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THE REVIEW
I don't know about you... but every time I listen to this album I feel like strangling Pelù and Renzulli.
Because it's impossible to first conceive an album like this and then end up the way they did... I can't think about it. I'd rather focus on this record, the first by Litfiba and already a definitive work... In fact, I don't remember anything more beautiful and complete in the Tuscan band's production.
From the very first track, you understand you're dealing with a masterpiece: Eroi nel Vento is a true statement of intent, a generational manifesto. Pelù's voice (one of the few Italian frontmen worthy of this name) opens, with this song, to a true journey between sky and earth. It indeed feels like a journey: starting from the dark and gothic atmosphere of Lulù e Marlene, arriving among the gypsies with Tziganata, passing through the Far East with Istambul, and then taking flight thanks to the dreamy and subdued atmospheres of Pioggia di Luce. Then the abrupt return to reality with Guerra, the closing track: close your eyes and you'll be genuinely catapulted onto a battlefield.
How can one not feel dazed after the CD stops? You're left there still, reflecting on the journey around the world in eight tracks that is this album... and wondering what could have happened afterward.
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This review highly praises Litfiba's debut album Desaparecido as a definitive and beautiful work in their discography. It highlights the album's diversity in atmosphere and themes, from dark gothic elements to dreamy and far-reaching musical journeys. The reviewer admires Pelù's vocal performance and expresses frustration over the band's later direction. Overall, the album is regarded as a masterpiece that leaves the listener deeply moved.Tracklist Lyrics Videos
Litfiba
Litfiba is an Italian rock band formed in Florence around 1980. They were central to the Italian new wave/post-punk scene of the 1980s and are widely associated with the early trilogy of albums Desaparecido, 17 Re and Litfiba 3. The core public figures in reviews include Piero Pelù and Ghigo Renzulli.87 Reviews
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By frantz
"Desaparecido is the essential starting point for what would become the new Italian rock."
"Songs have become real anthems for their many fans, still performed today."
By ms
"Litfiba managed to carve an enormous piece of music as feeling and as importance in the Italian rock scene."
"Desaparecido paved the way for a new course and new mindset approach in our peninsula."
By COX
In the nine tracks of 'desaparecido', the heavy bass of Maroccolo, the wise guitar of Renzulli, the cheeky and essential keyboards of Aiazzi, and the cannon-like voice of Pelù have created something unique and unrepeatable.
'Istanbul' is the track that... leaves me the most stunned... with a delightful keyboard and voices echoing phrases with a Middle Eastern taste.
By Ferito
"A blend of skillful musical savoir-faire offers our grateful ears eight songs of fine quality."
"An album that must (MUST!) be remembered as one of the very first steps for a certain way of seeing music in Italy."
By Treasure
"Desaparecido is an album that speaks in very current terms (of war, hatred, and injustices perpetrated for reasons of state), yet it does so in such a poetic and almost theatrical manner."
"Listening to Desaparecido is like alternating readings of Iliad and Odyssey. The emotion is the same: a sense of archaic, epic, intense, now dramatic, now softened in the sweetness of the atmospheres."
