MASSIMO MORELLI
Il vento

MASSIMO MORELLI - Il vento

(Self-produced)

It would be reductive to talk about singer-songwriter music for this album by Massimo Morelli. This is because Morelli doesn't come from that scene. He was born and raised with punk, with rock. And he still has that punk attitude. Without any frills, with a guitar, his simple yet intriguing voice, and sometimes a harmonica, he presents a debut mini-album that clearly embodies a DO IT YOURSELF attitude, it's definitely punk. Even the way he plays the guitar, very rhythmically, feels more like combat folk than the sugary, pretentious singer-songwriter pop that usually circulates online from one streaming to another. Despite this, however, Il vento is not a simple record. It’s an album that, as you listen to it, gradually reveals an intricate plot made of arpeggios, guitar strumming, and unusual stop & go for a singer-songwriter. When he raises the tempo, we think of Van De Sfroos or Modena City Ramblers (both quite combat). But in Morelli, there's a freshness, an honesty that makes him go his own way, discovering with simplicity emotions, melancholic movements, and unstoppable waves of love (in “Il mio angelo”). It's life, which Morelli takes head-on, without ifs and buts, like the powerful wind of a stormy sea. Or the gentle wind of a summer evening in the garden beneath the house.