Pooh
Tropico del nord

LA RECENSIONE

1. Dear Stranger
2. What Do You Say About Me
3. Letter from East Berlin
4. Great Expectations
5. Passport to the Stars
6. Only Voices
7. Midnight for You
8. It's True
9. Breakfast in New York
10. Tropics of the North

The first album of the so-called "exotic trilogy" by Pooh, "Tropics of the North" goes down in the history of Italian music for being the first album released on CD. In the new format version, there is one more song than the LP, which is "Breakfast in New York." Aside from this record, however, the album presents itself as a step down compared to the previous "Buona Fortuna" and opens a series of not-so-compelling records. The best of Pooh is over, and the choice to record albums in remote corners of the planet represents the group's desire to explore other paths. In this case, the recording took place in the Antilles Islands, even if a thematic search does not necessarily correspond to a musical one, leaving the album generally an "Italian" product. After 31 years, the most memorable tracks are "Letter from East Berlin," musically with wave tendencies and textually committed, clearly addressing the theme of the division of the city that symbolized the Cold War; "Great Expectations," like a novel by Charles Dickens, a song with a structure still from the '70s recently reintroduced in concerts; and the title-track, which closes the album and represents the return home after the journey. Among the gems to discover, there is "Only Voices," sung without instruments and where the Four highlight the vocal blend. From a technical standpoint, the novelty besides the format is the use of the Fairlight CMI sampler by leader Roby Facchinetti.

An honest product, before the decline.