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A.R. Kane: 69
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
A.R. Kane: 69
7 sep 17
A.R. Kane were an English musical duo consisting of Alex Ayuli and Rudy Tambala.

The group drew inspiration even from the dark and atmospheric jazz of Miles Davis and the sinister, surreal fluidity of Robert Wyatt for the dreamy compositions of the album 69, a stylistic puzzle that reinvents the role of rhythm and melody.
(Copyright © 1999 Piero Scaruffi)

Tracks:
1. "Crazy Blue" 3:26
2. "Suicide Kiss" 3:36
3. "Baby Milk Snatcher" 3:16
4. "Scab" 3:25
5. "Sulliday" 6:33
6. "Dizzy" 3:47
7. "Spermwhale Trip Over" 4:40
8. "The Sun Falls into the Sea" 5:45
9. "The Madonna Is with Child" 3:49
10. "Spanish Quay (3)" 2:00

Musicians:

Maggie Tambala – backing vocals (track 1)
Russell Smith – bass (track 3)
Billy McGee – double bass (track 6)
Stephen Benjamin – clarinet (track 8)
Ray Shulman – bass (tracks 1 and 7)
Adrian Belew: Lone Rhino
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Adrian Belew: Lone Rhino
16 sep 17
Debut album by Adrian Belew as a solo artist.
He has played guitar with Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, King Crimson, Laurie Anderson, Nine Inch Nails, Crash Test Dummies, Tori Amos, Porcupine Tree, Stick Men, founded the Bears and the Adrian Belew Power Trio, and nothing...
Adrian Belew: Twang Bar king
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Adrian Belew: Twang Bar King
16 sep 17
Second solo album, recorded during the tours of "Beat" & "Three of a Perfect Pair" by King Crimson, just to not be idle...

Track listing:
All songs written and arranged by Adrian Belew except “I’m Down” written by John Lennon, Paul McCartney
"I'm Down" – 2:54
"I Wonder" – 4:39
"Life Without a Cage" – 3:20
"Sexy Rhino" – 0:37
"Twang Bar King" – 1:26
"Another Time" – 3:02
"The Rail Song" – 5:39
"Paint the Road" – 3:19
"She Is Not Dead" – 4:41
"Fish Head" – 4:30
"The Ideal Woman" – 4:08
"Ballet for a Blue Whale" – 4:44
Adrian Belew: Mr. Music Head
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Adrian Belew: Mr. Music Head
16 sep 17
The album also features a prominent use of the piano, an instrument that Belew was not particularly skilled at, but he used it in many songs because he believed they called for it.
Adrian Belew: Young Lions
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Adrian Belew: Young Lions
16 sep 17
Here sings also friend David Bowie in "Pretty Pink Rose" & in "Gunman"
Adrian Belew: Inner Revolution
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Adrian Belew: Inner Revolution
16 sep 17
The album is a collection of pop songs inspired by the Sixties, featuring experimental guitar chords crafted by Belew.
Adrian Belew: Desire Caught by the Tail
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Adrian Belew: Desire Caught by the Tail
16 sep 17
The album and the title "Desire Caught by the Tail" are inspired by Picasso, who wrote "Le Désir attrapé par la queue," with a sound and a compositional style more abstract than usual.
Aleksandr Puškin: La dama di picche
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Aleksandr Puškin: La dama di picche
22 sep 17
"The room was full of the dead. The moon illuminated their yellow and purplish faces through the windows, their cavernous mouths, their dark and half-closed eyes, their protruding noses... the dead women in caps and shrouds, the dead men, if officials, in uniform... the merchants in their festive attire": the coffin maker has invited his clients to dinner and Pushkin can clamp down on the unruly matter of existence, with his geometric and transparent prose, dry and procedural, yet also biblical and concrete, rendering its mystery and agitation. (from Adelphi)
Alessandro Baricco: Oceano mare
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Alessandro Baricco: Oceano mare
2 oct 17
The main setting of the story is the Almayer Inn, which Baricco borrows from the writer Joseph Conrad, and where all the characters converge, each with their own past and fears. The theme of the sea, with its magical, healing, but also terrible value, is analyzed from multiple facets through the stories of the individual characters: from the young Elisewin, suffering from hypersensitivity and afraid of everything and everyone, to Professor Bartleboom and his studies on limits... (cit. wiki)
Alessandro Baricco: Seta
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Alessandro Baricco: Seta
2 oct 17
Hervé Joncour, a French silk merchant, is forced to travel to Japan to buy silkworm eggs due to an epidemic that has affected them in all European and African countries. He is received at the royal palace of Hara Kei, an enigmatic man who is always accompanied by a young girl.
(cit. wiki)
Alessandro Baricco: Castelli di Rabbia
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Alessandro Baricco: Castelli di Rabbia
2 oct 17
And we, who think of rising happiness,
would feel the emotion,
which almost astonishes us,
when a happy thing falls.

