Stato Di Necessita [Import]

Carmen Consoli | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 22, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Polydor Italy
• ASIN: B00004SASV
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #426,124 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bambina Impertinente

2. Stato Di Necessità

3. Parole Di Burro

4. Novembre '99 (L'Isola del Tesoro)

5. In Bianco E Nero

6. L' Ultimo Bacio

7. Il Sultano (Della Kianca)

8. Amado Señor

9. L' Epilogo

10. Orfeo

11. Equilibrio Precario

12. Non Volermi Male

Editorial Reviews

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In a state of needing to listen to this album, September 23, 2001

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Todd Chaffee (Highland Park, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stato Di Necessita (Audio CD)

Although I mostly listen to indie rock from the US, this album is one of my favs for the year. Excellent song writing, great lyrics (even though I'm not always sure of my translation abilities), and she really puts a lot of feeling into her singing. Some of the songs are surprising (such as "Orfeo" and "Parole di Burro") in that they start out VERY mellow but then Carmen really let's loose and the passion in her singing just brings the song away from any kind of mellowness and into an unexpected intensity (don't miss the rougher, less produced version of "Orfeo" 20 some minutes into track 12). The other thing I like about this album is the range of song writing. "Bambina impertnente" has a very punky beginning with PJ Harvey-like distorted vocals. Compare this with "l'ultimo bacio" which is a sad and pretty song with a string orchestra that my parents could appreciate. A great album.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good but not her best one, January 23, 2001

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Kandrax "atv2k" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stato Di Necessita (Audio CD)

Carmen Consoli wrote some of the best acoustic songs for guitar of the last decade, then she moved a step ahead towards electronic punk influences ("Mediamente Isterica", Averagely Hysterical, 1998) and again, she was so good in doing it.

This year 2000 release consecrated her as one of Italians favourite artist, and "Stato di Necessità" (Condition of Need) had topped the chart, even though it's one of her poorest release. She composed 11 tracks out of 12, but this time she's just talented and not a outstanding. She stepped back into easy listening pop music, discovering some roots of the most traditional Italian melodies, especially in that nostalgic song that she performed at the Sanremo Festival, "In bianco e nero" (In black and white - Track #5).

Some songs such as "Parole di burro" (Words of butter) will be crucial tracks in Carmen's career (that is: we will find them on her greatest hits album), but the rest of the album is not something to remember. Just quite material. On the other hand, we still have the acoustic Carmen that we love so much in "L'ultimo bacio" (The last kiss), an almost-coming-out song, with that ambiguous line "Thousands of violins played by the wind / the last kiss my sweet girl / in the light memory of a silver rain / the merciless feeling of a no-coming-back".

A good CD, but not her best one.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars is Carmen Consoli the best Italian musical artist of the new generation????, July 2, 2005

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Indian music lover "Marwa" (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stato Di Necessita (Audio CD)

it feels good to say that laura pausini and giorgia and irene grandi are doing good things in terms of the new generation of italian pop by WOMEN...but let's face it: a cursory listening of one or two carmen consoli CDs quickly leads one to the conclusion that she is the ONLY contemporary female italian vocalist who is truly INVESTED in her ART....there is no comparison....she is the leading female italian pop singer (describing her as the Italian PJ Harvey sells Carmen short)...IF NOT ...she is The Best...I want to give Nek and Mango and Tiziano a chance...but....I don't know..Carmen's music is a lot more varied ...it's more interesting than those guys'....she may very well be the best period! Bar none!