Francesco de Gregori - Amore Nel Pomeriggio (2001)

Artist...............: Francesco De Gregori
Album................: Amore Nel Pomeriggio
Genre................: Pop
Source...............: Cd
Year.................: 2001
Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy
Codec................: Flac
Information..........: TntVillage
Covers...............: Front
Total Size...........: 332 Mb


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After 1992's excellent Canzoni d'Amore, Francesco De Gregori spent the rest of the decade in creative

limbo. Amidst rumors of alcoholism and depression, he made only one new album (the lackluster Prendere e

Lasciare) that quickly got lost in a plethora of repetitive live releases. The fact that these continued to

sell very well probably only worsened De Gregori's fear of having turned into some sort of national

monument, with an audience only interested in listening over and over to the same old classics. To critics,

he was a relic from the golden days of the cantautori in terminal has-been status. Then seemingly out of

nowhere came Amore Nel Pomeriggio, a record so shockingly good that one is tempted to speak not merely of a

renaissance, but of a revelation. Everything that made De Gregori one of the most important Italian artists

of his generation is present here in spades, and in awe-inspiring form. Musically this is one of his most

elegant collections since Titanic, bathed in a lush acoustic feel that gives Amore Nel Pomeriggio its

pensive, elegiac grandeur. Lyrically, this is classic De Gregori: a series of ruminations about love,

history, philosophy, and Italian society that sounds both intelligent and moving. It is hard to single out

highlights for such a consistently brilliant effort; perhaps the disarmingly beautiful "Deriva" among the

love songs, and "Il Cuoco di Salò," certainly the album's centerpiece. Helped by an epic opera-like

production courtesy of Franco Battiato, De Gregori once more retells History from the point of view of its

minor protagonists, in this case a hotel's chef witnessing the last days of the fascist republic of Salò.

Last but not least, the album includes a tribute to master and friend Fabrizio De André, who passed away in

1999. De Gregori reprises "Canzone per l'Estate," a song from the album he helped De André co-write (1974's

masterpiece V. 8), but replaces the irony of the original version with poignant world-weariness. Amazingly

for a pop recording artist entering his fourth decade, Amore Nel Pomeriggio may very well prove to be

Francesco De Gregori's best album of his entire career. Furthermore, thanks to this album's critical and

popular acclaim, a rejuvenated De Gregori entered a furiously productive period, releasing five albums over

the following four years, including a collaborative effort with folksinger Giovanna Marini and two

outstanding new studio albums, 2005's rock-oriented Pezzi and 2006's beautiful Calypsos.



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01. L'aggettivo ''Mitico''
02. Canzone Per L'Estate
03. Deriva
04. Spad VII S2489
05. Natale Di Seconda Mano
06. Quando E Qui
07. Condannato A Morte
08. Il Cuoco Di Salo
09. Cartello Alla Porta
10. Caldo E Scuro
11. Sempre E Per Sempre