''Le dimensioni del mio caos'' (translatable as "''The Size of My Chaos''") is the fourth album by the Italian rapper

Caparezza Caparezza ( or ; meaning "Curly Head" in the Molfetta dialect) is the pseudonym of Michele Salvemini (born 9 October 1973), an Italian rapper. Born in Molfetta, in the southern region of Apulia, Caparezza debuted in 1997 at the Sanremo Festival ...

, released on April 11, 2008.

Concept and storyline

CapaRezza defines this

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as a "picture story sound". The characters of the story are as described in the

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: *Caparezza, an artist from

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who does not smoke joints; *Ilaria, a

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transported from the year 1968 who is in love with

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; *Luigi delle Bicocche, an adventurous construction worker who demolishes the wall of time; *A

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, a playful and uninhibited

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. Ilaria, due to a worm-hole in time, finds herself catapulted from 1968 into the present. The story continues with the love of Caparezza. Ilaria against that, conditioned by our society, refuses to go back to becoming a young

girl who follows all the fashions and trends of the moment. She loses her revolutionary spirit, and this ends with her marrying the politician Carneade, the "one man forehead." Carneade aims to build a space port, a great work but absolutely useless, as it is said to be intended to send sewage sludge into space, but in fact its real purpose is to win elections at the front. Meanwhile, Caparezza meets the working man Luigi delle Bicocche, defined modern hero of the precariousness that would work as its subject. Judged by the revolutionary leadership of course, Caparezza is arrested and is sentenced to hard labor in a "circus of mice". Meanwhile, Carneades has won the election with 100 per cent of the vote, while Luigi delle Bicocche creates a second passage in time that takes the world back to prehistoric times. There, a species of ape, the "

", proves to have reached an evolutionary stage more advanced than people today. Some insights are based on the

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plot of

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La rivoluzione del sessintutto - "''The Sex-in-everything Revolution''"

Caparezza recalls the 1968 Italian shows of

and makes a comparison between the warm autumn revolution and sexual liberation that results in sexual phobia today, that justifies the pun title (as "Sixtyeight" in Italian is "Sessantotto", "Sex in everything" in Italian is "Sesso in tutto"). He also cites the groupie

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, who has become famous for having made some casts of the genitals of Hendrix and other artists. At the end of the track, emulating Hendrix performing the act of splitting the

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on the banks of amplifiers, with this narrative pretext, he creates a path through space-time with the electric current generated, and meets Ilaria.

Ulisse (You listen)

The meeting between Caparezza and Ilaria and is compared to that between

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and the sirens. Here the call of sirens refers to the ability to listen to their inner voice, from here the similarity between the English pronunciation of ''Ulysses'' and ''iullisses'' with "you listen." The song speaks about the singer's addiction to Ilaria's character.

Non mettere le mani in tasca - "''Don't Put Your Hands in Your Pockets''"

Caparezza is arrested for having pockets, a symbol of historical memory, from where the voice of the power that lies and manipulates. Clear reference to the

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, accused of

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Pimpami la storia - "''Pimp My History''"

Here speaks a lazy student who looks at facts and historical characters with a gaze that tends to caricature and the climax makes the game of power that wants to promote ignorance among the younger generations.

Ilaria condizionata

Caparezza describes Ilaria, and plays it on two-way air conditioning (in fact, in Italian "Aria condizionata" is "Air conditioning"), and because it was conditioned by today's society, and because Ilaria – like air – has cooled him, disappointed by the girl he was infatuated.

La grande opera - "''The Great Work''"

Talks the

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spaceport's ideology. The "Space-port" is an impressive space opera created especially for propaganda purposes. Caparezza refers to the Salerno-Reggio Calabria, the

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, Italian construction and

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, works that have never been completed.

Vieni a ballare in Puglia - "''Come Dance in
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''"

''Dancing'' is about to ''die'', denouncing the scourge of workplace fatalities and other problems in his region, performing an act of love for his land. The song, as previously '' Fuori dal tunnel'', was wrongly interpreted, given that many people considered the track as a praise to the singer's region.

Abiura di me - "''Abjuration of Myself''"

Inspired by the world of

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, Caparezza declares his firm intention to always want to "jump to the next level" as a man and as an artist, even at the cost of denying in the future what was yesterday (as well as he already done with his previous character,

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Cacca nello spazio - "''Poop in space''"

While Caparezza is shoveling excrements (as sentenced by a judge) at the circus, trips for the spaceport are opening, with a plethora of jet setters who are on the show: he seems to want to warn any

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by the arrival of these individuals, identified him as the true excrements of the Earth.

Il circo delle pantegane - "''Circus of Rats''"

Description symbolic of circus populated by large rats, where the singer's life sadly goes on.

Un vero uomo dovrebbe lavare i piatti - "''A Real Man Should Wash Dishes''"

"Un vero uomo dovrebbe lavare i piatti" On a

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tune, Caparezza goes against the current of most reactionary stereotypes about ideal man's

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Io diventerò qualcuno - "''I'll Become Somebody''"

Imitating a child's voice and the melodies of the Zecchino d'Oro,a popular Italian

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where children sing, this song contains an initial quote on the policy agenda of the '' Matter man's Front'' by Guglielmo Giannini in the immediate

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. Inspired by indifference, Caparezza identifies the ''somebody'' of ''One man's Party'', based on opposing values such as ignorance,

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and

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Eroe (storia di Luigi delle Bicocche) - "''Hero (the Story of Luigi delle Bicocche)''"

To the tune of

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we listen to social protest of the hero-worker, forced to work for freedom and in extremely precarious conditions that to bring home the salary has to bear the fatigue and the constant change of

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Bonobo Power

Ending with the monkey

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, free from all sorts of conventions, including those of type religious,

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ual and

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, and so the "modern man's evolution", with

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to act like a

Reception

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's Mariano Prunes called the album "ambitious but definitely overreaching", writing "its length and unyielding energy can get grating as it goes along ..the album suffers musically from an unrelenting storm of same-sounding

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and heavy metal."

Track listing

Certifications

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dimensioni Del Mio Caos 2008 albums Caparezza albums Concept albums Italian-language albums Virgin Records albums