Eugenio Finardi
Tutto

Eugenio Finardi gifts us, after 11 years from Fibrillante, a new album of unreleased tracks, probably the last of his career. The title is Tutto, because the album talks about "everything", from the relationship with his children to quantum physics, from artificial intelligence to the nature of love.

Futuro opens the work by stating that aliens are no longer here, but the future lies in artificial intelligence. Accompanying the song is a video produced with AI, where all the Finardis of the past sing, starting with the one on the cover of Non gettate alcun oggetto dai finestrini, which turns 50 this year.

Bernoulli talks about the law that governs bird flight, and the introductory arpeggio is very beautiful.

Tanto tempo fa, on the other hand, is more rock, the most Finardi-style among the tracks on the album, and it has generational content.

La battaglia, one of the most significant tracks of the batch, also played as a preview, talks about the relationship between parents and children, especially when the latter grow up. A song destined to immediately enter the historical repertoire of the Milanese artist.

Francesca sogna features a duet with Pixel, aka his daughter Francesca Finardi, born in 1999, and Eugenio's voice reaches very high notes.

La mano di uno che sa is the most complex track of the album, and here too it talks about life from a generational perspective. Ho visto Nina volare by Fabrizio De André is also mentioned.

Onde di probabilità also tackles the theme of quantum physics, and it's a musically fascinating track.

I venti della luna is my favorite from this new work, where "there's no wind on the moon". Like Tanto tempo fa, it is closer to the author's typical style.

Massiccio attacco di panico lasts just two minutes but effectively describes this existential condition.

Pentitevi is again generational, and it invites the next ones to repent in the face of the "end of the world".

La facoltà dello stupore, which personally reminds me of Come in uno specchio, which closed Il vento di Elora, is the only sentimental track on the album, where Eugenio wants to understand the nature of love.

The album was created in eight months with "office-like" rhythms similar to those of the Beatles in the Get Back documentary. The author confessed to having lost ten kilograms producing this album.

The work was supervised by the faithful Giovanni "Giuvazza" Maggiore and is a mix of original instruments and sampled sounds. A research on the past sounds of Finardi was conducted.

Tutto is musically balanced and not too long, despite the 11 tracks on the album. You can listen to "everything" in one breath; it is as fresh as a glass of water.

The album was first released only on platforms on May 9, and then distributed on CD and vinyl starting May 16.

I give this album 4 stars on the upside, for a 72-year-old Eugenio Finardi still capable of moving with his compositions.