Bugo

Electronica

Milano, Italy

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About

Contatti
There are ups and downs in everyone's life. Bugo's record serves both by giving them a move.
After showing life's lo-fi, after strolling through pop, rock italian authoriality and contemporary existence pains, Cristian Bugatti turns back to the form of song.
What lies behind - and inside - Contatti is in fact song itself. Not the one we're used to, easy and easy-going: it's rather a discovery of the variety of things you can do with a song. You only need curiosity, feeling for adventure, rash recklessness: all qualities Bugatti can rely on, and lavishly. While Sguardo contemporaneo had a rather classic approach, featuring rough sounds, in this work he presents a free-hand drawing, opening up new perspectives without losing his characteristic imprint.

Stefano Fontana's artistic production has combined in a different fashion the instrument's roles (Stefano Fontana is a famous and acknoledged dj and producer, well known for his Stylophonc project). Guitar, bass and drums are there, but amidst them appear all kind of sounds and rythms: they are not mere samplings, but a vital breath filling the tracks. After the sudden start of Posso entrare, a post-hippy anthem touching us as a ghost, we are thrown in the dancing hell of C'è crisi, a moment of celebration and spell: dappertutto c'è crisi, oppure semplicemente... fa niente.
Moderately light-hearted, Bugo faces alienation from the right sphere as if it were a party where he's not invited, the myth of Primitive man embedded in a sound structure of contemporary electro R&B.
Meanwhile, the Love Boat tv show of the Eighties sinks, along with all love deceit, while Le buone maniere (Good manners) are hard to teach, but not to those who reinvent the Seventies' disco and today's rap to make them their own private fun-fair.

The surreal dimension of everyday life is also represented: the rebellion of La mano mia describes it without complacency, whereas Felicità remains incomprehensible, submerged in retroactive reflections and tolls. Balliamo un altro mese is a sort of dance of death, where month after month people cope with their loans, bills and mixed wounds. Sesto senso, on the other hand, shows Bugo as a great love singer: once again there are here different rythms and sound flashes, but in the end all melts together to form poetry.

Bugo is in the company of some faithful friends: Aldo Nove, who's written Balliamo un altro mese with Cristian, and further the musicians Evandro Cesar Dos Reis of the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio and Abdoullai Kader Traoré of the Orchestra di Via Padova, the trusted Ruben Gardella on drums, Roberto Baldi on keyboards, Beatrice Antolini on the piano, Elisabetta and Zenima on vocals. The album was recorded and mixed in Milan and masterized at the Sterling Sound Studio in New York.

Contatti is the curious soul of one of the less definable pop artists of the last ten years. His true story has only just begun.