LUCA SCHERANI

An even better satisfaction would be though for his music to also be thoroughly enjoyable, as Everyday's Life can have all the progressive pure moments you can freely imagine, but, musically, sounds quite raw. The mix of styles could, furthermore, shock some folks, not because Scherani is combining rock with electronic, fusion, New-Age and pop (just to name a few, the regular dose of experimentalism aggravates any calm wave), but because he's working on it chaotically. True, Scherani himself mentions a composite approach of vintage and modern keys (so, in reflection, vintage and modern music as well), together with a divided goal of combining the melodic and (super-)electrified musical sensations, but, in many ways, Everyday's Life falls below expectations.

The introduction to Everyday's Life is made with In The Darkness, having pretty good but also open-sourced keyboard works, finding a main theme which, amplified to a Genesis-like bang, really sounds like something. In The Morning becomes a first main piece of the album, with a light and cheery theme undergoing a mix of keyboards, drums and bass. Unfortunately the work fails with some quality issues, as a couple of programmed effects, along the entire random work that the keyboards do, isn't of a healthy imagination. In addition, at a half point, the electronic additional sounds (so far subtle and weak) turn into a shriek, so the piece suddenly starts hallucinating (not in avant-prog way, that's for sure). Overall In The Morning is cheesy and not so perfectly balanced. Next on, the album starts on some complicated measures, with Anonymous being strange and mysterious music at the same time - that doesn't mean, however, that the electronic fusion doesn't persist rather heavily and bluntly; on the safe side, the theme of the piece is a light jazz-funky kind of music. Scherani shows strong skills of multi-key "operating", too bad that only some calm moments, plus an interlude with guitars, are the sole good fibber. The title track is, given the nature of the album so far, substantially better (possibly even the best), creating a New-Age atmosphere in which some electronic manners are elegant and the rest of the keys play a light, open, but also ideal arrangement. A musical piece that contains, mainly, vibrations, dreamy cascades of harmony, rhythms and a healthy modern sound. And only a forgettable xylophone-ringing interlude.

Second part of the album porpoises with, at first, a different and mature piece, Il Dono being quite the composition in which the violin, acoustic guitars and slow drums bond could do very fine without any keyboard/electronic stuff, that sound either voile either sharp (playing pure piano lines, instead, is good, but of a minor, jazzy entry). A break moves the centrepiece to a sequential/experimental episode that disfigures the charming and cool previous rhythm, but also sounds like a musical jam of sorts. Solo Chi Ha Sofferto shuffles soft but on-driving music (which can mean a combination of romantic, light and artificial melodies), acoustic and electric guitars are fine, even the piece sticks together, yet Dallagiacoma's vocals are weaker than expected. Also expected by now, but still not impressive, is the experimental tangle, veining hard whilst sounding purely roach. In The Evening has a good chance of being the best and most passionate piece on the album for many, the "evening" being, in Scherani's vision, a dark, exciting, trippy time. After an electronic early sample and a synth-driving pulsation, the melody settles on techno-rock and a bit of poly-rock too, the piano doing wonders, while the arrangement of instruments is, forthrightly, good and strong. Soli, vocal and with a beautiful balance of background music (bass, guitars, drums, easy keys), is nice and worthy - but what can it do anymore in comparison with the rest?

Besides Everyday's Life, Scherani seems to also have two unreleased ("unsigned") albums, including a collection of pieces called Solo Piano. Somehow, I would personally like to try that one as oppose to this full work, though I recognize in Scherani a bit agitated pianist, even in his jazzy, let's say Corea-influenced, moments.

In all, an album that could glue your taste more than to please it, simply because it fuses unequally and insensibly many things. If more calm, un-electrified and with proper themes, Luca Scherani's first album wouldn't miss so much music and emotions. His next album should seek more artistic measures and vital expressiveness, even if Scherani's sole gift relies on electric/natural keyboards and a fantastic plejade of explosive experiments.

In the Darkness: The track starts quite nicely with a piano melody and gets much more complex afterwards, with added drums, bass, several synths and guitar. In the complex parts the timing is a bit off, but other than that it's a nice track.

In the Morning: This track features a Richard Andersson like sharp synth lead on top of acoustic guitar strumming - but this part quickly makes way for an experimental keyboard dominated interlude, which after some time morphs back into the first part, this time with a normal synth lead.

Anonymous: After some synth experimentation a laid-back groove begins, with e-piano like accompaniment and several different synth leads. throughout the track these two parts alternate, with some variations. Timing is much more tight than on the previous two tracks.

Everyday's Life: A very mellow track, very tasty groove and synth layers. There's a cool experimental section about half way through.

Il Dono: My favorite track. Quite experimental, sparse drumming, various different instruments take the lead.

Solo Chi Ha Sofferto: Nice mellow track, not as diverse as Il Dono but with solid timing and tasty experimentation.

In the Evening: Interesting synth accompaniment, and in the last third the rhythm breaks down and makes way for tasty piano improvising and spoken words morphed into synths - the the track resumes with strings and mellotron/synch-choir in the background and a nice guitar solo.

Soli: The only track with vocals (female, in Italian) ... nice!