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We didn't understand each other... When I say that everyone has their own niche, I say it with positive conviction, without any criticism.... The discourse on mass quality should be seen as a social/civic and in some way "altruistic" discourse... In short, I believe a country is better when eight people read Calvino and two read Moccia, not the other way around... Don't you agree? Another example: in the eighties (early... or late seventies), the masses listened to Pino Daniele of the time, and few listened to Nino D'Angelo (so much so that the former regularly topped the national charts, while the latter barely left Campania...)... Today, the masses listen to D'Alessio, and very few of us follow the feats of Avitabile... Then, you say: be happy to listen to Avitabile and don't give a damn. Okay, but despite everything, maybe it's my age, fatherhood, or whatever you want, I just can't not care about my country. Kisses again.

call me names, it could be true ignorance... I don’t deny it... my battle, which is now perpetual, is for mass quality, the kind that makes a people great, that people who listened to De Andrè, watched Fellini, and read Calvino, and today listens to D'Alessio, watches Pieraccioni, and reads Moccia... that’s all there is to it, we all have niche quality stuff, and it’s the most comfortable of slippers... kisses

alexx: In the nineties, I find that DMB was one of the most interesting musical realities of all time, just as I really enjoyed the Red Hot (I know... they were here before, but in my opinion it’s pure '90s sound...)... what I hated about the nineties is a certain simplification (part of grunge) that, as a musician, I have found and still find incomprehensible and ugly (blues is "easy" too, but it’s divine) or the fake musical revolutionariness of phenomena that I judge to be a circus, false and hypocritical, like Oasis from "them" or Jovanotti from "us"... In short, I consider the golden age to be the '60s and '70s, I see the '80s as the last truly original ideas, and I find that so-called light music died in the '90s, continuing to survive either thanks to the market or honest craftsmanship (and I know that very few agree...). Kisses (ugualepertutti.com)

Hello to you! ...sure: it's still a very enjoyable album...and perhaps it's us who are wrong to keep expecting, again and again, genius...oh well...kisses (ugualepertutti.com)

As I said... beautiful but soulless... Anyway, it's true, dear zzot, Haden is someone who adds value, a pillar of accompaniment, someone I completely understand why it's beautiful to play with. That doesn't change the fact that this record with Jarrett is exquisitely feminine (whether that's a compliment or not, I'll leave it for you to decipher). Kisses (ugualepertutti.com)

I want to let you know that a new one just came out, so...: you can find it online, still very valid.

think that I have all his albums (excluding "tempi duri"), and I find him an excellent singer-songwriter, with the bad luck of the surname... a bit like Dylan's and Sting's children, to name a couple... But, really, we are more in the great zone of "bertoli & graziani" than in that of "faber, de gregori & guccini", to be clear... but we are obviously in the subjective (a shared subjectivity, though...). Hugs

Hello, dearest: as always, I quote you... and I add that the "touch" in the anchovies is totally - or predominantly - percussive, thus the merit goes to Naco... and then, forgive me, Vitol, but if you do without Fossati, you do without the album (some of the most beautiful tracks are almost entirely his, see "anime salve" the track, and "smisurata preghiera," or "ho visto Nina volare")... be careful... because Fossati is a giant, far beyond the already excellent craftsmanship of De Andrè's son. (ugualepertitti.com)

Well... anime salve, one of the most beautiful albums in the history of Italian music, is a compositional work by Faber and Ivano Fossati, arranged by Cristiano and others, featuring instrumental contributions from monstrous talents like Naco (who personally told me about it before it was released as the most beautiful work by others he had ever worked on), Bandini, etc... Be careful not to overrate Cristiano's (albeit high) touch in a monument of which he is just one of the co-protagonists... everything else is fine. Kisses

vitol, alright, but let's not talk about greater talents...or let’s clarify...(if you talk to me about Cristiano as an instrumentalist, you’re probably right...but as a songwriter, performer, supreme personality on stage and in the studio...well...we're in the realm of manifest incomparable...)