As we get into the eighties it becomes apparent that covers are no longer retaining the quality or allure of previous years and decades. This is a good example. The design element is negligible. This could be a cover by numbers exercise with stock library photos (sorry Ernesto “Chico” Alvarez Peraza!).
Here’s an Italian version of the UK’s cover version records series like Top of the Pops and Hot Hits. The songs covered are not all from the year of this records’s release with one or two going back decades. This particular release was also available on Stereo 8 Track cartridge (“stereootto” in Italian) which was still limping on as a music format even in 1983 in parts of Europe.
La luce soffusa dell’abat-jour accresce la potenza evocatrice della musica, mentre it pianoforte di Pino Calvi suggerisce mille sogni di evasione alla nostra fantasia. Provate ad appoggiare a caso il pick-up su ciascuna delle due facciate del disco, ogni volta ascolterete una musica ben note: dai “classici” senza tramonto di ieri come “Begin the Beguine” “Laguna addormentata” ed “estasi d’amore” a quelli di tempi piu recenti come “Yesterday” e “Acca-rezzame (di cui e autore lo stesso Calvi) ai grandi temi da film come “Anonimo veneziano” e “As Time Goes By” leit-motiv dell’indimenticabile “Casablanca”. Un programma di musica leggera di gran classe the Pino Calvi esegue con it suo inconfondibile tocco e la consueta eleganza, accompagnato da una sezione di altri valenti solisti che aggiungono un affascinante background alle atmosfere sognanti evocate dal suo strumento.
The soft light from the lampshade increases the evocative power of music, while the piano of Pino Calvi suggests a thousand dreams of escape from our fantasies. Try choosing tracks on each of the two sides of the disc at random, each time you listen to well-known music: from the “classics” of yesteryear like “Begin the Beguine” “Sleeping Lagoon” and “Love Ecstasy” to those of more recent times such as “Yesterday” and “Accarezzame (of which Calvi himself is the author) to great film themes such as” The Anonymous Venetian” and “As Time Goes By” leit-motiv of the unforgettable” Casablanca”. A high-class music program by Pino Calvi with its unmistakable touch and the usual elegance, accompanied by a section of other talented soloists who add a fascinating background to the dreamy atmospheres evoked by his instrument.