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Zucchero: Black Cat

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Label: Universal Music Italia
Released: 2016.04.29
Time:
 47:32
Category: Blues Rock
Producer(s): T Bone Burnett, Brendan O'Brien, Don Was & Zucchero
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.zucchero.it
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Purchase date: 2016
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Partigiano Reggiano (Zucchero Fornaciari) - 2:59 
[2] 13 Buone Ragioni (Zucchero Fornaciari) - 3:28 
[3] Ti Voglio Sposare (Zucchero Fornaciari) - 3:07 
[4] Streets Of Surrender (S.O.S.) [feat. Mark Knopfler] (Zucchero Fornaciari) - 3:57 
[5] Ten More Days (Avicii, Simon Aldred) - 3:19 
[6] L'Anno Dell'Amore (Zucchero, D. M. Troiano, H. Sullivan, R. Kenner, P. Glan J., P. Panella) - 3:23 
[7] Hey Lord (Zucchero Fornaciari) - 4:02 
[8] Fatti Di Sogni (Zucchero Fornaciari) - 3:35 
[9] La Tortura Della Luna (Zucchero Fornaciari) - 3:34 
[10] Turn The World Down (Zucchero Fornaciari, Elvis Costello) - 3:54 
[11] Terra Incognita (Zucchero Fornaciari) - 4:17 
[12] Voci [Namanama Version] (Loney, Dear, Zucchero) - 3:46 
[13] Ci Si Arrende [feat. Mark Knopfler] (Bono, S. Carmody) - 3:57

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Zucchero - Vocals, Piano, Acoustic Guitars, Keyboards, Organs, Producer, Co-Producer, Pre-Production, Arrangements
 
Max Marcolini - Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals
Federico Biagetti - Dobro, Backing Vocals
Jim Keltner - Drums
Matt Chamberlain - Drums
Nathan East - Bass
Lenny Castro - Percussions
Darrell Leonard - Trumpet
Lester Lovitt - Trumpet
Ira Nepus - Trombone
Thomas Peterson - Saxophone
Joe Sublett - Saxophone
Davide Rossi - Strings
Leslie Sackey - Backing Vocals
Cheryl Porter - Backing Vocals
Jennifer Vargas - Backing Vocals 
Arthur Miles - Backing Vocals
Eddy Mattei - Backing Vocals
Jamie Muhoberac - Acoustic Piano, Keyboards
Brendan O'Brien - Bass, Synth
Tim Pierce - Electric Guitar 
Biagio Antonacci - Backing Vocals
Mark Knopfler - National Guitar
Greg Leisz - Pedal Steel Guitar
Patrick Warren - Mellotron
Gene Cipriano - English Horn
Stephanie O'Keefe - French Horn
Colin Linden - Electric Guitar
Jerry Douglas - Dobro, Lap Steel Guitar
Russ Pahl - Pedal Steel  
Barry Bales - Double Bass
Jay Bellerose - Drums, Percussions
Louis Pardini - Backing Vocals
James Mccrary - Backing Vocals
Kurt Lykes - Backing Vocals 
Michael Finnigan - Piano
Jimmy Wood - Harmonica
Mike Piersante - Hand Claps
Alfie Silas - Backing Vocals
Jason Morales - Backing Vocals 
Mark Goldenberg - Acoustic Guitar
Stavros Ioannou - Guitars, Bass
Nils Ruzicka - Keyboards, Programming
Aaron Sterling - Percussions 
Pattie Howard - Backing Vocals
Lisa Stone - Backing Vocals
Melodye Perry - Backing Vocals 
Davide Rossi - Strings
 
Don Was - Producer on [1,2,4,6,9,13]
Brendan O'Brien - Producer on [3,8,11], Mixing on [1-4,6,8,9,11,13]
T Bone Burnett - Producer on [5,7,10,12]
Max Marcolini - Co-Producer, Pre-Production, Arrangements
Krish Sharma - Engineer on [1,2,4,6,9,13]
Tom Syrowski - Engineer on [3,8,11]
Michael Pierstane - Engineer on [5,7,10,12], Mixing on [5,7,10,12]
Gavin Lurssen - Mastering
Stefano Steo Zacchi - Art Direction, Design
Stewart Young - Management
Laura Vergani - Album Coordinator, Logistics
Ross Cullum - A&R
Davide Benetti - A&R

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Italy’s biggest music artist, Zucchero, returns with his new international album, BLACK CAT, on June 10th. With more than 60 million record sales, BLACK CAT has a rock-blues flavour recalling the atmosphere and the spontaneity of ORO, INCENSO E BIRRA, one of the best-selling Italian records worldwide and among the most significant in the history of Italian music.
 
