It's here...finally. 


Thanks to the wonderful contribution of animal advocate and good friend, Katie Foley, The Storia Project now has a brand-new Good Cause.  This time around it's about awareness.  Katie and I started talking about collaborating on a good cause last December and at some point it came out that it would be a great idea, seeing as it is the Chinese Year of the Tiger, to feature a blog post Katie originally wrote for the New England Primate Sanctuary on tiger conservation.  I couldn't agree more.

When I read Katie's piece I was shocked to read that there are more tigers in American zoos than there are wild in the world-- a measly 3200.  3200!  I'm sure there are more than 3200 people living within a mile's radius of my apartment in Rome.  Feeling sad yet? Feeling mad yet?  I think the common impulsive reaction to learning these things is that of "we need to do something!"... and then you get distracted with life and you never really do anything.  Kind of like when a bad hurricane or earthquake hits and all of a sudden you want to join the Red Cross, but in the end you have leave the relief work to the trained professionals.  


Unfortunately we can't all jump on a plane and go save the tigers-- that we will leave for Katie who is currently working in Malaysia.  Instead, the Tiger Conservation Good Cause is pushing awareness.  Knowing makes a big difference.  Read about it, learn about it, and talk about it.  Know about it, talk about it. Know about it talk about it.  THIS is how we can help.

It is here, it is real, it is now.  It is diverse, it is powerful, and yes my friends, it is truly Roman.  It is Buona Pace from the Italian hip hop icons, Cor Veleno. 

Released this week on May 25 from RCA/Sony Music, Buona Pace is the newest addition to Cor Veleno's long line of discography and makes a grand entrance into today's capricious music industry in a terrific way.  It is true that rap can and almost must be direct to a confrontational level and stirring to an abrasive level, and in fact this is a rap album, but anyone with even a basal appreciation of any music genre would be silly (for lack of better words) to pass these twelve tracks by.  

Cor Veleno: Buona Pace (Sony Music)

• Dentro te
• Buona Pace
• L’odore Del Mare
• Pensami Forte
• Falso
• La Pelle E’ La Mia
• Anche Piu’ Facile
• Spezzami L’Anima
• Sto Cor Veleno
• Quello Che Verrà Domani
• Bam Bam (Bonus)
• Nessuna Bandiera Bianca (Bonus)

The trio that is Cor Veleno- Primo, Grandi Numeri & Squarta- has successfully, artfully created an album that embodies not just a hybrid music genre theory, but an evolved hip hop music theory. Buona Pace is comparable to a well-curated art exhibition in which each track would need its own room with blank walls to fully express its distinctive personality.  With reggae, rock and classical undertones just to name a few Buona Pace proposes a new sound without compromising the intelligent, charismatic attributes so characteristic of Cor Veleno's previous work.  If anything, the new sound is indicative of a talent only shared amongst the most passionate musicians at work these days.  

Following the heavy rotation single "L'Odore del Mare", Buona Pace is now available on iTunes as well as in music stores across Italy.  If you are American (like me) and have to fight with iTunes to get this album save yourself from banging your head against the wall (like I did) and go straight to 7digital.com where you can even pay with PayPal. 


We hope everyone in the Storia world will check out Buona Pace- not just because the Cor Veleno guys are good friends of ours and die-hard Storia supporters, but because they are legit.  And nobody knows legit like we know legit.  


Give it a look, then give it a go, but more than anything... ENJOY.


COR VELENO OFFICIAL WEBSITE