Roberto Angelini
L'Era dell'Apparenza

LA RECENSIONE

The Era of Appearance is an EP released by Angelini only on the Web. It is a successor to its predecessor, "La Vista Concessa," and contains tracks that were initially excluded when the album was released in January 2009, songs "loaned" to others, and tracks published on various compilations.

There is passion. You can feel it right away. And there is an unbridled desire to believe in fairy tales, in enchanting games, in amusement parks for people of all ages, and in the hope that May never ends. This is Angelini.
Here, bitterness coexists with hope. Disenchantment, wounds, cracks mix with hope, with awakening, with the immense openings of love in a continuous spiral that literally fascinates. Taste of honey and absinthe. But let’s not disturb it.

Time and Peace has the Drake-like taste in its beautiful initial tunings; Never Change is a well-executed musical game (the music evolves continuously over the same words) that hints at atmospheres dear to Pink Floyd, and Heat here wears a precise suit that brings the song the dignity it deserves. Uranus is my favorite track, the one that dissociates the most from the "song" form to take rugged paths where the atmosphere becomes dense and it becomes beautiful to get lost. The title track is a splendid swing between a measured condemnation of appearance and a wish for those who believe in much better days, despite everything. Imagination, the mainstay.
This concept resides in the beauty of Angelini's entire work: the unbridled desire to always believe in it, to kiss, almost deify the wounds, to rise and always depart. After a trample, the rebloom.

An isolated valley is the EP in question and, in my opinion, this makes this work even more precious. Now we await the umpteenth musical shift, the new restart, another breath to be released, for the new work that should come to light quite soon according to rumors circulating online, leaving however praise for what this artist has created so far, despite the thousand contradictions, the ups and downs, the splendid outbursts, with an undefined talent.