Gino D'Eliso
Ti Ricordi Vienna?

THE REVIEW

Gino D'Eliso, a Trieste by adoption, loves this city viscerally, a city that has always been on the edge between the East and the West. It is this constant living on a border that gives him rhythms and songs that were decidedly unusual for Italy at the time. Years later, the CCCP would try with greater success.

In his "Ti Ricordi Vienna?" (1977), he spans between Norman Beauties and Erasmus Nights or gets lost in the memories of a smoky Vienna. So, with a look towards Central Europe and his feet firmly planted in the Mediterranean, Gino D'Eliso proposes a new path for the Italian singer-songwriter school, although few had the courage to follow him. He will remain forever one of those artists difficult to categorize, often ahead of his time, always at odds with a system that alternately courts and discards you.

Listening to this work again after more than thirty years can’t help but make us smile and feel embarrassed when thinking about what dominated the Italian charts in that year. Gino D'Eliso is, like many other unfortunate authors, a shooting star attempting to illuminate the already stale Italian music industry, which is slowly heading towards oblivion.

After this work, which went almost unnoticed, Gino decided to leave the global music scene but not before dedicating his "Cattivi Pensieri" (1983) to us.

PS In 2001, he recorded "Europa Hotel"