C.S.I.
Linea Gotica

Concluded due to an evident lack of motivation and increased artistic maturity, the CCCP experience, a group that throughout the 80s left an indelible mark on the way punk music was played in Italy by combining it with performances that were real theatrical representations, Emilian Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, assisted by former friend Massimo Zamboni, decided to set up the "Consorzio Suonatori Indipendenti" (CSI). This project, through the publishing of a newspaper ("Il Maciste"), the creation of a record label, and the enhancement of various groups in the Italian underground scene (Marlene Kuntz, Ustmamò, Umberto Palazzo), would represent for years a point of reference for those seeking high values and quality in music.

After a first album with sounds perhaps still a legacy of the CCCP musical past ("Ko de Mondo"), in 1996 with "Linea Gotica" something new and unusual bursts onto the so-called "alternative" Italian music scene. "Whispered words" almost like recited mass, exalted by his warm voice, are what Ferretti reminds us of in the second track of the CD "Sogni e Sintomi", and whispered words are what Ferretti conveys to us, creating an atmosphere of silence and meditation in which anyone can lose themselves. Maintain a proper distance from this album if you are looking for easy refrains or swirling guitar riffs, but anyone in need of emotions can immerse themselves in the listening of this CD, almost like reading a book, accompanied not only by music but by reflections, and so "Cupe Vampe", "Sogni e Sintomi" or the title track "Linea Gotica", delve into the deep soul of the human being torn by a thousand contradictions and doubts, and permeated by a dominant Catholic morality.
The presence of a female voice like that of Ginevra Di Marco fills the sound with even more intense atmospheres "L'ora delle tentazioni", integrating into the full and empty spaces with sublime lyrical insertions; initially, it may seem like a "heavy" album, but precisely in this weightiness, the sound finds its maximum realization, growing listen after listen. Returning to strictly musical discourse, note that the drums are present in very few episodes, such as the reinterpretation of Battiato's song "E ti vengo a cercare" (with the singer himself featured); for the rest, it's an album made of words, words, words... to live!!!