Massimo Priviero
Dolce resistenza

Massimo Priviero has never compromised. His American and metropolitan-style rock, mixed with Italian singer-songwriter music, has never descended into the commercial sounds and lyrics that his other colleagues and travel companions (who said Ligabue?) have found and exploited ad nauseam.
Artistically born in 1988, the year of his first album release, he can boast impressive collaborations, like the one with Little Steven, Bruce Springsteen's guitarist, who played and produced his second work "Nessuna resa mai" (1990), and more recently with Massimo Bubola.

With Dolce resistenza, Massimo Priviero writes the album of his career and does so by returning to the origins of his early albums in terms of sound, skillfully mixing energetic rock with more intimate ballads, and drawing from his Venetian origins in terms of lyrics, which lead him to speak of the Italian resistance in at least half of the songs on the album, leaving the other half to the current Italian situation and his personal experiences.

The love, never hidden, indeed, of Priviero for the more metropolitan Springsteen materializes already in the first track Dolce resistenza, where the piano intro strongly recalls Roy Bittan from "Darkness on the Edge of Town", dedicated to his son Tommaso.
Ciao Amore Ciao by Tenco is remade in rock style, recovering the wonderful anti-war lyrics censored at the time of Tenco's fatal Sanremo.
La strada del Davai is a beautiful ballad where Priviero, using the Venetian dialect, tells about the mood of soldiers leaving for the great war, as well as speaking of war, Pane, giustizia e libertà is written in memory of the writer Nute Revelli (an officer of the Alpine troops in the second world war who then became a great writer of war and resistance) and performed alongside the Severini brothers of Gang.
Italia libera is somewhat Priviero’s "Born in the USA". An electric track with lyrics denouncing an Italy more corrupt than democratic.
Biglietto di un musicista di strada is dedicated to all those who make ends meet by playing around the streets of cities, and having been a street musician himself, the dedication is heartfelt and never banal.
Io sono io is another rock-song of belonging and struggle toward life relying on one's own strength as is Vincere which seems to come out of the Boss's "Born to Run".
Spari nel cielo still speaks of war but of the current one, Clandestina is a soul-rock dedicated to all the clandestines scattered around the world.

Assisted by a solid and fundamental rock band, Priviero has produced a mature, sweet, poetic but also energetic and credible album. Certainly, it will not reach the masses, but he does not care. In a recent interview, Priviero said that he is not interested in money like someone else (the references to Vasco Rossi and Ligabue were clear). The most important thing is to write honest music born from the heart, which can reach even just a few people but "reach them".