Giovanni Costello - In Alto Mare (2022)

Costello owes his breakthrough to his performance in the first season of 'The Voice of Germany' in 2011, which led him to the semi-finals and into the hearts of an audience of millions. Since then, he has become an outstanding ambassador of Italian style, Italian lifestyle and, above all, Italian music. Which, with his sixth album, reaches a new height in terms of diversity. Producer Nicolò Fragile has worked with Mina, Eros Ramazzotti, Adriano Celentano and Mario Biondi, among others.

Elegant as ever, Costello combines the styles here more than ever. Already at the beginning with the title track, an Italian pop classic by Loredana Berté, he succeeds in a funky, garnished with an oldschool rap interlude reminiscence of the disco era of the seventies and eighties influenced by bands like Kool & the Gang. Costello's version of "Non Avere Paura", a previously unreleased piece by guitarist Mauro Culotta, one of the house writers of the "prima donna of Italo-pop" Mina, also takes us back to these times, which were not only musically imbued with unadulterated optimism.