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The second season of 33 rounds – Italian masters, the series Sky Art created by Except and dedicated to the best records of Italian music, has only one protagonist: the mixer. It is through the channels and traces of this badog instrument that the idea of authentic music, the story of a time of different and inspired musical creation, the memory of the protagonists of often adventurous and unconventional stories are transmitted. destined to become a national artistic heritage. .
And when at the center of history lies the personality and gaze of Vasco Rossi, the dreamer who has turned his reflections on the art of living into songs that have become a common emotional legacy, the result does not can be that excellent.
33 rounds of Italian masters resumes on Wednesday, November 28 with the story of But what do you want it to be a song?, the first album of Vasco Rossi, released on May 25, 1978 in the indifference of the record and the press (but not the Italian army which, a few days after his release, Vasco calls for military service in Salerno, where he is released immediately) recorded at the Fonoprint in Bologna, produced by a label specializing in smooth, waltz and mazurka titles, Borgatti by Paolino Borgatti (which opens for Vasco a special brand, Jeans Records) and published by Targa / SAAR.
A record that sells about 2000 copies, but marks Vasco's entry into a professional recording studio, after years spent at the Teatro Evento in Bologna and behind the microphones of the free radio he founded in Zocca, Punto Radio. "I wrote the songs for fun, I did not believe it too much," says Vasco sitting behind the mixer in Fonoprint's historic recording studio with Maurizio Biancani, the engineer of the sound that remembers "He opened the door the day he came to knock on the door" And to Gaetano Curreri, the friend of the province of Modena who convinced him to become a singer and made his debut: "This album is my identity card," says Curreri. If you take a closer look you will notice: "Born at: But what do you want it to be a song?". I pursued it for a while because I knew that he had something to tell through the songs. We did everything at home, he wrote and I put a good copy. Vasco smiles and summarizes in one of his historical phrases his unconscious greatness: "Hey, we do not mythologize.The songs can also be perfect, but it is said that those who wrote them are a symbol of perfection. love even if you do not deserve it. "
Maurizio Biancani opens the mixing channels on the first track of the album, Our relationshipsurprising, realistic and disenchanted story of a love that ends, and the look of the three protagonists is illuminated. 33 rounds of Italian masters manages to tell the music through the silences, leaving room for the emotions of those who were there. Biancani goes to the discovery of sounds and arrangements, from mellotron to choirs and harmonized guitars, Gaetano Curreri tells every detail of an exciting and often confusing, yet incredibly effective creative process to open a new path to music Italian: "There are Queen Harmies, keyboard flights for Pink Floyd, Ginger Baker drum rolls. There is all our culture, our listening of the time, the progressive rock of the 70s to the sounds of polka, the waltz and agricultural fairs of our peasant world ".
Vasco Rossi silently observes, immersed in the memories of an era away from the glory of the stadiums, where he learned to use music to express his rebellious and poetic nature and refine his unique way of telling stories. stories. "We were early," he said. "There was an ironic mockery of the busy singer-songwriter of the time, because I just did not believe it so much.In my opinion, the provocation keeps the consciousness awake and is useful, as well as my conscience, which sometimes falls asleep.
When the guitar arpeggio Jenny is crazyVasco remembers this instrument that sparked the spark: "To Martin, I wrote all the songs with that". Biancani said to him: "But you also played, this introduction on the record is yours". "Ah, so I'm also a guitarist!" Rit Vasco, "Jenny is crazy it's the story of my nineteenth nervous breakdown, as the Rolling Stones were singing. " But what do you want it to be a song? goes out in the special edition of December 7 (also in the packaging) with the reenactment of the original work and a book written by the critic Marco Mangiarotti, to tell the birth of the writing Vasco rock, his unique way of exploring the theme of love, the ironic look at society, since the theater of songs Ambarabaciccicoccò in which he badyzes the politics of his time in a precise and unforgiving way to the pure emotion of Hello; Hi, played by Gaetano Curreri at the piano at the end of the episode.
Stefano Senardi, consultant of the series and guest of the episode, accompanied by Marco Mangiarotti and bbadist of the time, Giovanni Oleandri, sums up the debut of the singer-songwriter Vasco, his delicacy to describe the situations and the manner in which he immortalized the real ones he sings: "He perfectly understood the rule of the first disc: to write songs according to what is happening around you".
The 33 Giri Italian Masters series continues every Wednesday with five great records of Italian music, Lindberg from Ivano Fossati, Paris Milonga by Paolo Conte, Latin lover by Gianna Nannini, My free song by Lucio Battisti e Terra Mia by Pino Daniele.
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