Marco Salzano

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Saint Just: La casa del lago
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Saint Just: La casa del lago
8 dec 13
A group that boasts the talented Jenny Sorrenti in vocals. Both she and her brother (being Anglo-Italian) brought a truly innovative singing style to Italy at the time, heavily influenced by English folk. This is their second album, LA CASA DEL LAGO, which I actually like a little bit more than the first one because it feels more concrete and Latin.
Steve Hackett: Voyage Of The Acolyte
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Steve Hackett: Voyage of the Acolyte
23 apr 12
The lost Genesis Album...
Steven Wilson: Grace For Drowning
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Steven Wilson: Grace for Drowning
8 jan 15
Truly a beautiful album, in line with a revival of certain sounds from classical prog, featuring Steve Hackett as a guest, by the way. A track like Rider II is clearly the result of sleepless nights remixing "Lizard"...
  • madcat
    8 jan 15
    I know this one and the next, the solo Wilson, and I must say that strangely they have never really grabbed me as a whole, even though there are nice tracks that come to mind (the title track of the next one, with a beautiful video, by the way).
Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Sufjan Stevens: Illinoise
3 feb 16
Affectionately dedicated to the namesake State by a singer-songwriter of undeniable sensitivity and talent, but sometimes, at least for my taste, a bit prone to overdoing it with the arrangements. An exception is John Wayne Gacy Jr, a raw piece (but the electric piano is a small "luxury") and subtly ambiguous ("Are you one of them?"), which proudly joins the rich lineage of ballads about serial killers.
Talking Heads: Fear of music
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Talking Heads: Fear of Music
23 dec 13
If 1979 was a golden year for the Police, the same can be said for the brilliant David Byrne who, in addition to the magnificent "Fear of Music," also recorded the global ethno-funk of "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts," both with the crucial manipulative intervention of Brian Eno. "Fear of Music," the quintessential anxious and paranoid album, dark as the rubber floor on its cover. But it was a dark time, then as now.
TALKING HEADS: Memories Can't Wait
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Talking Heads: Memories Can't Wait
8 dec 13
If 1979 was a golden year for the Police, the same can be said for the brilliant David Byrne who, in addition to the magnificent "Fear of Music," also recorded the global ethno-funk of "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts," both with the fundamental manipulative intervention of Brian Eno. This track comes from "Fear of Music," the quintessential anxious and paranoid album, black like the rubber floor on the cover. But it was dark times, then as now.
The Beatles: beatles for sale
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
The Beatles: Beatles for Sale
8 jan 15
Many covers and a handful of truly remarkable original tracks, from I'm a Loser (Lennon's first Dylan-esque song) to What You're Doing and Every Little Thing (later covered by Yes on their first LP): they hold their own alongside the best of "Help!" and "A Hard Day's Night."
The Beatles: Revolver
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
The Beatles: Revolver
8 jan 15
Perhaps it’s the most important album of the fab four, because it’s in this record that the foundations for the two psychedelic masterpieces of 1967 are laid. Lennon, in the throes of his "drug experiences", Harrison begins his journey into Indian modal music but is still in the apprenticeship phase, McCartney perhaps less experimental but more solid with his classicism: for me, the best tracks are his (after that "out of this world" piece by Lennon which is Tomorrow never knows).
The Beatles: Abbey Road
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
The Beatles: Abbey Road
8 jan 15
A most dignified epitaph (which, given the state of affairs among the four, is almost a miracle that it was recorded) but under their best albums despite the excellent production by Martin. The medley is like a delicious leftover dish that skillfully recycles snippets, cuts, and off-cuts of the past. For Lennon’s sketches, however, it is quite clear why they remained in the drawer and why McCartney relegated them to the center only to reserve the majestic conclusion for himself.
  • madcat
    8 jan 15
    call them sketches, those of Lennon, aside from that the album is one of their best, no way beneath, for me above this there's only the white album, just imagine.
