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Mumarcord

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:19:00 +0000

Tonight I've been buisy writing a song. This time for another band, called "Le Mulin Blanc". They're into a project called Neo Italo Movement, basically a revival of new songs in an old Italo Disco Style. Guess what? They've been so quick that a first demo is already aviable... here! Here's the lyrics...

"There's no poin denying it

It won't go away

just unfreeze reality

and prepare yourself

keeps coming back

face to face

that dope dudette

in hellish awesome shirt

was she so bad

batcaver out of deck

My My Mumarcord

She's stepping out tonight

to my Mumarcord

No better place to run

dance and remember

never surrender

to failures and romance

at my mumarcords

Fighting crime on nightlife

Was never in my plane

But Hanna is a character

a Secret Squirrel fan

We had a laugh

on flash and lights

those blurry days of freedom

let's celebrate our youth right there

Barbera pours on my

My My Mumarcord

Gather all your friends

to my Mumarcord

Private room access

Drink and remember

Old' time romancer

Excess and brunettes

My My Mumarcord

Slow down broadies over there

Put your corny jokes away

Devilishly clever villains

deserve to escape

it's not too late"

One of the rules of this movement was dealing with the possibility of writing a love song about nightlife. One of my favourite places in Cesena was called Amarcord (it was a pizza house), and I was thinking that the Fellini reference would have been... exquisite! Starting singing the choir on my (my) mind, I began to look for some kind of double maning such as "Mama Hardcore", still I wasn't able to fit it in the metric of the song. So I cheated and I went for an even more incomprehensible "Mumarcord". The Secret Squirrel references were all put in the song to please a DJ friend of mine :)

Complimentary Us

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:16:00 +0000

It was nice playing on Giodì. Why? The place was reeeeeally nice, and all our best and supportive friends where there too! :)

"Needful Things" never went so good, and our first live execution of "Valentine Disco Night" was a blast! I was not too sure 'bout my rushed first presentation for "TOP", but Porlock (he was in the audience with our first drummer Joe Pistocchi) seems to have liked it a lot, along with "Silver Star", another track that is getting better all the time! (Just quoting Beeedols!)

We began a little bit late, so the landlord asked us to rush our way to the finale. I asked to the audience if they prefered "February" or "Mask Me Mask Me Mask Me". Guess what? They went for the latter! "February" is possibly our second most popular track, and I was really proud seing this new song getting more and more popular each time we play it. Good! :)

> Here's some pictures of the show
> Needful Things (video)
> Go Ego Go (Lacrosse) (video)
> Valentine Disco Night (vide)

XMARS Time!

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:11:00 +0000

Once upon not so a long ago, I was guested by Alessandro and Paolo from the Italian radio show Geek Radio for a Christmas special edition 'bout Sweden and Japan celebrating winter holidays.

Alessandro (he still sings in "Le Man Avec Les Lunettes") asked me to collect some artists for a Japanese Christmas pop for the next year. A further edition of Geek Radio wasn't meant to be, still my friends from the band HajimePop was still willing to contribute with a festive song.

So here we are, with this virtual split, our Christmas Gift to you all!

Tiny Tide + HajmePop XMas Split

Here's bands' spaces

http://myspace.com/tinytide

http://www.myspace.com/hajimepop

Enchantment Under The Cesuola

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:55:00 +0000

Possibly best performance ever, just me and Mic Leffe Tiny Tide was sliced in a garage duo, just for one night, and since far to obvious comparsions with other bands started to pop up few days from the concert we decided to mock our own name on "The White Tides". I was so electrified by that idea that I decided to start the show with Chuck, my dark 80's Gretsch. It was a good show indeed, with a lot of covers and friends crowding possibly the most dangerous bar in Cesena, starting to play at 00.00 a.m. Being only a a drum and a guitar gave us space to a lot of ideas and solo moments, starting from the blues intro with harmonica and a psychedelic post-rock aftershow with double drummers and a shoegazian Zonda being pointed as a Michale J Fox on acid at the end of his rock performance on Back To The Future's Enchantment Under The Sea.

Well. Beside that last moment of the show (that lasted quite 20 minutes so far) (there's a bit took from Matt Share) the whole show was filmed by Luca. Thank you Luca!

