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Rating: For those who love quality Italian music, sung in Italian, Le Luci della Centrale Elettrica, aka Vasco Brondi, has been one of the best surprises of 2008.
On Friday, December 7th, he performed at Tago Mago in Massa (an interesting seventies-style venue, great Negroni for 4 euros, awful the external entrance from which a heavy sewer smell wafted) in the company (not mentioned anywhere) of Giorgio Canali.
The place was packed, and around 11 PM, Vasco and Giorgio began strumming on stage. The songs were from the album plus an unreleased track (or a piece from the demo that I had never heard) and a few spoken or rather recited interludes over stark electric guitar chords. Nothing to say, Vasco has a truly extraordinary expressive power and sings (or screams) exactly as on the album, proving to be 'real' to the core, Giorgio accompanies in his own way with just the right amount of fierceness and perfect physique du role.
Three-quarters of an hour nonstop that increasingly warm up the audience, who sing, scream, and applaud. Beautiful, really beautiful.
An anecdote, in the 'sewer-scented' garden, I approach Canali and pay him my compliments: for your career - I say to him - and for believing in this talent.
He looks at me with a slightly dazed expression and says: "What believing, at the beginning I didn't give a damn, then he was such a pain in the ass..."
Great evening.
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