Tonight’s video exclusive premiere could easily be tagged under a genre of its own: “anarcho-wave” that is! ‘Blowjob Your Mind‘ by CRM (which stands for Customer Relationship Madness) contains grunts of surreal post-punk, psychobilly, dadaistic no wave, tripped out psychedelic rock & even proto-industrial.
If you already got confused prepare for more: Lyrically, this is an ode to (anti)-materialism, and the video is an obscure, ideal, wild collage of some early 1900’s films and in particular: “La Grenouille” (1908) by Segundo de Chomón, “Häxan” (1922) by Benjamin Christensen, “Le Cochon Danseur” (1907) by French Company Pathé and “Dream Of A Rarebit Fiend” (1906) by Edwin S. Porter.
Enough from us, take this wild ride!
Press Notes:
“Blowjob You Mind” is the second single from their debut record “Who Are You Exactly?” released on 22th November 2019. This new video de-constructs and reassembles some early 1900 films, re-reading them trough the light of the recent collapse of Western ideologies and religions. What’s left? Materialism, money, hedonistic pleasure take shape dancing furiously, between demons and nuns (finally freed from any hesitation and modesty). Is there a great “architect” who guides our actions? A secret lodge to offer our existence as a gift? In the meantime, let’s stop thinking, the dance of profit cannot stop. And at the end of the day all that remains is the refuge in the dream, where you can fly over everything else until the next inevitable fall…
The “madness of the relationship with the customer” of CRM (Customer Relationship Madness) is a musical project that, through the lens of post-punk, psycho-wave, electronic sounds, noise and baggy beats focuses on the insanity that broods in a society dominated by individualism, cynicism and tendency to self-destruction.
Programmatically, the intro of the first track of the disc, Pluton, is a sample of the voice of Donald Trump, who better than anyone else represents this dissolving process in progress.
The name CRM mocks the acronym that in the marketing world identifies the central activity of Customer Relationship Management, emphasizing how what is normally considered management, is in reality madness, a global game of manipulation of thoughts and desires.
In “Who Are You Exactly?” CRM do not express judgments, rather they aim to reflect, as in the mirror with the many faces pictured on the cover artwork, the spirit of the time.
“Zeitgeist: the spirit of the time” was not by chance the title of the last show of the eclectic singer Luca Palazzi, in which he visually expressed what was later developed into music by CRM, a syncretic journey between visual arts and sound.
The band was formed following the meeting between the “Romans”, Luca Palazzi (main voice, lyrics, drum machine) and Francesca Ronconi (keyboards-synth), with Gianpaolo Rosato (bass), a former member of Black Sonar and the Florentines Francesco Degli Innocenti (guitar), ex of the Dreg Machine and the B-Backs and Elisabetta Caiani (vocals, choirs, kazoos).