Italian music journalist, musician and radio host. Collaborator of the monthly Blow Up and author of the 2023 book 'Un gusto superiore. Il cantautorato progressivo italiano dal beat al bit.'

Author of 'Un gusto superiore' (Crac Edizioni, 2023). The book is 322 pages long, analyzes over two hundred records and includes a series of unpublished interviews. Described in reviews as a deep survey of fifty years of Italian progressive songwriting.

Piergiorgio Pardo is an Italian music journalist, musician and radio host, author of the 2023 book 'Un gusto superiore'. The book surveys fifty years of progressive Italian songwriting, analyzes over 200 records and includes unpublished interviews. Reviewer Catanga praises Pardo's knowledge and writing, calling it possibly the best recent music book.

For:Readers of music journalism, fans of Italian progressive songwriting, scholars of popular music and cultural history

 it is nothing but an attempt to “combine the ancient popular, classical, Mediterranean, later antifascist art of the bard with the rising tide of expressions and techniques linked to youth and anti-academic music: rock, electronic, ethnic, jazz. On this line, songwriting and progressive mesh, and it’s no coincidence that the first progressive murmurs in Italy can be traced to records linked to songwriting”.

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