The album recorded during 2015 in X Y Z, sees Zucchero collaborate with producers. T-Bone Burnett (Elvis Costello, Elton John, Tony Bennett), Brendan O'Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Bob Dylan) and Don Was (Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, Bob Dylan).
 
Amongst the collaborators, BLACK CAT sees Zucchero team up with Bono who wrote the lyrics for "Streets of Surrender (S.O.S.)” after the Bataclan Paris tragedy in November 2015, and Elvis Costello who penned first single “Turn The World Down”.
 
The album also features the extraordinary guitar work of Mark Knopfler, who plays on both "Streets of Surrender (SOS)" and “Ci Si Arrende”. BLACK CAT is his twelfth studio album.
 
Among the greatest interpreters of Italian blues, Zucchero (born Adelmo Fornaciari) is the biggest selling Italian artist of all time. His album ORO, INCENSO E BIRRA sold more than eight million copies and was for a long time the biggest selling album in the history of Italian pop music worldwide.
 
In a career spanning three decades, he has achieved international success, not least through his collaborations with artists including Eric Clapton, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, B.B King, Sting, Bono, Jeff Beck and Andrea Bocelli. He has been nominated for a Grammy and won two World Music Awards, four Festivalbar awards and six Wind Music Awards in his homeland Italy.
 
Zucchero will be returning to the UK for a special concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall on October 20th, his fifth time at the prestigious venue.
 
© Music-News 2016
 
 
 
Zucchero ‘Sugar’ Fornaciari (aka Adelmo Fornaciari) is one of Italy’s greatest artist. He is back with a new Album, BLACK CAT, on June 10 th . The album can be considered a return to the blues-rock sound and the atmosphere that existed in ORO, INCENSO E BIRRA, the fourth studio Album released by Zucchero that has sold more than eight million copies in Europe becoming one of the best-selling Italian records and one the most important and representative in the history of Italian music worldwide.
 
This is the 12 th album recorded by Zucchero during the 2015. Sugar Fornaciari has been collaborating with high calibre producers, as T-Bone Burnett, Brendan O'Brien and Don Was, and with high level artists. In fact the album features the amazing guitarist Mark Knopfler who plays in “Ci si arrende” and “Streets of Surrender(SOS)”,whose lyrics had been written by Bono after the Bataclan Paris tragedy in November 2015, and ,last but no least, Elvis Costello who has been composing the first single “Turn The World Down”.
 
During Zucchero’s thirty years long career, he has collaborated with international artist as Ray Charles, B.B King, Eric Clapton, Andrea Bocelli, Miles Davis, Bono, Sting, achieving success worldwide. The 2016 two-months- long European Tour – to promote “Black Cat” – will start in Verona on September 18 th and on October 20 th Zucchero will come – back – to London, at the Royal Albert Hall, for a special concert.
 
He will perform Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Poland, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Belgium, Holland, England, Switzerland, France, Bulgaria and obviously Italy.The tour will conclude on November 16 th in Russe, Bulgaria Winner of four Festivalbar, two World Music Awards, six Wind Music Awards, nominee at the Grammy, the Italian best selling artist of all time, Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari is the Italian BLUESMAN par excellence.
 
Copyright 2014 London One Radio
 
 
 
Black Cat is the twelfth studio album by the Italian blues rock singer-songwriter Zucchero Fornaciari, released on 29 April 2016. It's his first full-length studio album in six years, after Chocabeck in 2010.
 
The album will marked a music comeback to soul&blues roots and sound of the "Oro Incenso & Birra" (1989). According to Zucchero, the album does not have the meaning of Western prejudice of Black cat, yet Afro-American for "figure of speech, a greeting, a symbol of auspice". As well there's a component of anarchism toward the "market rules". It is his "darkest album and rough ever in terms of sonority".
 
