Blazzaj - Întoarcerea Omului Furnicar (2024)

The band from Timisoara BLAZZAJ has returned with a new studio material, an album printed on double vinyl called, "The Return of the Ant Man". It had a grand launch on September 15, in a full house concert at the Control Club in Bucharest.

So, the material is stuffed with 14 compositions laced with sarcasm and fine humor, in the band's well-known note, pieces that seem to have built themselves in the vicinity of the innovative spirit of the artists.

Over time, BLAZZAJ's pieces have become real urban odes painted in screaming shades of Balkan surrealism. Moreover, even the story that accompanies this new material breathes such an air imbued with an almost unnatural freshness.

"After the unsuccessful attempt to take over the management of the tenants' association, the ant-man wandered for 28 days in supermarkets in search of self-balance. He returned to the block with 14 stories worthy of any storyteller."

Right from the song with which the material debuts "Forte bine", the listener plunges directly into the utopian world proposed by BLAZZAJ. Here the urban universe is led by some very responsible characters who are attentive to the needs of the population, a kind of politicians today, but with much more common sense and civic spirit. Some almost unreal, even phantasmagoric creatures, who were once heard to have roamed the streets and neighborhoods of the cities and would have taken their word for it so that the country would run very well.

The story continues its thread under the fine observation of the Ant Man, trained as it should be on the benches of Fine Mechanics, something like the fine benches of High School. Nothing goes unnoticed, unsniffed, undiscussed, under the nose of the city anteater, this respectable one dressed in striped overalls and a shirt with a badge. Ant-Man is the last, and the first, mammal species to be trained by a badge in the offices of a company.

Of course, the surrealist landscape, or superrealist, acquires more and more accentuated dimensions and shapes, and the avant-garde sound space sanded with fine jazz intertwines with more and more harsh lyrics, sharp for the better. "But with persistence and a well-beaten mouse, the pigs have shown that it can be achieved."

The luxuriant disorder of the anteater turned human, the modern being that "socializes only through absence", fuss-fuss-fuss, is the habitat in which this trifle-loving hybrid pokes its senses.

But like any story that knows its characters and its meaning, this one throws a subtle message into the world that, as much as it screams, as much as it sneaks in like a wish. So, "give me a dream that doesn't throw me into the abyss!"

BLAZZAJ has therefore managed to invent a fascinating new world out of a bore that suffocates society like an assassin who, instead of stalking his victim, prefers to talk to her around corners.