Caparezza
Habemus Capa

THE REVIEW

Dear friends, I already wrote to you in the past about the Black Eyed Peas' album, "Monkey Business," but today I want to tell you my thoughts on Caparezza's album "Habemus Capa."

First of all, let's take a step back and check Capa's discography: in 2000, "Tutto Ciò Che C'è" was released, and in 2003, the album "Verità Supposte" came out, from which the famous and overplayed song (which I personally don't like much, in fact, I think it's one of the worst) "Fuori Dal Tunnel" was released.

In 2006, the long-awaited album finally came out called "Habemus Capa." First of all, this album features 4 Skits (for those who don't know, Skits are very short songs with very few or even no words), the first, which serves as the introduction to the CD, is entitled "Mors Mea Tacci Tua", which, to be honest, is not very clear, the second is "Profilo Psichico", characterized by a constant psychotic laughter. In "Tii-yan," you only hear an orchestra of violins, while in "Sssaasss" (guess a bit) you only hear a choir saying "sssaasss."

The (thankfully normal) song "Annunciatemi Al Pubblico" talks about the artist's (let's say) fake death and what people would say about him but don't have the courage to say when he's alive. Personally, I would tell this unbalanced guy to stay in a mental institution in Puglia, where he came from.
"Torna Catalessi" draws from the TV show "Torna A Casa Lessie" and describes the life of the modern man and the chaos that reigns on our planet. The song "Gli Insetti Del Podere" practically talks about the same things but transforms people into insects.

My favorite track on this album is "Dalla Parte Del Toro", which I sing in the shower or when I wake up, or singing it in burps after drinking a lot of Coca-Cola and eating pasta with sardines and fennel that my grandma Giuseppina cooks every Sunday, but she cooks so much of it that we eat it all week long for lunch and dinner, and sometimes even for breakfast. Anyway, this last mentioned song describes the bullfight (not the one of Jerry Scotti) that takes place annually in Spain, but reversing the roles of the participants, that is, the bull chases and kills the matador. "Ninna Nanna Di Mazzarò" is a somewhat macabre lullaby that Capa sings to a child. Mazzarò is a character invented by Giovanni Verga taken from the short story "La Roba." Capa has a part that he can somewhat suppress, but when he disagrees with someone, it comes out forcefully, and this is described in "La Mia Parte Intollerante."

Caparezza, being a southern Italian like me, mocks the fascist government in the song "Inno Verdano" transforming into a "Verdano-Fascist" where there's part sung with the voice of a possessed hooligan that we also find in the song "Epocalisse" which plays on the wordplay that I also enjoy playing with, playing with the words "apocalypse" (which for those who don't know would be the end of the world) and "epoch".
The next two songs are about TV, the first is called "The Auditels Family" which, as you can guess, talks about the audience ratings favoring low-quality TV, while the second "Ti Giri" talks about news shows that report on various trivialities like the marriage of the English prince Carmelo who marries that horse-faced Camomilla.

"Titoli", on the other hand, talks about economics, of which I honestly don't understand a blessed thing, and I only like the guitar solo. It talks about very frequent weddings that last only a few months in the song "Felici Ma Trimoni." Finally, the song "Sono Troppo Stitico" is about a love story the singer wants to end as soon as possible, eliminating his (former) beloved in various ways, like throwing her into a radioactive river or making her breathe a nice breath full of exhaust gases.

p.s.
There are two other songs, "Il Silenzio Dei Colpevoli and "Habemus Capa", whose meaning I frankly cannot understand, but I like them anyway.

FORZA PALERMO!!!!!!!! GASS