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Ultimamente [Alex Baroni]

Alex Baroni
1 disc

1. Pavimento Liquido - (Italian)
2. Quqando L'Amore Se Ne Va
3. Perche - (Italian)
4. Sail On - (Italian)
5. Viaggio - (Italian)
6. Fuori di Qua - (Italian)
7. Solo Per Te - (Italian)
8. Fuori Dalla Mia Finestra
9. Non Ci Pensare - (Italian)
10. Voci di Notte - (Italian)
11. Everything
12. E il Cielo Mi Prese con S - (Italian)
13. Mother Anture's Son
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 74321698652
Credits

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This 1999 release from Italian singer/songwriter Alex Baroni contains 13 tracks including "Quando L'Amore Se Ne Va", "Perche", and "Sail On".
Italian pop vocalist Alex Baroni teams up with a number of electronica musicians for Ultimamente, resulting in a sort of cutting-edge electro-pop album. It's a strange compromise, actually. Baroni is a talented vocalist, much like what you'd expect given his Italian roots. And the album's primary songwriters -- Massimo Calabrese, Marco Rinalduzzi, Marco D'Angelo, Carlo Bertotti, and Claudio Mattone -- craft ethereal electronic soundscapes that are anything but "classical" in the same sense that Baroni's singing style is. However, there is a strange synthesis of Baroni's traditional vocal approach and this album's somewhat trendy musical production. Baroni himself goes for a trendy image, illustrated well in the CD booklet where the vocalist is pictured in numerous introspective poses with a shaved head and no shirt. On the other hand, Baroni's traditional Italian vocal approach makes the album's music sound a bit more accessible. The resulting synthesis is both familiar in one sense yet cutting-edge in another. ~ Jason Birchmeier