It's surely azz…burning to reinterpret the songs of Squallor engraved in the collective memory by the unforgettable Neapolitan voice of Totò Savio. Source of inspiration of my first compositions that, apparently vulgar, decreed my success on television, today, at the dawn of my venerable 60 years, I have satisfied the whim of paying homage to the first demented rock group and the only ghost band in Italy that has ever appeared in public.
Totò Savio, Daniele Pace, Giancarlo Bigazzi and Alfredo Cerruti, aka Gli Squallor, were the soundtrack of my youth: “When I sang Gli Squallor in high school, with the guitar on my blue jeans, how many relationships and notes I had, but for the first time I fell in love!”
Censored by all radios, in 25 years of career, with 14 studio albums and 21 compilations, from 1973 to 1994, Squallor represented a mixture of satire, criticism of society, irreverence, nonsense and pure profanity.
I had the fortune and privilege of frequenting them from 1995 to '98. Giancarlo Bigazzi was the record producer of my three albums ... Azz, Il mago di Azz and Il coyote terminale. I accepted more than one artistic piece of advice from Alfredo Cerruti and, when in '96, Totò Savio proposed that I sing in a possible new Squallor project, Bigazzi, for my participation in the Sanremo festival, did not support the idea. (Alas! Alas! Alas!)
Regrets and regrets aside, the songs re-proposed (in my own way) and chosen with the intention of a subsequent theatrical live, are taken from the following Squallor albums:
Cuckold from Mutando in 1981 – Telephone from Discouraged in 1982 – 'The Time Is Going by Arrapaho in 1983 – 'The Ricuttaro 'nnammurato and Va' fanculo cu chi vuò tu from Uccelli d'Italia in 1984 – Jammucenne from Tocca l'albicocca in 1985 – 'The Truck Driver and E' a murì Carmela from Manzo in 1986 – On a May Evening, a Smell of Roses from Cielo duro in 1988.
The other six songs that complete the project are clearly inspired by Squalloria:
Chiove, revisited and already published in the album Incidente al Vomero of 1990; Gli Squallor and Yes from L'Azz 'e bacchetto of 2000, while Cesso blues, Palle a piangere, and 'A livella int''a sajttella, are three unreleased DOC…casione.
They definitely enhanced this nostalgic divertissement of mine:
the arrangements and guitars of Pippo Seno, the drums of Alfredo Golino, the bass of Roberto D'Aquino, the keyboards of Mauro Spenillo, the wind instruments of…….. , the backing vocals of……., together with the courage to produce and realize it of Espedito and Vincenzo Barrucci.
…And sorry if that's not enough!
Federico Salvatore
EDITORIAL TEAM
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