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Zucchero: Fly

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Label: Universal Music
Released: 2006.09.25
Time:
 51:03
Category: Blues
Producer(s): Don Was
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.zucchero.it
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Purchase date: 2008.05.20
Price in €: 13,99



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[1] Bacco Perbacco (Robyx/Zucchero) - 3:57
[2] Un Kilo (Zucchero) - 3:32
[3] Occhi (Zucchero) - 3:39
[4] Cancogni/Marcolini/Zucchero) - 4:02
[5] Cuba Libre (Zucchero) - 3:33
[6] È Delicato (Chiesa/Fossati/Mattei/Zucchero) - 3:32
[7] L'Amore È nell'Aria (Nicholas/Zucchero) - 3:37
[8] Pronto (Zucchero) - 3:59
[9] Let It Shine (Robyx/Zucchero) - 4:32
[10] Troppa Fedeltà (Jovanotti/Zucchero) - 4:01
[11] E di Grazia Plena (Zucchero) - 3:16

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Zucchero - Vocals, Arrangements, Pre-Production

Randy Jackson - Bass
Jim Keltner - Drums
Michael Landau - Acoustic & Electric & Tremolo Guitar
Greg Leisz - Slide Guitar
Kenny Aronoff - Bass, Drums
Brian Auger - Piano, Hammond B3 Organ, Electric Piano
Paul Bushnell - Bass
Lenny Castro - Percussion
Matt Chamberlain - Drums
David Farragher - Bass
Jamie Muhoberac - Cello, Keyboards, Orchestra, Tamboura
Pino Palladino - Bass
Tim Pierce - Acoustic & Electric Guitar
Krish Sharma - Programming, Sitar, Engineer, Mixing
Waddy Wachtel - Electric Guitar
Patrick Warren - String Arrangements

Mino Vergnaghi - Vocals, Background Vocals
Sarah Grimaldi - Background Vocals
Arthur Miles - Background Vocals

Don Was - Arranger, Producer
Jack Joseph Puig - Mixing
Kevin Mills - Assistant Engineer
Scott E. Moore - Mixing Assistant
Dean Nelson - Mixing Assistant
Stephen Marcussen - Mastering
Stewart Whitmore - Digital Editing
Maurizio Biancani - Digital Editing
Nicola Fantozzi - Digital Editing Assistant
Stefano Marcante - Personal Assistant
Robyx - Programming, Pre-Production
Marina Testori - Public Relations
Stewart Young - Management
Armando Gallo - Photography
Stefano Steo Zacchi - Art Direction, Design
Alberto Bettinetti - Logo


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2006 CD Universal 1705446

2006 album from this talented Italian superstar who blends Italian Pop with Electric Blues and has achieved worldwide success although he has never grown beyond cult status in the U.S. 13 tracks including two bonus tracks 'Shine' and 'Flying Away'. Universal.

Recording information: Henson Studios, Hollywood, CA (2006).



Although not particularly well known in the United States, Adelmo "Zucchero" Fornaciari has been a fixture on the Italian rock scene since his 1985 debut. In 2005 he helped to introduce himself to the American public when he released Zucchero & Co., an album of duets with artists like Sting, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, and Sheryl Crow. The next year, with the help of producer Don Was, Zucchero issued Fly, a record that, though it is sung in Italian, has enough comfortable adult pop elements that it should probably appeal to foreign listeners as well as to his compatriot base. Zucchero's always been a fan of the blues, and this continues to be shown on Fly, a third of whose songs are interpretations of 12-bar-influenced white rock. "Un Kilo" - rumored to be about Vasco Rossi - while not exactly raw or gritty, shuffles along nicely and has some slide guitar, and even some anger, in it. The latter especially is a rare occurrence for the album, most of the rest of which is comprised of slow, introspective, lovelorn ballads that all sound like something Peter Gabriel would write if he were Italian. The only song that breaks from this pattern in the '60s folk-rock-inspired "Cuba Libre," which hearkens back to the Mamas & the Papas or Peter, Paul & Mary, and has the fantastically catchy chorus, "Mi piace la lasagna, e poi mi piaci tu" ("I like lasagna, and then I like you"). Food references aside, Zucchero is very much focused here lyrically on the idea of both nature and space. Fly as a title was not chosen haphazardly - the word is mentioned numerous times throughout the album, as are ideas of birds and the sky. Nature here can distance two people, like it does in the Billy Joel-esque "È Delicato," but it can also heighten their feelings, like in "L'Amore È nell'Aria." The repeated references to the earth and stars and sun do mean that things can border dangerously on the adult alternative, especially on cuts like "Quanti Anni Ho," in which Zucchero approaches his vocals almost like Andrea Bocelli, holding out his notes and ignoring syncopation, and even the work of the Roots drummer ?uestlove on "Pronto" and "Let It Shine" doesn't quite bring it up to a rock level. Still, Fly is an expertly conceived and produced album, and Zucchero knows how to convey emotion without getting overly sappy, which means that it doesn't take a knowledge of Italian to enjoy it.

Marisa Brown - All Music Guide
 

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