Pino Daniele back with a strong and definite statement of its identity and its roots can be seen very clearly from the title of the album and is confirmed in personal style, never betrayed by the market rules, which he imbued each of the ten new songs.
Written, arranged and produced by Daniel My name is Pino Daniele E Vivo Here is an album that sinks in the past, rediscovering the much-loved seventies blues and a taste for the Neapolitan dialect, but starts at the same time a bridge to the future through electronic experimentation. The result is an unusual mix of influences in which jazz, pop and electro mix of hot tunes skillfully to a predominant south across various latitudes, and languidly travels from Naples to Havana to Africa.
hardly be characterized as innovative album, however, the new work of Pino Daniele looks pretty solid confirmation of skill of one of the most talented Italian artists, accompanied for the occasion by many star guess, since this brilliant incipit given to brilliant Back Home, colorful and humorous critique of "you do not do that shit all day" to the sound of driving bass entrusted to the famous Brazilian musician Alfredo Paixao, who returns as a co-author and second voice even in the sixth track of 'album, the rousing Mardi Gras.
Continue with sound and sensual Caribbean dell'accattivante Rhum And Coca, yet another declaration of love in Cuba, then wrap in order to leave the luxury of two collaborations with jazz Giorgia, Day and Night, Legends of the Fall and the beautiful, poignant "memory of a love that continues to travel in the head" embellished with a long and exciting final solo guitar gypsy. And yet Lafricano, a playful and sensual ballad swings before the final hymn of pride Naples that the collaboration of his drummer Tony Esposito in Ischia Rising Sun with its hypnotic "Sceta" that breaks through the electric guitar solos and vocals arabesque and Paso Napoletano soft fusion of verse in Italian and English as a backdrop to a sound that blends together in a curious ethnic and electro.
A pleasant and enjoyable album, filled with the warmth of the sun of the south, and crossed by a reassuring voice in his being unique, that we will soon hear live, during a tour which will include visits to the theater Politeama in Palermo on April 23, and the Metropolitan di Catania il 26
