Four albums not to be missed coming out at Christmas
Ed Sheeran’s live album recorded during the various concerts of the records’ “Mathematics tour”. The soundtrack to the bizarre Robbie Williams biopic, in which the former Take That star is played by… a monkey. The live album recorded by Carmen Consoli in Syracuse together with the Orchestra Popolare Siciliana and the reissue of “Diverse”, the album with which Ornella Vanoni celebrated her 90 years as a diva. Here’s a handful of albums to listen to during the holidays, due out in the next few days.
Robbie Williams – “Better man (Original motion picture soundtrack)”
Not just classics from an enviable repertoire such as, among others, “Feel”, “Rock DJ”, “Come undone”, “She’s the one”, “Angels”, “Let me entertain you”. In the soundtrack of “Better man”, the biopic on the life and career of Robbie Williams, which traces his rise in the music biz, there are also unreleased songs that the ex Take That wrote for the occasion. Among these also the touching acoustic ballad “Forbidden road”. Written by Robbie Williams himself together with Freddy Wexler and Sacha Skarbek, “Forbidden Road”, present at the end of the film, has a reflective text, combined with the sound of an acoustic guitar, which then develops into an exciting crescendo of strings. The album comes out on December 27th. The film will be in Italian cinemas from January 1st.
Ed Sheeran – +-=÷× (Tour collection: live)
From “Castle on the hill” to “Bad habits”, passing through “Shivers”, “The A Team”, “Don’t”, “Lego House”, “Thinking out loud”, “Sing”, “Photograph” and “Shape of you”, present both in the live version, recorded during the various stages of the “Mathematics tour”, and in the studio. This “+-=÷× (Tour collection: live)” is practically a best of the last fifteen years of Ed Sheeran’s life and career, which collects the hits taken from the records of the so-called “mathematical quadrilogy” of the redhead singer-songwriter from Halifax , namely “+” from 2011, “X” from 2014, “÷” from 2017 and “-” from 2013. It comes out on December 27th.
Carmen Consoli – “Terra ca nun senti – Live in Syracuse with Sicilian Popular Orchestra”
On December 20th, “Terra ca nun senti – Live in Siracusa con Orchestra Popolare Siciliana” will be published exclusively on double vinyl, the album that collects part of the show that Carmen Consoli presented on July 15th 2023 at the Greek Theater in Syracuse. A concert that celebrates his homeland, his musical heritage, landscapes, people, culture and traditions. “The emotion of that first concert of ‘Terra ca nun senti’ was unique and incomparable – wrote the artist on social media – the enthusiasm with which the public welcomed me and the Sicilian Popular Orchestra was not predictable, the the cold beauty of the Greek Theater of Syracuse dazed me, my eyes barely held back their emotion when every single spectator stood up to give a very long applause of gratitude to Peppino Impastato evoked by the brother’s intimate and poignant story. And then I loved Donatella Finocchiaro’s anger and passion in telling Rosa’s story.”
Ornella Vanoni – “Diverse”
A few weeks after turning 90, Ornella Vanoni surprised again with a new album entitled “Diverse” released last October. A project that is not just a collection of his most famous hits, but a real reinterpretation of them, enriched with contemporary sounds thanks to the collaboration of young Italian producers and talented artists. Now the album is expanded with some bonus tracks and the duet with Mahmood in “Sant’Allegria”. It is an ultra-cinematographic duet between the 90-year-old Milanese diva and the 32-year-old prince of new Italian pop, a duet which, after the preview proposed by the two last October during Mahmood’s concert at the Forum in Assago, now lives again in a record version which goes to enrich the tracklist of the latest album of the voice of “L’avventura”.
