After the exciting and appreciated single “Osso”, Alessandro Palazzo, founder and voice of the historic alternative band Brindisi Klaudia Call, debuts with his first solo album “Provincialotto”, available from April 25 for Nos Records, with digital distribution Believe Music. A decisive step in his career, which sees him cross new sound and emotional frontiers, giving life to a job that is at the same time a manifesto of freedom and a poetic reflection on the existences on the margins.
With Provincialotto, Palazzo does not just tell a physical geography, but expands the concept of “province” to a state of the soul. The Province as a resistance, as pride of those who find no place in a distant and alienating world, populated by arrogance and indifference. A human microcosm of “provincialotti” – disillusioned, dreamers, excluded – who find their voice on the disc. An album that sounds like a clear and ruthless declaration of intentions, but that does not give up the beauty of an authentic, never banal sound.
The title itself, “Provincialotto”, becomes a key to reading the entire disc: a world populated by real, but legendary characters, with borderline existences. Each trace is a fragment, a sound episode that brings with it a piece of history, an echo of inspirations that range from alternative rock to the author song, from folk to poetry. The disc is crossed by influences of authors and musicians who have marked the history of Italian and international music: Pasquale Panella, Lou Reed, Ivano Fossati, J Masce, Lucio Dalla, Elliott Smith and Francesco De Gregori, all mentioned as references or suggestions directed in a tracklist who, despite the homage, remains deeply personal.
Palazzo, from the beginning of the creative process, wanted to “Province” was a testimony without compromise of his artistic vision: a record that refers to the purest author music, far from the fashions of the moment, capable of returning to the public the original feeling of every song. The cover of the album, which pays homage to the famous “provincial” by Francesco De Gregori of 1978, is a further sign of this ideal connection with a timeless sound, which reveals the freshness of an ever new inspiration.
The tracklist of the disc is a journey between lyricism and crudeness, between irony and disenchantment, with a narrative pace that caresses and, at the same time, shakes. Each song is a small story, an exploration of universal feelings, but always filtered through the personal experience of Palazzo, which is not afraid of exposing human fragility.
“Province” tracklist:
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Province – “Large nonsense tears / are eggs to the Coque” (Pasquale Panella)
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One, nobody – “Hey Honey, take a walk on the wild side” (Lou Reed)
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OSSO – 'Love Is Strawn Than Death' (Matt Johnson)
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False departure – “We will be next to the window / straight in the evening air / we will return to breathe / remember the way” (Ivano Fossati)
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Holy Friday telegraphs – “I Feel The Pain of Everyone / Then I Feel Nothing” (J Mascis)
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Dopolavorista sentiment – “There is a lot of poetry to keep silent / if you have nothing to say” (Lucio Dalla)
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Last scene – “Everything He's Suppose to Be / Everything Means Nothing to Me” (Elliott Smith)
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Promise – “For those who live at the intersection of the winds and are burned alive” (Francesco De Gregori)
With “Province”, Alessandro Palazzo takes an important step towards an authentic and consistent sound and sound world, bringing his musical language to new but deeply rooted territories in tradition. An album that will make his unmistakable voice heard in the music scene, an invitation to anyone who feels the weight of a world that, unfortunately, seems to no longer want to listen.
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM