Orangeskies – Are you Addicted to Life and Music?

Usually, I hate Italian rock music. Besides few exceptions we all know: the Negazione, CCCP, the first-age Skiantos, something by Marlene Kuntz, some records of sixties and garage – punk, nothing more. Everything else ends up in my black list, which includes all the famous bands that I (deliberately) not mentioned.
Tihs is not true for the Roman singer Giulia Villari, Maybe because i’ve been introduced to her in a “confidential” way, or considering my fondness for women singers by whom she’s inspired (PJ Harvey above all), but I was very impressed by the songs of this girl , both live and recorded. Even more than the songs, well written, well played and very well sung, something else surprised me. The attitude. When I listen to Italian rock, I almost always get the impression that the artist with those songs have already given the best and he just can’t go further. But not for Giulia. This time, it seemed that the things I have heard are only the embryo of what she might be able to do, if her research eovolves in the right direction.
Songs like “Teach Me Your Love” and “November”, while being derivative, and according to some of the listeners that listened to them also “already heard” or even “trivial”, for me are simply beautiful, powerful, full of passion.
They are also interesting in acoustic version, and this is not simple to do (without noise is increasingly difficult to impress), and if they sound like PJ Harvey and Ani Di Franco I don’t think this is a big problem: We’d need so badly some Italian rockers who remind of them. Well, I guess I can only stay here and wait for Giulia to come out with something just a little bit more “personal”, than I will cry to the “Italian miracle”. Listening to his past production, I hope we will not have to wait for long.

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