It happens like this, like the title of one of his songs. It happens that on the threshold of fifty years (he will turn 48 at the end of September), after having become a father and having conquered the podium at the Sanremo Festival by exploiting the experience of authorship for profit – because in that “theater on the Ligurian Riviera”, his words, if you put the children in the middle the success is guaranteed – Dario Bruori finds himself facing an important turn in his career and above all in the perception of the public: The path of Santiago by taxi (2014) had made him the new pope of the Italian indie, if at home everything well (2017) had projected him in the Olympus of the songwriter, with The walnut tree The artist from Cosentino has even become a nationalpopular phenomenon and, as an acute and curious observer of reality what it is, at the beginning of the “Uno e Trino” tour of 2025 (last spring in the buildings, this summer in the arenas with in addition the double orchestral excursion to the Circus Maximus in May and at the Arena of Verona next October) will certainly be asked that the public would have found himself in front. In addition, with a fifteen -year career and six albums on the assets – the two preceding the last certificates with the platinum disc – The repertoire for a live begins to become consistent, and the lineup had to be able to involve the new fans without disappointing the Brunetics of the first; Even the arrangements, especially after the passage from Taketo Gohara to Riccardo Sinigallia in the artistic direction of the album and the tour, constituted a new, yet another challenge for the most famous Calabrian on the Italian music scene.
Needless to say, as always when it comes to Bruori, the solution was brilliant: remain in itself anyway, do not deny naivety but also the freshness of the beginning and insert the new songs in a coherent and homogeneous overall discourse. And as always when it comes to Bruori, the result was brilliant. Those who have followed him for so much know that Dario loves to joke with the live audience on the requests of older songs, but on Sunday evening in Catania, in a practically sold out villaini, he had tangible proof that his artistic and autorative choices have been rewarded. Not only did his historical audience abandon him, rather he continues to follow him with the pride of those who understood before the others and the affection of those who saw their idol change, grow but never betray each other; In addition, from home everything is well to Sanremo his fanbase has expanded to ever younger boys, as evidenced by the very first flocking ranks of teenagers who loudly asked songs that have their age, from how you are guarding ’82, and who sang at the top even Italian Dandy (also taken from the first album of 2009). Change in continuity: a choice that also invests the band, with the historical musicians Stefano Amato (bass, cello, mandola), Dario della Rossa (piano and keyboards), Simona Marrazzo (Cori), Mirko Onofrio (Winds, vibraphone, synth, choirs) and Massimo Palermo (drums and percussion) flanked by a wind section formed by Luigi Country (trumpet) and Gianluca) Bennardo (trombone) and by the violins and the Theremin by Lucia Sagretti, for an even fuller, refined and “orchestral” sound that Taketo Gohara has been able to further enhance.
Between rutilant arrangements and moments of scar Intensity, Bruori obviously does not give up his soul as a stand-up comedian: he jokes (“We are in Catania where as songwriters there has never been anything, you are just at zero” except then paying homage to the final of Italian Dandy), argues, pretends to torment the audience (“The two cheerful songs of my repertoire are at the beginning, Gigionggia with the metal Master of Master of Puppets on Lamezia Milano and closes the Baba O’Riley Torero costume of the WHO style, in short, it is confirmed as Showman as well as a poet, songwriter, Vate (also from his repertoire). But then there is also the substance, and it is a lot of stuff as the young people say today: two hours in concert, twenty songs plus the canonical three bis (the “Falò moment” with guard ’82 illuminated by thousands of cell phones, its greatest success the truth and obviously the tree of the nuts) and a general feeling of artistic maturity that is difficult to evade. All executions of the highest level, splendid the versions of beyond the love that opens the evening, in my opinion, for two that like us, of the two soundtracks life as it is and an error of distraction and its piece-fetish song against fear (perhaps never felt so beautiful live). Brunori sounds almost entirely the latest album and at home everything is fine, he limits himself to the three singles of CIP! But he sacrifices the second (present only with her, Florence) and above all the path of Santiago, from which he gives a public audience only Kurt Cobain leaving out – and he is truly the only defect of a perfect concert – goodbye sadness and four times, however two milestones of his historical tours. Here, maybe he closes with a pinch of envy for the Calabrian “cousins” who in recent days have seen him perform for two and a half hours in two consecutive sold-out triumphals at the Teatro dei Ruderi in Cirella, in Diamante, but it certainly cannot be said that Bruori did not allow himself one hundred percent even to the Catania public who greeted this: “I hope you are having fun, Scialati ».
