My review: Brigitte Handley - Cyber Nation

 

Brigitte Handley - Cyber ​​Nation

There comes a time when, through a precise rationality, a series of ailments are contextualized and alarm bells are rung, one's conscience is thrown into the streets of the world, an awakening is stimulated that can free people from the modernity that makes us obedient soldiers, but unaware of the dramas that power imposes.

Brigitte Handley, the poet of thrills and sweetness, shows off her claws and, together with three faithful travelling companions, writes a song that tries to break away from theory to be a reality that changes existence. It starts from one's own self to transform itself into a voice of the world community, between zombies and chronic dependence on technology, understanding how work limits influence the way time is lived and the impossibility of realizing it.

To do so, musically, she keeps the precious pills of her melodies as a solo singer, reconfirming however the turning point created with Köln, in which a vibrant dark electro allows a different power from that experienced in the days of the band The Dark Shadows, of which she was the voice, the guitar and the keyboard. Her velvety voice, the sweetness, her peculiar propensity to respect the listeners with her grace and the flowers in the uvula are not missing.  But Brigitte is a woman who continues to mature, in all aspects, she questions herself, she does it also by sowing chaos in every aspect of the world and inhabiting it with the sense of responsibility that also becomes ours.

We dance thinking, with our current rites that she observes and invites us to change, through the moog, the theremin, the vocoder, keyboards and synths and a colored beam that inspires the desire for a rainbow in the brain and a rejection of collective imbecility. The Australian fairy hits hard and does it perfectly, as an adult woman in a world made stupid by the modality that Power has created to make us obedient.

She doesn't, she contests and takes control of her objectivity, writing a song that should be our grateful pagan altar, for the quality and depth of the message transmitted.

Her music lives in a current, comprehensible, graspable way, aimed at the involvement given by the splendid production that enhances the perfect dynamics, using speed to avoid wasting time, in a vortex of transistors and well-combed muscles in order not to hurt the sight of these movements, textual and sensorial, in which she experiments with modern sound only to be more comprehensible. The song, however, has something ancient, it comes from distant realities that do not want to die and that, in their long list, do not want to lose the desire to be able to live again.

A jewel that must reach everyone and give birth to minds capable of evolving with respect for time (our only vital station), to be able to truly spend life in a sensible way.

Brigitte has struck again: it is up to us now, through listening to this jewel, to do the same…

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

13th April 2025

https://brigittehandley.bandcamp.com/track/cyber-nation