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02/07/2014
Live unplugged & Yuri recital: words burning between the Earth and the Sky
In a quiet night under a starry sky, in the silence of the Apulian countryside, while summer breeze gently moving green fronds and lanterns among branches, so far from the fatuous pressure of show-biz, Andrea Chimenti presented his YURI RECITAL for the first time; there were no special effects, just his passion, as intense as a flame burning between the Earth and the Sky.
I feel it’s always exciting to attend the launch of a brand new artistic project, but Andrea Chimenti's LIVE UNPLUGGED & YURI RECITAL created a very particular energy able to reach the remote corners of human soul.
It was neither a reading nor a live concert: it was a swirling and intense journey into Chimenti's imaginative and narrative universe.
Andrea is a very inspired artist, a gentle warrior who tries to fight against the cultural and musical flattening of these days, so cruel and defenceless. He faces a peaceful and silent but also strong and unstoppable struggle which lasts for 12 albums.
As the songs seemed not to be able to contain all the inspiration coming from his mind, Andrea dreamed up the wider novel form to tell the story of Yuri, connecting a whole young generation feeling plundered, confused, muted, forgetful but still alive, after all. It is a poetic reflection in the shape of a contemporary fairy tale that blows your mind… then it strikes the heart, going through the deepest layers of the human soul. Passing through a sad and angry present, which does not seem to foresee a future, this story arrives to the essence of matters, for the clear purpose of looking for hope and, maybe, finding it in that feeling of “resilience” which leads us to new horizons.
Chimenti, just like a good enchanter, takes us on a journey through the pages of his Yuri novel, by his deep intense voice also playing the guitar and the piano. Moreover, he played 4 songs together with some musicians belonging to the crew of Radiospia Records (Madame Butterfly & Mr. Bear, Roberto Pellicano, Giovanni Mastrangelo, Lucio Pentrella, Alessandro Lo Storto) that helped him to trace the emotional contours of this show.
In an alchemy of sounds and atmospheres made possible by the creator of the event, Marco Maffei, a sound professional/artist endowed with a careful artistic sensitivity, fostered by the splendid venue Tenuta Fujanera and captured within melodies causing flower storms and words flowing like rose petals on water, it is easy to be touched and lost like castaways in Andrea Chimenti’s poetic ocean.
(Valerio Carangella, journalist)
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