TRAKS MAGAZINE #8

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santacroce
Alessio Santacroce publishes his new album,
Migras: the guitarist, author and writer, has
a twenty-year career with La Quarta Via, but
this is his first as solo artist. An album of solid
rock, attentive to social
issues, a natural attitude for
an author like Santacroce who
is also chairman for Italy of
O.N.G. Sawa Sawa, committed
to building family homes
in Kenya. Santacroce goes
on with his parallel musical
projects such as Cayenna,
Holy Hand Grenade and of
course, La Quarta Via. Album
starts with Il Gregge, a rock
song with traditional and rough
profile, with a guitar that
is the main actor. Even faster
is La notte della repubblica,
showing attention to reality
and sudden dark moments.
The Alessia Caracciolo voice
characterizes Clorofilla, soft
ballad with signs of nervousness.
Mercanti di Anime
begins to run and with high
beat, making clear reference
to smugglers and traffickers
of men from the two shores
of the Mediterranean. Different
shades and a nonlinear
structure distinguish instead
Normandie, which gives
more space to the lines drawn
by approaching instruments
to more contemporary genres such as indie
and post-rock. Bianco miope background is
rumbling and immerses the speech sounds
rather gloomy. L’ingiusta fine delle mezze
stagioni comes back to a context of more
flamboyant rock, while La fiaba dulcamara
returns in calmer moments, mostly vocals
and guitar, but with critical ideas towards
common life today. Lp closes with Migras,
the title track,
which opens
with a sweet
guitar riff and
that is revealed
little by
little in the
style of a hard
rock ballad
of 70s and
80s. Robust
and pleasant
album, which although take part in rock tradition
without major innovations, manages
to build a coherent path without compromise
and with something interesting.
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