Demetrio Stratos
Recitarcantando

THE REVIEW

This CD is quite distant from 'singing the voice', which I personally find terrible. Although it doesn't represent a great improvement, it is more akin to something related to music. In any case, I cannot be too pleased to see such a talented singer, in my opinion, waste his talent on beautiful but meaningless vocalizations. I understand that perhaps he wanted to demonstrate his elaborate vocal range, but he would have done better to use it in Area, which he did, but in an approximate way.

This essay contains 8 live recordings held in Cremona in '78, where Stratos hits chest notes as a tenor, interspersed with grumbles, head voice highs, whining, whistle registers, and diphonies, which beyond piercing ear drums do not convey particular emotions. In the background, just a strummed string; in any case, technically, as I was saying, he is an unreachable monster, placing the voice on acute guttural notes is inhuman, and you can clearly hear how the voice echoes near the throat... well, all talent wasted, the only track that can be considered a song is 'Mirologhi', the violin straightens a bit, and the vocal coloring follows a melody between nursery rhyme and lament, also devoid of words, maybe one or two in Greek.

Finally, in the last track, 'investigazioni' Stratos states: 'The reason behind it, and I can whistle it, so I can give you a hand, is something like this...' and after whistling, he resumes with highly acute gurgles.

Therefore, a monotonous and insipid and mocking record that I certainly didn't expect, far from my tastes which certainly prefer Area.