It's really a nice surprise this CD, the third in eighteen years (!) of Como Luca Ghielmetti. Refractory as we always take care of Italian music after the storms of the songwriters of the seventies and scimmiottature new wave eighties and nineties who have approved the scene, you come across an anaphylactic shock - even more rarely, actually - in all-round artists, masters of the composition of the so-called 'new singer-songwriters', poets.
want to trivialize, it may summarily terminate Ghielmetti debt that pays some of the major Italian authors in disseminating their songs tracks of Paolo Conte, slag Fossati, De Andrè best of moods, images disruptive à la Capossela, or find behind the broad shoulders of certain melodies chansonnier French, but as we go from writing time is well pleasing to the effort of forcing himself to recognize in each groped his expressive figure, the unique identity, even when, inevitably, is mixed with the totems of a present / past so cumbersome: Ghielmetti has a powerful voice, from grain thick as jute, which grate the melodies and words that recall the choking Maier inspired by "The Vif" or the ballad of Tom Waits "Blue Valentine" or Gianmaria Testa of the tribute to iron ("Leo", a great hard!). Sang a solid and straightforward, at times declamatory, which warms the heart as he rummages in the odds and ends of our daily lives:
"(...) But some girls are better
shake before the wind carried them away
throw them a boomerang of love, then come back here to see them
With rest on the bottom was better to pretend
be just a little 'film but ...
sign an implied covenant of love for six hours then
not see you again ... "
(from" Just a step away from the clouds ")
"What a beautiful trains an hour
those who depart from the lake
quelli che partono dal lago
e portano in città
ed ogni volta è come a Santa Claus
arrivano in silenzio e vanno via
ti affidi a orari vecchi
chiedi conferma a tutti
ti sembra strano che passino di qui
senza una voce che li annunci e li saluti
o un vagabondo che ci salti su…”
(Da “I treni di un’ora”)
I pezzi, scritti nel corso degli anni e suonati spesso dal vivo, si perdono in felici suggestioni blues, folk blues, tango, canzoni other times, fado suggest that the image of a universe as personal as accessible, given the expressive power of story telling, authentic passion (perceived listening) for existence.
small masterpiece, even for limited duration, the album feels like a happy balance noise and sounds like a 'classic' right from the start. Thanks also good musicians involved, including in particular a Greg Cohen on bass by impressive resume (Waits, Coleman, ... Newman).
(December 15, 2008)
● The track listing Disc :
1. "Antes que muda el mar"
2. "Those beautiful kisses in Paris"
3. "The grandfather of cornelian Rasouli"
4. "One step from the clouds"
5. "The face of the father"
6. "The trains an hour"
7. "Dr. Charles"
8. "Barbara"
9. "The Amsterdam's red"
● Words and music by Luke Ghielmetti
● Produced by Greg Cohen
● Musicians :
Greg Cohen - bass, guitar, harmonium, percussion, marimba;
Cyro Baptista - percussion
Tim Sparks - guitar
Greg Leisz - steel guitar, lap steel, Weissenborn, guitar electrical
Mario Arcari - oboe, clarinet, harmonica, flutes;
Franco Piccolo - accordion Jimmy
Villotti - electric guitar;
Ghielmetti Luca - vocals, guitar, piano, harmonium, Hammond.
● Promotion and Press Office : Carta da Musica – via della Marrana, 94 – 00181 Roma http://www.cartadamusica.it
● ALTRI DISCHI DI LUCA GHIELMETTI
“City Record” (LP – fuori catalogo)
“Le corniole di nonno Rasouli” (CD – 1990)
“Dolci spose mancate d’un soffio” (CD – 1998)
● Info e contatti
http://www.myspace.com/lucaghielmetti
want to trivialize, it may summarily terminate Ghielmetti debt that pays some of the major Italian authors in disseminating their songs tracks of Paolo Conte, slag Fossati, De Andrè best of moods, images disruptive à la Capossela, or find behind the broad shoulders of certain melodies chansonnier French, but as we go from writing time is well pleasing to the effort of forcing himself to recognize in each groped his expressive figure, the unique identity, even when, inevitably, is mixed with the totems of a present / past so cumbersome: Ghielmetti has a powerful voice, from grain thick as jute, which grate the melodies and words that recall the choking Maier inspired by "The Vif" or the ballad of Tom Waits "Blue Valentine" or Gianmaria Testa of the tribute to iron ("Leo", a great hard!). Sang a solid and straightforward, at times declamatory, which warms the heart as he rummages in the odds and ends of our daily lives:
"(...) But some girls are better
shake before the wind carried them away
throw them a boomerang of love, then come back here to see them
With rest on the bottom was better to pretend
be just a little 'film but ...
sign an implied covenant of love for six hours then
not see you again ... "
(from" Just a step away from the clouds ")
"What a beautiful trains an hour
those who depart from the lake
quelli che partono dal lago
e portano in città
ed ogni volta è come a Santa Claus
arrivano in silenzio e vanno via
ti affidi a orari vecchi
chiedi conferma a tutti
ti sembra strano che passino di qui
senza una voce che li annunci e li saluti
o un vagabondo che ci salti su…”
(Da “I treni di un’ora”)
I pezzi, scritti nel corso degli anni e suonati spesso dal vivo, si perdono in felici suggestioni blues, folk blues, tango, canzoni other times, fado suggest that the image of a universe as personal as accessible, given the expressive power of story telling, authentic passion (perceived listening) for existence.
small masterpiece, even for limited duration, the album feels like a happy balance noise and sounds like a 'classic' right from the start. Thanks also good musicians involved, including in particular a Greg Cohen on bass by impressive resume (Waits, Coleman, ... Newman).
(December 15, 2008)
● The track listing Disc :
1. "Antes que muda el mar"
2. "Those beautiful kisses in Paris"
3. "The grandfather of cornelian Rasouli"
4. "One step from the clouds"
5. "The face of the father"
6. "The trains an hour"
7. "Dr. Charles"
8. "Barbara"
9. "The Amsterdam's red"
● Words and music by Luke Ghielmetti
● Produced by Greg Cohen
● Musicians :
Greg Cohen - bass, guitar, harmonium, percussion, marimba;
Cyro Baptista - percussion
Tim Sparks - guitar
Greg Leisz - steel guitar, lap steel, Weissenborn, guitar electrical
Mario Arcari - oboe, clarinet, harmonica, flutes;
Franco Piccolo - accordion Jimmy
Villotti - electric guitar;
Ghielmetti Luca - vocals, guitar, piano, harmonium, Hammond.
● Promotion and Press Office : Carta da Musica – via della Marrana, 94 – 00181 Roma http://www.cartadamusica.it
● ALTRI DISCHI DI LUCA GHIELMETTI
“City Record” (LP – fuori catalogo)
“Le corniole di nonno Rasouli” (CD – 1990)
“Dolci spose mancate d’un soffio” (CD – 1998)
● Info e contatti
http://www.myspace.com/lucaghielmetti
