Paolo Saporiti

Featuring: Xabier Iriondo, Cristiano Calcagnile

2014 release ** "Fifth studio album and year zero for Paolo Saporiti. An absolute masterpiece, a near-perfect album, the epitome of the most cultured Italian independent rock, but also, and above all, something new and focused. The lyrics, for the first time, are in Italian, exposing veins, nerves, and blood. On the cover, Paolo, a mere child, stands with his father. From the opening of "Come Venire al Mondo" to the absolute perfection of "Io non ho pietà," which seems to evoke the best of Alice in Chains' "Jar of Flies," the references, but only of a background rendered flesh (Ian Anderson, Roy Harper, Van Morrison, Nick Drake) and transformed into a highly authentic contemporaneity, far more than anything produced by the English-speaking scene, we witness a rite of manifestation/purification, through the making/being of music, that has never had (and has) an equal in Italy."