Enzo Carella
Fosse vero

I didn't know her, just as I didn't know Enzo Carella, except for that Sanremo hit "Barbara".

But hearing it on a radio that plays only Italian music (Radio Lolli), I wondered who he might be, and from the chorus, it wasn't difficult to discover this gem.

Now I know much more about him and his artistic partnership with the lyricist Panella, yes, the one of the last controversial Battisti, from whom Carella undoubtedly draws inspiration, or perhaps these were much more inherently part of his creative vein.

But coming back to this dark artist, it amazes how the most banal pop of those times, with improbable little choruses, manages to merge into a perfect fusion, with prog-dreamlike phrases and unexpected stylistic solutions.

All of this supported by not insignificant musicians like the Goblins, who would later be the foundation of Pino Daniele's early successes.

It is said that after the Sanremo success, Carella was approached by an Italian-American impresario whose perfect "broccolino" style speech did not convince Carella, who considered him a braggart.

He was told that the purpose of his trip to Italy was to bring two artists to America... him, and secondly, a certain Pino Daniele.

He refused, while Pino Daniele was produced by the person who turned out to be the director of the then music pillar magazine, Rolling Stones.

Then you discover other pearls from his first three albums that I invite you to listen to, too ahead of their time or perhaps too dissociated from that time, even though it can be calmly stated that it was then Battisti who took cues later in his new Battisti/Panella phase... and what about the lyricist, the wife who boasted of being the author of the lyrics of the album "E già", but that's another story of women who, when they put the cap on genius, very often no longer let them see reality.

Not all are Giuseppine Strepponi!