Edoardo Bennato - Sono Solo Canzonette (2003) [FLAC]
Label: Ricordi – CDMRL 6487
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: Italy
Released: 2003
Genre: Pop, Rock
Style: Pop Rock
He is considered one of the greatest Italian rockers, a genre he has often combined with blues and folk. He was the first Italian singer to fill the Milanese San Siro stadium with more than sixty thousand people, on July 19, 1980; and the first Italian singer to perform, in 1976, at the Montreux Jazz Festival (the previous year the first Italian group, the Agorà, had performed.
Among other firsts, Edoardo Bennato also has that of being the first artist to have released two albums only 15 days apart, in March 1980, Uffà! Ugh! and Sono solo canzonette (twelve years later Bruce Springsteen will carry out the same operation with the two albums Human Touch and Lucky Town), and that of having been, in 1974, the first Italian singer to be labeled by punk journalists.
Guitarist, harmonica player and singer, after a London experience he began to propose himself as an orchestra man playing at the same time, in addition to the guitar and the harmonica, also tambourines, kazoo and other percussions. The influence of rock greats (Dylan above all) and pop music immediately characterized his character and his music, in which, however, Mediterranean and Neapolitan influences could not be missing.
Among the other authors who inspired the work, we should also mention Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jimmy "Hammond" Smith, Paul Anka and Neil Sedaka. His lyrics are often ironic and irreverent and bitingly turned against power, at any level and in any form it manifests.
Tracklist:
1 Ma Che Sarà... 4:35
2 Il Rock Di Capitan Uncino 5:40
3 Nel Covo Dei Pirati 5:17
4 Dopo Il Liceo Che Potevo Far 2:52
5 L'Isola Che Non C'è 4:00
6 Rockoccodrillo 6:15
7 Tutti Insieme Lo Denunciam 4:56
8 Sono Solo Canzonette 5:14
Companies:
Recorded At – Stone Castle Studios
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Dischi Ricordi S.p.A.
Licensed From – G. Ricordi & C. S.p.A.
Made By – ims Manufacturing
Credits:
Arranged By, Directed By – Antonio Sinagra (tracks: 4, 7), Eugenio Bennato (tracks: 3)
Backing Vocals – Julie Scott, Raffaella Esposito*, Pino Ferro, Silvio Pozzoli, Umberto Salice, Wanda Radicchi
Baritone Saxophone – Orazio Morti (tracks: 4, 7)
Bass – Paolo Donnarumma
Cello – Nando Caccaviello (tracks: 3)
Drums – Alfredo Golino (tracks: 4, 7), Ellade Bandini
Engineer – Carlo Martenet (tracks: 4, 7), Mario Carulli (tracks: 4, 7), Maurizio Rosselli (tracks: 3)
Guitar – Claudio Bazzari, Lucio Bardi, Toni Di Mauro*
Lyrics By – Edoardo Bennato
Music By – Edoardo Bennato
Percussion – Rosario Jermano (tracks: 3), Tony Cercola
Performer [Cromormo], Wind [Ciaramella] – Bob Fix
Photography By – Luca Greguoli*
Piano – Ernesto Vitolo
Producer – Alessandro Colombini, Edoardo Bennato
Recorded By – Ezio De Rosa
Recorded By [Assistant] – Mario Lovallo
Soprano Saxophone – Edith Martelli (tracks: 4, 7)
Synthesizer – Aldo Banfi
Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – Enzo Avitabile
Viola – Renato Riccio (tracks: 3)
Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica, Kazoo – Edoardo Bennato
