Author: Andrea Pomini

Title: Tutto qui – La storia dei Massimo Volume

Publisher: Arcana Edizioni

Pages: 352

Price: 18.50 euros

“Tutto qui” is not simply, as the subtitle states, “The story of Massimo Volume”. It's much, much more. It's the choral tale of an era, the unveiling of a boundless passion, of “an emotional revolution among people. Inside a rock band”, as Vittoria Burattini puts it. Because, beyond their musical merits, Massimo Volume's story has, for many, marked the consecration of an idea of making music that draws its primal source from everyday life, with all its wounds and its remedies.

Andrea Pomini has gathered the voices of everyone who, in one way or another, came into contact with the story of one of the most important bands in Italian rock. Bologna as the epicenter of a fierce friendship, amid the ferment of the DAMS, squatted houses, colossal benders, and flashes of lyricism hidden in the belly of small things. And so the figures of Emidio Clementi (“Mimì”), Vittoria Burattini, Egle Sommacal, but also Gabriele Ceci, Metello Orsini and many others, take shape page after page, through a gradually thickening weave of voices, opinions, grudges or regrets, nostalgia and fierce desires. There are the torments of late adolescence, the urge to run away that is, above all, the urge to come back more mature, the desire to turn one's own life into something lasting, the countless band ideas, the first rehearsals and the first gigs, the clashes and the break-ups. All of it live and unfiltered, with no mediation.

So we read of the disappointment of Umberto Palazzo (one of the band's founders), pushed out because his strong personality clashed with the equally imposing one of Mimì; of poor Gabriele Ceci, technically limited but able to hold things together, despite being everyone else's favorite target to vent on; of the extremely strong bond between Mimì and Vittoria; of the moody, professional Egle… and so on. And in the midst of it all, here's the story of the making of “Stanze”, of the masterpiece “Along the edges”, of the definitive self-awareness of “Da Qui”, of the half-botched “Club Privé” (when they tried to get Mimì to sing, him who never has been and never will be a singer!), of the thrill and emotion of the reunion for the live scoring of the restored version of “La caduta della casa degli Usher”, right up to the emotion of their definitive comeback, sealed by a new album, the recent "Cattive Abitudini".

These are pages that you read in one sitting, pages dripping with life and sincerity. Because Massimo Volume have always been the odd one out on the Italian music scene, and will keep on being so. And “Tutto qui” is a book that not only fans should read, because it's a book that tells of a friendship and an intertwining of lives that turned into Sound.

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(20/11/2010)

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