And we, who think of elevated happiness,
would feel the commotion,
that almost unsettles us,
when a happy thing falls.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Alexandre Dumas: Il conte di Montecristo
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Alexandre Dumas: Il conte di Montecristo
21 sep 17
The story is set in Italy, France, and the islands of the Mediterranean Sea, during the years between 1815 and 1838 (from the end of the reign of Napoleon I to the reign of Louis-Philippe). The main themes addressed include justice, revenge, forgiveness, and mercy. (cit. wiki)
Alexandre Dumas: I tre moschettieri
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Alexandre Dumas: I tre moschettieri
21 sep 17
- AD displays no small qualities of a great writer... First and foremost, a sovereign shamelessness; a blend of complicity and outrage towards the reader; no sentimentality... the taste for play, for misrepresentation; honest moral deficiency; a noble guiltery, which dictates the exact move to unleash the willing credulity of the public. (G. Manganelli)
- For my part, I do not feel the blush that others would feel flooding their faces when I say that I enjoy and consider the Trois mousquetaires by Alexandre Dumas père to be conducted with great liveliness and flair. Many still read and enjoy them without any offense to poetry, but hide their pleasure within like one would for illicit delights, and it is good to encourage them to lay aside their false shame and their accompanying embarrassment (Benedetto Croce)
Álvaro Mutis: L’ultimo scalo del Tramp Steamer
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Álvaro Mutis: L’ultimo scalo del Tramp Steamer
22 sep 17
They are called Tramp Steamers certain cargo ships "of small tonnage, not belonging to the large shipping companies, which travel from port to port looking for occasional cargoes to transport wherever they may be." One of these Tramp Steamers, a sort of ghost ship, the very image of solitary adventure, will fascinate us as we follow it through the pages of this novel, from the icy air of the Baltic where it first appears to us, like an hallucination, to the lost ports of South America. (from Adelphi)
Álvaro Mutis: La casa di Araucaíma
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Álvaro Mutis: La casa di Araucaíma
22 sep 17
"Of all the literary risks," Gabriel García Márquez said one night to his friend Mutis, "the only one that really seems unachievable to me is writing a gothic story set in the Caribbean." In response, Mutis bet the opposite. (from Adelphi)
Álvaro Mutis: Abdul Bashur, sognatore di navi
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Álvaro Mutis: Abdul Bashur, sognatore di navi
22 sep 17
In the various episodes of this novel, he can finally unleash his passions and whims: imagination, resourcefulness, courage, a taste for provocation, cunning, sensuality... (quoted Einaudi)
Álvaro Mutis: La Neve dell'ammiraglio
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Álvaro Mutis: La Neve dell'ammiraglio
22 sep 17
The jungle, the boat, the river, the mysterious sawmills that, like an improbable promise of wealth, await at the end of this journey, are opaque presences upon which something is evoked, between delirium and memory, something that seems to have been lost today: adventure, the different shades of affection, the body of the beloved woman. (from Einaudi)
Álvaro Mutis: Ilona arriva con la pioggia
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Álvaro Mutis: Ilona arriva con la pioggia
22 sep 17
When Maqroll begins his tale, he is already at the end of the journey. The ship taking him to Panama is seized by the creditor banks, and he, forced to abandon the rites and ceremonies of the sea, becomes a wreck on dry land, unable to navigate the perils of a bad freedom. (cit. Einaudi)
Amos Tutuola: La mia vita nel bosco degli spiriti
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Amos Tutuola: La mia vita nel bosco degli spiriti
25 sep 17
In Nigeria, in the early 1950s, the young Amos Tutuola sent his first manuscript to an address he had found in an advertisement that appeared in a local newspaper.
Through a further turn of fate, the manuscript arrived at the publisher Faber and Faber: in this unlikely manner, the immortal spirit of the fable began to speak once more.
Dylan Thomas immediately recognized that tone, that wonder – and greeted Tutuola's first book with an enthusiastic review in the "Observer." (quote from Adelphi)
Andre Agassi: Open La mia storia
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Andre Agassi: Open La mia storia
26 sep 17
“Open is one of the most passionate books against sports ever written by an athlete. It is not just an athlete's memoir, but a truly profound coming-of-age story.”

