A ‘sentimental’ journey between some of the most significant albums released between 2020 and 2024. To keep on the bedside table and browse before falling asleep or reading and rereading in search of that work that makes it right. More than a musical book ‘Music Diary – 100 records for the 20’, published and distributed by Arcana and written by Alessio Belli and Claudio Lancia, is a personal diary of twenty cards per year for five years, which analyzes, under the Emotional lens of the authors, each of the albums taken into consideration, in a story that intertwines music and life. Not necessarily ‘perfect’ discs but those who managed to breach the authors, offering them valid ideas to share with readers.
“After two monographs on Till Lindemann and Marilyn Manson, I was looking for the right way to deal with aspects of musical journalism that in recent years I have a little neglected (and the reasons you can find them in the book) or the reviews, the rankings – says Alessio Belli -. The solution was, first of all, the collaboration with Claudio. Below, the choice to deal with these topics in the most personal way possible. Diaristics, in fact. Without neglecting the ‘journalistic duty’. In fact, the reader here will find discs, in our opinion, but not only, beautiful, to be discovered or perhaps listened to “.
‘Music Diary’ is therefore not a ranking, a ranking or an analytical work that aspires to completeism. The two authors intend here to tell part of the musical listening accumulated in the first half of the 1920s. The work is articulated as a personal diary, a story during which emotions, impressions, musical genres, new faces and historical names alternate. Belli and Lancia have selected one hundred albums among the most significant of the analyzed period, observing a strictly chronological appearance order. These are not the most beautiful discs published during the first half of the 1920s, nor those who have had the most success or the most awarded, but those who according to the authors were able to summarize the best as important as it happened In the musical world between 2020 and 2024.
The only rule that the authors followed was to select each artist once only. Each album was therefore framed in its own context of reference, embarking on a narrative that aims to tell the scene of belonging, the style of the musicians, the sentimental reasons. The result is a picture that is certainly not exhaustive but sufficiently representative of what happened in the world of music during the five -year period.