Massimo Giuntoli
Tender Buttons
FormatCDLabelAlma De Nieto, Molkaya RecGenrePsychedelia & Kraut
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*2022 stock* 'Massimo Giuntoli often combines classical and popular music in a way that remains accessible while clearly being avant-garde. On his latest album, he has set poems from American Paris expatriate Gertrude Stein’s 1914 collection “Tender Buttons” to music. Or maybe I should say: to piano. There is really not much else here than a rather harsh sounding piano (although there are a few other keyboard sounds) and Massimo’s voice, sometimes in splendid solitude; sometimes in dialogue with itself. As I listen my head fills with modernistic images from silent movies. The melodies are quite varied and capture the strange juxtapositions in Stein’s words to great effect. I believe Massimo would prefer to be compared to Robert Wyatt, but as far as I am concerned this is more akin to what Peter Hammill might experiment with.' - Michael Björn
Format
Tender Buttons is a collection of songs based on texts by Gertrude Stein influenced by Canterbury Scene. Included a booklet with original texts.
Release notes
Tender Buttons is a collection of songs based on texts by Gertrude Stein influenced by Canterbury Scene. Included a booklet with original texts.
| 1 | A Box | 2:11 | |
| 2 | Objects | 2:06 | |
| 3 | Book | 4:26 | |
| 4 | Eggs | 2:53 | |
| 5 | Single Fish | 2:13 | |
| 6 | Cake | 4:19 | |
| 7 | A Carafe , That Is A Blind Glass | 2:26 | |
| 8 | A Mounted Umbrella | 2:49 | |
| 9 | A Piano | 2:17 | |
| 10 | A Red Hat | 2:04 | |
| 11 | Vegetable | 2:29 | |
| 12 | Orange 1 | 1:57 | |
| 13 | Orange 2 | 0:26 | |
| 14 | Oranges | 0:22 | |
| 15 | Orange In | 1:50 | |
| 16 | Careless Water | 3:09 | |
| 17 | Way Lay Vegetable | 1:30 | |
| 18 | A Little Called Pauline | 5:27 | |
| 19 | It Is Black, Black Took | 1:37 |
- Massimo Giuntoli
- Piano, Keyboards, Voice
- Gertrude Stein
- Words By
