Oliver Onions are back with ‘Future Memorabilia’

Guido and Maurizio De Angelis, or the Oliver Onions, among the most famous pop artists and soundtrack authors, are back on the music scene and on the record market, for the Rai television drama ‘Sandokan’ as well as for the films by Bud Spencer and Terence Hill : ‘Future Memorabilia’ is the title of the album, out tomorrow, arranged by Ricky Quagliato for Bmg, which the artists define as “an adventurous road trip in ten stages and one destination: music”. Guido and Maurizio De Angelis explain: “The basic figure of our creating music has always been trying to reach the maximum for the fun of doing it, so with great enthusiasm we thought of a new sound outfit for our greatest hits, revisiting them in the form as original as possible. For years we have listened to them in a certain way and the idea of ​​presenting them with this ‘refreshed’ instrumental and timbre excites us and makes us euphoric: it is a way of proposing ourselves to our audience “. The duo enriches the tracklist with many special features, in addition to the already known ‘Orzowei’ feat. Tommaso Paradiso and ‘Banana Joe’ feat. Bud Spencer. At the starting block version 2.0 of ‘Dune Buggy (From The Future)’, soundtrack of ‘Altrimenti we’re angry!’ followed by ‘Bulldozer’. For ‘Sandokan’ Claudio Baglioni was used, the notes of cellist Tina Guo for ‘Ost Pirates of the Caribbean’, followed by ‘Flying through the Air’. The German star Roland Kaiser is alongside the Oliver Onions in ‘Santa Maria Memorabilia’, Elio and the Storie Tese come together to give a whimsical touch to ‘La la la la lalla (Chorus of Firefighters)’ with their style, while ‘ Sheriff ‘takes on an overseas flavor with big screen icon David Hasselhoff. At the final rush, ‘We Believe in Love’, with the voice of Elhaida Dani, the Esmeralda of the opera-musical ‘Notre-Dame de Paris’ signed by Riccardo Cocciante. “When they define us as a milestone in Italian musical history, a to us it seems like a huge compliment – Oliver Onions shield themselves – It is certain that in 50 years of career we have combined quite a lot … We have been arranging, session man, composers, performers, producers and we have arrived to the public through films, TV dramas, radio and cartoons. We traveled among the international charts, we were M&G Orchestra, Dilly Dilly, Oliver Onions; but, above all, we were always, in all respects, Guido and Maurizio De Angelis , putting a piece of us in every note of our music “. (by Enzo Bonaiuto)