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in winter..
.. it's like drinking black coffee trying to stay warm and keeping the cold out. the rain falls, the wind blows. some of you even get to see snow.in autumn..
.. it's a backyard in the suburbs, and hundreds leaves covering the green grass.in summer..
.. it's a night-time thing. out on the balcony (porch) with some beers and your friends.in spring..
.. it's the hope for a brighter day.
Album Reviews
Stories You Wouldn't Believe
Please note this review was translated from Italian to English
so it won't be the most accurate piece of
writing you will have read!
The Australian singer/songwriter Sam Shinazzi with his third release after the drop of The C-Minus Project. His debut only album, Stories You Wouldn' t Believe, is a mellow, poignant and melancholy collection of songs between rock, country and folk. Sam Shinazzi makes part of that wind of renewal music that blows from far Australia, where there are numerous interesting proposals from the Laughing Outlaw Records.
Shinazzi is not, like could seem, a songwriter to the first crews but has already two interesting discs like 'Long Drive Home' of the 2001 and 'Less Than Perfect Day' of 2003 with The C-Minus Project and various experiences from playing live with artists of the bore of Bonnie Prince Billy, Lou Barlow, Evan Dando, The Pernice Brothers and more recent with Crooked Fingers (that we have recensito some month it makes).
Set aside The C-Minus Project, Shinazzi has been put to job for its debut like solista, 'Stories You Wouldn't Believe', a disc without doubt more ambitious than a debut. The past style has remained the same one but what is changed is the lyric power of its songwriting that it has assumed more personal features and greater emergency. Substantially it bases to you on simple structures and agreements that they preview only voice, guitar, bass and keyboards. The infuences of Shinazzi go from the first R.And.M. passing for the Byrds and until arriving to the Beatles. Sure we are not in territories of large musical experimentation but that seems to characterize Shinazzi and his ability to interpret his own brani, that is to render them transparent to the point they seem one confession to you, for you with the listener.
All that is favorite also from thematic the many personal of the brani that go from the love, to friendship until the loss of persons beloved. In so far as much intense one is 'Scotty Like Home' in which Shinazzi remembers the loss of a friend that time returns it in every mind that he listens to Natalie Merchant and 10,000 Maniacs. The disc was produced by Shinazzi and Adam Wes Gregorace, is dedicated to the memory of Elliott Smith and it sees in its aims force more the brani resolutions from the melodic point of view like 'Until Sunrise', 'Out Of The Question' and 'My Friend & A Free Day', this indeed a magnificent one with the mandolin in beautiful evidence.
Salvatore Esposito
www.ilpopolodelblues.com
