primiballi

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DeAge™ : 7624 days • Here since 27 july 2005

Pino Daniele Iguana Café

23 feb 06

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I'll tell you more, cece, I accidentally clicked on pippobbaudo a few Sundays ago..., and there was Pino with the trio from the new tour.....: well, pure delight. He was brilliant, the other two were as essential as they were great... the problem is essentially compositional... I've said it before: he needs to go back to the dialect (he can't write in Italian... no kidding...) and to the electric guitar (with the Latin rhythms he’s totally worn out the classics in pummarola), and, above all, during the gestation of a new album he must not, I repeat... MUST NOT!!!, hang out with fabiola (oh... I don’t know them, unfortunately, but from the work I do, I can recognize the dulling effect of pussy when it undermines a man's Art...)

Pino Daniele Iguana Café

22 feb 06

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take my advice (since you seem twenty (lucky you) atypical...): buy the double live "Sciò", a splendid summary of "that Pino over there". envious regards

Vinicio Capossela Ovunque Proteggi

22 feb 06

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Being a chronic self-critic for as long as I can remember, in light of Your request, and after a brief hesitation, I admit that "ovunque proteggi" is an album independent of Waitsian work much more than it seems at first listen, and that it can easily be classified - for now - as the most beautiful Author album of the new millennium (and I'm NOT joking here). Naturally excluding the best Pezzali/883 (I believe) from last year... (and here instead, I am)

Lucio Battisti Anima latina

22 feb 06

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rece beautiful. an essential album...: one of the masterpieces of Italian Music (when Italian songwriting still existed, or rather when it was still "mainstream," meaning not when a great album by Capossela zooms in and out of the Italian charts at lightning speed, while Fossati struggles to sell, and the good Ciampi is knighted while Pausini...) absolutely and one of Lucio's in relative terms. I would have been a bit more "fixed" on the musical sensations rather than on the (for me quite useless...just check my reviews...) detailed analysis of the tracks and their meanings. anyway, very well: an album that should be remembered insistently...who knows, maybe one of the Pezzali crusaders roaming this site, by reading, might finally get his head straight...

Pino Daniele Iguana Café

21 feb 06

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for Mario: you can only be forgiven if you are under 22. for senior: I completely agree: I also consider Medina an excellent album... but think it over and examine Pino's entire body of work with detachment...: Medina is a rare exception. first, we need to go back to "un uomo in blues" (good), but even before that, the true and only golden age is the one that spans from "Pino Daniele" (the second) to "Ferry Boat," namely the dialectal-blues-jazz work of a great author and guitarist. then Fabiola's tastes took over (this is the reality...)

Vinicio Capossela Ovunque Proteggi

21 feb 06

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after the Beatles/Pezzali ruling, we are now waiting for the Brassens/Pupo and Dylan/Britti rulings. In the meantime, let's enjoy this "ovunque proteggi." Today I was listening to it on my way to court in a city near mine, and I realized how it is an absolute masterpiece, which grows exponentially with each listen. Perhaps it's truly the "creuza de mà" of this decade. Only Pezzali could have done better (of course I'm joking, and just for saying that I'm now punishing myself for six hours with a raw salami, kneeling on hot ciccioli).

Vinicio Capossela Ovunque Proteggi

20 feb 06

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sadness....please go away....I don't believe everything I've read (and to think we didn't start off so badly...)

Edoardo Bennato Burattino senza fili

19 feb 06

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great album, but I fear that calling it the "most successful" is historically and statistically (unfortunately...) false. Nonetheless, quoting the punisher, I believe Edo has made his 5 albums historically significant. Too bad about the boiling point reached in recent years...

Joe Cocker Unchain my heart

19 feb 06

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And with kindness and respect, I’ll express my opinion here as well: for me, this is one of JC's absolutely minor albums... too polished, too flashy. I fear it is loved for demographic-generational reasons. After and (above all) before, he has done much better work. However, to define him as a "copycat" is an insult to the art of "interpretation" in music, a grand and fundamental role in the history of the seven notes in a broad sense (otherwise - a crazy reasoning - we would only save the authors...).

Chet Baker Chet Baker in Milan

19 feb 06

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Chet was an absolute genius. A great of the twentieth century (and so he will be studied... provided that there is still studying...). I'm sorry, but the extremely brief review does him little justice, other than to point out a nice (minor) record by the Great One.