Riccardo Bonsanto (Italy)
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Riccardo Bonsanto is a singer-songwriter from Ivrea, a small city in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. Drawn to guitar and Italian literature from an early age, he released his debut album Siamo soli, io e te (2020), which drew comparisons to the classic Italian cantautorato tradition and featured violinist Gidon Kremer on one track. His songs have been described as Roma-tinged and melancholic, rooted in storytelling and a strong literary sensibility. For his second album Flâneur, recorded in Paris, Bonsanto assembled a jazz-inflected ensemble with arrangements by Australian-born musician David Lewis, co-founder of the French band Paris Combo.
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“Clan(destino)” (Clan(destiny)) is a previously unreleased track with that conjures a sweltering Latin American underworld, inspired by Italian travel writer Pino Cacucci’s book La polvere del Messico (The Dust of Mexico). The songs opening refrain threads together percussion instruments and dance rhythms from across the Americas before giving way to more surrealistic verses. “Tribes of alcoholic shamans / Improvised prophets of nothing / Beer sweat under a sombrero / Between roosters that fight / And cacti that pierce / I am a fugitive / In the clan of destiny.”
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