PRESS RELEASE (24/06/2016)
Starts with Loano, Sunday, June 26, Ligurian Tours, the 2016 summer tour of the Pesto Darkness. The most popular Ligurian dialect rock band will get the squares of Liguria dancing with songs from their new album “Ligurians”, an album that offers 33 vintage-style songs inspired by the sounds of the last 50 years.
The concert, sponsored by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano, will kick off at 9 p.m., in the’Prince's Garden Summer Arena.
“Ligurians, a double CD released on June 17 in record stores throughout the region, explains Massimo Morini – tells the story of how we are and how we were, amid clichés, obsessions, and new neuroses, kindly observed by the telephone dialer disk which is the symbolic image of the album and the tour. The two CDs have been nostalgically named Side A e Side B, as in the vinyl records of yesteryear. The image on Side A is the Combiner Disk of Telephone from the 1960s and 1970s, that of Side B is a Rubik's Cube, a symbol of the 1980s, oriented to display the colors of the Italian flag.
Also this year the Pesto Oxen have prepared a rich and unique show for their audience. Almost all of the new songs from the CD will be performed alternately during the concert. Many of the songs will be accompanied by video clips or films and will also be presented by off-screen characters: the video presentation of the song “O Telefonin” features the presence of numerous VIPs, recruited by Massimo Morini during the 2016 Partita del Cuore charity soccer match, which took place at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome on May 18, 2016: Lillo and Greg, Francesco Renga, Moreno, Francesco Mandelli (Usual Idiots), Raoul Bova, Fabrizio Frizzi e Annalisa.
The big news for the 2016 tour will be the “television broadcast” entitled “60 70 80”, conducted in the studio by the two official tour presenters, who are also the authors of countless exclusive interviews that will be shown on the big screen and will entertain the audience between songs: Gianni Rossi by Diano Marina (already present for three seasons, well-known host of the Sanremo Festival Red Carpet) and Roberta Capelli by San Remo (Radio San Remo speaker).
The broadcast was recorded at the Garage Theater of Genoa, with an audience consisting of members of the Buio Pesto Fans Club. It will only be broadcast on the big screen during concerts and will feature covers from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. The guests will, of course, be Buio Pesto, but live on stage. Each time we return to the studio, we move forward in time: the type of photography changes, as do the colors (from the black and white of the 60s to the pastel colors of the 80s), the clothes, and the hairstyles of the audience and presenters. In short, it is a real journey through musical time.
The songs will be interspersed with other funny movies and the improvised gags Characteristics of Pesto Darkness.
The atmosphere will be further enlivened by the competition Express a Desideuro, which will reward the winners of an “instant lottery” costing one euro with the chance to have one of their wishes immediately fulfilled by the band members (and to win a substantial discount voucher for a vacation from the travel agency). Misha Travel of Genoa and ditto for the Genoa Spa).
At the end of the tour, one number will be drawn from all tickets sold: the lucky holder of the corresponding ticket will win three prizes offered by Misha Travel (cruise with Costa Cruises), Genoa Spa (Saint-Vincent Spa) and Basko.
The company of ”Orion” ambulance outfitting” of Calenzano (FI), will donate to a local public assistance organization, at each concert, a voucher for outfitting a rescue vehicle.
For this tour, the lineup features the return of Simone Carabba as keyboardist and backing vocalist, replacing Luca Dondero. The rest of the band is confirmed, featuring Massimo Morini on vocals and keyboards, Nino Cancilla bass, Gianni Casella e Federica Saba under, Giorgia Vassallo On vocals and choruses, Massimo Bosso To lyrics and chorus.
As always, part of the proceeds and donations will be donated to the “Green Ambulance”, which involves fundraising through CD sales, film making and musical performances in order to purchase emergency vehicles or medical equipment to be donated to the Liguria Public Assistance Societies. With this tour, donations made rise to 8. Each gift is marked with a phrase in dialect, signed Buio Pesto.
Admission is free.
Notes on the album ”Liguri”
Entitled Ligurians, released June 17 in record stores across the region, the double CD tells the story of how we are and how we were, amid clichés, foibles and new neuroses, benevolently observed by the telephone dialer disk which is the symbolic image of the album and the tour. The two CDs have been nostalgically named Side A e Side B, as in the vinyl records of yesteryear. The image on Side A is the Combiner Disk of Telephone from the 1960s and 1970s, that of Side B is a Rubik's Cube, a symbol of the 1980s, oriented to display the colors of the Italian flag.
