Miserere

Miserere

• ZUCCHERO
• MUSICA DE PAISES
• INTERNATIONAL
• MUSIC

Zucchero's sixth studio album, <i>Miserere</i> was his first to reach the American audience. Released internationally in 1992, it features 12 original tracks written in Kenya, London, Dublin, Liverpool, New Orleans, and Camargue, France. A close listen to the album even today will astonish the most unfaithful and skeptical listener with Zucchero's maturity and down-to-earth raw feeling, and with its simple messages and an amazing degree of grooviness. <i>Miserere</i> gave Zucchero the opportunity to test himself in the American market and the confidence to support his fiery live shows. The title track, a duet with Maestro Luciano Pavarotti, is a compassionate, if slightly weird and cool, tribute to the end of 19th-century Italian opera tradition. <i>--Ernesto De Pascale</i>