(by Federico Pucci).
Fabled Italian singers Mina
and Adriano Celentano sing about love, disillusionment and
passion in their eagerly-awaited comeback album together 'Le
Migliori' ('The Best').
The album will be released on Friday.
Some 18 years after their first album together, the two
legends of Italian music have been reunited in a spirit of
friendship.
"Everything began spontaneously, and the desire to have fun
can be heard in the album," Producer Claudia Mori said in
presenting the album on Thursday in Milan.
Pop music of a somewhat self-referential style is seen
throughout, starting from the first single - 'Amami Amami', the
end of which recalls 'Storia d'Amore'.
"In 'Aqcua e Sale', we quoted 'E Poi', and this time we did
something similar," commented producer Massimiliano Pani.
Echoes of the famous 1998 hit song are also heard in 'A un
Passo da Te', written by Fabio Ilacqua (who also wrote the San
Remo hit 'Amen').
'Mi fai bere' ('you make me drink') becomes 'mi fai bene'
('you do me good') using the same music, while the funkiness of
'Brivido Felino' is also seen in 'Non Mi Ami'.
The 11 previously unpublished songs - plus two that have
been set aside for the time being but will be released in 2017 -
bring together such well-known names as Andrea Mingardi ('E'
l'Amore') and Toto Cutugno ('Ti Lascio Amore'), as well as new
songwriters that reinterpret the meeting between the two: Mondo
Marcio and Pietro Paletti, with a mixture between spaghetti
western, reggae and salsa styles.
The two solo songs are Mina's jazz single with Danilo Rea
entitled 'Quando la Smetterò' and Celentano's rock single 'Il
Bambino col Fucile'. The final song is a cover of
'Prisencolinensinainciusol'.
A desire to joke around with their images transpires even
with the cover, designed by Mauro Balletti.
Italian State broadcaster RAI will focus on this aspect
during an hour-long special on the album that will go on air at
8:30 PM on December 12.
'Le Migliori' will be released in a delux edition with a CD
containing 15 conversations "stolen" during meetings with the
two musicians in Lugano.
The title of the album is from a birthday greeting written
to Mina from Celentano on March 25, 2015.
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