Patrizio Fariselli
Antropofagia

THE REVIEW

After listening to "Flautofonie" by Stratos, I was left speechless...

Tofani, with the experimental guitar work of "Indicazioni," and Fariselli, with the acrobatic "Antropofagia," enrich the solo projects of the Area household.

In 1977, Fariselli publishes six avant-garde piano compositions, where elements of exquisite craftsmanship are touched upon. Area is a project where each instrument has its role and nothing to claim. Everyone expresses themselves. They are a musical circus.

Fariselli's notes, the sketches, and the unrivaled arabesque runs on the VCS3 and piano intertwine wonderfully with Stratos' "vocal paradise."

"Roastbeef" and "Scorie" are two excellent examples of how anarchic and outside the box dear Patrizio is.

Countertimes, notes on Varese, odd rhythms.

"46 Re-Blocks" recalls the experimental pomp already experienced a few years earlier by Battiato in "Café Table Musik."

A Picasso painting. A surrealist painting that slowly tears apart, crumbling as if by magic. It is such a natural and spontaneous madness of the absence of rhythm.

Then it arrives to the mere smoky jazz, from early twentieth century billiard rooms, with the tribute to Lenny Tristano, the phenomenal Italian-American on the white and black keys.

"Antropofagia," on the other hand, is raw, dry. A ruthless provocation for the mind. A witch lingers with our ear/mind in cryptic discourses of ancient times. In the middle comes the contemporaneity and realism of the schizophrenic bursts of piano.

Do we flee into the spiral of fantasy, or do we settle for the cautious reality?