The wait is over. Marco Mengoni's new album Atlantico is out and already topping the charts and no wonder. The two singles released to launch it earlier, Voglio and Buona vita were said to represant the two ends of the album and indeed they do: the sound varies from electric pop to latin sounds and everything in between. Tom Walker duets in Hola (I say) and Latin Grammy winner, Brazilian Vanessa Da Mate and Seiton in Amalia. Among the writers we have Fabio Ilacqua (in Buona vita, La casa azul, La ragione del mondo, Amalia, I giorni di domani, Dialogo tra due pazzi, known for his work with Francesco Gabbani), Mahmood, who's in Sanremo Giovani and could end up winning Sanremo and going to Tel Aviv 2019 (in Hola, Mille lire, Rivoluzione), Tony Maiello of San Marino Eurovision wannabe fame and hitmaker for Laura Pausini (Muhammed Ali) and even legendary Adriano Celentano makes a cameo in La casa azul. Mengoni himself is credited as writer for each song as well, except title track. There's Spanish, Portuguese and English besides Italian in lyrics as well.
Among the producers of various songs we have El Quincho aka Pablo Diaz-Reixa, Takagi e Ketra, Cristian Rigano, Rudimental, Fabrizio Ferraguzzo and Mengoni himself.
The album is a fruit of over two years break after megasuccess of his latest albums and endless tours. He took some time off to travel the world, relax and get inspired again. He has ben hitch-hiking in Cuba, visited United Arab Emirates, spent time alone in New York, enjoyed Portugal where he met Vanessa and fell in love with fado. One can hear it all in the album that is certaily not a concept album but a collection of different moods, sounds and beats and the only thing common is Mengoni himself. But it works. It's entertaining and inspiring, interesting mixture and different from his latest two albums but in a way that if you liked them, you will like this one, too. Not too different, but enough. With tributes to Muhammed Ali and Frida Kahlo that he wants everybody to know better. I have difficulties to pick up favorites as I seem to like all of them and only time will tell which ones will be the ultimate favorites later on.... but Everest deserves extra mention. Both for lyrics and it's melancholy. Fab album. Again!
The album is released with five different covers each with different booklet and one extra song: Attraverso la gente, Filtro di coscienza, Immersione emotiva, Oceano di esperienza and Piano unico.
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