Edoardo Bennato gave us a fun and exciting evening at the Palapartenope in Naples with the Pinocchio & Co. Tour. Here is the review of the concert!
Tuesday 20 November 2018 the Edoardo Bennato concert at the Palapartenope in Naples as part of the tour "Pinocchio & Co. Tour”For an evening that gave us about two and a half hours of emotions, fun, nostalgia, reflections and satire.
Bennato returned to limestone the Italian stages carrying on tour beautiful songs of his masterpiece, "Wireless puppet“, Which this year turns 40 years old, a work that turns out to be as topical as ever for the social and political issues faced with the typical light-hearted, albeit never superficial, approach of our singer-songwriter. The stories of Pinocchio, Mangiafuoco and the other characters of Collodi have been reinvented by Bennato who has masterfully updated them by introducing, with the new version of his album, also unpublished tracks to complete the disc.
So new songs like "Mastro Geppetto"and "Lucignolo”Were among the best of the evening's lineup at the Palapartenope, for a tracklist that made us travel over the decades and into the career of Edoardo Bennato also thanks to the interpretation of successful songs taken from his other albums.
A concert made even more exciting by the presence of the Flegreo Quartet, a Parthenopean ensemble of strings, and from the band of Bennato.
From Pinocchio to the Neverland: a journey into music and our history
The concert opened just with the vibrant notes of violins and cello from the Flegreo Quartet that accompanied Bennato in historical songs such as "Dotti, doctors and wise men"," In line for three ""The Neverland"," Fata "," Detto tra noi "and" Cantatutore ", A roundup of historical songs that immediately inflamed the audience and that left space for the second part of the concert in which a Bennato in full form performed alone on the stage singing for us "Have doubts"," They are just songs "and"The cat and the Fox“, With the help of big screen behind him, he was broadcasting thematic images.
In the third part of the live the band entered the scene giving adefinitely more rock to the evening. The start is given by "Stop America"And from the images on the big screen that showed American symbols and characters such as Elvis, Martin Luther King and Marilyn Monroe together with a caricature of Donald Trump and critical clips on wars. After "It will be false, it will be true", the stage was lit up by the beautiful "Mangiafuoco" enriched by intense drum and percussion solos and from the images, always caricatural, of Italian political representatives, for a fierce and inevitable satire.
From this moment on, after having listened to the new “Mastro Geppetto and Lucignolo”, we are returned to our Naples with a series of songs that told us about Bennato's childhood and career such as “A Napoli 55 è 'a musica”, “Sotto Viale Augusto che ci sta” and “Vendo Bagnoli”.
Very moving, however, "The slander is a breeze", dedicates to Enzo Tortora and Mia Martini. After another immersion in historical passages such as "I who am not the Emperor", "Renegade" and "My city", it is the Flegreo Quartet re-entered the scene who, with the band and Bennato himself, gave us the last fantastic sensations of the concert with the dynamic "Il Rock di Capitano Uncino", between guitar solos and quotes from classic rock songs like “Smoke on the water”, “Luckily there is no Nero now” and “In prison”, a song that closed the concert in a great way.
