back at itself: an interactive mirror where its members can see their emotions transforming.

In an era of place this would have never seen the light, but it is because of the fluidity of concepts and information that this album could overcome issues like geographical distance and different cultures. And this not only by using the means technology makes available but also by allowing themselves to be artist, to see themselves in that way, a fluidity in the considerations about oneself, a construction of a cathartic other.

The Album (and the affirmation that it is possible) 

Full of Pop culture (it is an idea for a cartoon, Legos in one of the videos, etc.) Hi! Pulpo is a first try of exploring musical and plastic expression with a certain "detachment". Hi Pulpo started as a practical joke but it represents actually the consolidation of the idea of exploring expression through and with the help of family dynamics in modern urban settings. So it had to be a cartoon! Kids of the band members participated as invited musicians an appeared in some of the videos.

Pulpo and Friends is a psychedelic celebration of life like its introduction theme Hi Pulpo or an Ode to Humanism like Shut Up...
Pulpo and Friends is also an active modern moaning like we can hear in Time
Or a pretentious and assumed environmentalism obviously in Mexico Gulf
Or out of space dub like End Pulpo


As an early stage work and an affirmation statement that creativity can be always nurtured, I let you now to explore these life moments...

Enjoy the album and I wanna thank the collective for giving me the opportunity to introduce this album to the public.

Cheers,
Abelardo





Pulpo & Friends (Hi Pulpo, Time, Shut Up, Mexico Gulf, End Pulpo) by EFF Collective is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://effcollective.blogspot.com/.

THE GENESIS
 
London, Ealing, Winter 07/08

A girl from Japan met a guy from Italy who met a guy from Colombia who met a girl from France. In an English school, a crossroad of four lives change some destinies.
 

It all happened easily, naturally like if it was meant to be. Two couples were born and a strong real friendship started to grow. What happened in London did not stay in London and that's the beauty of it. It was cultivated, nurtured, and spread in the world to give birth to EFF.

EFF is the receptacle of all this reality from enjoying playing music together, telling stories, playing games, spending time together. It became a living art experience nourished by family life.

From the friendship, helping the friendship.  A structure bigger than its four bases; getting stronger aging and giving back this strength.

EFF is that, an experience born from the reunion of 4 entities and a catalyser of 4 artistic minds. It’s bigger than ourselves and it improves everyone of us.

Yours
Lady Miss