‘Too Late To Dream’ – the newest release of Eraldo Bernocchi’s project Simm
For Eraldo Bernocchi, Simm is his most personal project.
With albums only occurring every decade on no set schedule, this versatile musician saves the stories of his own victories, failures, and close encounters for the stylish and bass line driven beats of Simm. The London-based Italian has produced music in collaboration with Harold Budd, Bill Laswell, Mick Harris, Robin Guthrie and many others.
For ‘Too Late To Dream’, Bernocchi has reached out into an entirely different direction and recruited vocalists Phelimuncasi, from the African label Nyege Nyege Tapes, and London MC Flowdan to add a new dimension to the storytelling of Simm.
“‘Too Late To Dream’ is the first SIMM album featuring vocals. I always told stories through sound but this time I was needing real words. Involving Flowdan, from London, and Phelimuncasi, from Durban, has not only been a pleasure but a game-changer as I was used to producing long and evolving tracks while this time they “forced” me to the essential. They completely changed my approach to composing and producing. Flowdan lyrics immediately matched the album concept while Phelimuncasi, who are using the Zulu language, are using ritual and celebration words like weapons. The album was practically ready when I decided to involve them, I basically tore it apart a couple of times until I reached the desired result. I’m already thinking about the next album as I don’t want another 9 years to pass.”
“Simm is just a spectator, a witness of disasters. We’re done, end of story. We fucked up big time. The planet is dying, we condemned ourselves to a slow and painful death. We live in a society where the screens replaced our brain and disinformation rules. It’s a dystopic reality that Ballard and Cronenberg perfectly described years ago. They forecasted the future; they wrote our epitaph and we thought we were reading a novel or watching a movie. Too late, too late to dream. It’s over. Eraldo Bernocchi
‘Too Late To Dream’ releases November 26, 2021 via Ohm Resistance
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