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Rating: First double album for what is one of the most refined singer-songwriters in our country.
After an album like "Da solo", which I think was not completely successful, where he seemed a bit stretched, Capossela finally returns with an album full of novelties. First of all, the two-disc format which does not weigh down the listening, and the use of choirs and orchestra in addition to his usual fascinating awkward instrumentation.
Let's come to the content of the double CD: although the album cannot be considered a concept album, it is fully encompassed in the title, "Marinai, profeti e balene" because it is precisely about this. In the first disc, the lyrics are extracted from books like "Moby Dick" mostly, and then there's the already published "Polpo d'amor" with music by Calexico while in the second, all lyrics are original by Capossela, enriched not only by his usual collaborators but also by friends like Greg Cohen on double bass and the splendid guitar of Marc Ribot. The atmosphere of this work harkens back to past eras, and if we close our eyes, we can even smell the sea when in the background, amidst one note and another, we hear seagulls chirping.
With this work, Capossela demonstrates that he has not exhausted his creative vein as I thought after the previous album and gives us a record, actually two, that grows listen after listen and can be counted among his best, in my opinion, second only to "Canzoni a manovella".
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