Whatever political color you are, I believe there will always be difficult to diminish the genius of Lucio Battisti . If you're right, probably will not have anything to say. If you're left, you can blame the fake populism, the fact that fund AU neo-fascist groups, who have deserted the contact with the public when it called for greater interactivity with the artists, the misogyny in the lyrics even with the excuse that they were written by Mogol .
You can discuss everything in short that out of his innate musical talent, because that was really both as composer and as an entrepreneur and not coincidentally, his record company " Number One" was cradle of extraordinary talents prog-rock : Alberto Radius , Mario Lavezzi , Demetrio Stratos, Posies , Edoardo Bennato , Acqua Fragile , Toni Esposito, The Flight , PFM , Formula Three , Oscar Prudente , Jumbo and many others.
The great entrepreneurial vitality and innate musical curiosity, however, not to impedrono Battisti -record attempt also less attractive in productions such as Computers (1969), Luis Guidetti (1970), Noel Luciano Winderling ( 1971), the Man's Jungle (1972), rather than curious works, suspended between melody and classical liberalism -like as that of date.
often counted in the category " progressive" but which have no relevance, the Date were a trio formed in Milan in 1974 by the multifaceted artist torinese Umberto Tozzi e da altri due musicisti, Dattoli e Luca , che malgrado la giovane età (poco più di vent’anni) avevano anch’essi un' invidiabile palmares professionale alle spalle.
Il bassista Damiano Dattoli per esempio, era già entrato nella storia del pop non solo per aver composto le musiche di “ Io vagabondo ” per i Nomadi, ma per aver affiancato a lungo Detto Mariano , allora arrangiatore di Celentano , per aver suonato con Mina e per essere stato una delle menti musicali del gruppo Flora Fauna e Cemento in good company with Mario Lavezzi (future member of the "Flight ).
guitarist Luca Massimo was instead a valuable session-man he had and would cooperate with almost all the big stars of the '70s ( De Andrè, Mina, Battisti, Guccini , Earl, Jackson, Branduardi ...) and whose career would continue throughout the next two decades up to produce the likes of Biagio Antonacci and Conjure , as well as write and Albertelli Tempera the ending of a most famous cartoons of the 80s: Grendizer . Tozzi its part, beyond being a brother of the then famous singer Franco Tozzi, had already played in several youth bands as "The Odd society", played by Patrick Samson September along with saxophonist Claudio Pascoli , made the session man for Number One, the duo collaborated with Prudente - Fossati and above all, written in tandem with Dattoli the song "A body and soul " who would win Canzonissima '74 interpreting Wess and Dori Ghezzi (future Mrs. De Andrè ).
And it was the meeting of Tozzi with D'Attolico that arose at last the Date which, of course, had no trouble finding a record deal just with the Number One .
The eponymous album, curiously in a few copies printed at the point of becoming a rarity, was arranged entirely by Claudio Pascoli, mixed by technicians Ezio de Rosa and Piero Bravin (this future "mechanical sound of Cramps Gianni Sassi) and although still remembered today as" White Road ", back cover designed sull'inquietante by Cesar Monti the only group name.
autorali Despite evident ability of the three musicians, the lyrics were all entrusted to well-known lyricist Alberto Salerno (Nomads , Reitano, Di Bari, Vecchioni etc.). for the occasion was signed with the pseudonym of " Manipol the . said, it is very obvious that musically we find ourselves faced with a solid matrix product autorale with sophisticated compositions like " White Road" and " for my mother."
Beautifully arranged, recorded and performed, the disk too often, however, lies on a compositional level light centered mostly harmless on harmonies ("My whole world ", "Me and my monkey ") and already plenty of atmosphere evoked by Battisti and his Formula Three (“ Dove va l’umanità ”, “ Aria in me ”).
Anche le tre parti strumentali di De Luca e Tozzi che avrebbero potuto costituire l’ humus per un eventuale sviluppo progressivo , vengono ridotte ad una manciata di secondi e alla fine, di tutto questo tramestio emerge solo la grande classe di tre musicisti, comunque avulsa da qualunque ambito innovativo.
“ Data ” è dunque un disco certamente imperdibile per i fans di Tozzi , ma men che meno inscrivibile in un contesto progressivo: considerarlo tale analytical error is difficult to forgive.
A heartfelt thanks to Horatio for his contribution to this place and for its unmatched kindness.
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