Lazzaro – It’s Time to Go (2023, Solid Records)

Nine songs under the professional production of Taketo Gohara and under the direction of Vincenzo “Chinaschi” Costantino: it cannot be said that Leonardo Angelicchio, pseudonym LazarusDon’t surround yourself with high-level employees who can appreciate talent that, judging by this work, “Time to go”seems certain.

Lazzaro, a pianist and singer who already has important concert experience under his belt (just think of him opening for Eagle Eye-Cherry at a concert in Milan last February), talks about impulses and fragility, using a modern sound that evokes both rock and blues and rock blues. The most classic Italian song tradition.

The result is exciting, addictive pop where the songs between ballads and more rhythmic songs reveal an honest soul trying to bare itself, the beating heart of soul and r’n’b, looking to Zucchero and John Legend.

Speaking about the album, Lazzaro states: This is a deeply autobiographical record, it touches on very intimate aspects of my personality, reflected, projected onto a larger vision in which the listener can feel involved, in which they can see themselves again. At first glance, it is a heavy and difficult album, painful at times, but which always carries a message of hope in every song, a reason to start again when all is not lost, or to simply stop and start from scratch.

Despite the fact that this is just his solo debut, Lazzaro already appears as a mature artist, aware of his own path and ready to carve out his niche in modern Italian pop music.