The end of the youth of CCCP and Italian rock, the birth of CSI and the beginning of maturity with “Ko de mondo”. The dissolution of CCCP-Fedeli alla Linea, the creation of the first album of the Consorzio Suonatori Indipendenti, the story of the retreat in Brittany and the reception of an album that changed the face of Italian music: these are the key themes of “CSI – E' the world once was”, the new book by Donato Zoppo published by Aliberti Compagnia Editoriale on 24 April 2024. Fresh from the success of the latest text dedicated to Lucio Battisti – also with Aliberti – and from the Rai documentary “Lucio per amica. Remembering Battisti”, Zoppo created a choral story about the debut of CSI, the main Italian rock band of the 90s, in dialogue with the creators of the first historic album “Ko de mondo”, published in January 1994. In the summer of 1993 two former -CCCP Fedeli Alla Linea and three ex-Litfiba together with musicians and technicians from the Florentine area retreated to the Le Prajou house in Finistére, Brittany. A stay on the borders of Europe from which an album was born focused on the end of history and the beginning of a new world, entitled “Ko de mondo”.
The book contains exclusive and unpublished interviews with the protagonists Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, Massimo Zamboni, Gianni Maroccolo, Francesco Magnelli, Giorgio Canali, Ginevra Di Marco, Alessandro Gerbi, Pino Gulli but also the record producer Stefano Senardi, Finaz of Bandabardò, the photographer Guido Harari, the journalist Enrico De Angelis and many others. There are also photos of the time, both dating back to Brittany and the first tour in 1994, taken by Claudio Martinez and Diego Cuoghi. The preface is by Federico Guglielmi, doyen of our rock journalism, privileged witness of the impact that “Ko de mondo” and the CSI had on the Italian musical panorama – and not only.
The book comes out right in the midst of the rediscovery of the CCCP-CSI galaxy. After meeting again and the consequent exhibition “Felicitazioni! CCCP – Fedeli alla linea 1984-2024” at the Cloisters of San Pietro in Reggio Emilia, after the “Gran Punkettone Gala of words and images” at the Romolo Valli Theater in Reggio Emilia, the three sold out dates at the Astra Kulturhaus in Berlin with the concert “CCCP in DDDR” and the release of the unreleased live album “Altro che Nuovo Nuovo”, CCCP-Fedeli alla linea will in fact return to the live scene in Italy with the tour “In faithfulness the line is there.”
40 years after the first EP, “Ortodoxy”, Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, Massimo Zamboni, Annarella Giudici and Danilo Fatur, will take the stage at the main Italian festivals, presenting themselves as one of the most anticipated events in summer 2024.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM