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APART

by HVSBAND

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1.
Ain’t it all you want my friend Ain’t it all the loss you gained Ain’t it another thing you missed Ain’t it all the waste we made All this writing is all
2.
The Mission 02:52
Will it be another day? As you don’t get it And it’s time for a mission And it’s not today And I want it straight And I blame if you don’t Cause it’s time for a mission And it’s just today And well well I seems like I’ll forget Instead you do too much Don’t think I don’t know why
3.
Your Guy 02:39
Under the moon And out of the blue I was your guy And you believe it And I’ll never leave again I wanna find again And you believe it And I’ll never leave I was your guy Under the moon And out of the blue Again Again Again
4.
Dream Alone 03:22
I was half of it and I was afraid I was scared of it and I was not safe I was half of it and I wasn’t me And I dream alone I had no faith and they stole my brain I had no dream and that was the whole thing I was half of it and I wasn’t me And I dream alone
5.
Lonely Blood 02:39
And you know there’s a mission A mission I forgot All we had is sufficient to not forget And you know you are not lonely Can you believe in something Something you forgot Can you still make decisions All you know you want And you know there’s a mission A mission I forgot All we had is sufficient to not forget And you know you are not lonely
6.
Can you feel what you see It’s an illusion Will it be gone one day? One day it ‘ll shine One day with you One day it’ll shine Uhhhhhhh
7.
Do you not have time Never feel like Do you not have time Never feel We don’t rest here We can’t make it We don’t have time yeah
8.
I had a vision Was living without all my problem and dreams I was just fine And again And again Half of me And again And again And again

about

“The struggle always wins, that was my motto. What happened is that I put all my artistic dreams in the corner for years and when the struggle to get my mind right back at it was too overwhelming to deal with I eventually found the peace to channel all that hidden energy into the act of composing. It was just a matter of letting things go."

This is how Gianlorenzo De Sanctis, tries to explain the creative process leading to his debut album, APART, in which he has put years of experimenting with analogic instruments and electronic gear played all by himself with a dozen of rejected projects in the middle.

Among bony night sounds and fat unbreathable atmospheres, somewhere between ambient, drone, and pop, there’s a little niche for HVSBAND. While recovering from a bad head injury, Gianlorenzo De Sanctis tried to plug the hole in his head with some serious experimental mess, thus creating APART.

Cutting his teeth in Bologna’s alternative scene, once the thrilling adventure with post-punk trio Buzz Aldrin ended, Gianlorenzo started playing as Hvsband. At the end of 2000, he put his foot into UK’s music scene, releasing a 7’’ with Robot Elephant, earning mentions on TheLineOfBestFit, Clash, and The Quietus, among others, and gaining the title of di New Band of the Day on the national institution The Guardian.

APART, his latest effort, is an intimate, passive-aggressive letter to himself, a personal journey out on limited cassette on More Letters Records.

credits

released May 8, 2020

APART was recorded, produced, and mixed by HVSBAND at Underground Shuttle Studio and mastered at Eleven Mastering Studio.

All songs by HVSBAND.

Photo by Giuseppe De Mattia
Graphic Design by Nicola Lotta

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