FUTURO ANTICO I

Angelo Branduardi

Rock Progressivo Italiano

3.22 | 8 ratings

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Well, I had my suspicions about what Angelo did after unleashing some good RPI albums. He went folk pop and sung himself into the Italian housewives hearts.

Sneaky guy.

This album is a coop between Angelo and an acoustic music ensemble called Chominciamento Di Gioia. Impressed ? Neither am I. The music is pop like folk music. It is not as commercial as The Corrs though. The music here is based on Angelo's excellent voice and on acoustic instruments. I cannot spot a single electric instrument here.

The folk music here is almost exclusive Celtic and Northern European based. The music varies between tender ballads (hear the Italian housewives hearts shatter) and pretty fast songs with violin. Some of the music is also pretty theatrical with over the top musical arrangements. Thankfully, I do not speak Italian so I am "missing" the lyrics here.

The much covered Scarborough Fair his is the best song on this album by far, together with the German song Loibere Risen. The rest of this album is pretty decent, bordering to dire when Angelo goes hellbent for the heart strings. This is not an album I am enjoying.

2 stars

toroddfuglesteg | 2/5 | 2010-8-15

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