Diego Mancino
Milano E L'Impossibile

Falling in love with a song. Only falling in love with a woman is better (or a man, of course). It had already happened with Diego Mancino. "Things That Change Everything". That video that recalled the '70s, moments we brushed against but didn't live. Memories, nothing more.

"There are more important things than the black heart of certain charming girls."

And now: "But what is impossible when you look at me like that while I'm talking to you, about all the life I want."

We had forgotten about Diego Mancino, like all summer loves. Then we discovered he had made a new song. If he had made a great song, maybe he had made another one. And so it is. We listened to it months after its release. By chance. Everything important happens by chance. And even if it's another, it's the same type we fell in love with that summer.

"The impossible isn't there."

It works like this: you have the gift of writing great songs. But Sony drops you because you don't sell. Yet you still manage to write great songs. And then you find some fool to fall in love with them. You write songs that only fools think are great songs.

So: Diego Mancino writes unforgettable ballads, out of time, crystallizing sounds that come from some point in the '70s, probably, and he sings them as if he were Fausto Leali. I think he has the same chances of reaching number one in the charts as Empoli winning the next championship. But he tries. Maybe he makes pop music, I don't know. I only know that amid the rampant crap, he writes songs for which I’m sure all the big stars would kill. They'll never admit it. They sell millions of copies. He doesn’t. So the fool is him. And us.

"Milan And The Impossible" can be found in a compilation CD with other interesting names in Italian pop music, "Bertallosophie Altri Suoni Italiani." He made another couple of his own CDs. "Things That Change Everything" is discussed on DeBaser, with grace, by Vi.

"Having the world in your pocket and feeling nothing, desiring everything and loving nothing, in a world that knows everything, not knowing how to do anything."