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Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - live in Crespellano 25/9/2010

for the first time I attended a concert of the Tour exactly 37 years ago. I was younger I was younger all the spectators at the concert on Saturday night, they were younger: those of the Bank. But no one looked older .

Much of the audience probably went back to a gig after years and years, suddenly younger. The "boys" of the Bank, on stage, at no time have DECLARED age. Incredibles.

While we must give up the last time Rodolfo Maltese (which probably has imposed changes to the lineup), the band got in a square packed an hour and a half high level , exploring almost entirely "Darwin", with some points in the first album ("Metamorphosis", "RIP", "Trace"), the only "I do not break" (presented as an encore) from "I am born free and" spider "from" As a last supper . Nothing from other albums.

Calderoni Right on time, acrobatic Nocenzi, and this was known, but what really impressed was Frank James whose voice has lost none enamel, with age, but rather nuances found and dramatic accents that have greatly enriched the expressive capabilities. Exemplary in this sense a fantastic "750,000 years ago love."

But members said the "historic" is worth it to spend a few words about the musicians who now assist them. Tiziano punctual and resourceful friends on bass (but not exciting sounds), effective without overdoing the guitarist Philip Marchegiani and valuable with its counterpoint to Alexander Papotto clarinet and sax. All fell perfectly, however, in peculiar atmosphere of the band. A concert

other times, in the end, a proposal for compelling music out of the norm today's business (who today would never listen and enjoy complicated tracks 12 minutes?) that, as was "once", it gave space to the right virtuosity, inventiveness and creativity. All things today are not part of the music disposable "by MTV," but fans of vintage men wanted to stand exactly like this: last night as 35 years ago.

rating 8

Lucio Mazzi

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CAT STEVENS - Saturnight-Live in Tokyo - 1974

It 'really impossible to choose between the beautiful album of Cat Stevens in the early '70s. Among the "Mona bona Jackon," "Tea for the Tillerman, Teaser and Firecat, Catch Bull at Four" and "Foreigner" is simply impossible to determine which is best: are all little masterpieces. So I chose some Solomon, opting for a little-known , gorgeous, live '74 that actually represents a collection of the best of the early years of the singer.

And that, more than any sterile collection, offers the advantage of perhaps the best versions of those in the study (still to be had). Album, released quietly and almost impossible to find (but the web is a mine that rarely disappoints), in fact, little is known, however, that what counts, what interests us, we it tells the song in it.

Here is the lineup: "Wild World" "Oh Very Young", "Sitting," "Where Do The Children Play," "Lady d'Arbanville," "Another Saturday Night," "Hard Headed Woman," " Peace Train, "" Father and Son, "" King of Trees "," A Bad Penny "," Bitterblue. It's enough to completely describe the universe of music and art of this strange character representing (he was born in London from greek father and Swedish mother) a strange melting pot of cultures and influences.

The Cat Stevens we know and love is curiously including between "two other" Cat Stevens with "our" have little to do. The "first" had released two albums of pop and beat between '67 and '68, before being nailed to two years in a hospital bed from tuberculosis.

was released from the hospital singer delicate moments that have remained in history and in our hearts: "Father and Son," "Lady d'Arbanville" dedicated to his ex, the painter Patty Arbanville, "Morning Has Broken "" Wild World "," Sitting, "" Where do the children play "...

Finally here's the late 70's third appearance that sonvolgendo millions of fans, throwing to the winds name, artistic identity, rights to old records and, ultimately, a lifetime to call Jusuf Islam, devote himself to Islam and return to be talked about only in connection with statements death sentence to an offender writer to think differently, and love to "brother" Sadam Hussein.

Obviously we are interested in the second (and perhaps the first, just as curiosity). And this is a live good compendium of the best phase of the Cat we love (in the second half of '70 would have produced album is not the highest, indeed, and recently came back without exaltation). If you fly over on

guilty lacking a fundamental episode ("Morning Has Broken," so to speak) this live, despite its short duration, leads Stevens at his best.

In the new arrangements, drier, more brilliant, his songs shine like little gems . Just a few sounds and a few tools left in the foreground the poetry and sensitivity of these songs.

was the direction in which Stevens would have to work, but since the later episodes, made the mistake of stifling their vein with too many sounds and too many instruments. Until the turn of religion that would have wiped out too.

rating 8

Lucio Mazzi

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Tito Schipa Jr. - Orpheus 9-1970

Forty years after the premiere, and two years was being, in its cinematografca, the final event of the 65th International Film Festival of Venice, "Orfeo 9" is presented for the first time in a new production at a theater opera. Will take place on 4, 5 and 7 December 2010 at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.

