Simone Lo Porto
Un viaggio nel magico

LA RECENSIONE

How many today write songs driven by true inspiration? How many today write songs to capture the essence of a lived experience? If we start from these considerations, the new album by Simone Lo Porto, a globetrotter by vocation and emotional necessity, would deserve compliments regardless. Considering that “A Journey into the Magic” arrives nine years after the debut and is the result of a time span lived on the go, against rules and conventions, discovering Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia, and much of South America, we have the profile of an artist seeking the awareness of his music and escaping market logic. If we then add that the reggae touches of “Bela Mirela”, the echoes of Edoardo Bennato in “For those who believe”, the musicality of “Garibaldi dei due mondi eroe”, the Dire Straits that emerge in “The Image of You”, the elegant and romantic “Noir” with its exaggerated French, up to the thrilling closure of “The End is My Beginning”, inspired by the homonymous book by Tiziano Terzani, mentioned everywhere as one of the album's highlights, but it's impossible not to repeat, because it is a true gem of emotions. There is the important collaboration of guitarist Luca Galeano in this record, but “A Journey into the Magic” reveals the face of Simone Lo Porto, a sincere and talented artist, who in these plastic times, would deserve a significant showcase, to shout that true music is… elsewhere.