"Sono un Bluff"
brief reviews

Corriere della Sera – 25 June 2005

Demo, singer and songwriter, knows how to play on words.
After a fresh debut album (La Porta, 2000), Roberto Demo reaches maturity with Sono un Bluff. Singer songwriter, Demo has the courage to weave together contemporary jazz spirit (Bobby McFerrin, Mark Murphy, Kurt Elling) with verses in Italian, a notoriously non malleable language...
Claudio Sessa

Musica Jazz - July 2005

...one of the very few male Italian jazz singing voices revealing a variety of features able to take it as much to the limits of vocalese (what's more, in Italian) as to pure scat, but also to jazz based pop and even reaching Italian singer-songwriters with Tenco's precious Ballata. Demo's quality is in the variety of repertoire, in the natural and enthralling swing, in the singing precision...
Maurizio Franco

Magazine Corriere della Sera - 19 May 2005

Three years after the (fine) cd La Porta, he's back on a trip within himself, mixing scat, jazz fugues, ballads (one of Tenco's), waltzes and (un)intentional tributes to Jarreau.
Lorenzo Viganò

AudioPhile Sound - May 2005

... he's bound to become our country's best jazz singer, covering one of the most glaring gaps of our jazz panorama, where male voices can be counted on the fingers of one hand. It's been some time in Italy that we haven't heard a male singer with this potential, with courage and determination he's looked for his own way... Demo has got it all, ease, intonation, vocal expressiveness united to the originality of the lyrics, all in Italian, brings freshness and singability to the album.
Giampaolo Merella

Giorgio Gaslini - (from a letter... March 2005)

... This disk is a real anthology of personal history but also of a vocal maturity reached both in communicating “the sense” of the lyrics and in vocalising like, for example, in the excellent solo in “Qui e Ora”. The musical tracks are of a remarkable level and the group has come together well. All in all, an outstanding piece of work that deserves attention and reflection...

Cadence - May 2005 - U.S.A..

<<... The core trio (Luigi Martinale, p; Yves Rossignol, ac b; Paolo
Franciscone, d.) swings pleasantly and Demo waxes both romantic on the ballads and more robustly on the swinging set pieces...
His Jazz scat is as competent as any other I';ve heard and for those interested in an international take on straight ahead Jazz vocals, this disc might be worth checking out.>>
Troy Collins

www.anconajazz.com - April 2005

We had already been convinced of his qualities by “La Porta”, a remarkable vocal pliability that permits him to smoothly avoid the rhythmic and syllabic traps of the Italian language, and then personal poetics rather rare around our parts. I remember that Ada Montellanico spoke very well about him to me. Unquestionably we are dealing with a personality of considerable importance whose musicality offers hints of charm at every listening…
Massimo Tarabelli

Jazzit - March/April 2005

Demo proves his great interpretive force… conceding nothing to virtuosities for their own sake, not even when he expresses himself through scat…
Francesco Ughi