Volume 8 (Fabrizio De André album)
Volume 8 is an album released by Italian singer/songwriter Fabrizio De André. It was first issued in 1975 on Ricordi and then re-released by BMG. According to statements by De André within his posthumous autobiography "Una goccia di splendore" ["A drop of brightness"], released in 2011, his collaboration with Francesco De Gregori, which gave birth to four of the eight songs on the album, originated when De André saw his colleague live on stage in Rome and was very impressed. Afterwards, he invited De Gregori to visit him in his rural house  in Sardinia, where the two of them spent a month "getting drunk together and writing songs in the meantime." Track listing. All songs written by Fabrizio De André and Francesco De Gregori, except where indicated. The songs. All of the songs on the album marked a stylistic shift in De André's lyrics, which became more poetical, more complex and less immediate than anything he released earlier. Reviewers at the time criticized the changes, and attributed them to the influence of De Gregori, who was known for writing stylized, not-readily-understandable lyrics which he was not always able to  explain. Still, "Giugno '73" and "Amico fragile" were both written by De André on his own before he met De Gregori, and feature the same linguistic and poetical depth as the rest of the album. He would return to his usual storytelling style on his next album, "Rimini", co-written with the Veronese folk songwriter Massimo Bubola.