Max Gazzè
La favola di Adamo ed Eva

THE REVIEW

"We are men too distracted by things concerning lives and future ghosts, but the future is to touch, eat, cough, get sick, love..."

This sentence is undoubtedly the main summary of the second work of the Roman artist, released in 1998 and then re-released in 1999 following his participation in the Sanremo festival. A straightforward album, shot in your face, that impresses with its silent and refined anger, an anger expressed through sharp lyrics and plenty of good music. Produced excellently and technically well played (Gazze's bass constantly stands out, marking the beats regularly), it presents two well-marked branches, the first of which is an aversion to certain aspects of modern society, the second devoted to love... a sentiment that seems very dear to Gazze' and, therefore, handled with care.

The style of the music is hard to define, let's say a sort of Pop-rock, flavored with a keyboard sound from the 80s, a dry drum, and guitar arrangements that are never predictable, and this is precisely the peculiarity of the songs on this album: the unpredictability and small genius of the melodies, embellished with subtle touches of class that at first go unnoticed, but upon deeper listening become evident and appreciable.

The lyrics are well thought out: sometimes poetic, sometimes bold, they never fall into easy rhetoric or hidden demagogy, written four-handed with his brother Francesco, they prove to be one of the strengths of this work, pushing an attentive listener to think about the hidden and not hidden meanings of the lyrics. It would be reductive to list the songs that struck me most, simply because it's a homogeneous work, which from the first to the last song always keeps the attention constant.

Of the 14 songs on the album, however, a special mention deserves track number 6: Nel Verde, which can easily be summarized in the phrase, "I turn on the TV, cigarette in my throat, when the PlayStation asks the world to play again"... brilliant. An undoubtedly well-done album, to which I don't give 5 stars, because in my opinion, the best of Gazze' is yet to come (the latest releases unfortunately do not bode well and I hope he hasn't exhausted his artistic verve).