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I am shamelessly biased!!! Vasco has marked my life for over 20 years, both good and bad moments have had his music as a soundtrack, his concerts from 1987 (the year of my first concert) to today have always been great moments of detachment from life's various problems: a few years ago, he opened the live shows quoting Spinoza and saying that against those who are only concerned with the exercise of power, his task was to bring joy: and that's how it is, that's what you feel going to listen to him live if at least once you've seen yourself reflected in one of his songs.
He Vasco is still here, as he says in the single "Eh già" and for me that's a great fortune, to continue to hear his voice, his shouts, and also the much-criticized by the fake Sunday intellectuals ohhh ehhhh......thank you Vasco for still being here and despite everything, despite the success and the industry that is behind you. Sincerity remains with him, the honesty to bare himself as he is: this is the sense of that unofficial video that appeared on YouTube for the lead single.
Let's talk about the album: I like it!!! "Vivere o niente" is the piece that we fans have been waiting for about ten years: it reminds me of "Stupendo", a gem contained in "Gli spari sopra": it's AN SCREAM of anger from start to finish, one of those pieces that gets inside you from the first listen. "Manifesto futurista della nuova umanità" is another noteworthy piece: here is the Vasco provocateur, the Vasco of "Portatemi Dio", the one that hasn't been heard for some time, ironic in the way of singing, here he is still....eh gia!!!. I also like the fun pieces of this album: "Sei pazza di me" and especially "Non sei quella che eri", full Ac/Dc style reminding the intellectual musicologists that rock is also fun and not just reflection, in both pieces as in "Maledetta ragione" I pleasantly find many keyboards, something not heard in Vasco's rock pieces for a while, and it takes me back to the 80s.
"Starò meglio di così" is another one I like: far from Vasco's repertoire, a bit folk with an excellent arrangement (a bit Dire Straits....oh my, what have I ever said...). "L’aquillone" is also a great piece, very poetic as an imaginary, and lovely is the final self-citation of "Vado al massimo". "Dici che" is the piece by Gaetano Curreri: you can tell, the arrangement is beautiful, and also the hidden citation of Radiohead's Karma Police (the howling "siren"....) which Vasco surely likes a lot. I also like "Prendi la strada" with that blues piano in the middle of the piece, and I also like the ghost track "Mary Luise" a bit "Susanna" a bit "Sono ancora in coma", deliberately light in the text following a rock and roll canon. Steff Bruns also ventured as a music writer in "Stammi vicino," a song that contains a great guitar solo (after all, what else was expected with Steff...)
Welcome back Vasco....we love you and want to hear you sing for a long time.....?
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