"I have more jeans than Bruce Springsteen and fewer hell than Leonard Cohen. This album is my look at the world on this bad weather that doesn't stop raining. '
Crooked Devils' (VIDEO)
is the song I never wanted to write": so
Marcello Murru
, one of the most sought-after poet and author of Italian song, presents his new album, 'Diavoli crooked', anticipated by the single of the same name, after ten years of silence.
"I move between my small rented room in Testaccio and the Lungotevere on certain sunny days in a small cemetery where
Gadda
messes up and
Gramsci
counts the stones while
Keats
sings love at the foot of the pyramid", Murru explains to ANSA .
His recording work, distributed by Rea / Concerto and realized thanks to the crowdfunding of a group of friends, including many journalists and writers, attracted the attention of
Giancarlo De Cataldo
.
With a hoarse and bitter voice, Murru remembers Waits, Cohen, Conte… As they narrate the desire and anger of living.
It was the great producer Lilli Greco who discovered it while walking alone among the avenues of the old RCA.
"Marcello reminds me so much of
Leonard Cohen
- writes De Cataldo himself - for his knowing how to juggle the sentimental, erotic, ironic registers, between life and death, between flesh and meditation, between the sense of transgression and that of divinity. For that common awareness that defeat is the only authentic condition that is delivered by some bizarre god (or whoever for him, think as you please) to us mortals. And that from how you face defeat - adds the magistrate writer - you understand if you have something inside you that makes you worthy, lyrical, pure. This is Marcello Murru. A poet in music who handles the art of navigating through defeat with gold and the mastery of the sung word ".
