Smoke the Bees is an alternative rock music project launched in Turin, Italy in 2011 by Lorenzo Rando.
Current line-up
• Lorenzo Rando (guitar, vocals)
• Maze (bass guitar)
• Samir Hadade (drums)
The music
Smoke the Bees’ music combines diverse genres and influences creating an alternative sound with a leading thread. Source of inspiration are stand-out individuals like Thom Yorke and Johnny Flynn in the UK, Tom Waits, Sparklehorse and Conor Oberst and in the US, Mugison and Pétur Ben in the Icelandic music scene. Music is sometimes intense, atmospheric and reflective. It is also tuneful, irreverent and catchy. This generates a natural empathy from the first listening, dramatically diverging from the local music scene and the Italian music scene in general.
The meaning
Smoking the bees is the bee-keeping stage where the bee-keeper injects smoke into the hive. Bees get confused because the smoke mixes up the smells preventing the production of the pheromone that informs the bees of the danger caused by someone breaching their hive. This is a modernist metaphor about society’s homogenisation and individual alienation. Bees in fact get lost and let life cheat them, just like us.
TOP TAGS alternative, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, indie, dark, Ugly Casanova
Member since Dec 2014
