Enrico Ruggeri
La Giostra Della Memoria

THE REVIEW

"world of men made of men ready to chase the wind"

The crossroad, what women don't say, mystery and also xfactor.

All television programs of more than questionable taste.

I wonder what Ruggeri was chasing to end up hosting and participating in certain shows.

Now fortunately he has stopped participating in television programs, but his best discographic works were published a few decades back.

For example, this "The Carousel of Memory," which I dusted off a few days ago from my decent CD collection, and upon re-listening to it, made me want to write my first review on Debaser.

The album is a compilation that encapsulates more or less successful tracks by Ruggeri such as "Peter Pan," "Il portiere di notte," and among others, there are "Contessa," "Polvere," and "Vivo da re" in a live version with a much more rock style than the studio-recorded versions.

Besides the old songs from Ruggeri's repertoire, there are some unreleased tracks which, in my opinion, are worth purchasing the album.

"Mistero," a song with which the Milanese singer-songwriter won the San Remo Festival edition in '93, defined by the author himself as the only rock-tinged song ever presented at San Remo and even capable of winning the festival; the song is indeed almost Queen-esque in style, Queen of whom Enrico is enamored, listen to the choruses of "Peter Pan" and "Fairy feller's master stroke" to believe it.

Another valuable unreleased track is the title track, written for Mannoia but here interpreted by Ruggeri, a song of heartbreaking poetry, and finally "Bianca balena" one of the hardest pieces in Rouge's entire discography, with a riff and a chorus that grab you immediately.

What can I say, I don't really like compilations because they somewhat denature the pieces, but this collection I like almost as much as an album, perhaps a too biased opinion but Enrico Ruggeri as an artist has nothing to envy to all the prominent Italian singers always in the spotlight.

"..the brief craft of living is only MYSTERY"