Un fachiro al cinema - Paolo Conte
Hey Salvinas, what do you think about sending me back to the movies AT LEAST? HUH?! What does your boss think?
 
Barclay James Harvest - Child Of The Universe
When you didn't have to necessarily do jazz rock or shamelessly prog to create great stuff 🚀
 
1st: LAZY
After many years of hard work and a masterpiece behind him called I lupi, Ivan decides to aim even higher: he summons the best musicians of the time and skyrockets the budget for the recordings... and the result speaks for itself. Pigro is an extraordinary album, consisting of 8 tracks that managed to bring one of the first gusts of rock to the ears of all Italians, with sounds that are perfectly crafted and always original. The role of the Trojan horse goes to Monna Lisa, introduced by a mechanical and driving riff that tells the story of a man who decides to steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre to destroy it; in this piece, all the characteristics of the artist are present, with a surreal and lively text, and a powerful rock that explodes in the chorus to the tune of Monna Lisa. After such a beginning, the album delivers its two main ballads: Sabbia del deserto, featuring a masterful brass arrangement, narrates the life of an artist who (survives) in his provincial town where he reunites with his girlfriend and relatives, who are perpetually anxious about him; the second one is Paolina, a slightly Vendittiano portrayal of the daily struggles and desires of a girl at the center of certain men's attention. Suddenly, one of the most successful pieces in the singer-songwriter's repertoire materializes in the middle of the album, introduced by a powerful and aggressive guitar riff and a hard and precise drum beat that immediately create an atmosphere of unease: this is Fango, a gruesome story of a 21-year-old who commits murder. The lyrics are disarmingly beautiful, making you feel as if you're standing in front of the young murderer, and the arrangement reaches one of the highest levels in Graziani's guitar work, giving strength and grit to the chorus and creating a sound enchantment that straddles the gruesome and the magical. Digging into the B-side, we find a very particular song, the title track Pigro: built on an apparently simple and catchy acoustic guitar progression, it narrates the narrow-minded way of thinking of certain bourgeois categories who read book after book but can’t even tell the difference between a branch and a leaf; a small and mouthwatering classic of Ivan's repertoire. After the slow folk festival in b-Milano, poking fun at the progressive groups of that time in a rock-folk style, comes another of the artist's best songs: Gabriele D'Annunzio, a title that is merely a red herring since it talks about a rude and uncivilized farmer who has little to do with the poet; the arrangement consists almost exclusively of acoustic guitar, spiced up in some passages only with flutes. Ivan’s greatness lay precisely in this: he could enchant and surprise even using simple and basic arrangements in the style of the singer-songwriter movement of the time. This small work closes with another ballad called Scappo di casa: this time it’s the piano that supports a good part...
 
Jan Johansson - Visa från Utanmyra (Official Audio)

Jan Johansson - from "Jazz på svenska"
1964 (Megafon)

#jazzlegends
 
Benny Golson Jam For Bobbie

Benny Golson - from "Gone With Golson"
1959 (New Jazz)

#jazzlegends
 
Tom Waits - "I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You"
I've always had a soft spot for this sensitive soul. And drunk
 
Since I Met You - The Brood
@[imasoulman], best wishes with my beloved ones...
 
Tutti a casa - L'Armistizio

Luigi Comencini (1 of 3)
"Tutti a casa" - (1960)

#35mm
 
There’s like a new feeling
That chases me and presents itself
In this house, in this story
On this nameless day
Like an ancient enthusiasm
While in the middle of this square
I’m laughing at the thought of myself
A beautiful girl
One should translate themselves
Find a good publisher
To then cut down the speeches
That over time are just noise
For some time now I prefer
To go to bed early
But in the morning when it’s fresh
Early in the morning I go out, I go out
And I head toward the river
That I like to remember
An old friend and his stories
That made me laugh
Your smile and the word
That made me feel good
Like now that I get lost
In front of this river
And I find empty streets
And thoughts without anything
Without anything different
Than my wasted time
I have a passionate heart
Almost cheerful, almost sad
That almost always rests
On something that already exists
There’s like a new feeling
That finds me disoriented
In the small details
Of a beautiful day
Like an ancient enthusiasm
While the wall of a house
Is stretching my shadow
That stretches and rests
I’ve been preferring for a while
To go to bed early
But at night sometimes I dream
And at night sometimes I go out, I go out
And I like to remember
That old romantic movie
Where he was so handsome
That the hours flew by
Your smile and your word
That made me feel good
Like now that I get lost
In front of this river
And I find empty streets
And thoughts without anything
Without anything different
Than my wasted time
With an ancient enthusiasm
In the middle of this square
I’m laughing at the thought of myself
A beautiful girl
For some time now I go
To bed always early
But in the morning when it’s fresh
Early in the morning I go out, I go out
Ornella Vanoni - Una bellissima ragazza
 
Tangerine (Remaster)

50 ... even the three... damn it...
 
Continuing the brilliant idea of @[Martello], I would like to pay a sort of "tribute" to a great artist like Ivano Fossati, who was (and is) one, that is, a ranking of his albums (from 1981 to 2003) from the least beautiful to the best...

N°9: "Le Città Di Frontiera" (1983).
Year of our Lord 1983. The year in which many singer-songwriters released their definitive swan song. But this certainly cannot be said for Fossati: with singer-songwriter music now in a deep crisis, he manages to take another small step forward and, while still relying on "rock" arrangements, the depth of the songs begins to change, and obviously for the better. What else to say? The path to masterpieces is the right one. Now all we have to do is wait...
Overall rating 7.5

The masterpiece of the album: La musica che gira intorno
 
Friends (Remaster) And here we are, 50!
 
Tiziano Ferro - RIMMEL
I don't know, it came out about twenty days ago and it's already annoyed the hell out of me (and not just me, I think).
#diteloallozioiside