Tiny Tide - Blues Jam

Tiny Tide - Intro - Kitty Jesus - Yoshimi Battles Against The Pink Robot Pt.1 (Flaming Lips Cover)

Tiny Tide - The Smiths & The Cure

Tiny Tide - S♥L

Tiny Tide - AAA

Tiny Tide - Song 2 (Blur Cover)

Tiny Tide - Beachvolley Fields Forever

Tiny Tide - Do Mean It's A Mess (+Mic Leffe Solo)

Tiny Tide - Girls from Ronta
Tiny Tide - Road to Fairies

Tiny Tide - Yuriko Has Come To Town

Tiny Tide - Tiny Trains

Tiny Tide - February - The Killing Moon (Echo & The Bunnymen cover)

Tiny Tide - Bye Bye Love (Everly Bros Cover) - Sleeping in your hands (Elisa cover)

Tiny Tide -Encore#1: Mask Me Mask Me Mask Me

Tiny Tide - Encore#2: A Song for EMI

Tiny Tide - Prog Jam

Here's some pics :L

(VULP-0002)

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:27:00 +0000

Oi there! Watch us as we're promoted as the second band appearing on the american label Vulpiano Records with the maxi single "The Smiths & The Cure". Cheers up for the American Fox!

Here's the news.

The White Tides

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:43:00 +0000

"They say there’s a certain kind of rum that you’ll have the chance to taste only in the worst bars in Caracas. Still Caracas is the Latin America’s most expensive City. Strange, isn, it? As strange as Mark Zonda and Mic Leffe playing in a small Italian town after midnight in a small place nearby a river..."

The review follows here on SleepWalKing Magazine...

Let's rock the Cesuola

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:18:00 +0000

Il prossimo appuntamento dal vivo saraà... sarà... domenica prossima!
Domenica 6 Dicembre al Giodì di Cesena (sembra verso le 20.00)
See ya there!

http://www.lastfm.it/event/1317030+Tiny+Tide+at+Giodì+on+6+December+2009

News From the Heavenly Loom

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:04:00 +0000

Tiny Tide, dal vivo
Sabato 28 Novembre
A MEZZANOTTE
Bar Notturno (Ponte Nuovo Cesena)

"Una volta convintosi che non c'era alcun elemento dannoso palese, cominciava a elargire consigli e a correggere il feuilleton"

A New Tiny Round

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:04:00 +0000

LaVigna it’s not a big venue for sure, but what’s fun in playing there it’s its great acoustic, due to the fact that everything in there is surrounded by… wood! I really enjoyed playing with Tiny Tide in there, especially because sounds were great indeed and suitable for an acoustic punk act and me and the mates played at our best, with the exception of my voice, that was quite completely gone.

After a former member who lasted one month and a half in the band crawled over Cling (my acoustic guitar) after 4 rounds of sake, we were thrilled and ready to begin. The “Intro - Kitty Jesus - The Psychopath At The Club - Ginger Genie” sequence is becoming my favourite part of the show! I was really glade to show our fan the live version of “AAA”, that’s actually my favourite song to play so far. I think the best part of the show was when Manuel started to take a seat in the audience playing from their perspective and we started to imitate him, with me jumping over the chair to end the song. After we were unexpectedly called to an encore (the show was quite long) there was even an “aftershow” with the formed sake member at the drums and Dendrix going heavymetal. A sweet night to remember.

CLIPS:
Tiny Tide @ LaVigna 2009 - “Intro - Kitty Jesus - The Psychopath At The Club”
Tiny Tide @ LaVigna 2009 - “The Smiths & The Cure”
Tiny Tide @ LaVigna 2009 - “Mask Me Mask Me Mask Me”
Tiny Tide @ LaVigna 2009 - “A Song for EMI”

Tiny Tide @ LaVigna 2009 - “AAA”
Tiny Tide @ LaVigna 2009 - “Go Ego Go (Lacrosse Cover)”
Tiny Tide @ LaVigna 2009 - “February”

Tiny Tide @ LaVigna 2009 - “Girls From Ronta”

We Are Pressed

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:38:00 +0000

Da non so quale quotidiano locale.

"Cesena. Al Circolo La Vigna di Porta Santi di Cesena va in scena questa sera alle 21 la band dei Tiny Tide, gruppo dedito a un indie pop vissuto spensieratamente. Presentano i più recenti lavori "The Ronta EP" del 2008 e "The Wildheart" del 2009. Una formazione che si è fatta le ossa affiancando dal vivo vari gruppi internazionali e italiani. La loro "Girl from Ronta" è coraggiosa e invoglia al buon umore; un pop trascinante e coinvolgente che dà energia. Il pezzo nel 2008 è entrato in una compilation internazionale edita dalla spagnola Bon Vivants Records. Nel 2009 i Tiny Tide hanno collaborato con Fabio Benni dei Le Man Avec Les Lunettes a una cover, mentre Mark Zonda ha collaborato con l'americana Marilyn Roxie al suo primo ep "Earth".

Labelling

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Tiny Tide backcatalogue (and hopefully forthcoming one) goes to * drrrrumrrroll * Vulpine Records, USA. More details soon...

TS+TC

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:58:00 +0000

Facebook is the drug.

