Picking up the brilliant idea of @[Martello], I would like to pay a sort of "tribute" to a great artist like Antonello Venditti, specifically a ranking of his albums (stopping at Cuore from 1984 and including Theorius Campus with De Gregori) from the least beautiful to the best...
No. 3: "Ullalla" (1976)
A year after his first major success "Lilly," Antonello tries again with this new album. It's a more political and less poetic album than the previous ones, but no less intense for that. The arrangements, until then, had mostly been based on piano and voice: this time, the piano is set aside in favor of the guitars of Ivan Graziani (who recorded "Bufalo Bill" for De Gregori in the same year), the bass of Hugh Bullen, and the "hits" from Walter Calloni. This is perhaps – along with L'Orso Bruno – the most unjustly underrated album in the entire discography, especially by the same author who has never proposed any tracks live.
Overall rating: 10
The masterpiece of the album: Jodi E La Scimmietta
No. 3: "Ullalla" (1976)
A year after his first major success "Lilly," Antonello tries again with this new album. It's a more political and less poetic album than the previous ones, but no less intense for that. The arrangements, until then, had mostly been based on piano and voice: this time, the piano is set aside in favor of the guitars of Ivan Graziani (who recorded "Bufalo Bill" for De Gregori in the same year), the bass of Hugh Bullen, and the "hits" from Walter Calloni. This is perhaps – along with L'Orso Bruno – the most unjustly underrated album in the entire discography, especially by the same author who has never proposed any tracks live.
Overall rating: 10
The masterpiece of the album: Jodi E La Scimmietta
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