Pacifico
Dolci Frutti Tropicali

Two years after "Musica Leggera", Pacifico, real name Gino De Crescenzo, returns to the music scene with a new album, bringing with him his characteristic perfect soft music-poetry merge. An album written in complete solitude in off-season seaside locations; reflections, thoughts, considerations, and a subtle veil of melancholy are the main features of "Dolci Frutti Tropicali". Upon first listening, all the songs are beautiful, and the overall result makes this album better than the previous one, even though the last one, and also the first, have a certain quality that sets them apart from the entire Italian music scene.

The first track is titled "L'incompiuta", and it is nothing more than a reflection on the continuous search one encounters during life, with a suitcase full of experiences but leading to the need for new stimuli to, so to speak, "fill the always half-empty glass." The title track "Dolci Frutti Tropicali" is the quintessential description of the album's atmosphere: a beach, the sea, and the sky; a subtle love song perfectly composed and sung. "Caffè" is the title of the third track, it's the wake-up song, when one wonders what awaits them in front of the coffee cup; a beautiful duet with the sweet voice of Petra Magoni. The fourth song is titled "L'altalena", and it also has a beautiful love text that in a few words describes everything one would like to say to their beloved; the musical rhythm is like a swing that comes and goes, almost like heartbeat. "L'inverno", the fifth track, talks about a love that has ended, between a clock stopped in past times, and the sad reality of something that is no more. The sixth song is titled "Da Qui", a beautiful song sung together with the great Samuele Bersani, highlighting the stark contrast between "flying" with the mind like an airplane, and living the reality "on the ground" like a slow train in the monotony of the days; here the quality of the CD increases even more, and after this song, it moves to "Nuvola", the seventh song, which appears as a letter written to the most beautiful cloud that when it smiles looks like a star. The eighth and ninth tracks titled "Ferro e Limatura" and "Punti Fermi" respectively are perhaps the most complex of all, and they also highlight through multiple reflections the atmosphere of tranquility that characterizes the album. The ninth track is about 15 minutes long and includes three songs: "Polifemo", "L'elefante", and "Made in Cina", three "particular" songs of considerations between the search for the night and in the night, the comparison with an elephant that wants to go away from everything even if it can't, and a reflection on loneliness and pens made in China. The album closes with the "radio-edit" of the title track.

Overall, an excellent work worthy of being listened to over and over again, the talented Pacifico has struck again with his incomparable style; an album that deserves a Tenco award.