Singer-songwriter John D'Errico was born in Brindisi September 16, 1948. Incline music since an early age, he began playing guitar at 16 years and four years later made his first audition for RCA without much luck.
tries again in 1969 by participating in the Festival of Castrocaro which reached the final with the song "The puppet , this time getting a contract with the CGD remains positively impressed by his skills as a performer .
From that moment on, he participated in Sanremo in 1970 as in 1971 as interpreter and author. to attend Cantagiro 1970 and ranked seventh in the five years following the release of four singles in the last three for the record Ariston .
And it will be with Ariston that since 1972, D'Errico develop a new style much more intimate and personal.
Among other things, he strongly believed in metempsychosis : was convinced he had lived it before and this feeling is often repeated in his songs. With the '72
also start radio broadcasting of his songs, particularly " For you young" and "High Rating " and are reflected also important friendships among which his faithful lyricist Angelo de Luca, with Maurizio Vandelli with which he writes " Merchant without flowers" to Equipe 84 and Patti Pravo that affect his song "Touch me " without ever publishing it.
Finally, around 1974 - the year that corresponds to the period of maximum visibility of the artist - the 10 songs that come the future album "Old chamber theater" that will be ready in 1975, but will published only in '76 after a long discussion on the image of the cover.
Manufactured by Maurizio Vandelli and printed limited edition is now considered one of the rarest vinyl Italian author, unfortunately, also because the author will never have the chance to give it proper promotion. Gianni D'Errico it dies in a car accident on September 7, 1975 in just 26 years.
Technically the disc is recorded in Milan and consists of 10 tracks in the first and last have the same title ("The Etruscan ") and serve as a container for the other eight.
Consider "Old chamber theater" a progressive work how often hear, is actually Forcing a stationed songs on a songwriting style marked mold Battisti anus, more than ever evident in title track and some other track.
A good aroma of Prog however, actually transpires in some parts of the arrangements and especially for some who remember coming off a bit 'last Formula Three ( Reincarnation), and in some sporadic intervention Baroque and Occasional Use " underground" parts of the flute. Interesting in this sense the attack and the closure of Delvish which remains the best piece of the entire work.
Overall though, the groove general the work is actually autorale and if we want to be strict, not particularly original: the references to Baptists are very many, and repeated some songs as "the last I" and "A painter " reach levels really embarrassing. For the rest you can see several winks to the English Beat as in " Clausura " and the more classic Italian melody era in "Touch me " and "Rosanna Dreaming", but it owes more to the Pharaonic Pfm .
In summary, "Old chamber theater" turns out to be a hard polite, pleasant, very well arranged and substantially balanced in his dribble between different styles that is perfectly suited to the texts and metaphysical visionary author .
Certainly though, derivatività reigns and remains only the sad thought that D'Errico could redeem in the future that he was denied.
Believe it or not, fate is sometimes really cruel.
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