In "The Other Side" surfaces all the passion of this neapolitan guitarist for the jazz tradition, for the r&b and for the black music at large. We follow the succession of tunes, tied by a groove that never fails, and all marked with a clever recreation of vintage tones revisited in the modern manner; we listen the guitar improvising with relaxed fluency on the solid groove laid down by his travelling companions, in pursuit of the spontaneous solution suggested by the moment and the feel. Here technique, in a world where the current production very often serves just to show off licks and chops of the virtuoso on turn, is taken for granted, there is nothing to show; but suffice it to simply follow the shrewd note flowing through the chords to realize that you don't deal with "brawny" musicians, but with the real ones, gathered in the studio to play live, all the band is present to honor the leader with an agreement and a firmness of rare effectiveness.

A guarantee for whoever simply wants to listen to the core of the good music, to the sincere and polished flowing of the emotions, which are given to everybody and aren't intended for just musicians, who'll find in this work one's match, though. Well then, the words "relaxation and truth" give the mark to point out this record to the lover of the good music: relaxed is the attitude of the one who knows what he can and wants to do, of the one who doesn't need too many superstructures to express one's feelings; truthful is the artistic result achieved by Mimmo Langella with "The Other Side", the intimate and sincere one of a musician in the round.