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1. "Nu Gatto Come nu Lione" (9:21) the loose, free-form jazz feel of this one reminds me of JONI MITCHELL's collaborative album with the majority of the members of WEATHER REPORT, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (one of my 10 Favorite Albums of All-Time). Wonderful energy here! And wonderful musicianship on display in the world-fusion music represented here. I love the ethnic vocal "conversations" going on over the course of this song. Both the African and gipsy references seem quite appropriate. (17.75/20)

2. "Glorias" (10:14) guitars and violin open this with a Grappelli-Reinhardt-like weave before the music turns more to an open-air folk call and response style (reminding me of the next decade's Les Negresses Vertes project from France). (17.3334/20)

3. "Zandamela (Timbilas)" (3:10) again, the Afro-Latin (Caribbean!) rhythm play here is so fun--and so reminiscent of Don Juan's Reckless Daughter. (9/10)

4. "Poeta (Borgata Camion)" (7:00) bleeding over from the timbales/kalimba song, things slow down and thin out so that piano, bass, and, later, violin can join in on the plodding, relaxing weave. Choral vocals in the sixth minute. They sound almost Bulgarian! About two-fifths of the way into the song, a break occurs before a radical shift in the music unfolds. Latin rhythm base fuses with African and Arabian themes and techniques in the horns, bass, percussion, and vocals to give this quite an unique sound. The nearly all-percussive seventh minute reminds me of the jam in Chicago's "I'm a Man." Hypnotic. (13.25/15)

5. "Mogadishu" (8:15) once again bleeding over from the previous song, the rhythm weave slowly changes pace and then form as piano and saxophone join in to give the song some blues-rock context. The repetitiveness of the first half of the song becomes rather tedious despite some nice sax, synth, and percussion work, but then with less than three minutes to go the song kicks into gear with a driving blues rock motif (which sounds quite a bit like The Moody Blues' "I'm Just a Singer [in a Rock and Roll Band]") over which Carla Murtas sings in her intriguing warbly voice. The finish is fantastic with its Don Pullen-like piano flayling. (17.25/20)

Total Time 38:00

B/four stars; a solid contribution of World Music-Jazz-Rock-Prog Folk fusion that makes for a very interesting, entertaining, and often uplifting musical listening experience. Check out the follow-up to the Canzoniere Del Lazio project, Carnascialia.

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