(cit. New York Times Books Review)
Anita Desai: Chiara luce del giorno
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Anita Desai: Chiara luce del giorno
12 oct 17
... India immediately after independence (1947), the tragedy of Partition and the refugees, the absurd massacres of Muslims and Hindus at the border between India and Pakistan, the day of Gandhi's assassination...
Anthony Burgess: Trilogia malese
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Anthony Burgess: Trilogia malese
2 oct 17
"It is time to understand the nature of the East, and of Islam. After Vietnam, we can no longer afford to consider those distant regions of the world as material for fairy tale characters, like the popular yet reprehensible Sandokan."
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess: Arancia meccanica
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Anthony Burgess: Arancia meccanica
2 oct 17
It's the story of Alex, a hoodlum always ready to use a knife, the leader of a gang of "toughs" with whom he repeats every night, on the sidewalks of the suburbs, the game of violence.

"My hero, or antihero, Alex, - wrote Anthony Burgess, - is truly evil, at a level perhaps inconceivable, but his wickedness is not the product of theoretical or social conditioning: it is a personal undertaking in which he has embarked with full clarity.
My parabola, and that of Kubrick, want to assert that a world of consciously assumed violence is preferable to a world programmed to be good or innocuous...
A Clockwork Orange was supposed to be a kind of manifesto on the importance of being able to choose."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Il piccolo principe
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Il piccolo principe
12 oct 17
A pilot crashes in the Sahara desert and meets a child who asks him, "Can you draw me a sheep?" The pilot draws him a box, telling him that inside is the sheep he wanted. Little by little, they become friends, and the child claims to be the prince of a faraway asteroid...

" grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them..."
::: The Little Prince :::
Anton P. Cechov: Zio Vanja
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Anton P. Cechov: Zio Vanja
5 oct 17
"The main character of Uncle Vanya (1896) is not Uncle Vanya, but the Professor. The fictitious respectability, the awkwardness, the attire, and the pompous ceremonial give Serebrjakòv the character of a haughty clown. His first entrance can be considered an authentic clownish 'entrée'. In our eyes, he appears sometimes akin to one of the Fratellini, sometimes to the malevolent fatties of Chaplin's comedies. The game with the blanket, the medical vials, the pompous sermons, the 'have a new photograph taken' with which Maria Vasílievna takes her leave from him: many elements contribute to highlight the circus ridiculousness of this 'wise carp', this blustery fellow, whom I imagine as a huge donkey-headed man, adorned with a flourish of a lush, reddish top hat."
From the Introduction by Angelo Maria Ripellino
Antonio Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Antonio Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni
19 sep 17
From the work "Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione" by Antonio Vivaldi, "Le quattro stagioni" is extracted, of which the first four concertos are well known. Each concerto of "Le quattro stagioni" is divided into three movements, of which two, the first and the third, are in Allegro or Presto tempo, while the middle one is characterized by an Adagio or Largo tempo, according to a scheme that Vivaldi has adopted for most of his concertos. Each concerto refers to one of the four seasons: "Spring," "Summer," "Autumn," and "Winter." The instrumentation of all the scores consists of: solo violin, string quartet (first and second violin, viola, cello) and continuo (harpsichord or organ).
Arthur Schopenhauer: L’arte di conoscere se stessi
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Arthur Schopenhauer: L’arte di conoscere se stessi
25 sep 17
"Wanting as little as possible and knowing as much as possible has been the principle that has guided my life."
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa
12 sep 17
It's music for two violins, prepared piano, and strings.
When the musicians saw the result, they shouted:
Where is the music? (quote from Spaccamascella DeBaser)

Side A:
1. Fratres - Gidon Kremer & Keith Jarrett - 11:28
2. Cantus (In Memory Of Benjamin Britten) - Staatsorchester Stuttgart & Dennis Russell Davies - 4:59
3. Fratres (For 12 Celli) - The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - 11:48

Side B:
4. Tabula Rasa - I. Ludus - Saulus Sondeckis & Tatjana Grindenko & Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra & Alfred Schnittke & Gidon Kremer - 9:36
5. Tabula Rasa - II.Silentium - Saulus Sondeckis & Gidon Kremer & Alfred Schnittke & Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra & Tatjana Grindenko - 16:10
  • Stanlio
    12 sep 17
    Despite being a devout seventy-eight-year-old Estonian Orthodox Christian who has established himself as a composer of the Soviet Avant-Garde through experiments with collage and serial music and the invention of Tintinnabuli (a musical form based on algorithms), Pärt possesses a transcendent charm that seems to be on a continuous rise.

