Other Directions
Nicola Conte
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Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 2004 release. This record represents Nicola Conte's music aesthetic from every angle. Always in balance between Jazz and Bossa Nova, revealing a compositive soul bounded to accomplished acoustic atmospheres. The composer's intention is to communicate not only through the music but through the lyrics too, showing a talented and learned songwriter. Inspired by the beat literature (The Dharma Bums is a true homage to Jack Kerouac) and that by the English one (Wanin' Moon is inspired by a Percy Shelley's poem), also the cinema and dramaturgy influenced the composer: Le Depart is a reassessment of the piece written in '67 by Krzysztof Komeda for the namesake Jerzy Skolimovsky's movie, and All Gone is a homage to Joseph Losey's "Il Servo," a '60s black-and-white movie directed by Harold Pinter.
Tracklist:
- Sea And Sand
- Wanin' Moon
- Nefertiti
- Impulso
- A Time For Spring
- Kind Of Sunshine
- Aphrodite's Dream
- Several Shades Of Dawn
- The Dharma Bums
- All Gone
- Other Directions
- The In Between
- Le Depart
- Charade
- Danubian
- Bohemian's Dilemma
- Nefertiti (Alternative Version)
- Waltz Of The Sirens
- Teardrop Painted Blue
- Quiet Star
- Kind Of Sunshine (Extended Version)
- Wanin' Moon (Alternative Take)