1. Hong Kong Garden
2. Sunday Morning
3. Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You
4. La Deche
5. Je Ne Sais Pas
6. My Bonnie
7. Lush Life
8. Who Loves the Sun
9. Everybody Sometimes, Somewhere and Some People All the Time Blues
10. Pretty Woman
11. Perfect Day
12. Elegia
13. Nenia Islandese per Robert Wyatt
Produced by Giulio Cesare Ricci.
Recorded: Jankowsky Tonstudio Stuttgart (July ’85) e Melody Tonstudio Stuttgart (December ’85).
Sound Engineer: Cristoph Wertz assisted by Giulio Cesare Ricci, Andreas Schumann, Manfred Deppe.
Mixed by Johannes Wohlleben – Giulio Cesare Ricci at Bauer Tonstudio Ludwigsburg (Jan. ’86).
Digital Mastering: Johannes Wohleben.
“Fonè- Nouvelle”
My choice in inaugurating this new Fonè series with “Rock’n’Roll Clown” wasn’t by any means fortuitous. In fact, the choice of this record is extremely significant in understanding y intentions leading up the Nouvelle Serie: for some time I had been intending to work on a project swhich could somehow open up a new world of music which didn’t really fit in with my cultural background; this had always tended toward classical music. Naturally, I had no intention of renouncing in any way criteria of distinction on quality as far as music and its recording are concerned.
There have been many problems, even more than anticipated, particularly for subtle reasons of qualities in a world where the product on cassette and pure musical research are very easily confused; the reason for this are not very academic way of playing and, even more, the great financial interests involved.in this context, the birth of the Rock’n’Roll Clown” project keeps pace with my intentions, precisely because it is a conscious search for an intelligent (but at the same time in no way intellectual) music. Beginning with the name, the implied theatrical element denotes a cultural thematic quality beyond the squalor which surrounds modern and so-called pop music, noticeable even to someone, like myself, who is ignorant of this subject: this desire, twigged with hedonism, never to abandon the attraction of a previously heard carry phrase; for even while continuing on the road of experimentation, which for too long has been provvice of a music often gratuitously cerebral, we are surrounded by an artistic and human dimension changed with new sensations.
“Fonè- Nouvelle” is a genuine step towards the new reality of our own times, in order to save that spank of simplicity which we see sporadically in a context which is professionally speaking and end in itself, and even outdated. We are talking, therefore, about encouraging an extremely sensitive, open, differentiated and heterogeneous production which allows us to tackle differing musical dimensions, united however in a deeply felt project for a new involvement in more real and more vital themes offered by the imaginations and the creativity of today’s musicians; as Luca says “… I believe that ‘Rock’n’Roll Clown’ faithfully reflects my state of being, the places I’ve seen, my experiences; it’s as if with what I have inside me I have coloured sounds which only have meaning for me, trying not to evade the sensation of wonder I have felt for songs in another language since I was a child: the imagination which models itself on a significance all of its own, limited only by the emphasis, in the pure state, given to the words in the always violent but also sweer intensity with they are pronounced. It’s a bit like a Fellini-esque memory. I don’t know – perhaps many foreigners listening to the record will have difficulty in understanding their own language: I advise you not to worry too much, also because I am Italian and I want this to be felt; mine in a feeling “Italian-style”.
On the other hand. I would maintain that for an abused language like English it is necessary to broaden the creative horizons by borrowing from the wealth of “European English”, with its grammatical mistakes, at times soft, a bit kitch but anyway tone and rich in pulsations which mirror the sensations of this cosmopolitan reality of ours, of people who wonder around Europe and communicate in this language. There exists also an English which could be called “Third World” – this is perhaps even more creative, and certainly richer in magic and misery, but that’s another story. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the end result.”
Giulio Cesare Ricci
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