Prominent among the unreleased tracks are “Ligurians”, which gives the CD its title and captures the vices and virtues of the people who inhabit our region. In the video clip, the chorus is sung by a parade of celebrities “made in Liguria”: the Gabibbo, Vittorio Brumotti, Antonio Ricci, Serena Garitta, Dario Vergassola, Luca and Paolo, Maurizio Lastrico, the Bruciabaracche, Sandro Giacobbe, the Rich and Poor (Angelo Sotgiu and Angela Brambati), Matia Bazar (Piero Cassano), Piero Parodi, Francesco Baccini, Annalisa, Moreno, Franco Malerba, Tullio Solenghi, Carla Signoris e Corrado Tedeschi. The proceeds from its use will go to the project “Green Ambulance”.
Then it's time for “Pine cone” Dedicated to those who make their atavistic parsimony encroach into stinginess, “Tapullo” which deals with the art of making do for those who hate wasting things by throwing them away when they no longer work, “O Telefonin”, a song dedicated to addiction to the beloved-hated cell phone, “Light”, about young people who just want to have fun and refuse to grow up, “Anghezo at 6 Muri, dedicated to the Rubik's Cube, the best-selling toy in human history, complete with sound effects (in time with the music) that play when you handle it to try to solve it.
A reference to the anthem of the Ligurians could not be missing, that But se ghe penso which describes a Ligurian emigrant overwhelmed by nostalgia for his homeland. Today, however, the emigrant is happy, he has found work, he always finds parking, the bars where he lives are always open, and he has no intention of returning to Genoa. So here we are Ma no ghe penso, which Buio Pesto sings as a duet with The Tinkers, brought back into vogue by Vladimiro, son of Pippo (who, together with Pucci, formed the largest Ligurian dialect group in history). The song will also be released on Trilli's CD “Settebello,” due out in summer 2016.
The most current covers are “Rome-Bangkok” (which becomes “King Kong”), The Flight (who couldn't escape the sarcastic clutches of Buio Pesto!) with the winning song of the 2015 Sanremo Festival and “Hey Soul Sister” Of Trains.
But so many are the tasteful covers back contained in the song corner ‘60s ‘70s ‘80s: from a medley of the hits of the Kessler twins to the electro-pop band Kraftwerk, by Rino Gaetano a Heather Parisi, from Ghostbusters (relaunched with a movie reboot in the summer of 2016) to a medley of Queen (with an unemployed Freddie Mercury looking for work), until the success of the 1980s No Controles of the Spaniards Olé Olé. Not even the Alpine choirs escaped Buio Pesto's parody: and here we have Alpini, a medley of the most famous songs, reinterpreted in a playful way.
A corner is also dedicated to Ohi Me Mì, the “mask” created by Buio Pesto in 2015. Irreverent, rude, vulgar, and always inappropriate, Ohi Me Mì is always present... except during Carnival! The name was coined by Massimo Bosso (co-author and co-producer) when he saw Gianni Casella wearing that costume for the first time.
The dedication corner is unique, with three songs: Happy Birthday to Ti (for use at birthdays, with voice space to enter the birthday boy's name), Sposime (useful for proposing to one's girlfriend) and O Scindico (written in advance for any defaulting mayors).
To close: two new versions of “You and Me”, Buio Pesto's first Italian hit, one in Ligurian dialect (Mi and Ti) and one in English (“You & Me”), the latter released in April 2016 in the U.S., published by Yormo Inc by San Francisco, “O Soldier”, dedicated to the members of the Ligurian public assistance organizations (of which Massimo Morini is the Official Ambassador), written together with the members of the Croce Verde Intemelia of Ventimiglia. Finally, “To Texi d'Elisa”, dedicated to Elisa De Marco from Busalla, a long-time supporter, fan, and collaborator of Buio Pesto, who graduated with a degree in Music and Performing Arts (DAMS) from the University of Turin on April 13, 2016, with a thesis entitled “La musica dialettale genovese targata Buio Pesto” (The Genoese dialect music of Buio Pesto). This is the first time anyone has written a thesis on Buio Pesto, who, feeling very honored, wrote a mini-song to thank the new doctor.
