Roll Over Berlosconi

VINYL FORMAT. Import! Comes on brown gatefold vinyl, limited to 999 hand-numbered copies with a digital download! We are glad to inaugurate this new label with an artist that we feel very close to, artistically and personally: a musician completely out of any formula, trend, or time, which is what we want our label to be. An eternal traveller that breaks all the rules of blues, country, rock, folk, jazz, keeping himself always unique and unmistakable. He looks funny, strange, crazy, but he is morally and politically lucid and uncompromising; and during his shows all kind of audiences, even the more orthodox ones, always fall in love with him for his contagious freshness and genuineness. Eugene Chadbourne comes back on vinyl after ten years with Roll Over Berlosconi, an album that takes its name from a song that will be easily be a new hymn against any form of abuse of authority and power, an argument he always holds dear. The record contains some new songs (a cover of "Birthday," from The Beatles White Album; "Roll Over Berlosconi," which talks about the Italian prime minister's "adventures" in a Chuck Berry style; the moving "Birthday Song," and the amazing "Election Song," inspired by the last American election period), and new versions of some of his classics: an endless work of rewriting that is peculiar to his artistic career. The entire album favors the song-writing side of Chadbourne more than the strict experimental side, the part of his work that better shows the "twilight zone" between pop music and avant-garde. The superb cover artwork is by the Croatian artist Miro Zupa.