fusillo

Yes Iside, I care about you too. :-)

Non hai fornito un testo da tradurre. Per favore, inviami il testo in italiano e sarò felice di aiutarti con la traduzione.

Thank you as well, kosmogabri. :-)

Thank you to all the kind and quick commenters. This review made a brief appearance on the homepage... Well, who cares, I had the samples and I put them up... Just one thing for Iside: you know very well that you don't need to ruin my average to receive insults from me. Just ask. :-) Bye everyone...

"... after another 9 years, a phone call from the grandmother he believed to be dead, and who deeply hates him, shakes him, almost paralyzing him." ---> And then what happens? Is there a sequel or does it end like this?

Incredible? I've already had my first de-birthday. I'm a veteran of the site by now. :-) Odradek hasn’t been around for a while...

I miss this Schneider... Actually, I've never heard of it... Of course, if you put it that way, I'll have to get my hands on it...

Alright, Pistolini beat me to it. :-) Do you know Coe's book? I somewhat expected it... I mentioned it in a review about Henry Cow... Citing it in the review about Hatfield seemed too easy. :-). That book is beautiful... Too bad, the "closed circle" disappointed me a bit... Except for the story about sending troops to Iraq... That part is phenomenal...

Surely you and the poet make quite a mess with these samples...:-). Anyway, this song is nice...

Thank you too, Laurafiesolana. :-) Do you want to know the origin of my nickname? It’s simple: When I discovered Debaser, it immediately seemed to me like a pretty savvy site, frequented by intelligent people who don’t take themselves too seriously. So I started thinking of a silly name. Fusillo was the first name that came to mind after that struggle... I’d like to make this explanation a bit less prosaic, but that's how it went...:-). I finished "Le provenienze dell'amore" last night. It was an enjoyable read that confirmed some anecdotes I knew (like the one about Robin Frederick) and introduced me to others... I found a nice reconstruction of the loving family environment in which Nick was born and lived, and of the professional one, equally affectionate... Who knows, if Nick had encountered more obstacles in getting a record deal, maybe he would have grown some balls and been more communicative with the audience at his few concerts... I also liked the account of Nick's discovery by Pistolini. It reminded me of certain coming-of-age novels. You've probably read quite a few too. This reminded me a bit of "La banda dei brocchi" by Johnathan Coe. Well, "la banda..." is more choral, the setting is different (the city of Birmingham), and the Canterbury bands (in particular Hatfield and the North and Henry Cow) fill in for Drake. But if you don’t know it, I recommend it... Finally, I didn't like the chapter where Pistolini hypothesizes the staging of Nick's fake death. Frankly, he could have spared it. Anyway, great book... I’ll leave you with a suggestion. Somehow get your hands on a documentary made in 1999 titled after an expression by Gabrielle Drake also quoted by Pistolini: "A skin too few". There are interviews with Robert Kirby, John Wood, Joe Boyd, and of course Gabrielle Drake. Moreover, there’s a recording of Molly Drake singing one of her songs while accompanying herself on the piano. Gabrielle says that Nick was greatly influenced by his mother’s songs. There are also the only filmed images of Nick... A short film taken during a seaside vacation in the early fifties... The Drake family was delightful... Bye.