Dislocation

So, we agree, for what it may matter to you, on almost everything, and I rarely disagree with what you write; this time certainly won't be the exception.... Your feelings while listening to this album are also mine, more or less.... Of course, it's not a masterpiece by Battisti, but since it's a transitional album, it enjoys and suffers from all the strengths and weaknesses of transitional products... and perhaps we like it precisely for that, don't we?
Ah, in '82 I was off to the army, damn it.

The Flamin' Groovies seen by @[Pinhead] ... if the old Puntaspilli Cenobita says so, for me it's Gospel.... Bbbbravvvooooo for bringing the flamingroovviiss to daylight, damn it, when it's time it's time..... Hi, Pin!

"Candidate for the next solo ride".... Chettedevodì, just for this little phrase you would deserve 5 stars straight up, here we go.
You know, Lulù, I like to consider this piece of yours as my "alter ego" from a few months ago, the one about "Come Together," except that one leaned towards more family-oriented themes and less towards the outer chaos of that sensory-psychiatric circus that is, indeed, family.
This, I must say, is not to diminish the power of your piece, heavens no, but solely and exclusively to confirm what I had already established, namely a certain, unsettling, if you will, kinship of feelings between you and me. And here it’s your problem; it could have gone better for you.
But it could also have gone worse.
With the bugs, then, write for me, whether you speak ill of them or praise them. I wander through so much music, yes indeed, and then I always end up on that little cloud there, comfortably, so much so that I have the imprint of my ass on which I rest the aforementioned with great pleasure.
Thank you, Lulù, as always, ad maiora.

Partially agreeing with @[Farnaby], of course.
If we talk about "playing," then "they play" much better, even today, Dalla's records from "Come è profondo il mare" to "QDisc," filled with insights, including sonic ones, that would have set the standard for years.
"1983" and this "Viaggi Organizzati" suffered a bit from Lucio's decision to steer, at all costs, towards a type of sound that was perhaps less "his" and personal, but more in line with the times which, as we remember having lived through them, in terms of chart pop predicted a certain leveling towards entities composed of drum machines, synthesizers, and keyboards (which Dalla, as usual, fell hopelessly in love with) and sounds that we would today define as "plastic" or "prepackaged."
To achieve a more "contemporary" sound without compromising like everyone else (and not recording the usual album with soundscapes like Pet Shop Boys or, worse, italo-disco...), the good Bolognese blindly trusted that genius of production, Mauro Malavasi, the true deus ex machina behind the aesthetics with which the two dressed Lucio's verses. Hence fashionable synthesizers (of that time), I believe the great Kurzweil instead of the older CP80 type, but also noises scattered here and there, not at all disturbing but positively characterizing the new sound wave that Dalla wanted to continue, as he was tired of the Stadium sounds (understood as Curreri & Co.) that he had been monotonously repeating for six years or more... many things can be criticized about Dalla but certainly not his search for changes, even at the cost of a certain flattening somewhat typical of the decade he was going through.
I have always adored the tangy rhythm of "Toro," with its text that appears easy to interpret, and "Washington," which I don't know why is often cited among the best compositions of the genius from Bologna.
Of course, if you think "Caruso" is his peak, then you've got the wrong album.
Well done @[Martello] for unearthing this beautiful record, well done.
Then "Gommalacca," one of the summits of Battiato's production, undeniably.
As for Battisti's white production, just consider that "that" Battisti was not the same, on many levels, as he was ten years earlier, here we go... So let's not fall into the usual brawl of "is one Battisti better than the other?"
And then sorry for the excessive quotation marks, they slipped out a bit.

I see that many people cared about you back then, huh, Isi?

Old Giuseppe the Austrian had been ruminating jazz since he was young, and when he brought his Central European ass to the USA, he played white and black keys for Cannonball, for Dinah Washington, but also for Maynard Ferguson, learning the art of adapting and earning his daily bread through thousands of nights in venues ranging from backroom brothels to à la page theaters... Then at the court of miracles of Miles, bringing him electric organ notes, since the piano was played by Herbie Hancock, micapizzaefichi... The collaboration with the great Wayne Shorter is well known, and the WR records document it, just like the launch of Pastorius, the unmatched god of the fretless bass. A fundamental character but often overlooked by critics who, grudgingly and in a somewhat hairy way, forgive him for his push towards jazz-rock, as it was called back then, or fusion, to put it stylishly. Fast, imaginative, melodic, but also lean, cutting. He had it all and he knew it all.

Tears in my eyes, really, I don’t know whether to cry tears of joy because your words, friend @[Almotasim], could be mine, or to smile in ecstasy because your words, friend @[Almotasim], could be mine, or to show no emotion at all because your words, friend @[Almotasim], could be mine.

In short, I raise my cup of dolcetto and toast to your brilliant insights directed at our common comrade @[Falloppio], may God keep him in glory and finally decide once and for all to take him to the heavens for the greater faith of all Humanity. We care for @[Falloppio], and we want to pray for him on the altars and remember him as he was, beautiful (???????!!!!!?????) and fresh like a castrated bull from last year.

Well, "Strapa Mona" isn't bad....

What can I say, @[Pinhead] is back and that's enough for the unsuspecting onlookers. However, three months between one review and another is just too much.
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