2. Anime salve
Another 6 years since the last album. Still the ethnic experiments. But this time something changes radically. The tracks become textually more unpredictable, more elusive, and more melancholic. In short, it's not the lucid and tragicomic Don Raffaè, it's not Monti di Mola, it's not A dumenega. But it's also not the seafaring life of Creuza de ma or the critique in La domenica delle salme; it's a story: a story that lasts 46 minutes where complete outcasts of society appear. From the Prinçesa who lives as a woman in a male body to the Rom who have always wandered the world in Khorakane. From the anchovy fisherman to the feuding families. Everything is surrounded by a beastly aura that envelops the world while these outcasts live. The album greatly benefits from the presence of Ivano Fossati, who contributes much of himself (even in certain vocal parts), especially in the title track Anime salve, a song about solitary journeys (physical or mental, most likely the latter) towards an unknown destination that is nothing other than tomorrow, nothing other than the future. These stories pass like train cars; the lovers whose love ended up lost in a Genoese flood, the Cumbà given to a man who takes poor care of it, Nina who returns to being a child in a childhood memory. But in the end, they all pass together, in a final, desperate, and immeasurable prayer asking God to be just and to finally grant them a stroke of luck after so much suffering. But in the last 3 minutes, the words are gone. There is only music, which in its silence shows these souls being absolved, finally reaching happiness after a struggle with life. Thus ends Faber's last album: with an ascension of the lesser humanity, finally free.
Meticulous rating: 10 and honors
The gem among gems: Fabrizio De André - Anime salve (Still/Pseudo Video)