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So Common (Single)

by Carlo dell'Aquila

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SO COMMON is the lead single from the forthcoming Carlo dell'Aquila studio album of the same name.

If you would like to reach out to us for any reason at all, we welcome that, and we would love to hear from you. Our primary mode of communication is Instagram. Our handle is carlo_dell_aquila.

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Uncoiling from a palette of lush fingerpicked acoustic guitar and hushed vocals, the harrowing narrative of "So Common" immediately positions itself as one of the most personal offerings from Carlo dell’Aquila thus far. Based on a collection of recurring dreams experienced by Beck over the past seven years, the first part of the track finds the duo at its darkest moment: unable to escape from the throes of a vicious nightmare, Beck is visited by an omnipresent evil that exposes him to such appalling horrors as dismembered corpses and the scorched fingers of ghouls reaching out from the depths of the darkness. But the morning gives rise to a lightness, an awareness of the futility of resistance toward the inevitable, and an ultimate call to arms: "Lean into this, and dissolve in bliss." On the third and final part of the track, Beck offers an optimistic plea for forgiveness as a surge of electric guitars, drums, pianos, and horns overcomes him.

Recorded from December 2021 to July 2022 and April 2023 at West 36th and Le Sous Sol in Kansas City, MO; South Palisades Repository and Day Spa and the Downtown Church in Springfield, MO; and CoMO Country Home in Columbia, MO.

Mixed from January 2022 to April 2023 at West 36th.

We extend our deepest gratitude to all involved in the process of making this record. We are forever indebted to KT, ME, JG, and JN for allowing us into their homes to record. Very many thanks to Brian Mattson and Laurie Lampert at the Downtown Church for affording us the space and resources for additional piano recording.

lyrics

I woke up from a dream so common.
I had locked myself inside
my parents’ bedroom in
my childhood home.

I turned out all the lights,
and I hid in the darkness,
praying not to be seen by
strangers prying at the door.

I could not escape their evil;
it was all around me.
I could see their blackened fingers
reaching from underneath the bed.

I lie frozen, paralyzed by
the visions of dead bodies
with mangled limbs detached
and torsos severed from their legs.

Everything was still and quiet
except the screeching of
the frigid metal gears
within my mind.

I held my breath and checked the apartment,
expecting to find a stranger
in my closet, waiting to put
his hands around my neck.

But all I saw was my own reflection:
in the darkened mirror, I stared
deep into the formless blackness,
and terror took its shape.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

But don’t you know
that we can’t change the past?
And all of these ghosts
will follow us into our graves.
But what’s the use of trying
to pretend we’re someone else?

Lean into this,
and dissolve in bliss.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

I would give you all of my life
just to be forgiven.

(ad infinitum)

credits

released April 29, 2023
Dylan Beck: vocals, Indiana Scout, Epiphone Les Paul Standard, Squier Mustang Vibe, Fender Mustang PJ, drums, Behning & Sons Baby Grand (ca. 1930), lyrics, synth programming, recording engineering, production, mixing, mastering, photography, cover artwork, website design

Danilo Uomo: horns, violins, Casio LK-55, Casio SA-75, recording engineering, perpetuity

Justin Kingery: band photography

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Uniting once again, Dylan C. Beck and Danilo Uomo are Carlo dell'Aquila.

Conceived originally as a spiritual successor to late-era Talk Talk, Carlo dell'Aquila combines the haunting lyricism of Sufjan Stevens with the swirling dream pop of the Antlers and cosmic mysticism of the Microphones; the result is a sound that demands to be heard. ... more

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