Paolo Saporiti

2018 release ** "In this new album, Saporiti chooses a register that resembles a caress on a defeated face, a balm for past wounds that still hurt, reflected in the incisive yet never overbearing arrangements, with a balance that ends up appearing completely natural when in fact it is an extremely difficult goal to achieve. In Acini (from the title of his father's unpublished novel), an overall delicate quality prevails that resembles a state of mind more than the actual product of artistic choices, which proceed smoothly even in episodes where the songs undergo real musical twists within the individual plot. Compared to his recent works, Acini is a return to a more classical sound; it is a strongly singer-songwriter album, a small, artisanal gem created by a true musician, capable of disseminating signs, of leaving traces, however subtle but recognizable, of his compositional skills. With Acini, Saporiti follows in the footsteps of the Italian and international music of the early 1990s, but he does so more in his vocation than in the results achieved, more in his approach than in the final result, which always manages to be contemporary.
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