Time: 34:51
File: Flac
Released: 2022
Styles: Blues
Art: Front
1. Rest of a Slave (3:56)
2. Black Angel (3:26)
3. Take It Easy (2:38)
4. Born in a Wrong Place (2:46)
5. Waiting For a Sunny Day (3:16)
6. Call Me (5:02)
7. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (3:28)
8. Little Boy of MIne (4:16)
9. This Girl Likes the Blues (2:32)
10. Black Angel (Con tutti i miei fantasmi che mi cercano) (3:27)
Rest Of A Slave is the first autographed track on the album. Text and musical conduction are emotionally strong, eloquent of an urban reality marked daily by the dramas of the oppression of capitalism, where selfishness and verbal and physical violence are "written" on the skin of the less well-off, the new slaves, the last ones, the excluded. Always in thoughts and also in facts, Andrea Giannoni is on their side, so here is an episode experienced in the first person during the pandemic, keeping company with a man forced to beg in front of a supermarket, offering him gloves to protect his hands from cold, some food, a beer and metaphorically some kisses. “You entered my life day after day, night after night, without knocking on my door”.
It is an electric, slow, deep blues, where the exciting sound of its harmonica is reinforced by the trumpet of the old friend of many battles, Andrea "Lips" Paganetto, by the electric guitar of Davide "Youngblood" Serini, by Andrea Papaiannu on bass, by Mattia Lorenzo Pergolato on drums. We move on to the second track where ghosts chase each other inside voices (one is by Sara Grimaldi), sinister pronunciations of harmonica and guitar, and Henry Carpaneto's hammond that holds everything together. Monica Faridone, author of Black Angel, will be satisfied for how gusts of the sacred and the profane, have corroborated the text. Two instrumental steps now, Take It Easy Baby and, Born In A Wrong Place, the first medium slow pace, the second more swinging, where, with a reiterated naturalness, Andrea at the harmonica gives an essay of his expressiveness, alongside the exemplary guitarist with his lexicon, less is more, Davide “Youngblood” Serini and an irrefutable rhythm section, Andrea Papaiannu on bass and Mattia Lorenzo Pergolato on drums.
The record has no solution of continuity, one is stolen from those rarefied and gloomy atmospheres that follow the course of the Mississippi River down to the bayou of Louisiana where, in the imagination sitting somewhere, there is the ghost of Hank Williams who is satisfied listen to a personal reinterpretation of his, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, with Bobby Soul lead vocals. Andrea had already accustomed us to solo angles, vocals and harmonica, here he does it in, Little Boy Of Mine, and then calls next to him only the guitarist Davide "Youngblood" Serini for, This Girl Like The Blues and closes with those ghosts that chase him in the reprise of, Black Angel, again voices, primary or overdub. The singing, the voices, are one of the prerogatives of him being a non-compliant bluesman, but singular and restless.
At Home Again FLAC