Yesterday I was so surprised when a bloke replied to a thread right with "it recalls semantica". It was clearly a chinise whisper for our track The Smiths & The Cure "rings bells on semantic calls". After I pointed out that the early version of that part was "not Belle & Sebastian", I was asked why I haven't left everything to make of pop music my only occupation.

Made me glad! That's why I packed a "TS+TC anthology" just for you!

You can download it... here!

Tiny Tide - TC+TC

Here's the tracklist:

1. The Smiths & the cure (EP Version)

2. The Smiths & the cure (Stars in Coma Edit)

3. The Smiths & the cure (Acoustic 1st demo)

4. The Smiths & the cure (#9 Version)

5. Rain Rain Rain (Roxie Music Cover)

Enjoy and give us feedback!

Tidin'Up Il Bar Notturno

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:28:00 +0000

Next Live:

13 nov 2009	La Vigna (Cesena)
28 nov 2009	Bar Notturno (Cesena)

Sometimes Always

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:42:00 +0000

Mattatoio's gig with Santa Dog was for sure the main turning point of our band. Looking back to these videos it's impressive how far we're improved, still that night we became aware of our potential after a couple of very bad gigs of how good we could have been in time, and it was totally unexpected!

Mic Leffe taped some of those unforgettable moments. About two years later, deep in fever, I found the time to edit some of those recordings and tube'em. Here you go

1) February (soundcheck)

2) Chatting with the Dowges Pt.1

3) A Song for EMI - February

4) Girls From Ronta
5) Chatting with the Dowges Pt.2

Rock in The Video

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:54:00 +0000

Some time ago I collaborated with a UKian artist calle Phillip Lockwood, aka LeBleu. I made vocals, melody and lyrics for a song called "Rocking The Empire", for the project "The Rise and Fall of... LeBleu!", a concept album on the decadence of civilizations.

Maybe it's because I'm deep in fever today, but since I was partially inspired by "Roma" by Federico Fellini I decided to make a little video about it. Check it out!

Tiny, Band in the Vigna

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:21:00 +0000

"Stavolta però la faccenda va diversamente. E proprio a causa dei sogni ad occhi aperti"

Prossimo live... 13 Novembre @ Vigna (Porta Santi, Cesena)

Be there!

Intifada nights

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:16:00 +0000

"It was promoted as a secret gig, still eventually many people were able to find the place despite all the enigmas. Halfway between Aladdin Sane, Elvis Costello and MGMT, Mark Zonda and Tiny Tide came back with a tight and not so horror rocky show on the stage of Intifada, sharing with the audience the old classics from a debut album that keeps its distances from seeing the light of its debut and the tracks of Tiny Tide last EP: “The Wildheart EP”.

The band kept spending the last month on practicing the new opening part of the show, with a brilliant instrumental introduction in a bright “Credence Clearwater Revival” style, changing in “Kitty Jesus” and “The Psychopath At The Club” with no pauses at all." ...

Last night we played @ Intifada.

Here's a report from SleepWalKing Magazine. Check it out :)

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noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:32:00 +0000

Wildy Tiny

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:29:00 +0000

Here's Wildheart in his own words on Tiny Tide "The WildHeart EP" last review. You can found it here.

"The "WildHeart" on this review happens to be me: Tiny Tide. The one fact that needs a fix is the fact that on “Do Mean It’s A Mess”, Simona Rovida didn’t record any part, but all the background vocals are Marco’s (and it’s an amazing job!). What can I say? I am flattered by such an amazing review! Apart from "The Smiths And The Cure” that was actually played by humans, all the other songs (all the instruments, including the finger-picked guitars) were played by me on samplers and synthesizers. If they fooled somebody into believing that it was the real thing then… well… I’m happy. Marco wrote some really amazing songs. I am glad if I could help him make them shine.

My favourite? Hard to choose. “Road to Fairies” for the arrangement (modestly speaking) and “Needful Things” because it’s a superb song, one of those songs that make your jaw drop after the first two bars. The arrangement could use a bit more energy but the song is so good that it remains memorable all the same."

Tiny Tiny

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:43:00 +0000

"Helmed by one Mark Zonda, Tiny Tide is a pop band from the beautiful Italian city of Cesena. Their illustrious beats flow through the orchestral strings like rivers running through towns. Under their belt, Tiny Tide have released two EPs, The Ronta EP (2008) and the recently released The Wildheart EP. This EP is an electronic experience through the eyes of Wildheart, their arranger. " ...

Hi there everyone! Here's an interesting review of the "WildHeart EP" from "Stop Sleeping, yo!". Check it out :)

Dall'Ambasciata

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:55:00 +0000

Enrico Veronese di Italian Embassy (semplicemente il blog più aggiornato e completo sulla musica indipendente Made in Italy) è stato così carino da segnalare la nostra scanzonata parentesi coveristica estiva.

Potete leggere l'articolo qui.

Grazie Enrico.

