CD+DVD - The Social Registry
This 'Retina Riddim' is fundamentally a film-project cut from old footage of Gang Gang Dance, a group that would have once been defined 'art group' for the many influences, articulated in pre-electronic ways, with cuts and atypical montages and counter-cultural performing attitudes. It's an old-style combo with a remarkable expressive potential, which is particularly noticeable in the many scenes documenting their live performances, enriched with other effects, between digital elaboration and rock documentary. It's an alienating road biography, hypnotic and subversive, that narrates the nature of this band (reminiscent of some improvisational excesses of Pop Group); it's disquieting but charming, suspended among the voice of the front-girl Lizzie Bougatsos and the loops and dream-like sequences, the result of a true experimental attitude.This 'Retina Riddim' is fundamentally a film-project cut from old footage of Gang Gang Dance, a group that would have once been defined 'art group' for the many influences, articulated in pre-electronic ways, with cuts and atypical montages and counter-cultural performing attitudes. It's an old-style combo with a remarkable expressive potential, which is particularly noticeable in the many scenes documenting their live performances, enriched with other effects, between digital elaboration and rock documentary. It's an alienating road biography, hypnotic and subversive, that narrates the nature of this band (reminiscent of some improvisational excesses of Pop Group); it's disquieting but charming, suspended among the voice of the front-girl Lizzie Bougatsos and the loops and dream-like sequences, the result of a true experimental attitude.
Aurelio Cianciotta