The first studio EP was released in 2017: Whispers never stop - Vol. 1. The album is an ode to resilience. Self-produced, it contains four original tracks and two live bonus tracks. The lyrics intersect different feelings and perspectives, for the most linked to life at the Brussels latitude. Songs explore a variety of sounds, swinging from indie and alternative rock, which sometimes fall into sweeter melodies that then go up loud again, ending into a more aggressive beat and fuzz-hinged sound. The songs were written during the crazy days of the Brussels "anti-terrorism lock down" and were recorded right then, in the basement of an old and squeaky maison de maître in downtown Ixelles, while the rest of the city was holding its breathe for the terrorist hunt by police, military and special forces, after the attacks at the Bataclan.
In Bubble Capital Town, truly a hymn to resilience, the band describes the days of the lockdown and the efforts to keep living life as nothing was happening around, with people very slowly getting back to the streets and in their offices, in what had become an all-of-the-sudden militarised city ("We are plastic badges, time regulated, in hiding shelters. It's raining better, on lockdown lives, in Bla-bla center. Beware of Drønes, escape surveillance, and run from senseless").
Certainty describes a very common and recurrent feeling, that comes in cycles at different stages of life. Often, one perceives that everybody else around has all possible answers, while he/she is the only one who did not figure anything out ("Are you sure, that this is place for me, and I won't get to fall?...Are you sure, that doctors have right pills to cure melancholy?"). This feeling was obviously exacerbated in the days of the lockdown.
Tiny Storms is a ballade about insomnia, written in one of the very silent nights of the Brussels lockdown, when the only noises that could break the quite dark were the sounds of police helicopters, kids next door keeping a family awake at late night and, of course, the whispers in one's head ("Silence is a funny story; whispers never stop, so glorious"). This is the sentence that also gives the title to the EP.
Vampires of Vitamin D is a not-so-imaginary conversation with a doctor. An ironic song about intellectual, professional, physical, spiritual and sexual burnout while living in a big city and striving to keep sanity in white collar jobs. ("Doctor, wise man, please help, I feel tired, sort of sick. Since days, been sitting and lying, oh I feel tired, sort of sick. Drank Leffe to forget, still too tired, sort of sick. Doctor, tell me, I’m crazy? Or I'm just tired, sort of sick"). The song also talks about getting exhausted from many flings and flirts, but finding it difficult to change life and get rid of these superfluous but entertaining relations.
Whispers Never Stop, Vol. 2 was release in March 2019, with five new original songs and a live bonus track.
In March 2022, the band released a raw live unplugged, recorded at Radio Panik Brussels (105.4 FM), performed for the Sunday afternoon show Historias Minimas. live performance, no overdubs, sound rigorously captured with ambient microphones. All original songs by DrØnes 72. Studio version of tracks 1, 5, 6 from the album Whispers Never Stop Vol. 1. Studio version of tracks 2, 3, 4, 7 from the album Whispers Never Stop Vol. 2. Track 8, previously unreleased.
In December 2023, the band released again its song Certainty, recorded at the Jet Studio in Brussels. Mixed by Arthur Schools. Mastered by Mauro Andreolli at the das Ende der Dinge studio (dEdD.eu). Co-produced by Davide Buldrini.
The artwork of all the band’s albums until 2023 has been by kind concession of internationally awarded photographer Giulio Zanni. Band logos and merchandise drawings are by the Slovak Chinese-ink artist Slavo Lalik.
In April 2024 the band released their latest EP, Magic Pond. The songs were recorded at the Jet Studio in Brussels. Sound engineering during the recording sessions and the mixing were by Arthur Schools. All songs were mastered by Mauro Andreolli at das Ende der Dinge Mix & Mastering studio, in Trento. The album is coproduced by Davide Buldrini, who was also special guest on the recording with backup vocals (Track 2) and some little pounding notes on the piano (Track 4). All the album artwork marks a new artistic collaboration with the very talented street photographer Serena Clausi (@serena_clausi_photography).
Drønes '72 are: Francesco Morini (bass guitar); Wolfgang Schläger (drums); Francesco Tramontin (voice, rhythm guitar); Giulio Venneri (lead guitar, vocals).
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