Brunori Sas and the freedom to be Cheap!

Brunori Sas with this Cheap (which stands for Five Extemporaneous Apparently Punk Hits) gives us a precious and unconventional reflection on lightness, a little unexpected gem. rare. One of those luminous revelations that you do not expect to find in the casket of the possible (and perhaps also for this reason it is even more lovable), a very delicate invitation to stop for a moment, to reflect on what freedom and the insatiable desire to possess it actually is. beyond any reasonable doubt and link. What does it mean to be free? Not having constraints, not adhering to patterns, not loving beyond the present moment, not facing contingency and procrastinating? Or perhaps, as a counterpoint, it is the glory of living with the fear of loving and being frighteningly and unexpectedly happy beyond all dire predictions? Two years after the chirp Chip! the Calabrian singer-songwriter allows himself a moment of lightheartedness, a entertainment packaged in a week of December and already out of the oven. Literally, almost as if it were a genuine form of good warm bread, imperfect, rough and yet very tasty. These 16 minutes represent a break for Brunori Sas, complete with a daring and tasty return to the roots, to the traditional, to the unsweetened, to the good beyond the beautiful.

Already from the sounds of these five home songs – as written and recorded at home with a deliberate approach homemade– we understand how the sparse instrumentation is the real tasty side of the project. It is not just a “good the first”, this is rather a hymn to the authenticity of what is done with enthusiasm, from the gut, without any back thoughts or mediations but still firmly built. Almost Brunori Sas wanted to condense a moment and take a snapshot of the essence. Cheap! it’s almost a Here and now, an invitation to experience the moment, to stay, not to run away. But it is not volatile, on the contrary it is a firm warning to let conspiracy and architecture become rare, those manuals, those obligatory steps that inevitably require extended timing, maniacal care, the beardless search for a chimerical perfection, the severe psychological analysis of what one desires or what one should not humanly feel the need for.

As if to say that if times are hard, let’s lighten them with a newfound awareness of how much the impulsiveness of staying, sometimes, can be the only wonderful way to return to balance. And who cares if Cheap! is something other than Chip! and it seems almost to constitute an antithesis to the successful project of songwriter? In reality, from the first listening you can perceive how much this delightful project is rather a prequel or a completion of it, perhaps. In any case, a quarter of an hour of clean air, an out-of-town escape in which earthly language, dirty lyrics, cialtroneria, fake dialects or kitsch harpsichords sound good next to electronic drums, Hawaiian slides and the timbre of a Brunori Sas always full, always intense, always passionate.