Diego Donati - A Portrait of Radiohead (2020)

On the Italian side, here is a project that does not lack charm and which is released on the Dodicilune label, distributed by Believe digital. At the start of this project entitled “A Portrait Of Radiohead”, two excellent guitarists, Diego Donati and Stefano Coppari, who revisit Radiohead's work with their poetic gaze, through 8 titles: “Paranoid Android”, “No surprises” and “Karma Police” (“OK Computer”, 1997), “How to Disappear Completely” (KidA, 2000), “Pyramid Song”, “Knives Out” (Amnesiac, 2001), “We Suck Young Blood”, “A Wolf At The Door ”(Hail to the Thief, 2003).
“In Radiohead’s history, every record is an achievement. To build and move forward, every time we demolished everything we had done until then. The process of creation has always been painful, tormented, laborious… ”, declared Thom Yorke, frontman and singer of the group, in an interview. A story that is therefore re-read by an ensemble that combines the two guitars of Donati and Coppari with a rhythm section composed of Lorenzo Scipioni on double bass and Roberto Desiderio on drums, as well as a string quartet formed by Riccardo Bottegal and Lucia Guerrieri on violins, Malgorzata Maria Bartman on viola and Francesco Alessandro De Felice on cello. The voice, superb, is that of the thirty-year-old singer of Marche Anna Laura Alvear Calderon.
“Stefano and I were looking for something that could best express both, both instrumental and compositional,” says Diego Donati. “We discovered that we shared a passion for Radiohead, so we thought, why not try to re-read their music? We were immediately thrilled with the idea, so we decided to revisit it in our own way. "
There is plenty here to place this album in the “Indispensables” category of the editorial staff of Bayou Blue Radio and Paris-Move, because the originality of this project cannot (and will not leave) anyone unmoved ...

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