Edoardo Bennato
Le Vie Del Rock Sono Infinite

THE REVIEW

We were waiting for it, and after a long discographic silence, he is back with an album to listen to and discover, listen after listen, without prejudice.

I think that someone like Edoardo, after more than 30 years of music, no longer needs to prove anything except consistency with his own "singer-songwriter style": indeed, just listening to every single track of this CD reveals that "Bennato" spirit in it, and I believe this is a great achievement after years of an honorable career.

Let’s talk about the album; a song above all immediately struck and moved me, it is "Cuba": beautiful, poetic, clean, evocative. "E' Lei" is also wonderful, a true invitation to hope, filled with sweetness and realism; "Il Capo Dei Briganti" is musically a tribute to the darkest Dylan: here, Edoardo's warm voice surprises me, becoming superlative when halfway through the piece he decides to quote and pay homage to the tarantella; "Perfetta per me" is also very Edoardo-like: hearing that harmonica, it feels like finding something familiar, making you happy for not having lost it; "Wannamarchilibera" is a return to irony: ingenious, irreverent; when he shouts at the end of the piece, it reminds me of Bennato's "restituiscimi i miei sandali"; the irreverent spirit also emerges in "C'era Un Re": a great blues piece like few know how to do in Italy; great rock ballads are "In Amore" and "Un Aereo Per L'Afghanistan"; "Vita Da Pirata" is beautiful: it speaks of himself using the language of fairy tales as he has always accustomed us to; the finale with "Per Noi" is superb: a great and heartfelt interpretation by Bennato.

Listening to this album leaves me with a good feeling: I found something I thought I had lost but is still there... luckily!!!!!!!!!!