Zucchero - Miserere 1992

Format: flac + cue + log

Genre: Blues, Funk / Soul, Pop-Rock

Release Date: 1992

Label: London Records

Zucchero's sixth studio album, Miserere was his first to reach the American audience. Released internationally in 1992, it features 12 original tracks written in Kenya, London, Dublin, Liverpool, New Orleans, and Camargue, France. A close listen to the album even today will astonish the most unfaithful and skeptical listener with Zucchero's maturity and down-to-earth raw feeling, and with its simple messages and an amazing degree of grooviness. Miserere gave Zucchero the opportunity to test himself in the American market and the confidence to support his fiery live shows. The title track, a duet with Maestro Luciano Pavarotti, is a compassionate, if slightly weird and cool, tribute to the end of 19th-century Italian opera tradition. --Ernesto De Pascale



He has never heard of misery?!
If this is so, well done to open this review. The legendary "farmer blues guitar again and grabs his hat and begins to sow scores in Kenya, Louisiana, United Kingdom. The mood of Sugar is broken down; a period of great depression is fought and decided overwhelmingly happy notes ("Gimme The Sun" and "The Brothers"). There is unleashed to the rhythm of "The Scream" as the word itself and with "orgy of Lost Souls", "nit" and "poor Christ" energetic songs with lyrics and colorful coloritissimi! You're listening to a Sugar still strong, arrogant as a doctrine of funky-soul recommended. Do not miss the beautiful ballads like "It's All Right", "Miss Mary" sweet style that will accompany the British bluesman also in the album to follow.
By Anna Solatia "(song" instrumental "accompanied by verses of poetry recited) it is pushed over the fence of a fantastic landscape in which we hear a musical attention to detail, poetic, profoundly limited in the emotions that only an Italian landscape can transmit . Its opposite is the ambiguous and hard "Penis" Zu tell us what he wanted 'with this text remains a mystery but it is not listening very hard over the lines: "Lick my penis ..." ... I'll let you no more!
I would end by citing the same name "Miserere" orchestrated by Michael Kamen (composer of movie soundtracks such as "Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves" with Kevin Costner and "Beyond the Dream" with Robin Williams). A true classic work, polluted (in a good way) by the soulful voice of sugar which is accompanied by the great tenor Pavarotti.
Miserere album is a sunny and magical. Try the surreal and is amplified to 100% joy and sadness. It will be impossible for anyone to be insensitive to this work.

(De Baser)