Tripla

GIORGIO GABER – GOGANGA
This was the early Gaber nonsense, when he composed ramshackle ballads like these, ramshackle but beautiful. A nursery rhyme always built on the same chords but immensely enjoyable, because here it is the text – together with Gaber’s unique mime – that makes you laugh and creates poetry. Truly a great one

ROY ORBISON – DREAM BABY
If in your band, which plays your songs, you had a guitarist and second voice like Bruce Springsteen, a pianist like Tom Waits, a third guitarist like Elvis Costello, a backing singer like Bonnie Raitt… well, either it is a dream or you are someone who has done something in the field of music. A great voice, well-modulated, a little melancholic, great hits – Only the Lonely, Pretty Woman, Crying – little luck. He burst onto the scene in 1956, lasted about ten years, disappeared for another twenty, managed to re-emerge with the Traveling Wilburys and, at the peak of the comeback, died of cardiac arrest. Monument

CARLOS NAKAI – SHAMAN’S CALL
Goosebumps stuff: Carlos’s great talent overflows beyond this simple solo flute track. But here it is not only about him, but about the entire soul of Native American peoples, whose music Carlos made known to the world, especially through the albums recorded together with the German pianist Peter Kater. What a German pianist and a Native American flautist might have to say to each other would already be a topic for a thesis, but music, after all, does exactly this: it brings together people, races, cultures, and traditions. Arcane

Gianni Giletti
NP november 2025