Genre
Italian rock and canzone d'autore. The album — whose title Finardi explained as something that "amalgamates different flavours to season Italian music" — blends rock energy with progressive and jazz-rock influences, electric mandolin, saxophone, and synthesizer, set against politically engaged lyrics that address money, urban alienation and the fears of daily life.
Release
Released in 1976 by Cramps Records, the independent Milan label founded by Gianni Sassi, on a gatefold LP sleeve.
Production
Produced by Eugenio Finardi, who also handled a substantial portion of the arrangements and mixing. Paolo Tofani — guitarist of Area — contributed additional arrangements and mixing. Recorded at Fonorama Studios, Milan, with engineering by Piero Bravin.
Reception
The single "Musica ribelle" was a hit, its lyrics addressing the transformative arrival of Italy's newly legalized private radio stations. The album entered the Italian charts and confirmed Finardi's standing as a leading figure of the Italian alternative rock scene. Italian Prog described it as Finardi's most successful and probably his best album, one that never has "a weak or disturbingly commercial moment."
Eugenio Finardi
Eugenio Finardi (born July 16, 1952, Milan, Italy) is an Italian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist. The son of an Italian sound engineer father and an American operatic singer mother, he grew up bilingual and spent time in the United States. He signed with the independent Cramps label in 1974, encouraged by Demetrio Stratos of Area, and released his debut album Non gettate alcun oggetto dai finestrini in 1975. Sugo (1976), Diesel (1977), Blitz (1978), and Roccando rollando (1979) constitute the creative peak of his career: four albums in four consecutive years, praised for their fusion of rock, jazz, progressive music, and socially engaged lyricism. He became a fixture of Milan's alternative open-air festival circuit, most notably the Parco Lambro festival of 1976. After his Cramps period he moved to Fonit-Cetra in the 1980s, gradually shifting toward a more commercial sound. He has continued recording and performing into the 2020s, celebrated as one of the founding figures of Italian rock.
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