ELISA SANDRINI
Come un tic tac

LA RECENSIONE

ELISA SANDRINI - Like a Tick Tock

(Self-produced)

It's amusing to think of this new Italian singer-songwriter and composer from Emilia dealing with a prog metal folk band (in whose biographical notes she writes about having played for a full two years). It would be like imagining Alice duetting with Folkstone. A somewhat jarring image. But this detour in her musical journey is more a symptom of curiosity, of a desire to challenge herself. Or maybe, ha ha, she had a boyfriend in the band? We lean towards the first hypothesis, as curiosity, besides killing cats (as the English say), is a sign of intelligence. And Elisa Sandrini is an intelligent person. She proves it with her 9 well-crafted songs, like the tick-tock of a Swiss watch. Cold album then? Not spontaneous? I wouldn't say so. Once the foundations were laid, Zara Hadid, the unfortunately recently deceased Iranian starchitect, gave life to sinuous architectures, with circular, wavy shapes that seem to defy gravity. Well, Elisa's tracks are equally sinuous and unpredictable (thanks especially to a good dose of emotion she puts both in her singing and arrangements), with rhythms reminiscent of waltzes, or Irish jigs (as in the beautiful “Il colore del merito”), or as she herself says, baroque madrigals. Pop madrigals for chill-out moments.