On CNN was announced that the album will include a new song "Streets of Surrender" (S.O.S) which lyrics are written by Bono, dedicated to the victims of November 2015 Paris attacks. Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits is a special guest and guitarist on the song, as well "Ci Si Arrende". The single "Voci" is cover of "Ignorant Boy, Beautiful Girl" by Loney, Dear, while "Ten More Days" by Avicii.
 
The album's English version will include collaboration with Elvis Costello on "Love Again" (renamed as "Turn the World Down"), Spanish version collaboration with Alejandro Sanz on "Fatti Di Sogni" (renamed as "Hechos de sueños"), while on Japanese version guitarist Tomoyasu Hotei played on "Ti Voglio Sposare".
 
It will be presented at the record breaking 11 consecutive concerts at the Arena in Verona in September, and following Black Cat World Tour. The Arena concerts, held between 16–28 September, will be only concerts in Italy, and will be special events with vast and diverse repertoire of old and new songs, and diverse special guests.
 
Zucchero recounts that the album was "born" during the tour in Southern parts of United States. He played in cities like New Orleans, Nashville, Lafayette, and immersed himself in their blues sounds, with guitars played with bottlenecks cut. He wanted to reproduce sounds from films like 12 Years a Slave and Django Unchained.
 
He wrote the songs like in the early days when everything was more simple as didn't have nothing to lose, and didn't care about the logic of the market. He intended for every soung to have different "dress", thus entrusted seven different songs to each of album producers T Bone Burnett, Brendan O'Brien, Don Was, of which were chosen twelve. The songs shows "social obligation", and few gospel songs lyrics talk about "new slaves" the migrants.
 
In the single "Partigiano Reggiano" (Partisan from Reggio) a verse sings "Bella ciao". Although the Reggio Emilia province was "red", and his uncle during World War II was deported to Germany, he "speak not of right or left, but someone who has ideals and that it is ready to make wall against what does not work".
 
The album was released on 29 April 2016 by Universal, in CD, standard vinyl and limited edition red vinyl. It was released in three different versions; Italian, International (with English and Spanish version), Japanese. The song "Partigiano Reggiano" is album's first single in Italy, released 24 March, while "Voci (Namanama Version)" the album's first single internationally, released 25 March.
 
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Die Katze ist aus dem Sack: Black Cat – so lautet Zucchero „Sugar“ Fornaciaris neues Album. Mit über 60 Millionen verkauften Alben längst eine Ikone der internationalen Musiklandschaft, knüpft Zucchero auf dem neuen Album an den zeitlosen Rock/Blues-Sound, die Stimmung und die Spontaneität seines „Oro, Incenso e Birra“-Meisterwerks an, das zu den erfolgreichsten Meilensteinen der italienischen Musikgeschichte zählt. Ein Highlight von Black Cat ist die Zusammenarbeit mit Zuccheros gutem Freund Bono, der den Text für den Song „Streets Of Surrender (S.O.S.)“ beisteuerte.
 
Einer der wichtigsten Vertreter des italienischen Blues, zählt Zucchero zu den erfolgreichsten Künstlern seines Landes: Allein das bereits erwähnte Album „Oro, incenso e birra“ hat sich international mehr als 8 Millionen Mal verkauft; es galt lange Zeit sogar als das weltweit meistverkaufte Album im Bereich der italienischen Popmusik. 
 
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Für den Bruchteil einer Sekunde glaubt man, man wäre im falschen Film: Zu Beginn von "Black Cat" schraubt sich tatsächlich ein typisches Radio-Dance-Solo aus dem Nichts hoch ... Springt Zucchero tatsächlich auf den House-Disco-Guetta-Zug auf? Dann aber klimpert ein kraftvolles Piano über die fürchterliche Introschraube, und Zucchero thront gewohnt breitbeinig über dem lockerleichten Willkommensgruß "Partigiano Regiano". Der macht übrigens Spaß, weil er ohne sich zu verkopfen Altbekanntes aufbrüht, ein wenig Rolling Stones-Leichtigkeit mit Bruce Springsteen-Power und südeuropäischen Charme gepaart: Der Tonfall für ein richtig gelungenes, aber eben auch überraschungsarmes Rockalbum ist vorgegeben.
 
