summer IDEABIOGRAFICA

ALBUM REVIEW - 'ALL THINGS REAL' BY CLAUDIO BARONI
FROM SUMMER (IDEABIOGRAFICA) ITALIAN MUSIC MAGAZINE -
JUNE, 2006 (TRANSLATED FROM ITALIAN)

Steve Adey, native of Edinburgh (Scotland), has realized a record –
All Things Real – generous, with few instruments. Played and sung on tiptoe. Ten songs lasting 40 minutes. Adey is the classic sensitive songwriter and singer, who writes elegantly and tidily. Without many frills and many notes thrown off at random, Adey has combined a sound pattern with heartrending lyrics. Acoustic lo-fi intensity to the highest degree, as it can be delicately listened to in The Lost Boat Song.
Not to be forgotten, furthermore, the two covers: Shelter From The Storm by Mr Bob Dylan and I See A Darkness by Will Oldham. The Scottish songwriter strips them of everything, keeping only the piece’s skeleton; Shelter From The Storm in particular: Dylan could like it. Pleasantly ravished and struck.

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