| The Best of Paolo Conte |  | Artist: Paolo Conte
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: CDN$ 19.35
Buy New: CDN$ 13.57
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Seller: jukeboxonline
Format: Import, Best of
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 075597951226
EAN: 0075597951226
ASIN: B000006R56
Release Date: June 9, 1998
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Elisir | | • | Sotto Le Stelle Del Jazz | | • | Via Con Me | | • | Boogie | | • | Sparring Partner | | • | Come Di | | • | Azzurro | | • | Gelato Al Limon | | • | Happy Feet | | • | Gli Impermeabili | | • | Max | | • | Gong-Oh | | • | Colleghi Trascurati | | • | Bartali | | • | Alle Prese Con Una Verde Milonga | | • | Dragon | | • | Hemingway | | • | Ho Ballato Di Tutto | | • | Quadrille | | • | Genova Per Noi |
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From Amazon.co.uk
From the peaceful north Italian town of Asti, Conte pens all of his own material, smokily growling as he hops from asymmetrical narrative to jaunty rhyming couplets. This bumper 20-track retrospective embraces most of his special interests, sometimes involving specific topics, as with "Gelato Al Limon" and "Hemingway" (the latter boasting surely the most sensitive kazoo solo ever). Driven by Conte's marching piano, his constant bandstand companions play for the dancers, intent on recreating a kind of mocking town hall pomposity, all the better to capture a peculiar flavour of pert 1920s jollity. Conte can be described as a sophisticated primitivist, his words reading like minimalist poetry, suggesting intangible images with sparse strokes. He details bittersweet, fatalistic tales of wind-lashed, street-corner romance, usually infused with a love-hate longing for vanished youth. The mixture of 80s and 90s numbers reveals a marked consistency of style, from the apparent simplicity of "Max" to the odd dying-80s production of "Dragon", so irritatingly compulsive. "Under The Stars Of Jazz" hisses with sibilant scatting, Conte performing an impromptu trombone impersonation, then, he'll up the tempo for the half-ridiculous theatrical romp of "Quadrille". This is a set to savour, constantly unearthing hidden depths. --Martin Longley
This poet, painter, and former lawyer from Asti, Italy, has been dazzling Italian audiences since the early 1970s but has just blazed into U.S. consciousness like a meteor with his Best Of debut album on Nonsesuch. After listening to his European style of cabaret music, you too will be hooked on the crooner who is widely appreciated for rhyming Napoli with Minneapoli. The selection of 20 songs ranges in style from a mixture of French chansonette to tango. All feature his raspy voice (Americans may be reminded of Tom Waits) with unmistakably wry lyrics that offer lovers and listeners alike the sensuality and complexity of gelato al limon (lemon ice cream). --Cristina Del Sesto
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