album rating: ★★★★☆
a) Genre
New wave / Post-punk / Pop rock / Italian pop. Traslocando (Moving Out) is Loredana Bertè's fifth studio album and is universally regarded as her masterpiece. It is an album of notable stylistic range: the opening 'Per i tuoi occhi' draws on the art-pop innovations of Franco Battiato; 'Non sono una signora' — Bertè's most celebrated recording — is a defiant feminist anthem in the key of anthemic new wave pop; 'I ragazzi di qui' inhabits a reggae-inflected one-drop groove that FOND/SOUND compares to the parallel world of Grace Jones and Sly & Robbie; 'Stare fuori' blends motorik pop with torch balladry reminiscent of Gianna Nannini; 'Notte che verrà' anticipates the swinging Euro-funk of Bowie's Let's Dance era; and the title track toys with jazz-funk before Bertè's voice transforms it. Rate Your Music classifies it under New Wave and Post-Punk. The album features contributions from the American funk ensemble Platinum Hook and from Bobby Douglas, a musician from the Italian disco group Change.
b) Release
Original Italian release: CGD (1982; catalogue CGD 20321), vinyl LP. The original Italian pressing was manufactured in Italy. Discogs documents the master release (m493164) with 1,453 collectors owning copies and 640 on the want list — testament to the album's enduring status as a sought-after classic of Italian new wave. The album's average Discogs rating is 4.33 out of 5 from 110 ratings, making it one of the highest-rated Italian albums on the platform from this era. A 2009 box set titled Loredana Bertè Gli album originali (6CD) collected the album alongside five other key Bertè recordings. An audiophile reissue vinyl and a CD reissue on the Rhino Collection label (2010) have extended its availability. The song 'Non sono una signora' appeared on the internationally circulated compilation AOR Global Sounds (1977–1982) (2015), and in 2017 on the Call Me by Your Name film soundtrack, both of which dramatically broadened its international audience.
c) Production
Produced by Ivano Fossati. Fossati (born 21 December 1949, Genoa, Liguria, Italy) is one of Italy's most celebrated singer-songwriters and musical intellectuals, known for albums including La mia bandà suona il rock (1979) and Discanto (1990). His decision to produce Traslocando marked a decisive break from Bertè's previous working relationship with producer Mario Lavezzi, whose more mainstream Italian pop approach had defined her earlier albums. Fossati was willing to accompany Bertè into experimental and international territory, inviting the American funk ensemble Platinum Hook (who had appeared on her previous album Made in Italy) and the musician Bobby Douglas (from the Italian-American group Change) as key contributors. Fossati also wrote or co-wrote several of the album's original songs. 'Non sono una signora' — described by FOND/SOUND as 'a bracing, country-lilting bit of anthemic New Wave pop' that was 'an affirmation (in the most Dylan-like way) of her worth in a world trying to parcel out and diminish her values' — became Bertè's signature song. The album also includes the French-language track 'J'adore Venise', the Bertè composition 'Madre metropoli', and 'Per i tuoi occhi' (written by Fossati).
d) Recording
Recording took place in Italy in 1982. The album is an original studio recording.
e) Reception
Traslocando was both a critical landmark and a commercial success in Italy. 'Non sono una signora' became Bertè's most iconic song, her feminist anthem, and one of the most powerful Italian pop records of the decade. FOND/SOUND described the album as 'that perfect window into her world', declaring Bertè's voice 'a guttural thing unlike anything else, searing quite anything within its range.' The same review described the album's highlights as inhabiting parallel worlds with Grace Jones and Sly & Robbie, and predicting future possibilities in music. BestEverAlbums ranks it as the best album of Bertè's career and 25,990th in its overall chart, 3,495th in the 1980s, and 401st in 1982. Rate Your Music rates it 3.11 out of 5 — with 53 ratings, somewhat limited in scope, but consistent with the high critical regard the album enjoys. Its international profile expanded dramatically after 'Non sono una signora' appeared on the Call Me by Your Name film soundtrack (2017), introducing Bertè to a global audience for the first time. Apple Music biography calls Traslocando 'her strongest work to date.' Last.fm describes it as 'what many consider to be her masterpiece album.'
Loredana Bertè
Loredana Bertè (born 20 September 1950, Bagnara Calabra, Province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy) is an Italian singer and actress who, over the course of a five-decade career, has pioneered multiple genres in Italian popular music: she is credited with introducing reggae to Italy (with 'E la Luna busseò', 1979), and was among the first Italian artists to incorporate rap elements (on the single 'Movie', 1981). She was born in Bagnara Calabra in southern Italy and grew up in a musically inclined family; her sister Domenica Berté later became the celebrated singer Mia Martini. Loredana moved to Rome and worked as a nude model before launching her recording career in 1974 with the album Streaking. Her breakthrough as a household name came with the 1975 single 'Sei bellissima' (from the album Normale o Super). Throughout the late 1970s she explored reggae (Bandabertè, 1979), funk, and rock. Made in Italy (1981), recorded with Platinum Hook, included the track 'Movie', often cited as the first Italian pop song featuring rap. She married Swedish tennis champion Björn Borg in 1988; the marriage ended in divorce in 1993. She appeared at the Sanremo Festival multiple times, including a 1986 appearance in which she performed dressed to simulate pregnancy, causing a national scandal. She was deeply affected by the suicide of her sister Mia Martini in May 1995, a loss that shaped her subsequent work. The Sanremo Festival's critics' award has been named 'Premio Mia Martini' in honour of her sister since its inception in 1982. In 2018 Bertè performed at Sanremo with renewed commercial and critical success, releasing the album Liberté and winning the Rai/Televoto audience award. Her most recent album, Manifesto, was released in 2021. She continues to perform internationally.
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