Brigantony
Co' Filter

LA RECENSIONE

Already from the enticing cover, you want to listen to it: a Brigantony stamped on a cigarette pack warning the user of the "high spicy nicotine content" of "Co'Filter."

Indeed, Caponnetto has never been an artist "refined" in both lexicon and musical choices; his is joke-music, folk song, vulgar ditty but almost never without meaning. But the Catanese singer does not forget that the song that made him famous worldwide ("Bedda") has nothing to share with his classic way of interpreting music. So in 1990 (year of this album's release), our Tony recalls the Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano in "Ricordo di Giuliano", a poignant, touching, and emotional piece, perhaps a bit too set aside with his comedic genre. It continues with another love song ("Bedda Tu"), called to close the work. The rest is Brigantony in pure form. How can one not be "enchanted" by the violin turn of the opening track ("Niura è", on the theme of the assault of Catania by black immigrants) and the irresistible chorus of "U Difettu"? Just as only a prude could not find the scenes "Padre Cillitta" and "Mago Mbracchiapareddi" (which is the sequel to "Ciao Buonasera" from the "Co'Bullu" album) funny.

The 90s have just begun, but Brigantony is not yet short on ideas.