Deutsche Musikfans haben gemeinhin ein gemischtes Verhältnis zur italienischen Musikszene. Denn während uns Pizza und Pasta begeistern und Adria- bzw. Rivierastrände Jahr für Jahr verzücken, schwappen eher selten echte musikalische Leckerbissen über die Alpen. Einzig die ewigen Schmonzetten von Eros Ramazzotti, eine Gianna Nannini und der wummernde Minimalsound einiger Italo-DJs schafften den Sprung, während die Rock-, Pop- und HipHop-Szene ansonsten böhmische Dörfer für uns bleiben.
 
Nur ein Mann hält seit Jahrzehnten die Grün-Weiß-Rote-Fahne oben: Der ewige Zucchero, der italienische Hybrid aus Santana, Elvis Presley, B.B. King und zig weiteren Einflüssen von Schlager bis Weltmusik, planiert seit den 80ern in schöner Unregelmäßigkeit vor allem den Schweizer und den italienischen Musikmarkt. Er erfreut sich aber auch in hiesigen Gefilden großer Beliebtheit. Man hat also Erwartungen an sein erstes Studioalbum seit sechs Jahren.
 
Und "Black Cat" hält, wie eingangs erwähnt, was es verspricht. Spaß macht die Scheibe vor allem, weil Zucchero sich überaus verspielt gibt, immer wieder musikalische Spitzen setzt und falsche Fährten legt. "Buone Ragioni" etwa startet mit einer dröhnenden Hochzeitsorgel, die dann homogen in eine typische Zucchero-Nummer übergeht: schmissig, schnell, kurzweilig, eingängig. Fast zu eingängig.
 
Der 61-Jährige hat sein Erfolgsrezept gefunden und kocht dieses mit der Routine eines italienischen Meisterkochs, aber auch mit dessen nötigen Mut zur dezenten Abweichung vom Rezept. Des Album quillt angesichts der verwendeten Instrumente, die überall ein wenig zum Einsatz kommen, regelrecht über. So entsteht ein wuselnder Sound, ein musikalischer Sack Flöhe, der kaum zu bändigen ist und dem Rezipienten wirklich einiges abfordert. Über längere Spielzeit wirkt die Produktion ein wenig ermüdend, auch weil die Grundrisse des Soundbilds im Jahr 2016 durchaus Staub angesetzt haben.
 
Da tut es gut, wenn Zucchero mal eine lupenreine Rocknummer hinklatscht: "Ti Voglio Sposare" ist genau das, beginnt mit einem massiven Riff und einem röhrenden Zucchero im Springsteen-Modus. Ihre stärksten Momente hat die Scheibe auch, wenn Zucchero in bluesige Gefilde abdriftet und seiner raumgreifenden Stimme freien Lauf lässt. So sind "Ten More Days", das vor allem durch seine vernebelte Italo-Western-Atmosphäre überzeugt und die überbordende Hymne "L'anno Dell'Amore" echte Ausrufezeichen.
 
Dabei spielt es keine Rolle, ob Zucchero englisch oder italienisch singt – die Übergänge sind fließend. Und selbstredend muss das Mammutsongprojekt "Streets Of Surrender (S.O.S.)" erwähnt werden: Geschrieben von Bono, eingespielt in Zusammenarbeit mit Mark Knopfler ist die leicht klischeebeladene Freiheitshymne tonnenschwer aufgeladen: Der Song entstand nach den Anschlägen von Paris.
 
"Black Cat" kommt abwechslungsreich und besitzt eine handvoll starker Momente. Nach starkem Auftakt baut die Scheibe aber in der zweiten Hälfte ab, wenn Zucchero einen schmalzigen Mainstreamschinken an den nächsten reiht. In anderen Worten: Dann ist der Italiener mehr Bono (und zwar der nervige Bono) als Springsteen.
 
Jeremias Heppeler - Laut.de-Kritik
 
 
 
»Produziert unter anderen von T-Bone Burnett und Don Was kommt ›Black Cat‹ als rundes Pop-Album daher mit viel Soul, Swamp-Rock, Italo-Blues und Gospel. Diese Scheibe zählt sicher zu seinen besten.«
 
Stereo, Juli 2016
 

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