Track By Tracks: MARBLE - T.I.M.E (2024)

Album as a whole:

"T.I.M.E." is a journey through time and the history of Western theatre, represented by the female figures described by the great writers who made their works immortal.

"T.I.M.E. becomes theatre, and theatre is my essence".

Track by track:

The lyrics of the first song are based on the Greek tragedy "The Bacchae," by Euripides, dated 405 BC, where the protagonist of the final part, Agave, in the throes of Dionysian delirium kills and dismembers a ferocious beast with her bare hands and brings the beast's head back to the other Bacchae. There, however, her father Cadmus slowly brings her to her senses by returning her to sanity and removing the veil of Dionysus-induced frenzy she realizes that she has killed her son Pentheus and it is his head that she carries in her hand. This is Dionysus' punishment for not accepting and worshiping him as a deity. is one of the record's heaviest songs, in which syncopated tempos and aggressive guitars lead to a melodic chorus with surgical double kick drum work by Norman

In “The Jester Duplicity” the text is based on the southern Italian medieval poem "Rosa Fresca Aulentissima" by Cielo d'Alcamo. The date of composition is between 1231 and 1250, in medieval Sicily. The work is a dialogue, a contrast between a suitor (enterprising and resolute), played by a court jester, and a woman who, at first, flaunts towards him an attitude of sufficient superiority but then yields to the flattery of the suitor.

The Jester is played by guest singer Ivan Adami and is the second single extracted, a powerful and melodic song in which blast beats alternate with choruses harmonized by the two voices.

“Macbeth” is one of Shakespeare's best-known plays; in the third song, Lady Macbeth is the one who guides Macbeth's strings until he is crowned king, as foretold by the three witches. But this ambition will drive her to madness, causing her to lose sleep, as to her king. Eleonora sings Lady Macbeth's point of view and her descent into insanity.

It's a more compact song with an almost thrash verse and a solo section alternating between keyboards and guitar and a fantastic performance by Eleonora

The fourth song is based on Molière's "Tartuffe," staged in 1664 in Paris. The story revolves around the impostor, the Tartuffe, who deceives Orgon and his family with his maieutic and convincing ways until his wife Elmire discovers the deceptions and tries to get Orgon to open his eyes and come out of the Tartuffe's deception. The lyrics tell Elmire's will to get out of this spiral of deception that will take everything away from Orgon's family. A modern sound with some neoclassical elements in the guitar works.

Back to Italy with Carlo Goldoni's "La Locandiera" (The Innkeeper) from 1753. The story centers on Mirandolina, an attractive and shrewd young woman who owns an inn in Florence inherited from her father and runs it with the help of the waiter Fabrizio. Mirandolina takes advantage of her beauty and attractiveness to play with the feelings of her customers until the final resolution where she realizes she has gone too far.

Fast and tight, influenced by Swedish death metal masters like In Flames and Dark Tranquillity, the song has a very elaborate vocal arrangement in which Eleonora works on several levels.

The sixth song is based on the text of Norwegian author Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" from 1879.

The drama follows the fate of a married woman whose aspirations for life and self-fulfillment are frustrated in a world dominated by men. Eleonora, in the lyrics of the song, sings about Nora, after a life dedicated to her husband, and children denying herself, she decides, therefore, to abandon her husband in search of her true identity, the path through which to finally educate herself.

The song starts as a piano ballad but quickly becomes a heavy slow anthem with a lot of melancholic harmonies.

“The Garden of Despair” is based on Anton Chekhov's last opera, "The Cherry Orchard." The opera tells the story of a Russian aristocrat, Ljuba, and her family's return to their estate and the various possibilities for preserving the estate, where the cherry orchard so dear to Ljuba where her son drowned, has been put up for auction. The family is not committed, and they go bankrupt, and the estate is torn down. The social theme is the decline of the Russian aristocracy after the abolition of serfdom.

The song picks up on some power metal styles with melodic guitar arrangements and a very wide chorus section in the choruses.

The work by the German Bertolt Brecht is called "The Life of Galileo”, dated 1943. The opera focuses on the life of Galileo Galilei, with emphasis on the trial of the Inquisition and the scientist's abjuration and his cohort of students. Eleonora, in the lyrics of this song, represents Virginia, the daughter of Galileo, who sees her father's decline over the years after his abjuration, always controlled by the clergy, and is the only one who cares for him, despite not understanding his motives. The term Helio is played within the title, referring to the sun and Galileo's precisely heliocentric theorist. The clergy has the growling vocals by guest Clode. The alternations between guest Clode's growl vocals and Eleonora's melodic ones stand out against a very compact musical base that has references to both power and gothic metal, leaving the song fast and dominated by Norman's double bass drum.

Happy Days" is a 1961 drama in two acts by American author Samuel Beckett. Winnie, the main character is buried up to her waist in a high mound of sand. The shrill ringing of an isolated, offstage bell punctuates the hours of wakefulness from those of sleep. Winnie is trapped in her own existential condition and tries to live by convincing herself that she is living happy days, looking for her husband (who is nearby) but who does not respond. Suicide would be an admission of an empty, meaningless, vain life and therefore not contemplated. In this song with a more progressive approach, Eleonora alternates with a full fifteen-piece choir.

“Theater Is My Essence”, the song that closes the album, tells the actress' personal point of view. This is what theater represents to her in her life, which is her chance to be herself and be able to live fully. That is why theater is her essence. The first single taken from the album is a heavy song that makes extensive use of seven-string guitars and uses the melodic chorus to break up the general aggressiveness and the pacing between modern metal and gothic. Also here Clode as guest on growl vocals.