"20 years of songs on tour" is the name of RAF's new summer tour, presenting their latest album "Ouch". Twenty years of career reproposed on stage, from that 1984 and the first big hit 'Self Control', which also reached number one in the US, to today, 2004, with the latest single 'In tutti i miei giorni'. As to how many songs RAF will be able to present on stage, one is truly spoilt for choice. Here are the first confirmed summer dates :
SATURDAY 19 JUNE BALESTRATE (PA) PORT
SUNDAY 27 JUNE CASALNUOVO (NA) SPORTS FIELD
TUESDAY 6 JULY SAMPLE SPORTS CENTRE
SUNDAY 11 JULY GROTTAMINARDA (AV) SPORTS FIELD
FRIDAY 23 JULY SALO' (BS) BADEN POWELL GARDEN
FRIDAY 6 AUGUST MESTRE (VE) ARENA
SATURDAY 7 AUGUST CARRARA PIAZZA ALBERICA
With 'Ouch', his new album, Raf confirms himself as one of the most inspired, personal and unpredictable talents of Italian top-class pop. Six years after the unprecedented rock roughness of 'La prova' and three years after the refined songwriting of 'Iperbole', this new album once again unsettles, strikes, excites. Offering "Iperbole" - the album of reached maturity, as well as a mega-hit like "Infinito" - a follow-up to its height certainly did not seem easy. But 'Ouch' (an ironic and enigmatic title: it is the exclamation most frequently uttered by comic book characters when they bump into something...) fully succeeds in its mission, thanks to a colourful kaleidoscope of sounds and styles ranging from melodic ballads to the most pressing funky rhythms, from classic rock to the ethereal 'chamber' arrangement of 'Il senso delle cose', passing through the fascinating 'noise' of 'Il prestigiatore'. Musically chameleonic (a quality enhanced by Raf's vocal performances, at his best in terms of bravura and versatility), this album nevertheless maintains from the first to the last note the very strong identity guaranteed by the unmistakable 'Raf style' and by lyrics that - with the exception of the title track, a concerned invective on the evils of the world - explore all the nuances of the oldest and most topical, most 'popular' and most difficult theme: love.
Tour Info : 02.76113055
Official website of the artist : www.raf.it
