Coez’s pop, where time flies but nostalgia remains: the 1998 review

The magic formula Coez For years now it has discovered it. At least since 2017, when the verses de There is no music and of I make a mess the degrees of general of the ITPOPas well as dozens of platinum records. Aesthetics urban who mixes with the melancholy of cantam pop, mythology street of the second half of the nineties which is contaminated by the Modus Vivendi of theItalian indie: Coez’s verses and productions have held – and still hold today – together with all this. With A decadent nostalgia filtereven the simplest of everyday life can be told with charm. On the other hand, the feelings that fill even the most trivial events of life of meaning. Everything can be colored by lived emotions and become a milestone, watershed experience or founding memory for the life of the individual. Everyone writes and tells his very personal novel. And Coez has the ability to music the soundtrack of these narrativesto make them more exciting. It matters little if, most of the time, these decorated stories are camouflages that we wear to hide from life. A little less than deception we do to ourselves. We have lived and heard them, someone told them. And that’s enough.

The one that a little out of tune listening 1998Coez’s new album is that the world has changed a lot from that famous 2017. Trivially, eight years have passed. Both for the artist – per century Silvano Albaneseborn in 1983 – both for listeners. Still, little has changed in Coez’s work. The fans who listened with transport “love me or I make a mess”, stuck in the end of their twenty years, have now grown up. But they press play, to hear the melodies of Mal of you or of You miss the airand everything seems the same, Gattopardo Muette youth. The operation of 1998 On the other hand obviously also aims at this: ride the theme of nostalgia (the feeling of our time) towards a youth that was. A shelter from the difficulties, individual and collective, of the contemporaneity. The adolescence in which “we had everything but basically nobody knew it”. A late childhood made of super canvas, jordan tank tops, stickers on helmets e Budd, ferocious and inconstant feelings. “Afternoons thrown over those benches.” The head was full of those who thought they were worries. «Mom always said not to drink, not to smoke like chimney and not to be late. Not to make dramas. But I do the dramas of a job ».

The 12 tracks of 1998 They turn around this, distinguishing each other from the other for the sound atmospheres and arrangements. The various artists who collaborated with Coez in the studio have certainly contributed to these musical facets. Not so much in feat – there are only two, in the same song, Rome at nightwith Franco126 And Tommaso Paradiso – as much as in the authorial moment and in productions. The arrangement of Don’t say norhythmic but always delicate, is the result of the hands of Riccardo Sinigallia. As Mr. Nobody and above all Without you They are evidently productions by Okgiorgio. At the Ballatona all guitar, choirs and youth feelings, Something great, Two talented pens of indie and Italian pop participate: Niccolò Contessa And Dargen D’Amico. While fascinating guitars of Colombre and the harmonic architectures of Ceri build Time flies. The latter is the perfect song to close the work – as well as the most interesting of the disc. An album that sings the age that does not return: “We are understanding the sense of that haste now”.

Tommy Biagetti

After the three Sold Out concerts in London in early June, Coez will bring the new album to the Italian buildings with the new tour, produced from Vivo Concerti. It starts from Ancona, on November 12 and then continue in Rome (14 November), Naples (20), Bari (22), Turin (29), Milan (December 1) and finally close in Florence, on December 6th.

Playlist

Levante – Maimai

Niccolò Fabi – Love happens

Ghali – Chill