  • Marco Salzano
    8 jan 15
    I don't despise Lennon’s "sketches" at all; in fact, some of his homemade demos are fantastic. However, in this case, as far as I know, Mean Mr. Mustard and Polythene Pam are songs that remained (purposely?) in an embryonic state. Hats off to Macca for bringing them back, but it doesn’t seem like Lennon was very happy about it.
The Byrds: Everybody's Been Burned
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
The Byrds: Everybody's Been Burned
8 dec 13
probably my favorite American group from the sixties because, starting from folk rock, they experimented with almost everything in just a few years: from jazz to psychedelia, from electronics to country rock. In particular, I have a soft spot for Crosby's style and his unmatched voice, which here sings, in his own way, a fleeting melody over a delicate arpeggio set to the rhythm of a light bossa that seems to slowly fade into nothingness. McGuinn's 12-string solo, somewhere between Coltrane and Indian ragas, follows.
The Byrds: Younger Than Yesterday
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
The Byrds: Younger Than Yesterday
23 dec 13
Probably the American group from the sixties that I prefer because, starting from folk rock, they experimented with almost everything in just a few years: from jazz to psychedelia, from electronic to country rock. This is among their best: the style and voice of Crosby are inimitable, as he sings in "Everybody's been burned," delivering a volatile melody over a delicate arpeggio set to the rhythm of a light bossa that seems to slowly fade into nothingness.
The Clash: Combat Rock
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
The Clash: Combat Rock
19 jul 12
Reduced from a double to a more marketable single (double platinum in the beloved/hated USA), it’s like a condensed version of Sandinista: the same melting pot of garage/hip hop/reggae and much more; more Meta than Combat Rock. As usual, Strummer is the most engaged (Know Your Rights, Ghetto Defendant – featuring a cavernous Ginsberg), but the hits belong to Jones (Should I Stay or Should I Go) and Headon (Rock The Casbah). Straight to Hell, Car Jamming, and the farewell step Death is a Star deserve recognition.
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
6 feb 16
album that marked the turning point (Dream) Pop of the flaming lips. Many turned up their noses, especially after the experimental Zaireeka, but I have no issues if pop is well-crafted and has a soul. And then with Feeling Yourself, the group led by Wayne Coyne has really nailed a ballad (about death) that gradually reaches extremely high emotional levels.
  • madcat
    7 feb 16
    Beautiful, I find it hard to understand those who turned up their noses, because it’s certainly a strong change compared to the previous albums, but anyway, this is a masterpiece.
  • Buzzin' Fly
    7 feb 16
    It’s a beautiful album, among the best by the Flaming Lips. By the way, it highlights the greatness of the band, which has shown and continues to show that it consistently produces great work while evolving and following its own path. Apart from the provocations, which are a parallel chapter of the band.
  • SilasLang
    8 feb 16
    I didn't like it for years. I'm reevaluating it right now. It has great songs.
The Kaleidoscope: A Beacon From Mars
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
The Kaleidoscope: A Beacon From Mars
8 jan 15
An absolutely original group, the Kaleidoscope of David Lindley, authors of an Eastern/Arabian psychedelia that has very few comparisons. This is particularly noteworthy for the two long jams, incredible "trips" into the psychedelic realm.
The Nice: The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
The Nice: The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack
30 jun 12
First and only of the Nice with O’List, it owes something to the Beatles' flower pop (Flower King of Flies, the title track, which anagrams their initials) and to Floydian psychedelia (The Cry of Eugene). But completely original and innovative is the powerful fusion of R&B and Baroque Toccata in War and Piece, Dawn, and especially in the hypnotic Rondo, an apocryphal arrangement of Brubeck's piece, with guitar and Hammond distorted to the max towards an exhilarating climax.
The Police: Bring on The Night
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
The Police: Bring on the Night
8 dec 13
almost-classic "nocturne" sung in two voices by Sting and Stewart Copeland with a bitter text (the feelings of a death row inmate before execution) that showcases the perfect formula encapsulated by the Police at the time: from the initial bass cadence (immediately "stolen" by Stevie Nicks), to that unmistakable rhythm that only Copeland could infuse into Summers' extraordinary work (often unjustly underrated) who here does a bit of everything: arpeggio, rhythm, and a piercing final solo.