    How can a man who has often claimed that to fully understand his music one must read "the Church Fathers," have acquired such vast cultural prestige?

    Yet the religious aspect is one of the indispensable elements of his work.
    Describing Tintinnabuli to Björk, he states: “One line is my sins.
    The next line is my forgiveness for them.”
    Thus, it is a facet of his music towards which he has never compromised, and which brought him significant trouble with Soviet officials, leading him to leave Estonia, his homeland, first for Vienna and then for Berlin.

    Although exhausting, this forced migration marked the beginning of Pärt's international success.
    In fact, while in Russia and Estonia his name was banned from official records and concerts, Western Europe and America warmly welcomed him.
    Upon arriving in Vienna, he was almost immediately contacted by an executive from ECM Records, which at that time had been publishing almost exclusively jazz records.

    (excerpt from an article by CHRISTINE KANOWNIK Jun 11 2014, 2:19pm)
Bob Dylan: Infidels
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Bob Dylan: Infidels
9 sep 17
Produced by Mark Knopfler and Dylan himself, Infidels is seen as his return to secular music.

Having brought Knopfler on board, they quickly assembled a group of musicians for the album, including Mick Taylor, former guitarist of the Blues Breakers and the Rolling Stones, known for his fluid, melodic guitar improvisations infused with blues.

Then Knopfler suggested Alan Clark on keyboards and sound engineer Neil Dorfsman. Dylan invited Robbie Shakespeare and Sly Dunbar as the rhythm section.
Bob Dylan: Love And Theft
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Bob Dylan: "Love and Theft"
9 sep 17
The album continues Dylan's artistic rebirth that began in 1997 with the album "Time Out of Mind," and received even more enthusiastic reviews from almost the entire music criticism.

It is the first work produced by Bob Dylan himself using the pseudonym "Jack Frost," which he would also use for subsequent albums.
Bob Dylan: Modern Times
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Bob Dylan: Modern Times
9 sep 17
The album continues the trend towards blues, rockabilly, and old ballads that characterized the previous two albums, "Time Out of Mind" and "Love and Theft."

Along with its success, the album sparked a hornet's nest over the uncredited use of choruses and arrangements from old songs, and many verses drawn from the works of the poet Henry Timrod.
Bob Dylan: Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Bob Dylan: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
9 sep 17
Soundtrack of the film of the same name, Bob Dylan was involved in the movie, initially to write the opening score; he then wrote the entire soundtrack and also had a part as an actor.

At the time, Sam Peckinpah (the director) did not know Dylan, but when he heard him sing, he was profoundly impressed; one of the pieces from the film's soundtrack is "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," which would become a classic in rock music, covered by many artists over time.
  • IlConte
    9 sep 17
    My version of Knocking on the heart. It should last at least four times longer...
Bob Dylan: Time Out Of Mind
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Bob Dylan: Time Out of Mind
9 sep 17
This album has a unique atmosphere also thanks to producer and collaborator Daniel Lanois on guitar, mandolin-guitar, Firebird, Martin 0018, Gretsch, rhythm guitar, lead guitar, with innovative microphone placement and mixing work.
Bob Dylan: Desire
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Bob Dylan: Desire
9 sep 17
The lyrics were written in collaboration with Jacques Levy (1935-2004), except for One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) and Sara, a song that Dylan dedicated to his wife, Sara Lownds, in a desperate attempt at reconciliation during a time when their marriage was in deep crisis.

Two songs on the album attracted much criticism: Joey, which tells the story of the gangster Joseph "Crazy Joe" Gallo, turning him into a romantic figure, and Hurricane, about the boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who was wrongfully accused of murder and was still in prison at that time. (cit.wiki)
Bob Dylan: Blues, ballate e canzoni
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Bob Dylan: Blues, ballate e canzoni
9 sep 17
This 1972 book, featuring an introduction by American literature expert Fernanda Pivano, is a portrait of a "prophet," of a poet, but it is above all the autobiography of a man who sings about the issues of his time and his personal solitude.

