Giovanni Lindo Ferretti: live reinventions, Co.Dex pulses, and A Cuor Contento tears

The Profile

Italian singer, writer, and performer, co-founder and frontman of CCCP Fedeli alla Linea, later CSI and PGR; active since the early 1980s and subsequently engaged in solo, literary, and stage projects.

Co-founded CCCP Fedeli alla Linea and later led CSI and PGR; active since the early 1980s. His live show A Cuor Contento presents minimalist re-readings of CCCP/CSI material with Ezio Bonicelli and Luca A. Rossi. Co.Dex explores electronic textures, with contributions cited in reviews by Eraldo Bernocchi (programming) and Toshinori Kondo (trumpet). Performed solo at Du Fest, Bauladu (2017), revisiting classics like Annarella, Curami, and Radio Kabul.

The reviews portray Ferretti’s concerts as intimate, stripped-down re-readings of CCCP/CSI material, carried by his distinctive voice and supported by violin, bass and sparse electronics. A Cuor Contento is remembered as an emotional live journey, while Co.Dex highlights his electronic, avant-garde side. Audiences respond most strongly to the classic repertoire, though newer works surface with quieter intensity.

Notable Quotes

❝ The concert begins quietly with the gentle “Brace” (CSI) followed by “Inch'Allah, ça va” (CCCP) and the more recent “Pons Tremolans”, outlining what will be the thread of the entire evening: a jagged and wavering reinterpretation of the different phases of the Ferrettian artistic universe.

❝ I won't recount the playlist, which I obviously can't remember. I'll speak of an intimate journey where each piece was a drop carving into me until tears with Annarella, comforted by a young woman also crying next to me.