{"id":1634,"date":"2003-10-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perkele.it\/uncategorized\/brant-bjork-and-the-operators-brant-bjork-and-the-operators\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:55:12","slug":"brant-bjork-and-the-operators-brant-bjork-and-the-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perkele.it\/?p=1634","title":{"rendered":"Brant Bjork and The Operators &#8211; Brant Bjork and The Operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anche <strong>Brant Bjork<\/strong>, come Josh Homme nei QOTSA, cerca una via personale alla musica rock per emanciparsi definitivamente dall&#8217;etichetta stoner. Se per\u00f2 l&#8217;ex chitarrista dei Kyuss al momento c&#8217;\u00e8 riuscito egregiamente, non \u00e8 lo stesso per l&#8217;ex batterista che aggiunge alle chitarre distorte orecchiabilit\u00e0 e furbizia squisitamente pop non sempre centrando il bersaglio.<\/p>\n<p>Accompagnato per l&#8217;occasione dagli invisibili The Operators &#8211; in verit\u00e0 solo <strong>Mario Lalli<\/strong> dei Fatso Jetson e <strong>Franz Stahl<\/strong> dei Wool &#8211; il secondo disco solista di Bjork \u00e8 basato su una manciata di canzoni rock dirette e semplici e composizioni strumentali di pi\u00f9 ampio respiro che ricordano quelle delle Desert Sessions.<\/p>\n<p>La formula \u00e8 quella del pop-rock &#8216;alternative&#8217; tipicamente americano, godibile da ascoltare alla radio (<em>Smarty Pants<\/em>), appiccicoso ai primi ascolti ma poco sostanzioso come i brani dei Foo Fighters (<em>My Ghettoblaster<\/em> e <em>From the Ground Up<\/em>), pieno di ritornelli aperti da cantare in macchina con volume a palla e, perch\u00e9 no, anche sanamente cazzone (<em>Cheap Wine<\/em>). <em>Joey&#8217;s Radio<\/em> racchiude tutte queste caratteristiche ed \u00e8 per questo che \u00e8 uno dei brani pi\u00f9 riusciti del disco.<\/p>\n<p>L&#8217;eclettismo di Bjork raggiunge i risultati migliori dove la musica prende il sopravvento rappresentando a conti fatti la parte migliore. La strumentale <em>Electric Lalliland<\/em> \u00e8 un bellissimo esercizio di prog-psichedelia con tempi dispari, chitarre al contrario e bleep elettronici; con <em>Cocoa Butter<\/em> ci si immerge nel lounge esotico, molto vicino ad alcuni momenti dei Tortoise di <em>TNT<\/em> o dei Mr. Bungle in chill out; la conclusiva <em>Hinda 65 (Return Flight)<\/em> profuma invece di soul da piano bar americano di periferia, fumoso e lugubre, andamento vellutato &#8211; <em>smooth<\/em> direbbero negli Usa &#8211; retto da un legnoso basso funky ed abbellito da svisate di piano elettrico in serata di grazia.<\/p>\n<p><em>Brant Bjork and The Operators<\/em>\u00a0ha diviso parecchio i fan ed estimatori dello stoner &#8211; a giudicare dagli interventi su un paio di newsletter e forum &#8220;che contano&#8221; &#8211; tra chi lo considera un disco messo su per gioco e chi invece sembra aver capito ed apprezzato il vento di cambio radicale che vi soffia attraverso.<\/p>\n<p>Condivisibile quest&#8217;ultimo giudizio ma bisogna anche mediare su diverse posizioni. \u00c8\u00a0considerevole il fatto che Bjork si dimostri uno dei musicisti pi\u00f9 aperti ed ispirati della scena per\u00f2 mettendo le orecchie fuori dal genere di roba cos\u00ec se ne trova a bizzeffe e per di pi\u00f9 questa suona gi\u00e0 fuori tempo massimo. 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