The last words that poet and visionary film director Pier Paolo Pasolini said in his final interview were “Siamo tutti in pericolo”; translated: we are all in danger. Pasolini was then brutally murdered on a beach in Italy, a case which is still cold today.
On this album, named after the man’s final public words, Golem Mecanique loses herself on that same Italian beach alongside his body and translates her observations and mourning into a devastating musical landscape. Siamo tutti in pericolo will be released via Stephen O’Malley’s Ideologic Organ label on 14th March.
Siamo tutti in pericolo is dangerous, conveying the darkness and uneasy nature of both the art Pasolini created when he was alive and the circumstances of his murder. In her early teens, Golem taped the Pasolini film Accatone when it was shown on television and watched it the next day after school. In her words, “it was an earthquake!”, immediately leaving a great impression on her as it was unlike anything she had ever seen before. She describes the feeling she has when watching a Pasolini film as “silent violence” – a cold and radical response which calls into question her beliefs about the behaviour of people and lies and truth. She hopes to evoke this feeling with her music – a melding of beauty and dread.
“I tried to be the eyes that saw in the dark, the voice that told what his last day and night were, the ghost that summons the memory. I have composed songs as if they were traditional ones, using repetitive patterns in traditional rhythms, like tarantella. The drone is minimalist, and I tried to give the drone box the sound of a traditional hurdy-gurdy.
I just wanted his body not to lay alone on that cold beach.
There’s nothing left, there’s nothing, nothing.We have never existed.Reality is these shapes on the summit of the Heavens – from La Rabbia/Anger by Pier Paolo Pasolini” – Golem Mecanique
SIAMO TUTTI IN PERICOLO TRACK LISTING:
1 – LA NOTTE
2 – IL GIORNO PRIMA
3 – TEOREMA
4 – IL GIORNO
5 – LA TUA ULTIMA SERATA
6 – LA LACRIME DI MARIA