Chocabeck

Chocabeck is the 11th studio album of the Italian singer Zucchero Fornaciari, released on November 3, 2010. The Chocabeck World Tour kicks off on May 7, 2011, and will run until July 5, 2012, for a total of 125 concerts.

The record, in the intentions of the Emilian singer-songwriter, was written as a concept album: it depicts a Sunday from dawn to dusk in an imaginary town in the “lower” Po Valley. The term chocabeck (snapping) is a dialect expression from Reggio Emilia that refers to the sound of the empty beak of animals such as a turkey or hen. Zucchero heard it from his father in his boyhood and believed it to be a delicacy, while, in fact, it was a euphemism for nothing to eat. Spicinfrin, on the other hand, is a dialect expression referring to a cute but turbulent little boy (that’s what his grandmother Diamante called him). The record refers to a series of situations aimed at evoking a sound, that of village Sundays, without nostalgic intents, but simply to bring back memories of particular life sensations particularly dear to the singer.

TRACKS

1. Un soffio caldo – 5:04 (lyrics: Zucchero, Francesco Guccini)
2. Il suono della domenica – 3:39
3. Soldati nella mia città – 3:21
4. È un peccato morir – 3:43 (lyrics: Zucchero, Pasquale Panella)
5. Vedo nero – 3:56 (Zucchero, Mimmo Cavallo)
6. Oltre le rive – 4:44 (lyrics: Zucchero, Pacifico – music: Zucchero, G. Cancogni, N. Cancogni, Max Marcolini)
7. Un uovo sodo – 3:17
8. Chocabeck – 4:47 (lyrics: Zucchero, P. Panella)
9. Alla fine – 3:46
10. Spicinfrin Boy – 3:55
11. God Bless the Child – 3:49 (testo: Chaz Jankel, Roland Orzabal, Hussy Derek)
12. Someone Else’s Tears – 3:38 (lyrics: Bono Vox) – iTunes Bonus Track, English version of The Sound of Sunday

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