The Police: Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
The Police: Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings
11 feb 16
the Complete Works, which couldn’t be more complete, in one of the best box sets ever. It contains the tracks from the 5 albums, plus the songs that appeared only on 45s (including many excellent pieces by Summers that were discarded; Shambelle and Someone to talk to), the 45s from the furious early Punk days with Padovani still on guitar, the stunning I burn for you, and various live tracks.
The Police: Synchronicity
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
The Police: Synchronicity
19 jul 12
Sequencers and synths dominate, much of the rough initial energy is lost (but the two Synchronicity tracks still have an insane drive) and Sting takes center stage, leaving the others to fight over the scraps (the icy Miss Gradenko from Copeland and the crimsonian Mother from Summers), but the album is a grand farewell with the legendary Jungian diptych, the animistic King of Pain, the retro Every Breath..., the subtle perversion of Wrapped Around..., and the refined exoticism of Tea in the Sahara.
The Police: Ghost In The machine
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
The Police: Ghost in the Machine
11 feb 16
The classic Police sound hybridized with R&B horns and keyboards. Sting's lyrics gain depth (the beautiful, sorrowful "Invisible Sun" about the Irish conflict), but the contributions of Copeland (the minimalist "Darkness") and Summers ("Omega Man") are also noteworthy, as he unleashes a series of riffs in "Demolition Man" that he may not have ever recorded in his career.
The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta
CD Audio I have it ★★★
The Police: Zenyattà Mondatta
8 jun 12
Released in the midst of the Police madness, with the band touring the world, for me it feels a bit too stretched out and suffers from excessive monotony in the arrangements. The best tracks are on side A, especially the R&B of "When the world..." and the ska of "Canary in a coalmine." "Bombs away" is one of Copeland's best pieces. Disappointing are "Behind my Camel," Summers' undeserved Grammy, and the atrocious "Shadows in the rain," which was done much better by Sting in his solo Fusion style.
The Stooges: Funhouse
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
The Stooges: Fun House
23 dec 13
Murky urban guerrilla rock from the Stooges. For me, FUN HOUSE is their best album. “T.V. EYE” boasts the barbaric scream (!) of Iggy Pop and the metallic, obsessive riff of Ron Asheton that builds the perfect stage for the singer's furious exhibitionism.
The Stooges: T.V. Eye
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
The Stooges: T.V. Eye
8 dec 13
Murky urban guerrilla rock from the Stooges. This one is from their best album “Fun House” and features the barbaric scream (!) of Iggy Pop and the metallic, obsessive riff of Ron Asheton, which sets the perfect stage for the singer's furious exhibitionism.
The United States Of America: The United States Of America
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
The United States of America: The United States of America
23 apr 12
The schizophrenic sounds of the Other America, the truly "alternative" one. Brave also for the fact that it completely forgoes guitars.
The Who: My Generation
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
The Who: Tommy
23 apr 12
A fundamental manifesto of a lifestyle before being musical. Not their most consistent album but definitely the most revolutionary. Punk rock was born there.
Tim Hagans: Animation-Imagination
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Tim Hagans: Animation-Imagination
27 jul 12
Prodigious trumpeter, well-versed in hard bop and seduced by drum'n'bass while playing in the clubs of the Big Apple. Animation-Imagination (nominated for a Grammy in 2000) marks the turning point: alongside keyboardist Kevin Hays and producer Bob Belden (a bit like his Teo Macero), Hagans improvises high registers over a series of paradisiacal grooves (Hud Doyle and Far West, featuring tabla, Fender Rhodes wahwah, and sampled Indian melisma). The melodic moments are also excellent (Love’s Lullaby).
