{"id":83,"date":"2010-11-18T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=83"},"modified":"2011-12-27T16:24:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T21:24:47","slug":"paolo-conte-imagine-something-in-italian-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2010\/11\/18\/paolo-conte-imagine-something-in-italian-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Paolo Conte: [Imagine Something in Italian Here]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s tough being a fan of singer\/songwriter\/pianist Paolo Conte if you don’t know much Italian. I first heard Conte’s music while working in a bookstore in northern California thanks to one of my spectacular co-workers playing Conte’s Best of…<\/i> CD over the PA. I fell in love with the music – which, though I tend to shy away from direct artist comparisons, I have often described to people as “if Tom Waits sang French songs in Italian” – but it’s been difficult keeping up with him since.<\/p>\n

You may well have heard Conte, too, as songs like “Come Di” and “Via Con Me” have been used in a couple of American films (like the Cleveland-set Welcome to Collinwood<\/i>). His bi-lingual music is often upbeat and infectious but also ranges to the utterly beautiful. A lawyer as well as a musician (his family have been solicitors for generations), he is known to accompany himself by producing trumpet sounds with his mouth. <\/p>\n

And it just so happens that he released a new album last month called Nelson<\/i> (in honor of his dog). <\/p>\n

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