Boogie

This song Boogie is not just another track on the album Paris milonga: it is the point where Paolo Conte takes swing and jazz to a place where South American influences blend seamlessly. It sounds as if the piano from a Parisian bar had wandered into a Buenos Aires milonga, with a rhythm that never stands still yet never loses its elegance. Its five minutes and sixteen seconds of duration give it room to breathe between phrases, as if each note had its own measure to stroll before returning to the theme.

They recorded it in two different studios: at Format in Turin —a place he already knew well, where he had begun his career with Lilli Greco— they captured Via con me and Pretend; the rest of the album was finished at the RCA studios in Rome. This change of location was no coincidence: after experimenting with Un gelato al limon under the production of Nanni Ricordi, Conte returned to Greco and the environment that had seen him emerge as a musician. The result is an album that matures the style he had already been shaping, but now with the confidence of someone who knows he can mix genres without it sounding like an experiment.