October 13, 2024
If you don’t want to sing it, you are still enchanted by it: the melody – especially in the song – carries you, envelops you, it is an overwhelming wave.
“Rossetto e Caffè” by Sal Da Vinci has reached 26 million views on social media and has rightly achieved gold status: it is in the top 200 on Spotify.
Neapolitan music has excellent singers who, like Sal Da Vinci, are good at experimenting with high tones, with high notes: Eduardo De Crescenzo, Gigi Fizio, Massimo Ranieri, Eddy Napoli.
One cannot help but remember Mario Musella, whose vocal power was incomparable; but he was “half black”.
But Sal Da Vinci has something else: his high notes are colorful, persuasive, harmonious.
I don’t know what the range of his eighties is, but his falsetto is certainly unusual.
Paradoxically, it could be compared to the soprano, the treble castrati voices of the 17th and 18th centuries, known to us thanks to the works of the maestro Roberto De Simone, given the texture of the rising voice; and it’s a compliment, because “Rossetto e Caffè” is rooted in the soul thanks to its wonderful performance: no one can sing it like he sings it.
As if the most precious metal was being extracted from a quarry, as if a sublime object emerged from the abyss of the sea.
Her voice is ancestral, linked to the myth of the Siren: you are enchanted by her; they feel the invisible and see, because they evoke emotions, a beam of light in the heart.
Claudio Mattone noticed this when he asked him to make the theater musical “Once upon a time scugnizzi”: it was clear that he was a champion.
Now he explodes with this song, “Rossetto e Caffè”, which is catchy and has an immediate approach, a sudden penetration.
There is no peculiar and refined musical research, the harmonic circuit is easy to read, but it takes like “Sapore di Sale”, “Volare”, “Il Cielo in una Stanza”.
It was produced in the air of Naples, but this musical motif is spreading throughout Italy, especially among young people.
The text also has a poetic influence:
“Look at that moon before you go
he wants to see you as mine again.”
And it is a beautiful song – Lipstick and Coffee – that joins in the bow not the usual rain, but a melodic reverse: Naples – Parthenope – is the city of love, drunk with light and crazy with colors: here, at night, there they. The stars shine, like lace of golden lace.
REF:
love, Neapolitan song, Music, poetry, Sal Da Vinci
CAT:
Music, Naples
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