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Rating: "Your machine gun is a double bass shooting you in the face" sang our thirty years ago.
Today, paraphrasing, we would say it's "a piano tickling your ears". Indeed, listening to many of these songs reinterpreted on the piano by one of the historic leaders of the Milanese band has a certain effect. How can one remain indifferent to certain emotions we thought were dead and buried (alongside the late singer of Area, the lamented Stratos, always be praised) which resurface here among the hundreds of notes, reminding us of an epic, joyful, and revolutionary past now too distant to be only approached and understood by the new generations. This classical reinterpretation, recorded at the Maenza castle in 2004, in a somewhat commemorative, salon-like, and slightly bourgeois setting, clashes a bit with the 'wild' and angry nature of these compositions, which were born precisely to fight all of this.
But we know, time changes many things, tempers the edges, softens the tones, and even in the face of this small incongruity, there’s nothing left but to give a benevolent smile, reminding us of those much-maligned '70s that "had a lot to say" because it was thought "there was much to do".
And between a tribute and a very free reinterpretation, here and there emerges a riff, a melody that makes our hearts jump (above all "La mela di Odessa") but lasts only a few moments. The time to sit back peacefully to listen again to these stories of missed revolutions and to realize that the same revolutions have been digested, chewed, and reworked, today only good as pseudo-commercial icons for the Unity Festivals or as gadgets from some newspaper stand.
With all due respect to Demetrio and everything he truly believed in.
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