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And, at the risk of seeming superfluous and superficial, thank you for this quote: "And if God will not help me, then I will help God"... I hope to fight beside you, brother...

This review is a stab. I believe I will often stop to stare at its scar.

Well, Luca, I’ll take a stand in favor of Berio; he may not be a concert performer, but who cares (my opinion, of course...): I'm listening to the "sequenze" and I really like them; I don’t have a vast knowledge of "classical" music, but I find it reductive to limit ourselves, as is usually done, to composers from two or three centuries ago. Berio's music is certainly more relevant to our era of fragmentation and post-modernism, not easily accessible, but that's how it is: even Picasso's paintings are not easily "digestible", but I think this mainly stems from a limited openness to "strong" diversity. Until a few years ago, I really couldn’t see anything beautiful in so-called "non-figurative" painting; then I went to the "Mirò" museum in Barcelona and I gradually changed my attitude... best regards.

well, well, well.... a little quote for 'don't think twice, it's all right', but... it's practically one of my favorite Dylan songs, maybe THE favorite...

Hello Mauri... empowered by a restored fixed connection, I take the opportunity to thank you... and god bless our soul! (I went to a higher school...)

presence message: I’m posting this only because I’m going through withdrawal since they cut off my connection... I'm doing pretty well, thank you, Giorgio, I just have a bit of hemorrhoids...

Well, I never said the album is terrible, on the contrary... I don't think it's appropriate to make (like for anyone else, eh...) demigods out of them, and this is despite the fact that I find the Bistisss super likable and they are a force of nature, especially live (the concert in Rome was fantastic). That said, to close on Debaser, whether you like it or not, its uniqueness lies in offering anyone who wants the chance to write a review without having to kiss anyone's ass to do so, and, at the same time, with the risk and/or the possibility of the most disgusting crap coming out, but then you can comment freely and counter the crap as you please... I, as a strategic choice, like it a lot... saludos.

Well, they can't take my words away from me... and besides, not everyone can have the same tastes, nyomuri (are you Goldie's cousin?) ;-)

So... the issue of 'Sugar doesn't do blues'... It's not that I get fixated on definitions for the sake of it; genre definitions (which, after all, are fluid) are worth little; what prompted me to clarify is the fact that 'Sugar' himself claims to do blues (well, bastard, modern or whatever he wants to call it...) and it strikes me as a clever marketing ploy to give himself some credibility (like when he says he feels close, due to his background as a Romagna farmer in his childhood, to the black cotton pickers of the early 20th century... bah); let me explain better: reiterating that there's virtually nothing bluesy in Zucchero, not even modified blues, saying 'blues' means saying 'child of black music' much more than 'soul,' a term that, in Italy, would mean little to the many who are Sugar's target audience, so... he does blues! At this point, I find myself getting quietly pissed off if (and I say this as a listener of so-called 'blues fathers,' like Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Blind Willie Johnson, etc.—people who had it rough with whom the term started to spread) a friend of mine (as has happened...) tells me: 'I'm listening to a great bluesman, Zucchero...' and I realize he’s fallen for the nonsense, an effective strategy since the blues Sugar talks about means nothing to his listeners... cordiales saludos.

Well, this story of Zucchero doing blues remains for me an incredibly rooted hoax... I reiterate, I don't judge what Zucchero does, but the blues is as far from him as hard rock is from Bob Dylan... (at most, the black music that Zucchero references is soul and, at times, funk, both of which are quite 'popified')...