Armando Corsi
Buena Suerte

You are a bunch of Pans!!! Damn me that, like a Saddle King - you don't give me any satisfaction! -, I keep offering you precious gifts.... It was hard, this time, to find it. What's what?? The album to review for you: faithful followers and affectionate detractors...

The music market often sells you trinkets pretending they are gold... and you fall for it!!! How many B.R.A. (Arms Stolen from Agriculture) saturate this world!! Maybe they have a nice appearance and "physique du role" good for TV appearances and that sell well... but with MUSIC they have nothing to do!!!! I MIKA - if you think it's a coincidence, you're out of your mind - I'm stupid!!! "I cannot make distinction between music and tears" (says Nietzsche)... "Every real music has poured from tears, born as it is from the regret of paradise" adds Cioran, my dear Franco-Romanian friend.... Music, for Schonberg: "Must not adorn, MUST BE TRUE!!!" I see aggressive curves, on this site, thirsty for blood.... fighting over nothing.... sterile and noisy.. Poor us!!! So guys? Shall we return to Aesthetics and true Music? And the emotions it can offer us? It's good. But really good! Enough with the standardization and consumer fever... of what then? Of trinkets in continuous distortion... and extended decibels... It's well known: the dog that barks doesn't bite!!! Confess; has your brain system become accustomed? Have your musical neurons fused??? Do you have issues with the pentagrammatic synapse valve preamplifiers??? I provoke you with a test, a challenge.. hand an acoustic guitar to these over-effected fools of yours.... Want to bet they can do little or nothing??? Playing, friends, is not a marketing activity... Excuse the outburst!! But when it's needed, it's needed!!! Oh!!! And you have bored me with this metal and these deadly BRA!!! Repetita in this case est superfla!

Tonight I present to you a Ligurian musician... a guitarist of sixty years old... who has made music a life choice and who has been called by Euterpe, not the head of a major. Have you ever heard of a Vocation??? From Latin "VOCATIO": a call.... that is, talent.... and that's it!!! Don't associate this story only with Seminaries to become priests.... For God's sake!!!! The concept of "Vocatio" is broader!!!! Armando Corsi was born in Genoa in '47..... He starts developing calluses in taverns in the harbor alleyways..... via del campo, does that tell you something?... among sailors and prostitutes. And what could result from this, according to you???? Have you already forgotten Faber's warning??? From manure.. Well..... from smoky taverns and "salvamùlmenùbelìn" as I was saying... to cruise ships - another training ground for a musician... remember "The Legend of the Pianist on the Ocean" taken from a monologue by BaRicco I liked more when he was struggling for a living.. there was Bah! Rich only in talent- ...but let's not digress and return to Armando, who silently, from ships lands collaborations with Paco de Lucia, Fossati... Vanoni... with Antonello Salis and Mario Arcari.... as a guest at Umbria jazz.. and collects theater appearances, open your ears, alongside Giorgio Albertazzi!!! Well, yes....ladies and gentlemen: here is to you:"ARMANDO CORSI" and his album "BUENA SUERTE" just released by Nicolosiproductions... (Made in Italy ....of course! S.Giuliano Milanese).

What a sailor face Armando has.... One who on his forehead doesn't have wrinkles.... but has a musical line!!!! When they say it's written on your face.... Like what??? Oh! Fools!!! I was talking about destiny, right? Sometimes it leaves marks on you. Have you ever heard of Physiognomy.... Noooo? Ignorants!!! For punishment read Lombroso.... there you go!!! This work was recorded in Lavagna.... LA-VA-GNA.... and with Armando’s own timing, his own time!!! Not those of neurotic sector managers.... So have you understood whom you're dealing with? With a Pure one!! One who plays out of love and because he can....and anarchistically, gives two hoots about the laws of this crappy market.... Sometimes I hear talk of "WORLD".. as a "Species" of a broader "Genus".... Our guitarist has been playing in this field for a lifetime.... Does that sound right to you???? And do you think Corsi goes around bragging about this??? In Tuscany, they say "Who praises himself, sullies himself!!!" ...And indeed the Ligurians are devoid of this morbid practice!!!! What I present to you here isn’t a record..... it’s a trip to the 5 lands... it’s a carousel of those natural ones.. with horses of pine and fir scented with resin..... These aren’t just tracks, but aromatic musical meanders....