Tori Amos: Little earthquakes
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes
7 jul 12
Her intense poetry is already present in this debut, her heretical imagery as a “daughter of a preacher man,” her vulnerability as a woman becoming a Christian martyr in Crucify. Above all, her fragile and emotional voice and her prodigious piano playing. The only flaw is the bombastic ’80s drums. Better then is the elegant string arrangement of the melancholic Silent All These Years (the silence of a repressed trauma) and Winter (a return to the enchanted innocence of childhood).
Traffic: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Traffic: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
8 jun 12
With the ceaseless tabla of Rebop in the background of the mysterious “Hidden treasure” and the rural violin of the underrated Rich Grech on “Rainmaker,” the sound of the new Traffic prog gains more substance, just as Winwood's lyrics rise in depth in the hypnotic “The Low Spark…,” a disconsolate condemnation of the music business. The best review of the album for me was, if I'm not mistaken, from Rolling Stone: “relaxing and exciting at the same time.”
Traffic: Mr. Fantasy
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Traffic: Mr. Fantasy
23 apr 12
Fantasy to power? Yes, but firmly anchored to solid English blues.
Triumvirat: Spartacus
CD Audio I have it ★★★
Triumvirat: Spartacus
8 aug 12
The famous gladiators' rebellion set to music by a German trio shaped like the Nice. Despite a few little thefts at the expense of ELP (Trilogy, Brain Salad), the concept has a lively flair of its own. The Deadly Dream Of Freedom is a beautiful piano ballad with a memorable chorus. But the best comes with the powerful The March To The Eternal City (featuring the arabesques on Moog from the wild Italian Improvisation) and with A Broken Dream, the final clash with the Roman legions.
Van Der Graaf Generator: The Aerosol Grey Machine
CD Audio I have it ★★★
Van der Graaf Generator: The Aerosol Grey Machine
30 jun 12
Not quite a Hammill solo, but not yet Van Der Graaf (Jackson and Potter are missing). It’s still an immature, intimate album (Afterwards, Running Back), with some ironic moments like Aquarian (a sort of parody of the famous hippie anthem) and the fake Jingle in the title, but where Hammill is already starting to exorcise his own ghosts, like the ambiguous figure of the Necromancer (dark vocal harmonies over a martial rhythm) and the octopus of Octopus with a slimy dissonant organ.
  • urlicht
    30 jun 12
    at least four balls for me, I've always liked it
  • Marco Salzano
    30 jun 12
    I like it too, but I usually round down and this doesn't reach a full 8 for me. It's too uneven: the tracks on side A are good but more Hammil solo; the ironic ones don’t completely convince me while the final ones are the prototype of true VDGG. And anyway, the gap with The Least We Can Do is significant.
Van Der Graaf Generator: Pawn Hearts
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Van der Graaf Generator: Pawn Hearts
8 feb 16
A prog masterpiece with the unique and inimitable VDGG: the soundtrack of an existential crisis, with various suites painting the entire ambiguity of being human. For me, it's all worthy of an anthology, from the contemplative opening with just piano, organ, and voice (and what a voice) to the pure psychological terror of the sax-keyboard interludes. Oh, I almost forgot, there's also a cameo from Mr. Fripp himself just to delight.
Ween: The Mollusk
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Ween: The Mollusk
8 feb 16
Glorious American indie-rock band of the faux brothers Ween, true heirs of the Zappa-esque meta rock in mocking everyone, from eccentric folk like Donovan to Beatles-esque pop and even sea shanties. Brilliant are the psychedelic Mutilated Lips, the almost-prog Buckingham Green, and Ocean Man, which then ended up in the Spongebob soundtrack.
Yes: Close To The Edge
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Yes: Close to the Edge
3 feb 16
the most celebrated and, perhaps, harmonious suite by Yes. Here the band truly acts as a single organism, from Bruford's off-beat passages to Howe's lightning-fast acrobatics to that moment of absolute mysticism when Anderson's clear and ringing voice emerges from the dripping caves to make way for Wakeman's pipe organ.
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