THREE SECOND KISS – To Release ‘From Fire I Save The Flame’ via Overdrive Records

This is not a self-celebratory message. This is not a reunion. This is not even a proper press kit. These lines are just to communicate details related to the production of a record. Because Three Second Kiss is back after 12 years with a new work. An infinite amount of time when compared to the times of the contemporary music market. A chasm. But what was up to Three Second Kiss ?

“In fact, we never stopped.” – comment the band, talking about what is about to become the new chapter in their career. Twelve-years between their previous: “Nine tracks that do not pick up the band’s musical discourse where it was left off. At least to our ears it doesn’t sound the way we were.” – stress the members of Three Second Kiss.

As active as the trio was initially, in 1993, Three Second Kiss is happy to share the details on their signing announcement: “We are happy that this album is coming out on Overdrive Records. We believe that the people who work there are driven by a sincere passion for the most direct and incisive music. We got to know some members of this family and we think we share the same musical history; we grew up with the same sounds and a sincere and unmediated attitude towards the musical world.”

From Bologna, Three Second Kiss’ historical home, over the years the band’s operational base moved to Catania, Italy (in fact, today two-thirds of the group live there). No doubt something of the chaos and rhythm associated with this city, something of the constant nomadism on the BOCT axis have influenced the new compositional path.

Thus, 12 years after our last work (Tastyville, Africantape Rec. 2012), comes FROM FIRE I SAVE THE FLAME, 9 tracks that do not pick up the band’s musical discourse where it was left off. At least to our ears it doesn’t sound the way we were. Nine tracks conceived between composition and instinct, heart and brain, light and darkness, influenced by endless displacements, logistical and existential difficulties, breakups and reconciliations, new loves and rediscovered friendships. We do not review ourselves, as almost everyone does in their press kits. We do not quote individual songs praising their hidden virtues. Aren’t they ridiculous those bands who are self-congratulatory by putting themselves on the side of music writers? We will try not to do that. We are “inside” our sound and simply cannot define it from the outside. We just say that never like today, when life has become so complicated, dry, senseless, divisive, falsely social, never like today playing, composing, sharing music, and recording this record made sense to us.

However, we would like to report that to best capture this new state of mind, we called Don Zientara directly from Arlington/Washington DC to catch the sounds and reproduce the band’s amalgam. Don Zientara has been the perfect sound engineer to return the electricity and empathy of these 9 tracks of visionary and hard-hitting punk rock. Those sonic jams and freedom, free from a codified musical genre, which we believe have always been TSK’s trademark from the mid-1990s to the present, in that Italian post-punk scene able to cross national borders and get noticed abroad as well.

Summing up the story-line of their newest release, the members of Three Second Kiss state: “FROM FIRE I SAVE THE FLAME is the record of a whole band, where there are no leads or leaders, but something that goes beyond the sum of its parts.”

‘From Fire I Save The Flame’ is coming out May 24 via the Milan-based Overdrive Records worldwide. Pre-order the LP here.

Lineup:
Sergio Carlini: Guitar
Massimo Mosca: Bass & Vocal
Sacha Tilotta: Drums

TSK Discography
For Pain Relief (cd Lollypop rec – 1996)
Everyday Everyman (cd Wide rec – 1998 – Southern distr.)
Focal Point (12” Slowdime rec – 1999 – Dischord distr.)
Music out of Music (Cd Slowdime rec – 2003 – Dischord distr )
Long Distance (cd/vinyl AfricanTape – 2008)
Tastyville (cd/vinyl Africantape – 2012)
From Fire I Save the Flame (cd/vinyl Overdrive Rec. – 2024)

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