On 20.04.20 Max Montanari released an album with a mysterious title, (expired link)., a record that should have been released 15 years ago for a major major. The global success of the album (especially in South America) prompted the Romagna artist in agreement with his own label to produce the third single in an unreleased version: an acoustic remix in collaboration with a great Argentine guitarist, Juan Pablo Esmok Lew, who fell in
love with the original song and the talented guitarist from Romagna Fabio Monti who collaborated with Lew in the remix of the song.
Max Montanari owes a lot to Covid: the mandatory lockdown that prompted him to publish his "never made"
album, brought incredible results for a musical product that many Italian "record companies" would define out of fashion and unmarketable: for 4 months the album is in the European charts, reaching the first 5 places (the only Italian) of the chart with the first and second single; and in South America, audiences and editors are continuing to ask him for interviews and specials on his 7 deadly sins album; Thus was born the collaboration between the Argentine guitarist, composer and arranger Juan Pablo Esmok Lew (active since 1999, with numerous world tours, film soundtracks and albums in collaboration with great artists) and Max who together
with the talented guitarist from Romagna Fabio Monti (aka FMonty) have given birth to a new single that rearranges the song dedicated to lust on SALIGIA in a rock key, literally transforming it into an acoustic pop song, with a strong Latin flavor in the arrangements and translated into Spanish thanks to the adaptation of the mother tongue Cecilia Policicchio from Ravenna.
The result was so striking that Alkatraz Management (Montanari's label) decided to launch it as an independent
single from the album, and it will be available from 30.08.20 all over the world, both as a radio single, digital store, and video clips.
"SALIGIA" is the Italian acronym used to define the order of the 7 deadly sins: pride, avarice, lust, envy, gluttony, anger, sloth (also used by our "Boccaccio" in unsuspecting times): in an era in whose Italian songs
have lyrics of 4 stanzas, the success of this product bodes well for a return to good music attentive to the lyrics and not only dedicated to the amorous misfortunes of the Italian pop people, where grammar is an understatement.
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