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Ivano Fossati

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Forlisteners interested in italian singer-songwriters, lyric-driven albums, sophisticated arrangements, and live recordings.
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The Profile

Ivano Fossati is an Italian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Genoa, frequently described in these reviews as cultured, refined, and restlessly experimental. Reviewers trace a path from early prog/rock roots (including Delirium) through a piano-centered period and into later albums marked by “wise simplicity,” with recurring attention to travel/sea imagery, sophisticated arrangements, and high-level lyric writing.

Publicly known: Ivano Fossati (born 1951) is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician from Genoa; he released the album “Decadancing” in 2011 and announced it as his last studio album.

Across these reviews, Fossati is depicted as an eclectic Italian singer-songwriter with a long arc: early rock/prog energy, a piano-driven “sad period,” and later “wise simplicity.” Key albums repeatedly framed as peaks include Lindbergh, La pianta del tè, Macramè, and La disciplina della terra, with strong emphasis on lyrical craft and sophisticated arrangements. Live releases (Dal vivo Vol. 1–2) are praised as faithful, high-level documents of a standout early-’90s band. Several reviewers highlight travel/sea imagery, world-music colors, and the push-pull between hermetic writing and newfound clarity in later works.

Notable Quotes

❝ “To end with just a few, simple words: one of the highest points of Italian songwriting.”
❝ “The usual dish, but never, really never, cooked so well.”
❝ “This is the album that definitively establishes Ivano Fossati as a first-rate musician.”
❝ “Lindbergh - Lettere da sopra la pioggia (1992) is further proof of Fossati in his best creative season.”
❝ “An album that represents one of the best examples of a “true” live album.”
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