Vai mo'

Vai mo' (1981) finds Pino Daniele working at the intersection of funk, jazz, pop, and rock, combining groove-driven rhythms and warm horn and rhythm-section arrangements with his distinctive guitar phrasing and expressive, often Neapolitan-inflected vocals. The album continues his early-career approach of blending American roots styles with Italian songwriting, emphasizing rhythm, melodic hooks, and a relaxed but sophisticated sonic palette that helped define his sound in the early 1980s.