Lorenzo 1999: Capo Horn [Import]

Jovanotti | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 28, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Mercury Italy
• ASIN: B00000JOJW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #379,840 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this album, April 17, 2000

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J Franco Di Lorenzo (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lorenzo 1999: Capo Horn (Audio CD)

Buy this album. Trust me. I'm a musician, italo-argentinian, and i can tell you that this band sounds terrific. The lyrics are beautifull, and it's absolutly the best album of Jovanotti. Open your head and listen to this talented italian musician. Check Out the songs "Per te", "Dolce fare niente", "Un raggio di sole".

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The many faces of Jovanotti, August 1, 2001

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Oscar Uribe (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lorenzo 1999: Capo Horn (Audio CD)

Ever since I first listened to Jovanotti's album "Lorenzo 1990-1995 Raccolta," back in 1997 I've been struck by the many faces of this Italian "rapper" - to me his band's creativity is not limited to this genre. In this album, our beloved "ragazzo fortunato" doesn't go overboard with his long-winded percussion experiments (like in "Lorenzo 1997 - L'Albero"). This opens up space for heart-felt songs like my favorite on the CD, "Un Raggio di Sole" (with a rock beat on the drums, and a 70's disco sound to the bass, and anything BUT rap), and "Per Te". The album, however, isn't all puppy dogs and sunshine - he really grooves with songs like "Funky Beat-O" and rhymes like mad in "Dal Basso," which includes some equally cool English lyrics. His music is a great introduction to what's going on now in original Italian pop. ...

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Jovanotti releases an album with breadth and soul, December 17, 1999

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Nicholas Lusty - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lorenzo 1999: Capo Horn (Audio CD)

After his earlier Italo-pop and his recent experiments with African-influenced music, Lorenzo Jovanotti has released Capo Horn which is no doubt his best album to date. From the gentle start of "Per te" (for you) dedicated to his daughter, to more up beat numbers such as "Un raggio di Sole" (A ray of sunlight) the album really holds together with a wide range of influences, from jazz to funk to heavy rap. At one point he even inserts a short excerpt from the Sugarhill Gang's original "Rappers' Delight" (He did the whole song in his concert tour of Italy).

This is an album that is good the first time you hear it but gets better with every listening - it has so many influences, and yet it reminds me of another album of a completely different genre - Malcolm MacLaren's "Duck Rock" - that also has a crazy assortment of styles.

This album contains much rap, but it is not the gloomy rap in the German Style, it is rap full of the joy of life, full of irony but ultimately happy. I cannot yet give it 5 stars because I've only had it a week and listened to it about 10 times and there are other albums that I know last the test of time for me (e.g. Carol King's "Tapestry", and Clifford T Ward's "Home thoughts from Abroad", and Miles Davis's "All Blue"), but it has to be worth a good 4 and a half!