Demented? It’s a word …
Although the authorship of the “demented” definition must be recognized to the skiantos, examples of songs ascribable to the genre of the humorous song at the limit of the nonsense are already traceable in the first decades of the last century. Just think of Rodolfo De Angelis, who in an ironic and fakely respectful repertoire of the fascist regime (“But what is this crisis?”) Institled Arrases of absurdities as “Tinghe Tinghe Tanghe”
or like the immense Ettore Petrolini (here his “lucky”)
Impossible not to mention, and we are in the early sixties, that phenomenon of Clem Sacco, who left us a year ago
And, in some ways, even the most polite Gianni Meccia of “Il Tarlo”
and the “two Corsari” Gaber and Jannacci
Then, of course, you get to the skiantos and the “manifesto” of the demented
to their contested, the Vercelians Maldestra sister
And to their less memorable epigones, who gave their best in the names and not in songs (milk and its derivatives, Persian Jones and the cursed shutters, linen and mixer …).
Addressed a reverent thought to Sandro Oliva, Zappiano and value musician
Let’s take a look at the Sansnemo Festival, born in 1990 and died in 2005. The first two editions were won respectively by Marco Carena with “I love you” and by the power molts with “the poor child”; And these two protagonists of a – as they say – “welcome return” are precisely.
Powerillusi have been active since 1998, and their debut is the quintessence of the didactic (“Our first 45 rpm”)
With that phenomenal cover a chapel of “let it be” on the other side, “side B”
Vince Ricotta, Vito Vita, Alberto Albertin and Paolo Rigotto celebrated thirty years of activity in 2018 with a double anthological CD with guests (including Skiantos, Pino d’Angiò, Johnson Righeira, Omar Pedrini, Gerry dei Brutos, Giangilberto Monti, Paco d’Alcatraz, Fabio Koryu Calabrò, Marco Carena and many others).
The last (in order of time) appearance of the powerillusi is a few weeks ago, with “Simply there”, which anticipates a new album.
Marco Carena also returns. Returned by the investments to the Maurizio Costanzo Show, he released the first album in 1990 with the production of Roberto Colombo (also contained the politically incorrect “I love you”, winner of the Sansnemo remembered above)
A few weeks ago Carena has settled an album – “Lo Zecchino d’Horror” – whose titles are all a program (“Fairy Purghina”, “Banging the balls”, “Chiaverello”, “Pippapig” …). We close this excursus in the demented with its “grandfather kamikaze”.
