Luca Madonia
Parole contro parole

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What drives me, twenty years after the disbandment of the highly inspired Denovo, to continue following Luca Madonia's silent steps through underground productions and sporadic on-stage appearances? Nothing but the awareness that Madonia has always been a good musical craftsman and like any respectable craftsman, he has always put his heart into his works. Here it is: honesty. In other words, the key word that invites attachment to a musician who is sincere, never intrusive, and with a very refined touch.

The voice first of all, definitely more warm and flexible compared to that of his adventure companion Mario Venuti, strikes and envelopes, exults and silences when it must: exemplary balance on the scores, an ABC for those who too often overindulge in trills, litanies and various ommammamia! Then there are the tracks. "Parole contro Parole" is an acoustic collection of the best of Luca's production in-and-post Denovo. We find some historical and everlasting pieces ("Grida", "Animale","Non c'è nessuno", the beautiful "Buonumore"), extracts from his solo career ("Moto perpetuo", "La consuetudine") and a handful of highly respectable new tracks ("Parole contro parole", "Il vento dell'età" with Carmen Consoli)

A truly very balanced, light album, in a word: POP that shows moments of great interpretative inspiration in "Meravigliandomi del Mondo", here stripped of Consoli's voice which had embellished the original version on the 2002 album "La Consuetudine" and in the en solitaire version of "Summer On A Solitary Beach" (while with Battiato he duets in "Quello che non so di te").

A truly recommended listen, a purchase.