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Rating: There are artists who get on the train of fame and success, while there are others just as talented, if not more, who help the former catch that train but end up staying behind, waiting for the next one and the next one.
Silvano Chimenti, a self-taught guitarist from Taranto, born in 1947, is one of these gentlemen.
He belongs to that breed of purebred musicians that includes names like Sandro Brugnolini, Piero Umiliani, Giovanni Tommaso.-
3 LPs to his credit, including this second one from 1970: Viaggio attraverso i problemi dell'uomo: droga entirely instrumental (As the undersigned likes it, without so many heart-wrenching vocal laments about lost loves and consequent tears)
As the saying goes, "a man must be a man," the music must be music, it must reek of music!
As a session man, a virtuoso of the 12-string guitar, he collaborated and recorded with people of the caliber of Mina, P. Pravo, L. Dalla, D. Modugno, G. Morandi, C. Baglioni, O. Vanoni, A. Branduardi, E. Morricone, L. Bacalov, F. De André and several other big names of the Italian music scene.
In some pieces by G. Morandi like “C’era un ragazzo che come me, amava i Beatles e i Rolling Stones” or “Se perdo anche te” and “Un mondo d’amore,” there's the handiwork of Silvano Chimenti.
He played on more than 3,000 records, a pioneer and the living memory of everything and everyone that hovered in the musical field of Rome in those times, a living Techetè.
This LP of his, Drug, is part of a larger series of albums entitled "Journey through the problems of man" all with the same cover, addressing different themes ranging from titles like Traffic/Work/Poverty/Neurosis and indeed... Drug.
It is the prototype of a record with the most diverse influences, revolutionary for its time, ranging from Beat Lounge Psychedelic to Progressive Rock to Jazz.
I fell in love with it at first listen, only to make it mine, mine, so to speak, as it's impossible to find except on the Tube.
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