For all of you who appreciate the music of Steely Dan, shades of Katy Lied seem to track deeply in this song’s creation. When the radio recordings creep back in, the dance floor you probably imagined this playing at the beginning surely must have changed near the end. It’s the fascinating, distinctly Italian, melodies played on electric guitars and brass instruments (the ones that underpin the whole groove) that allow the song to seamlessly go from exploratory funk –turn on a dime– become introspective, then turn again, and become deeply romantic and bittersweet. Kicking off the album with fragments of static-filled radio recordings, the song gradually fades in the massive drum and bass groove that will take you on the unlikeliest of dance journeys. Not many dance floor bangers begin quite like “Notturno Italiano”. Capturing a beautiful slice of Italian sentiment, it’s only a few re-edits away from making it onto everyone’s eternal dance floor. What’s in Mario Acquaviva? Its eighteen masterful minutes of ruminative springtime Mediterranean piano pop mixed with all sorts of found sound, funk, AOR, post-disco, and other assorted, gorgeous stuff. One of my favorite finds of the year was this brief, but spectacular, EP by Bolognese musician Mario Acquaviva. Even in the dead of the winter, this sunlit EP of Italian Pop can break through any forecast.
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