Italian Experimental/ Avant-Jazz Rock Outfit 7C (Sette Ci) Announces New Album Compartment C for September 29

Working on their third studio album, 7C experimented with a different line-up which allowed them to most fully express the story of the album. The conflict and interplay of two “blocks”, the acoustic one, represented by double bass and drums, and the electronic one, which is formed by Guitar and Electronics, takes the listener to a world made of various sceneries that are sometimes delirious and sometimes more introspective. It’s not a coincidence that all four elements can cleverly produce noise and dissonance as it’s always been one of the main features of the band.

Compartment C takes its title from a painting of Edward Hopper, an american artist who is famous for his great ability to show, in the mid twentieth, the loneliness of contemporary life within big american cities.

Throughout the album, 7C describes how man’s life is even more alienating nowadays, since he has to struggle with frenetic everyday life and technology. Each track proceeds by telling the story of a regular day of any human being forced to run from sunrise (intro), facing the chaotic urban jungle to get to work (approaching a city). By the late morning, only half the job has been done (eleven a.m.) while the city is alive and it’s pulsing like a continuous and steady background (eye & ear control).

Going back home, he has to face the chaotic traffic which plagues the core of the city like a hectic heartbeat(yonkers). Only when he’s back home, the urban man can break down and cry his heart out of desperation (depression), self aware of the alienating life he’s living. The day is over, there’s no redemption, and the only way out is his death (the end of the day). At the same time, a new life is born (outro), condemned to the same fate.