COMMON THREAD - Minetti

FIL ROUGE (CVLD285)

Lucia Minetti, voice / Andrea Zani, piano / Ensemble “La Foule”

1 Non, rien de rien (Michel Vaucaire-Charles Dumont) 3:20
2
Mon homme (My man) (Albert Willemetz & Jacques Charles-Maurice Yvain) 3:46
3 Avec le temps (Léo Ferré) 4:14
4 Tous les visages de l’amour (She) (Charles Aznavour-Herbert Kretzmer) 5:25
5 Ne me quitte pas (If you go away) (Jacques Brel) 4:30
6 La mer (Somewhere beyond the sea) (Charles Trenet) 4:47
7 Jardin d’hiver (Benjamin Biolay-Karen Ann) 3:33
8 Chanson des vieux amants (Jacques Brel) 4:15
9 Je ne sais pas dire je t’aime (Barbara) 4:55
10 Le tourbillon de la vie / La vie s’envole (Serge Rezvani) 2:51
11 Litanies pour un retour (Jacques Brel) 2:50
12 La foule (Michel Rivgauche-Angel Cabral) 3:35
13 India song (Marguerite Duras-Carlos D’Alessio) 3:38
14 La vie en rose (Edith Piaf-Louiguy) 4:13
15 Milord (Georges Moustaki-Marguerite Monnot) 5:28
Total Time 61:29

Production Velut Luna
Executive producer Marco Lincetto
Musical producer and editing Mattia Zanatta
Recording, mix and mastering Marco Lincetto
Design Limage

Front and back cover photos by Massimo Forchino
Inside booklet:
Lucia Minetti photos by Daniele Bricalli
Oscar del Barba photo by Alberto Reina
Andrea Zani photo by Tommaso Ferigo
Ensemble on stage photos by Marco Lincetto

Andrea Zani, piano (tracks 3,5,7,9,10,11,13,14)

Ensemble “La Foule” (tracks 1,2,4,6,8,12,15)
Cecilia Franchini, orchestra leader and piano
Elio Orio, first violin
Francesco Mardegan, second violin
Francesca Marino, viola
Veronica Nava Puerto, cello
Giancarlo Pavan, doublebass
Salvatore Baronilli, clarinet
Mattia Marangon, horn
Lucrecia Fernandez, bassoon
Riccardo Nicolin, percussions

Lucia Minetti returns to enchant with her unique, elegant, and sensual voice in her new album that speaks of love. A soft, multifaceted, sweet, and intense story told on the tip of the lips. A thrilling album in the most authentic sense of the word, rich in charm, lyricism, and intense evolutions from a great interpreter of the Italian scene.

Lucia Minetti is a highly esteemed singer for her great quality and elegance, artistic sensitivity, and the magical timbre of her voice. She is the preferred soloist of great jazz, classical, contemporary, and singer-songwriter composers, theater directors, and renowned writers who have dedicated music and lyrics to her. Lucia Minetti bases her artistic interests on the song form. Seamlessly bridging classical and popular music, she redefines an intense and charming interpretation of the singer-songwriter genre, cadencing melodies, lyrics, and vocal evolutions with highly personal and significant new ideas.

In my opinion, the deceptive dichotomy of Classical Music vs. Popular Music, including the so-called "canzone d'autore" (singer-songwriter music) in the latter, is entirely ineffective in describing Music in a phenomenological sense. Reasoning in opposites, it is much more indicative to contrast beautiful Music with ugly music, identifying the latter as boring, stereotypical, conventional, and so on. It is not enough to have been born in the 18th century to be considered an interesting author who contributed to the history of this art; so much, indeed, a great deal of music from that period has been granted the gift of oblivion in the interest of modern enthusiasts. "Resurrection" operations of supposed forgotten masterpieces often appear to be inspired by merely musicological or philological, and thus scientific, rather than broadly artistic intentions. This CD, however, aims to re-propose a truly precious repertoire of great artistic and emotional impact, that of the 20th-century French Chansonniers, a very well-defined musical genre fully placed in the History of Music because it is capable of giving, in a unique way, the sense of living a bohemian, wandering, rootless, nonconformist, and free dimension. There is also a political element in the Chansonniers, of observation and criticism of people, society, and authorities, always expressed with a poetic style (cit. M. Priore) for which many observers have gone so far as to affirm that, precisely thanks to the Chansonniers, the youth revolt of '68 could first take place only in France. I believe that this beautiful CD, in addition to delighting the educated palates of numerous fans of French "canzone d'autore," can inspire young generations, never more at risk of homologation than today, on how to seek and find a new sensibility, a renewed taste for life, and the awareness that "freedom is participation." A sincere applause to Lucia Minetti, at this moment undoubtedly one of the best interpreters of "canzone d'autore" globally, and a proud thank you to the teachers and students of the "C. Pollini" Conservatory in Padua who contributed with great refinement and musicality to the realization of Fil Rouge.
Leopoldo Armellini, Director of the C.Pollini Conservatory in Padua

First of all, I want to thank Marco Lincetto and Leopoldo Armellini for making this work possible. Andrea Zani, a musician (and person) of great value and talent, the musicians of the Pollini Conservatory in Padua, extraordinary new travel companions. Oscar Del Barba for his generosity and sensitivity in writing. Stefania Marchesi for her precious help. Massimo Forchino, Daniele Bricalli, Tommaso Ferigo, Alberto Reina for their contribution. And above all, I thank Christian and our little Leo, who are always a source of inspiration and emotion for me. This album is dedicated to them both."
Lucia Minetti