The first track smells of the fragrances of Via dell’Amore.... of schiaccherà with degrees unsustainable to most.... and of bends between hills foreboding the blue and imminent sea..."Enrica" (track 1) offers you an extraordinary arpeggio from our man who, with nonchalance, performs virtuosistic slides on the fretboard of his nylon-string guitar.... it’s no longer clear if it’s from Genoa or related to the Saudade Portuguese Pessoa... and the cello by Luciano Girardengo interleaves elegantly and delicately. Just so as not to leave us alone with this heartbreaking guitar litany of sun and salty, cracked lips... with expertly familiar strings... Track two starts: "Blessed be the samba". After the tambourine guess who sings supported by the guitar reinforcement of Lauro Ferrarini: BRUNO LAUZI!!!! Despite Parkinson’s and with death now imminent, Bruno offers us this swan song... BEAUTIFUL and UNMISSABLE!!!! It is his last vocalization on this earthly hell..... And in his moderate calm... Armando Corsi works on chromatic scales and fills his palette with colors.... effortlessly... and without drops of sweat. Naturally, leaving clear signs of musical intelligibility, frolicking with frenzied fingers on acoustic guts. And gently caressed, transliterated with elegance and supreme technique... full of sunny South Americas and chaotic viaPrè, accompanied by the oboe of Mario Arcari (Flores 4) and the piano of Mario Vernizzi (Encantado 5)...

And after his compositions, mirages of creuzàdemà and Andalusian flavors, he revisits a classic: "CANCION" by P.Milanes... And then emerges out a voice "Onusta de calor". One thinks of a guest from other lands... Instead, she's an Italian masquerading as Spanish: Daniela Garbarino. How much I like her singing.. and the counter-voice of Marica Pellegrini. The subsequent "Sonatina" is by I.Fossati.... What a show!!!! Here Armando Corsi demonstrates all his monstrosity as a guitarist who is stably and residing, without paying taxes, in the Empyrean of six strings..... Guys!!! Once he starts, this virtuoso, he proves to be unstoppable.... Here he is grappling with the overplayed "BOURRÈ" by Bach... Well, a version so syncopated, faint-hearted and innervated "with new sap", without losing anything of the original, I had never heard before!!!! "IN US WE CARRY ALL THE MUSIC: IT LIES IN THE DEEPEST LAYERS OF MEMORY. ALL THAT IS MUSICAL IS REMINISCENCE, AT THE TIME WHEN WE HAD NO NAME, WE PROBABLY HEARD EVERYTHING" E.CIORAN.... Emile, forgive me!!!... but this version of Bach would have surprised even you.... Trust your adept Rainer.... In track 10 "The Sherpa's path.... Marco Fadda colors, with his percussions, a piece born in Lavagna, but smelling of the east.... Oh the Levant!!!.... it’s the same in every latitude!!! The mystical tablas of Fadda inevitably bring me back to memories of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.... Evident....drumhead Sufi scents and Gurdjieffian philosophy.. And after the "Live" CAYMAN track 11... Marco Fadda and Armando offer us "BUENA SUERTE" with notes so full of spleen and poetry that you are left suspended on a nothing... on a musical peak from where mirabilia and doodles full of mi cantini al pesto have been heard and admired!!!

"ONLY SONOROUS EXSTASIES GIVE ME A SENSE OF IMMORTALITY" E.Cioran... I felt it.... What do you want to do??? Don’t you feel like emulating?? If you don’t find the CD go to: www.lemusenovae.it or silvana@nicolosiproductions.com.... A heartfelt thanks, in the end, goes to Silvana who allowed me, with her tips, to get hold of this which, for me, is an invaluable jewel!!!!

If you don’t buy this CD.. I won’t speak to you anymore.. Word of Rainer.. Bye! smiles of unfamiliar distances!!!