Walk Away Renee

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:48:00 +0000

I felt in love with "The Left Banke" the very first time I had the chance to take part at a "How Does It Feels To Be Loved" night, by one of the coolest indie clubs in London.

Randomly suggesting songs via Facebook, Fabio Benni from Le Man Avec Les Lunettes felt in love with one of their most popular hits: "Walk Away Renee".

The author of the song wrote it when it was only 16 years old, being inspired by the cute girlfriend of their bass guitar player. The song is dealing with us finding the force of saying goodbye to a happy period of our life. Which could represent the most our feeling of being sad leaving a summer of freedom, sun and fun?

"Walk Away Renee" featured a young still unknown Steven Tyler on choirs. After Macca & Costello, Bowie & Mick Jagger, Dalla & Morandi... here it is Mark and Fabio sharing with you this everlasting classic.

Tiny Tide w/ Fabio Benni - "Walk Away Renee" Virtual 7"

FIX

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:12:00 +0000

Here's a new one for "TenneT". It's called "FIX". It's supposed to be the album opening.
This song started with the melody. The melody started on 1993. I was involved in a sort of role game based on the Star Trek universe, some kind of "real" fictionary Star Fleet Academy. In order to conquer a fictional character I wrote this song, which original Italian lyrics were about tractor beams, distant stars and Romulan weapons.

Year passed (more than 15.... SCARY!) and I tried to blend that melody with an even previous one that I had in mind since... 1988-89 I suppose (the part in which I sing about "Avalon").

The intro was taken from one of the first demo I ever recorded once I had my first polyphonic keyboard, by an Italian brand called "Viscount" (I just 'bought a mixer from them, discovering that they're actually Italians). It was recorded over a tape a friend of mine lent me with their family secretly caught fighting over a very expensive telephone bill. The instrumental track was called "Blacksabbadesse", and was sent right back on the mutual mixtape I gave back to my friend with their family going insane voices on it. Now it has astronauts :)

So "FIX", what it's alla about?

Maybe my friend Dan is right after all. It might be as well my "Pinball Wizard", since "FIX" was the sign a friend of mine had when he played on old penny arcades. He was simply the coolest kid in the block. He knew every single game's trick as a Bible, leading him to play blind any arcade till its final stage living his notorious mysterious sign, "FIX", since nobody was albe to beat his name in the hall of winners, even the ambitious "TOP" (hey! Someone made a song about it!), "WIN" and so on...

This was in the glorious past. The "Parker Lewis" syndrome. What in present days? Life is little bit harsh than a video game, and it kicks. What's up to us? Choose between acceptance and integration or live like some kind of strange lunatic on our imaginary world.

"What you're gonna do in Avalon?"

It's up to you.

Tiny Ride - "FIX" (Demo)

Here's the lyrics

"Fix is
just a name in a machine screen
and circuits
running high scores on a dark board
any single cabinet
hold three letters hard to get
Wonder
who will ever top that perfect best now

Fix will
come again another summer
picking
brand new ace songs from the dance box
Any single that we play
is a a moment meant to stay
listen
it's the sound of our perfect best so

What you're gonna do in Avalon?
Are you gonna play and sing alone?
What you're gonna do ina Avalon?
Are you gonna stay and get along?

Face it
You felt better with your cheat codes to
break it
saving time for second chances
while now moving with no clues
it's the hardest thing to do
Nothing
Looks like how we always thought it should now

Feels like we're trapped in the wrong box
With no supplies at all, but tools
Nobody holds the instructions
to get rid of all the troubles of this clock-work hard to handle, so now..."

Night Fever?

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:24:00 +0000

Not so long time ago a friend of mine asked me to cover a Bee Gees song. I picked "Night Fever", with the intention to bring out a completely new and different song, wondering what it would have been like if Pipettes would have spotted Beck through the crowd deciding to invite him on the stage to do a song. So here it is. I'm not too happy with the result, still the person who asked for the cover is satisfied, and my Indonesian Fandom raised theit thumbs with enthusiasm, so I thought it worth a share. Porlock gave an hand on the keboards. Enough for the chatties. Here's the song:

Tiny Tide - Night Fever (Bee Gees Cover)

Plain Little Game

noreply@blogger.com (Zonda) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:04:00 +0000

Recently I startet to collaborate with an American artist called Marilyn Roxie. She's gotta a tooth for vintage keyboards and electronic sounds and experimentations, but - above all - her tracks (mostly instrumental) inspired me working on some musical directions that I really own and I never have the chance to explore (it's not a plain little game trying to beat Brian Eno in its own ground). So a "Plain Little Game" was done! That's the title of the song you'll find on first Marilyn Roxie collaborative EP called "Earth" (a second one called "Water" will be out soon).

You can download EP and song by clicking here.

Hope it's only the first move.