Amor Fou
Filemone e Bauci EP

THE REVIEW

"Our great republican tradition has not yet taught me when one can forgive"

The archetype of the marital relationship, in a moment where fidelity seems to be a fixed-term contract, and the "revolutions killed by rose pricks", in a historical moment where the word "revolution" always leads to the word "defeat".

"Filemone e Bauci" is the new EP by Amor Fou. A work full of poetry, hope, and disappointment, like a page from a diary torn out with force by someone who never had the courage to accept reality, by someone who has always given up without fighting and let their feelings die.

The title track has a double personality: on one hand, the best of Italian singer-songwriter music ("our great desire to fight to the end has not stolen the darkness we close behind our shutters"), while on the other, an unexpected cinematic streak due to the instrumental it leads into.

In Il Ticinese, the words, few but essential, quickly give way to the music ("I have a dirty desire to never heal").

The EP closes with a cover, a beautiful song written many years ago by the duo Tony Del Monaco - Jimmy Fontana and made famous by Mina: L'ultima occasione. Alessandro Raina's interpretation is very profound.