Enrico Ruggeri
Presente Studio/Live

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After two interesting punk-wave albums branded "Decibel," young Enrico Ruggeri delivers 4-5 decent records where the new wave component is strong and evident, marking the signals that will first lead him to good songwriting and then to Sanremo, with commercial slips and signs of apparent recovery.

This 1984 album is a study-live (that is, half live) and can briefly summarize the artistic journey of the national Enrico.

The first part, recorded in the studio, opens with an elegant swing ("Nuovo swing") and is followed by a banal and elementary rock ( la donna vera); the third piece ( Qualcosa) at my first unsuspecting listen shocked me: KEYBOARDS, SYNTH, DRIVING RHYTHM, SYNTHETIC BEAT. The setlist continues and arrives at "Mare d'inverno" (where the lyrics begin to rise) in a version that is anything but in Loredana Bertè's style.

In the second part (the Live), the Modugno cover "Vecchio Frac,” pieces from Decibel ("Vivo da re, Contessa") and a warning to record companies ("il rock'n'roll") are appreciated… "discography where they sell sympathy, where they dirty and destroy pieces of imagination, those who made a mistake one night go to jail while those who killed an idea are free, rich, and famous"...

But the best is yet to come: the last piece with which "Rouge" bids farewell to the audience is "Polvere," here performed at great levels, resulting in being more beautiful than the one recorded on the album.

For '80s lovers.