Caparezza
Le Dimensioni Del Mio Caos

THE REVIEW

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PS: I could have written about Smashing Pumpkins, Alice in Chains, Muse, Placebo, AfterHours like everyone else, but I like to go against the tide. Period.

Caparezza returns with the new album "Le dimensioni del mio caos" (The Dimensions of My Chaos).

The album is structured like a phononovel, divided into chapters, where each chapter corresponds to a track that speaks of the "Mental" Journey of RezzaCapa, and of two characters (featured on the cover), Ilaria Condizionata and Luigi delle Bicocche.

Ilaria Condizionata is a hippie who was sucked into a time vortex due to Jim Hendrix's guitar (while he was destroying it during one of his memorable concerts), while Luigi delle Bicocche is a bricklayer who can't make ends meet and worries about expenses.

Topics that the Apulian Doc wants to convey to the Italian people (especially during this time of crisis, where only the entrepreneur moves forward, where social classes are more than distinct, and there is no "in-between" Italian, but the rich and the poor), that the true man is not the one who might seem like the "ultimate man" to everyone, but the one who strives, (taking inspiration from his lyrics), the hero, who fights for a pension, who survives the trade, who commits every evening.

The style cannot be defined solely as RAP, but also a style that greatly recalls the 1960s rock of Jim Hendrix, combined with electropop and Folk atmospheres.

"Vieni a ballare in Puglia" (Come Dance in Puglia), sung with Albano O' Pugliese, is a song that overwhelms you completely. I would say the title "Vieni a ballare..." is well chosen.

And then it is also impossible not to appreciate Caparezza, ironic and very human, his lyrics have a deep meaning (even if it doesn't seem so), and besides, he is from Apulia like me! Nà!