Considered among the finest singer-songwriters on the Italian scene and enjoying a burgeoning worldwide renown, Vinicio Capossela has created his own musical universe, sequestered somewhere between America and Italy, in a musical landscape between Tom Waits and Paolo Conte. Da Solo, his most recent album, takes inspiration from the shadows, where life loses its luster but where secret beauty also hides, and spotlights his piano and voice in ethereal instrumental settings. It is a sound charged with emotion and a gentle madness and, in performance, reveals an artist in full splendour.