"Orfeo 9", "rock opera he composed the late 60s by Tito Schipa Jr, son of one of the greatest tenors of 900, builds on the myth of Orpheus , delivering this unhappy love affair in a context typical of the period in which the work was conceived and implemented.

Orpheus is a guy who lives in a commune of hippies mark the edge of a big city, and just the city, with its paranoia and alienation looks like hell in which the protagonist loses, look for and definitely lose you again Eurydice.

on this basic structure engage ideas and digressions that touch all the issues at the center of attention in quell'immediato "post '68" : life in common and hitchhiking as symbols of a youthful freedom soon conquered, a strange-bomb (with the A inside a circle to draw all too clearly the symbol of anarchy) that terrorizes the "right-thinking people in the city, the false illusions of artificial paradise, lack of communication and alienation of city life as opposed to the simplicity of life and communion with nature, etc..

Everything to represent, today, the faithful mirror of an era , a "document" that can tell us much about what those years were crucial and how they were young they lived. But

"Orfeo 9" is primarily a musical , a rock opera, the first in the world, above even "Tommy", which should not, however, neglected two major aspects: the visual and Music.

The work was created for the theater, then they have been made into movies. This was sent at the time a couple of times by Rai, in the early '70s, before ending up on the back burner (also blame the 'unacceptable' first floor of a syringe). Schipa is the same time trying to be released on DVD clashes with the resistance of Renato Zero which owns the rights of its output. The result is that the DVD several times announced that never seems to come out (but most welcome await any denials).

Available to all today is, in addition to the must book about the making of the work published by Zone Press, the double CD that thirty years has never stopped to sell (a record) and that of work, collecting the songs.

Loved (all signed by Schipa, words and music, except for a couple of collaborations) that almost always have the quality to stand out from kinds prevailing in the 60s and 70s , to achieve a classic that will accept ago today, something that can not be said of much of the production of that period, strongly characterized by very firm and styles today ... very out of fashion.

Among the singers and musicians involved in the work, some young unknown (then) then that would enjoy great careers: Renato Zero Seller is a hallucination of happiness, Loredana Berte is part of the choir, the future dj is a bluesman Ronnie Jones lost in the alleys, Bill Conti (that went with Rocky fame and money) by the orchestrations ... We're now working

means obsolete dive atmosphere (today) and certainly fascinating, understand a little 'more of an era rich in cultural and social ideas and get acquainted with a work Art, however, of great value, too unjustly neglected.
rating 8
Lucio Mazzi

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MILES DAVIS - In A Silent Way - 1969

FLASHBACK
I am 15, my parents are in bed, smanetto with the TV and spout this trumpeter playing something incredible. With him is my beloved Chick Corea ... catch a concert somewhere and finished in the arms of mother Rai somehow. I'm in a trance.

The next morning I rush in the record shop opposite the school and tell the clerk of this trumpeter with Chick Corea. She smiles with a knowing air and pulls me out "In a Silent Way . "It's new trinca!" He says, "just come out." Not true! The disc is out for a few years, but I do not know, I buy with my hard-earned 3500 pounds and taking it home with me.

And as the needle slides into the first groove, I start to walk down the quiet street of Miles. And maybe I have not stopped.

Then it was a wonder for music is so magic that it seems impossible ... and then I realized it was not just a matter of easy listening, but a abyssal depths. So impressed me the "names" (come on, on this record are all there: from Wayne Shorter to Chick, by Herbie Hancock John McLaughlin, Dave Holland from Zawinul: to come up with a jazzrock heaven), then I realized that was not only a question of names , but fingers of breath, heart and brain. We'd arrived after a thousand plays, but we'd arrived.

"In a Silent Way" is made very few notes (compared to the furious, blinding kaleidoscope of "Bitches Brew" that would come later, along the path of electric jazz, so to speak) but what gives depth and emotion are precisely the silences, the expectations between a note and another. Davis, immense, did not need to prove anything: it gives us no virtuosity for virtuosity if you want some scale to the speed of light, but intensity and expressiveness that is its only major .

And his fellow travelers are at play: we are talking about the characters of the show "look how good I am" would win all the first prize and instead understand perfectly that on a quiet street (so I like to translate the title rather than the more correct "So suilenzioso") is walking without a sound.

is an album of whispered phrases, this, forcing the ear to stretch to include: no screaming, on this record. Wiliams caress dishes with chopsticks, you almost never rests on drums, McLaughlin, Corea and Hancock slip on their keyboards, and you must listen carefully to understand their arpeggios just mentioned, Shorter and closes his eyes when breathing, serene in its content ... Davis is one who has often shouted, before and after, but here choose to express themselves subheading. Who knows why. Perhaps that day (February 18, 1969) did so. Maybe it was bitterly cold in New York, maybe it was snowing, who knows ...
vote 10
Lucio Mazzi