Sit down, make yourself comfortable. This is the story of an artistic journey, a 30-year parable. Listen. Immerse yourself. Eliminate all distractions; let the music speak to you, like it used to do.

Dirty Thirty is the culmination of a class struggle, of the utopian ideal of those who stubbornly cling to a model of the world that still embraces thought, wonder and the courage of art.

Syndone is a vision, a nine-album journey, the desire to make a mark in the world. Syndone is a shape-shifter, a band that’s changed its skin and its musicians without ever changing its soul: swimming against the tide, defying fashion and the decline (not only musical) of an era in which you can be successful only if it pleases the powers that be.

Yet there was a time when record albums were capable of transporting us, starting with the artistry of the album covers, of breaking the rules, crossing boundaries, with a whole set of atmospheres, sounds, and thoughtful, refined, stylistic constructions.

Those were the days of progressive rock; at the time it was simply called pop, because it was popular. Today there’s very little left that’s progressive: there’s no thrill of discovery, we’re no longer open to wonder and amazement, we don’t deviate from the idea of an increasingly standardized and replaceable human being.

Nik Comoglio, the musical heart and soul of this story, has never surrendered to that reality; flanked by the vocal and conceptual talents of Riccardo Ruggeri, the Turin-based keyboardist and composer has truly succeeded in making his mark.

Syndone, with their erudite, impeccable rock, as violent and energetic as they are melancholic and orchestral, are a dare, a counterpoint, a raised middle finger to the devious strategy of collective narcosis slyly dropped from above in the Kali Yuga of Western civilization. They’re an antidote.

Dirty Thirty is their crowning achievement, the (perhaps) final chapter. Enjoy it like fine wine, in small sips, and remember to stay human.

1. Dirty Thirty: The end of my love (5:01)
2. Fight Club (3:08)
3. The Angel (4:15)
4. Valdrada’s Screen (3:47)
5. I Spit on my Virtue (4:00)
6. I only ask for a super glue (5:06)
7. Mary Ann (5:58)
8. Renè (4:23)
9. God’s will (5:23)
10. Thousand times I cried (2:03)
11. So Long everybody - The Time has come and I must leave you (5:10)
12. Bonus Track: Evelyn (Japanese Version) (4:28)

This wonderfully cultured and magnificently hued new collection opens on the piano-led smorgasbord of musical genres that drives Dirty Thirty: The end of my love and the guitar jam of Fight Club and they are followed by the fluctuating rhythms within The Angel, the Rush-esque Valdrada’s Screen, and then we get the Darkness-imbibed I Spit on my Virtue and the fervent I only ask for a super glue.

Along next is the airy Mary Ann and the graceful piano ballad Renè and they are in turn backed by the funk grooves found within God’s will, the perky, playful melodies of Thousand times I cried, rounding out on the aching, veritably symphonic yearn of So Long everybody - The Time has come and I must leave you, coming to a close on the impassioned bonus track Evelyn (Japanese Version).

Musicians:
Nik Comoglio - composition, orchestration, hammond, juno dist. moog, mellotron, keyboards
Riccardo Ruggeri – composition, vocals, lyrics
Marta Caldara – vibraphone, marimba, keyboards
Gigi Rivetti – ac. piano, el. pianos, hammond, moog, accordion
Simone Rubinato – bass, fretless bass, el. baritone guitar Ciro Iavarone - drums, percussions

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