Paolo Saporiti

Featuring: Xabier Iriondo, Cristiano Calcagnile

2014 release ** "A few months after his self-titled album, he returns with another great work. The 2014 album was the one of full manifestation, this one, the one of explosion. Faced with such a "hunger to express," there's never a lack of substance and intensity, at most a few flaws in the aesthetic organization of a project, which is more evident here than in his previous work, but it's something that makes both works, in different ways, perfectible in each individual's mind and therefore all the more alive and evolving. The melodies are incredibly diverse, drawing from Anglo-Saxon folk tradition, Italian pop, and even radio-friendly pop—unthinkable when combined with often daring sonic concoctions. Indeed, the arrangements on this album, more than on the previous one, set them apart from what's available in Italy and elsewhere. Armando Corsi's contribution on classical guitar is excellent. Melodies of an at-times disarming simplicity, made all the more intimate by such whispered vocals, profound yet never content with grace, are juxtaposed with instrumental chiaroscuro of a violence foreign to any other recording artist."