ALBUM: Milano (2017)
MVC Rating: 4.0/$$$$
This is composer Daniele Luppi’s musical statement regarding Milan when it was party central in the 1980’s.
This album features Karen O and Parquet Floors. It has some interesting songs including a few that have nothing on Prince’s early work when it comes to R-rated sexual content.
The last song on the album is an instrumental free jazz piece that is as good as it is long and as long as it is unexpected in the context of other songs. I’ll have to file this record under ‘re-visit’ when I’m in a better place to take more time to get into it.
I believe this was sent to me — new vinyl late last year by one of my relatives but honestly have forgotten who.
Danielle Luppi worked as an arranger for artists like Gnarls Barkley and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
According to a Pitchfork review in the Milan Luppi is evoking is that of a city where everything was possible.. “Money flowed, parties raged, and the streets were filled with glamorous foreigners.”
It was superficial but vibrant.
Featured here are Karen O, the lead singer with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Parquet Floors. One blogger called it the strangest albums recorded. I’d say yes, it’s strange, but after recently reviewing the Mothers of the Invention, my threshold for strange has been broadened and few albums are stranger than several of Zappa.
I also hear a B-52’s influence here in songs like Flush. I hear bits of Talking Heads and Prince as well.