Paolo Conte - The best of #1996

This is a strange best-of. It features Paolo Conte's (the Italian Tom Waits and Serge Gainsbourg rolled into one) finest songs, but most of the tracks here are re-recorded versions of his RCA material and, to top it off, the disc is a remastered best-of, making the originals doubly absent. There is certainly charm in hearing the musically mature Conte sing Elisir once more, or Sotto le stelle del jazz, or Bartali, but there was something in those older versions, with their dime-store recording techniques, that somehow made them wilder and more untenable as recording industry product. The wildness, after all, is what gave Conte his rough charm. That said, certain tunes, such as the irrepressible Happy feet, the gorgeous tango Alle prese con una verde milonga, and the beat rant Hemingway, are served well by the re-recording, in that Conte has grown into them with a certain charm missing from the originals. Anyway you cut it, it's still him - greasy and full of pronouncements about sex, death, jazz, and poetry. He scats, sings, talks, growls, and careens wildly across his tunes like a drunken sailor baying at the moon in places, and that's what listeners love him for. So yes, this is a true best-of, with different nuances on the more vintage material that deepen and widen listeners' view of Conte, the poet and jazzman.

via AllMusic

Paolo Conte - Genova per noi

Tracklist:

01. Via con me

02. Sotto le stelle del jazz

03. Elisir

04. Boogie

05. Sparring partner

06. Come di

07. Azzurro

08. Gelato al limon

09. Happy feet

10. Gli impermeabili

11. Max

12. Gong-oh

13. Colleghi trascurati

14. Bartali

15. Alle prese con una verde milonga

16. Dragon

17. Hemingway

18. Ho ballato di tutto

19. Quadrille

20. Genova per noi

CGD

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La 1919 Spontaneo - L'enorme tragedia (tape) #1985

La 1919 (aka La 1919 Spontaneo) are a Milanese avant-progressive band that first started life in September 1980. The brainchild of Luciano Margorani (born 19th July 1961, in Milano) and his friend Piero Chianura, the band have released five albums to date. Their sound is electronic-based, but still consists of traditional rock-band instruments, such as electric and bass guitar (with assistance by clarinets and saxophones on later releases). Mostly though, the band uses keyboard effects and tape looping, combined with a Frippian and Frithian guitar sound, supplied by Margorani (much more evident on their second and third releases), with overlying electronic drums, culminating in a unique sound that flirts with jazz, no-wave, post-punk and electronica, yet is remarkably progressive rock in its basic state.
From 1982 to 1983, La 1919 were part of the "Cooperativa L’Orchestra” of Milan and they eventually released their debut album L’enorme tragedia on cassette only in 1985.

via Last.fm

La 1919 Spontaneo - Questo caldo

Tracklist:

a1. Questo caldo
a2. Molto azzardato
a3. Senza tregua
a4. Dornier Cordaianthus

b1. L'enorme tragedia
b2. Il sogno di F.F.
b3. Metzengerstein
b4. 8'35"
b5. La caduta

ADN

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Alfred Hitchcock - Music to be murdered by #1958

Obviously, Alfred Hitchcock presents Music to be murdered by wasn't a bad idea - it was a commercial one.
Hitchcock, at least in Music to be murdered by, didn't have to step too far out of his comfort zone to accommodate this project. His characteristic flat, dry, and heavily inflected delivery occupies only the first minute or so of each track, whereas the rest of the time is taken with Jeff Alexander's "spooky" arrangements of familiar tunes with titles related in an ironic way to Hitchcock's murderous narrative - After you've gone and I'll never smile again for example. Hitchcock's monologues are the best thing about the album, and they are quite amusing; Alexander's music is considerably less so. Chances are the Hitchcock enthusiast who obtains this will only want to listen to it once, or perhaps, once a year at Hallowe'en.

via AllMusic

Alfred Hitchcock - [Intro]


Tracklist:

a1. Music to be murdered by
a2. I'll never smile again
a3. I don't a ghost of a chance with you
a4. After you've gone
a5. Alfred Hitchcock television theme

b1. Suspicion
b2. Body and soul
b3. Lover come back to me
b4. I'll walk alone
b5. The hour of parting

Imperial
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