Fausto Papetti was a well-known artist, greatly appreciated by Italian audiences, who contributed significantly to the dissemination and knowledge of the instrument and its appeal in Italian culture. He has always had great recording success, releasing collections of famous pieces of the time arranged in instrumental versions, selected mainly from music for the cinema, which often exceeded sales of the original soundtracks.
In Italy, he managed for the first time to establish in the field of pop recordings the so-called “instrumental genre”, hitherto almost ignored by the sales charts, becoming the interpreter who, with no fewer than 29 records, placed the highest number of albums in the Italian hit paradeand even surpassed Mina (27) and Puuh (23). An overwhelming career that made him famous all over the world, especially in Germany, Spain, France, Russia and Japan. Fausto Papetti was a master of intimate music who had a resounding success thanks to his reinterpretations of the song’s classics, in which he smoothed out any roughness by letting melody reign supreme, to the delight of the least engaged listener. His success coincided with that distribution of cassettes as an easily transportable sound carrier through the 70s and 80s, just as famous were the covers of his records, which, always characterized by the presence of female nudes, very often accompanied by a saxophone, from the 60s to the 80s made a strong contribution to the roots in the collective imagination of binomial saxeroticism.
An exhibition route that turns into a visual, auditory and sensory journey, an immersive experience that transforms the museum’s exhibition space into a scenic box where, in addition to admiring Papetti’s instrument and gold discs, one can admire vintage photographs. private and public pictures, listen to vinyl, stereo 8, cassettes and browse original sheet music.
All visitors will receive a free commemorative brochure created especially for the event, detailing the artist’s successful career. Three concerts are associated with the exhibition, scheduled for January 28th, February 18th and 25th, and in which the Italian Jazz Quintet, the Venanzio Venditti Quartet and the Original Saxie Band will each perform in a thematic homage between pop music, swing and Jazz will perform. to the great interpreter. Marco Papetti, the musician’s son, and the director Paolo Campana, author of the film Vinylmania, will take part in the opening night of the event, scheduled for Saturday January 28th, with some video fragments of his new documentary dedicated to the story of Papetti is .