The collection is released during the heated days of youth protest and contains the most famous and significant lyrics of the greatest singer-songwriter of our times.
  • Stanlio
    9 sep 17
    "I would rather build harmonica holders than discuss Aztec anthropology, English literature, or the history of the United Nations...
    I wouldn't want to be Bach, Mozart, Tolstoy, Joe Hill, Gertrude Stein, or James Dean...
    they're all dead, the great books have been written, the great sayings have been spoken!

    I just want to show you a picture of what happens here sometimes, even if I myself don’t quite understand what’s going on...
    my poems are written in a rhythm of non-poetic distortion, divided by pierced ears, fake eyelashes, ripped apart by people who constantly torture each other...
    a song is something that can walk on its own, a poem is a naked man...
    someone says that I am a poet."
    Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan: Street Legal
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Bob Dylan: Street-Legal
9 sep 17
The album marked a significant musical shift for Dylan, who embraced more pop-rock arrangements, collaborated with a large group of backing vocalists, and decisively moved towards black music.

From the title itself, Street Legal is a statement of intent: "street illegal" referred in the fifties to gambling machines, but "street legal," in street language, meant a "cool guy," a "hip," or a "straight shooter."

Moreover, "Street legal" also refers to modified car engines that, after passing safety inspections, become legitimate and legal. (source: wiki)
Bohumil Hrabal: Una solitudine troppo rumorosa
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Bohumil Hrabal: Una solitudine troppo rumorosa
3 nov 17
Hant'a has been working for thirty-five years at a paper compactor. While doing his job, he occasionally collects discarded books ready to be destroyed and piles them up in his home. Hant'a thus becomes "educated against his will": he knows and learns the thoughts of Hegel, Nietzsche, Kant, and other important writers. Hant'a lives in a constant state of drunkenness, due to the numerous beers he drinks during work. The opening of a new, technologically advanced press causes Hant'a a sort of estrangement and discomfort that brings him close to suicide.
Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho
12 oct 17
"A novel that is both terrifying and comical. A one-way trip into madness." - Giuseppe Culicchia -

Patrick Bateman is young, handsome, and wealthy. He lives in New York, works on Wall Street, and spends wild nights with his crazy friends filled with sex, alcohol, and cocaine in the most exclusive clubs in Manhattan. According to Evelyn Richards, his young, beautiful, and rich girlfriend, Patrick is "the boy next door." In reality, his life is marked by frantic and delirious rhythms, by unspeakable obsessions. Moreover, when darkness falls over the city, Patrick transforms into a murderous monster, a cold, methodical, relentless torturer. To the point of embodying horror. (einaudi.it)
Bret Easton Ellis: Acqua dal sole
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Bret Easton Ellis: Acqua dal sole
12 oct 17
- Thirteen stories that immerse us in 1980s Los Angeles, snapshots of a world too polished to be real, yet too recognizable to be false.

- Spoiled rich kids of never-grown-up parents, rockstars obsessed on a worldwide tour, ephemeral and empty television stars, impossible loves lived out in the zoo, vampires driving Porsches, clumsy and apathetic criminals who are no less cruel for it, kids dead in a car crash or girls about to die of cancer—these spectral portraits reconstruct a humanity besieged by indifference, amidst endless drugs, sex, and abuse, a human comedy of horrors, filled with unforgettable dialogues and a ruthless description of social disintegration around which an entire generation emerges, sucked in by the collapse of all values. (from einaudi.it)
Bret Easton Ellis: Le regole dell'attrazione
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Bret Easton Ellis: Le Regole Dell'Attrazione
12 oct 17
"Ellis, it must be said without delusion, is incredibly talented." - Pier Vittorio Tondelli -
"This book, murky yet not morbid, makes one think about how much despair can hide behind the facade of young people privileged in economic status, physical attractiveness, and social prestige, but devoid of passions, dreams, in a world that is too cynical, too cold, too nonsensical." - Fernanda Pivano -
"What would my parents say if they knew that all I'm doing here is drinking and having sex? Would they disown me? And would they still send me money?"
The students attending the exclusive university of Camden, New Hampshire, besides observing those "rules of attraction" that govern various relationships between the sexes, mostly drink, get high, and spiral out of control. And with whatever they can get their hands on: warm flat beer, whiskey, amphetamines, coke, Ecstasy, meth… (einaudi.it)
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