LUCIO DALLA / Ciao
In Japan, the entrance for Italian Music is very small now
except for some famous Progressive Rock groups like PFM, NEW TROLLS etc.
For prog-rock fans, Italy is one of the most attractive countries. For those fans,
OSANNA, BANCO and I POOH are as great as MICHAEL JACKSON, and
JACULA, LE ORME and FORMULA 3 are like King Crimson, EL&P and YES.
Same as prog-rock groups, HEAVY METAL groups from Italy is more familiar now in Japan than years ago, but the biggest reasons that RHAPSODY OF FIRE, LABYRINTH and SKYLARK are famous for Japanese fans is that they are singing in English, I think.
Most of fans of foreign music in Japan love to listen to English music, and
few people loves other languages' music like French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian music.
** songs sung in Dutch or German are not known so much.
Our entrance for Italian Pops/Rock music was NEW TROLLS.
They played Prog-Rock in the early 70s, but their mid 70s~90s are the mainstream of POPS.
When their self-titled album was re-issued in Japan on CD, a bonus track "POSTER" was added.
It's a cover song of CLAUDIO BAGLIONI, and it was the first entrance for us to Italian Pops.
After I collected 10 or so albums of Claudio Baglioni, I started to hunt more Italian Pops, and met
UMBERTO TOZZI, UMBERTO BALSAMO, RICCARDO COCCIANTE (I already knew his name because he was covering PFM song, Suonare Suonare), ROSSANA CASALE, MARCO MASINI and many many more singers/musicians' albums.
Around that time, we found and listened to STADIO's album and had found that their music is so suitable for me.
We tried to find more STADIO albums but it was hard to find, here in Japan (it was ... 15 or more years ago), but
we heard that STADIO was playing together with LUCIO DALLA.
I started to find LUCIO DALLA's albums, and had found some of them.
I still do NOT know well about Italian Music scene in 2013, but I think I love most of Italian music because of I have never met an artist whose music does not fit to me.
RON, RAF, NEK and many younger musician's songs are so good, too.
It'll be my lifework to find and listen to more songs from Italy.
by S.Noji at SANREMO.CO.,LTD.
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