RECITARCANTANDO (WITH LUCIO FABBRI)

If we were presented to Demetrio Stratos vocal tecniques in small dosages in his career with the essential and phenomenal Area - International POPular Group, in his solo career we experience all of voice-music.

"Solo career" is actually a wrong term. What Demetrio Stratos do in his three albums, "Metrodora", "Cantare la Voce" and "Le Mileuna" is actually some results of his vocal research. The actually exercise of the theory is to be found, as I already said, in Area songs.

But, this time Demetrio is not lonely on stage. We do have something different and interesting here on Recitarcantando. The presence of Lucio Fabri (having contributed largely with PFM) give the exerimentation another level of doing. In the passages were Demetrio would be just exercizing, the company of a violin shows, exemplifies, pontuctuated that hat Demetrio is doing is, after all, music, and have its correlations with a music instrument, for example. Not that we do not knewn this already, but we have never listen this kind of experiment actually follow by another musician.

And Demetrio indeed do this, by the order of the music presented. First, we have "Flautofonie ed altro" and "Passaggi" were we have a few introduction of every move this revolutionary of a revolutionary voice could display. Nothing more logical to pass directly to "Cometa Rossa", were we can hear a minimalistic and beautiful version of this strong song. "Le sirene" is also a minimalistic (everything here will be, its just two guys on the stage, after all) tune, this time, more driven by Fabri's violin, with the company of Stratos voice aligning a great song with, with the excuse for such a obvious comment, begning, midle and end - what I want to say with this is that "Le Sirene" is a great tune that actually can be heard as a song, eveytime you want and not only when studying Stratos habilities. "Flautofonie ed altro" return to the more experimental, but this kind of hability of Stratos already set the tone for a great Area song, the "Return from Workuta" and its one of the passages his voice is more music than voice. It happens to be really enjoyable as well - personally, his singing here really touches me. Again in the nexts tracks we are deliver in Stratos experimentation followed by a great violin solo of Lucio Fabri (which remind us what a great musician he is), followed again by the more mediteranic singing of Stratos where some motives are repeated. The album closes with a great resume of the entire presentation, reminding every motive and hability Stratos developed.

I found something when I started listening Area and Demetrio Stratos... to write this last lines, their version of L'internazionale is playing. It was their capabilty of strong presence, agency in the world and never look away from problems and modern issues.

What Demetrio Stratos were doing with his experimentation was to free human being of his own body. Human expression on without limit. Aligned with their music as the lead singer of a music group, Demetrio Stratos made what no artist tried to (and 35 years or more have pass since he died): literaly change the world.