Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2016
Time:34:11
Size:80,7 MB
Label:Route 61 Music
Styles:Singer-Songwriter/Folk-Rock-Blues
Art:Front
Year:2016
Time:34:11
Size:80,7 MB
Label:Route 61 Music
Styles:Singer-Songwriter/Folk-Rock-Blues
Art:Front
Tracks Listing:
1. Love Is The Only Law, Pt. 1 - 2:59
2. The Day You'll Say Sorry - 3:29
3. Along Your Path - 2:55
4. Haunted House - 4:12
5. Hard To Let You Go - 3:58
6. Darker Side - 4:26
7. Phantom Pain - 4:42
8. Colors #1 - 2:42
9. Love Is The Only Law, Pt. 2 - 4:44
1. Love Is The Only Law, Pt. 1 - 2:59
2. The Day You'll Say Sorry - 3:29
3. Along Your Path - 2:55
4. Haunted House - 4:12
5. Hard To Let You Go - 3:58
6. Darker Side - 4:26
7. Phantom Pain - 4:42
8. Colors #1 - 2:42
9. Love Is The Only Law, Pt. 2 - 4:44
We're regrettably late in discussing this album, which deserves to be included in the shortlist of albums we'll be highlighting at the end of 2016. But as a well-known comedian once said, "Sometimes Easter falls high, sometimes low..." What matters, I might add, is that it arrives.Let's start by saying that we like Daniele Tenca; we've always admired him, starting with his ability to professionally manage his presence on the music scene; he's serious, precise, in no rush, and only produces albums when he's ready and has something to say through good songs. Perhaps this is because he's influenced by the work environment he operates in, where nothing is left to chance, but rather the fruit of meticulous planning.
Tenca, after recently making himself known and appreciated by Guy Davis, including for having opened a few dates on the great American bluesman's latest tour, has convinced Davis to co-produce and supervise the work on this new episode, Love Is The Only Law, the fourth album by the Milanese artist, once again backed by Ermanno Labianca's Route 61.
After Guarda il sole (2007, in Italian), Blues For The Working Class (2010), and Wake Up Nation (2013), he tackles his fourth album, the third consecutive for Route 61. With the belief that never changes a winning team, he has retained the trusted and "expanded" Blues For the Working Class Band, with which he normally ignites his prized live sets, enlisting the assistance in the studio of that little King Midas, of whom we should be proud, Antonio "Cooper" Cupertino, an excellent producer behind important albums, both Italian and international.
His music is still based on street rock infused with blues, but this time it's the themes of the lyrics that have changed, forming the album's supporting structure. These lyrics have always carried a weighty weight in his work. After having explored, with a high regard, job insecurity, social unrest, and the damage caused by the global economy, Daniele now lowers his eyes and tenses the receptors of his soul with the aim of looking within and transmitting the vibrations driven by individual problems. These, upon closer inspection, turn out to be universal problems of the daily life of man, always in company and often in conflict with himself, in need of love, hence the title "Love is the only law" that "should" govern the world.
The album begins with the scent of the porch transmitted by the acoustic country blues "Love Is The Only Law" pt. 1, with Guy Davis's guitar and Daniele's reassuring vocals, then overall, the album veers toward tones more tied to a Sixties atmosphere. It's therefore pleasant to listen to the Cream-esque moods and riffs in "Along Your Path" (the horn arrangement, which calls and responds to the guitars, is amazing) or the Southern influences of "The Day You'll Say Sorry," while there's more Doors, but also Cave, in "Haunted House," complete with a needle effect in the intro, and in the hypnotic "Darker Side." But all nine tracks have depth and personality that transcends the aforementioned models.
The songs are played impeccably because, if it's true that you never stop learning and this is the rule in life, what do Daniele Tenca and his historic band, Blues For The Working Class, still have to learn?! Perhaps very little, given that Heggi Vezzano is the monster we know. Then, if he's joined by another rapidly developing guitarist like Leo Ghiringhelli and a stellar rhythm section that alternates between Pablo Leoni and Tony Rotta on drums and Joe Barreca and Luca Tonani on bass, we can be sure that the resulting sound is on par with the best we can hear in our parts today.
All that remains is to say: Tenca is one of the spearheads of our folk-rock-blues songwriting, one of the few artists who can cross the Atlantic and, with their heads held high, attend East Coast venues, confident of receiving the attention and listening they deserve.
Tenca, after recently making himself known and appreciated by Guy Davis, including for having opened a few dates on the great American bluesman's latest tour, has convinced Davis to co-produce and supervise the work on this new episode, Love Is The Only Law, the fourth album by the Milanese artist, once again backed by Ermanno Labianca's Route 61.
After Guarda il sole (2007, in Italian), Blues For The Working Class (2010), and Wake Up Nation (2013), he tackles his fourth album, the third consecutive for Route 61. With the belief that never changes a winning team, he has retained the trusted and "expanded" Blues For the Working Class Band, with which he normally ignites his prized live sets, enlisting the assistance in the studio of that little King Midas, of whom we should be proud, Antonio "Cooper" Cupertino, an excellent producer behind important albums, both Italian and international.
His music is still based on street rock infused with blues, but this time it's the themes of the lyrics that have changed, forming the album's supporting structure. These lyrics have always carried a weighty weight in his work. After having explored, with a high regard, job insecurity, social unrest, and the damage caused by the global economy, Daniele now lowers his eyes and tenses the receptors of his soul with the aim of looking within and transmitting the vibrations driven by individual problems. These, upon closer inspection, turn out to be universal problems of the daily life of man, always in company and often in conflict with himself, in need of love, hence the title "Love is the only law" that "should" govern the world.
The album begins with the scent of the porch transmitted by the acoustic country blues "Love Is The Only Law" pt. 1, with Guy Davis's guitar and Daniele's reassuring vocals, then overall, the album veers toward tones more tied to a Sixties atmosphere. It's therefore pleasant to listen to the Cream-esque moods and riffs in "Along Your Path" (the horn arrangement, which calls and responds to the guitars, is amazing) or the Southern influences of "The Day You'll Say Sorry," while there's more Doors, but also Cave, in "Haunted House," complete with a needle effect in the intro, and in the hypnotic "Darker Side." But all nine tracks have depth and personality that transcends the aforementioned models.
The songs are played impeccably because, if it's true that you never stop learning and this is the rule in life, what do Daniele Tenca and his historic band, Blues For The Working Class, still have to learn?! Perhaps very little, given that Heggi Vezzano is the monster we know. Then, if he's joined by another rapidly developing guitarist like Leo Ghiringhelli and a stellar rhythm section that alternates between Pablo Leoni and Tony Rotta on drums and Joe Barreca and Luca Tonani on bass, we can be sure that the resulting sound is on par with the best we can hear in our parts today.
All that remains is to say: Tenca is one of the spearheads of our folk-rock-blues songwriting, one of the few artists who can cross the Atlantic and, with their heads held high, attend East Coast venues, confident of receiving the attention and listening they deserve.
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