Symmetry in Motion: Solar Flare Alert's 'The Way You Move
Cold beer on uneven, dry concrete. You feel the heat from the sun in your bones. The city's skyline is turning to gold, then ash. And at some point, between your last drink of your cold beer, and just before the sun goes down for the day, there is Solar Flare Alert. They step on the stage not like a formula but as a proposition.
With "The Way You Move" Solar Flare Alert doesn’t push you to move, instead they pull you in with the seductive sound of their beats. They are at 110 BPM, but their groove breathes like the sound of something older than its years or more familiar than you might imagine. Davide Ungaro's voice lands low and has many different textures as if it is made out of smoke rolling in through an open window. Erika Neri's vocals are percussive and sharp which drive the listener further into the groove. Call and response, tension and release, it is all there. There is a strong feeling of instinct in their performance, as if they both know the vibe of the venue they are playing. There is the possibility that this is intentional.
In a market that has grown tired and stale from too many solo architects and too many people renting out their vocals, Solar Flare Alert have rewritten the operating model. They combine themselves as two voices, two writers and one system. They do not collaborate, they create symmetry. The end result is that all grooves are created from the inside out, i.e. every note creates authorship of that note, and every silence adds meaning to the creation as well.
The experience of hearing this music has a physical quality. Each bassline will make you feel like you’re actually touching it; the guitars sound like the warmth coming off hot asphalt; piano notes appear and disappear suddenly like static. The lyrics, although bilingual (with English woven into Italian), will create an illusion of physical movement between the two languages. The disco sensation is brand new to you!
You can hear references of both Nu Genea's early-90s dance music and Gino Soccio's warm-sound analog records, but Solar Flare Alert values new creative expressions over retro perspectives. They want to develop intellectual property (IP) across multiple formats. Their first single is a doorway for fans to get a taste of what they can expect from an entire album and also read about in a science fiction comic.
This is a big deal! It’s a conceptual piece, but it is also emotionally connected to you.
At the core of this song, "The Way You Move" is the idea of connecting with someone without thinking. Connecting while you walk, look at someone, or hear a song. While drinking beer, listening to music on the radio, smelling the smoke from cigars - then moving!
Now you're part of this tale!