I started listening to music very early in my life. I have never followed television programs with pop music, and maybe I was even wrong because now I realize that I also lost some beautiful artistic genius, but so it was. When I was ten … Continue readingWhen music is comforting now and will be comforting later
Ho cominciato molto presto ad ascoltare musica. Non ho mai seguito programmi televisivi con musica leggera e forse ho pure sbagliato, perché’ ora mi sono accorso che ho anche perso delle belle perle artistiche, ma cosi è stato. Quando avevo dieci o undici anni, caddi … Continue reading“Did I dream, you dreamed about me?” Quando la musica segna la tua personalita’.
As I wrote somewhere else this morning, “you don’t always have something to say. You can’t always say something. In the last week, I didn’t have much to say, but the little I had to write, I couldn’t even write.” But from today, I am … Continue readingI need to express myself with a song this morning. To have a positive feeling you need the right tone and I think I got one to show to you.
Elbow with one of the best albums of the year… one of the best songs they never wrote The roses are heavyWith rain and for agesveil after veilAnd the pictures are whisperingThe ones we belong toCaught in foreverStartled and proud, all laughing together and babe, … Continue readingI can’t get over the warmth that Elbow’s music radiates
By Massimo Usai (Italian Version Here) I approached the Scottish Mogwai in 1997. Yes, with their first album, the immortal “Young Team”. End of the millennium, a dream in the drawer to change my life. Music languidly entered every corner of my body. “Yes! I … Continue readingThe World is a Better Place with this Album from Mogwai.
Inspired by the “Desert Island Discs” series on BBC Radio4, and the fact that I turned 60 yesterday, I decided to make my own list to celebrate my transition to this new phase of my life. In my life I put the passion for music … Continue readingMy personal “Desert Island Discs”
There are inexplicable things sometimes. Mark Hollis’s story is one of them. In the 1980s, with his group (I Talk Talk) he had reached heights of commercial success that opened the doors to an Olympus of fame and wealth that is difficult to give up. … Continue readingThe Best Records of My Life: Mark Hollis– (Album)
There are albums in the history of popular music that is defined as “basic”. They are often essential in the history of the artist I’m considering today for the “album of my life”. Still, they are usually fundamental in the general context of the … Continue readingThe Best Records of My Life: Eels – Beautiful Freak –
Wake up, you sleepy headPut on some clothes, shake up your bedPut another log on the fire for meI’ve made some breakfast and coffeeLook out my window, what do I seeA crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to meAll the nightmares came … Continue readingThe Records of My Life: David Bowie – Hunky Dory –
When at first I thought of the list of “fundamental records in my life”, the first title that came to my mind was precisely this. I don’t think there is a better record than Dylan have never recorded. Also, I have difficulty thinking of more … Continue readingThe Records of my Life: Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks –
