Wildfire

Michele

Yellow Plastic

shoobedoobe

Sunflowers

Marygold - September '04

Marygold started in Verona, in the autumn of 1994, on the ashes of Wildfire, a cover band focused on Marillion of the Fish period. The Wildfire survivors, Jack (drums), Stefano (keyboards) and Massimiliano (bass), were joined, in unexpected way, by Michele on voice and Massimo on guitar.

The harmony with the new ones was reached by playing out covers of Marillion and Genesis, but after a small time the embryo of what will became later on the track  The wizard turn out naturally and without any forecast, and the little by little development which nearly by joke was carried on placed the group in the forehead of a crossroad: continue to play cover or trying to create our own collection made of original songs? As we said, the harmony was good, the experience of the cover played in the premises of the city had been already made by all of the members, so ... why not trying to do it?

With this first structure of the group, which in the beginning did not have a true name, were born some of the tracks that will later on took part on the CD (Crows on the tree is one of these), further than lots of rough drafts that are still waiting to be developed. After some time the bass player Massimiliano leaves the group and Marco Adami, previously playing with Yellow Plastic Shoobedoobe (Genesis’ cover band), and then author together with the singer Michele of the lyrics of the songs, took his place.

The arrangement of the songs carries on: in this period Tania stands... and Sunflowers are born, along with an instrumental piece not included in the CD, and the usual multitude of ideas. One of these, product of Michele’s explosive genius, was almost fulfilled, but in its original garment it turns out in something really difficult to arrange. The work was complex, the piece was changed only maintaining its central nucleus, and the group enters in a critical period that lead to the break with the singer Michele who run off the band.

Guido, he also former Yellow Plastic Shoobedoobe, came into as singer and with him we finally took control over that piece left in inheritance from Michele: the final edition satisfies all, and its title Marygold will give, only later on, the name to the group. The group with this configuration, and with the name Sunflowers, was then ready for live activity, but with great trouble it only succeeded two times to make live shows: the first one in a premises of the city, the second one featuring in a growing groups’ competition in province territory. In this period Hara-kiri show was born, a track that marks out a turning point in the arranging way of the group, who tried to take off from its arranging outlines in the searching of a more essential, direct and less intellectual sound.

The last change in configuration is with the leaving of the bass player Marco. The group, that then positively chooses to name itself Marygold, decides, while waiting to find a new bass player, to make a recording, with the resources in its own disposition, of all the tracks already completed and more characteristic. And so, after three years of hard work, the first CD, completely self produced, is ready. In the meantime, Alberto, in art Card-sharper, bass player and composer, has joined the group to be part of the plan. Marygold, with him, are being setting up live show for the promotion of the CD, in the meanwhile giving a gaze at all the tracks and ideas that from long time are lying asleep in the deep and wonderful world of Marygold!