Comma
Visionario

COMMA - VISIONARY (MKRecords/Venus)

Comma (Alias Pierpaolo Mazzulla), born in '74, from Calabria, breathtaking vocal range, taste and delicacy.
I'd like to end it here. Be a bit cryptic myself, sometimes feel a bit like Ungaretti in "Mattina," who with that fantastic "M'illumino d'immenso" had nothing more to add.
But I'm not Ungaretti, it's not morning, and there's really nothing to "illuminate with immensity," at least from my window. 

I listen to music, lately, I receive a ton of albums and review few, no one pays me to do it, and I want to feel truly free, in a free place like Debaser, to review what I want and especially how I want.
The intercom rings, I go downstairs to the door, I'm not in the mood for seeing anyone, I'm glued to the TV watching the election run-off results from Milan and Naples: it's the lady who looks after my mail when I'm away for a while - The haul is substantial: 3 bills, a postcard from San Francisco, and a package containing, for sure, a CD. I abandon the bills, read the postcard, and send a couple of "greetings" to friends enjoying the States in my face.

I open the package: Comma - Visionary: the guys from MKRecords have produced it, so I open it.
With such a title, I can't help but dive into the listening, I read the sheet.

Headphones on and off we go:

Comma reminds me of Denovo, (wow!) a very particular cross between Madonia and Venuti, a bit more Venuti, actually. I don't love light music, so-called, but Visionary is perhaps a little more than "simple" Italian light music. There’s a bit of that "dirty" songwriting that's all the rage today, there’s well-crafted light music by Valter Sacripanti (...who has churned out quite a bit of Pop!), there are brilliant and almost never banal lyrics written by "alter ego Andrea Orlando" (quoting from attached sheet!)... In short, there's something I like!!

I don't know why, but I think of that French choreographer, Noverre, who in the 1800s established, regarding music, a symbiotic relationship between melody and movement, creating a perfect understanding between musician and dancer. Noverre imposed on composers music that was descriptive and evocative at the same time, that is, sort of like saying: Practical and Visionary at the same time. His will was to "captivate the audience with the strength of illusion." 

Okay!! Comma doesn't dance, I don't think he's a choreographer, and I don't think he knows Noverre, but in his music, I see that typical pragmatism of the music business and a poetic, evocative, and visionary search that has nothing in common with light Italian pop.
These are the virtues of Comma the Visionary. 

The flaws: I invite him to dare more in one of the directions of a homogeneous and varied album, at the same time; the one closest and most congenial to him. Calabria is an ungrateful land to its children, and if you need "creative desperation," you've chosen the right place to be born. Despair, create, and take your music around, and know that every now and then, that "uncomfortable serenity" is the goal of a lifetime.

I almost forgot: burn all the Afterhours albums; you are sunnier and, as they say themselves: "muse of no one"... So, ??!?!?!?