Patrizia Laquidara
Funambola

"Because the step of a tightrope walker on his taut rope
is among the most beautiful and poetic things a man
can encounter by looking up"

Perhaps the tightrope walker was actually an angel... And perhaps that angel fell to earth...

Patrizia Laquidara, Catanese artist but, as she defines herself, "citizen of the world", is at her second studio work. I must admit that I am not deeply familiar with her first, "Indirizzo portoghese", except for the wonderful "Mielato" song heard on the radio and immediately loved madly.

Patrizia's voice is wonderful, warm, enveloping, cheeky, and sensual as few in the contemporary Italian scene. Her songs are strongly influenced by the tradition of Brazilian music and manage to unleash enormous sensuality and freshness. The gems of the album are "Addosso" and "Noite Luar" which have already been part of the soundtrack of "Manuale d'amore".

Worth listening to.

P.S.: Patrizia is beautiful!