La pell de brau XLVI
La versione spagnola di un altro grande poeta catalano, José Agustín Goytisolo
LA PIEL DE TORO XLVI
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10/2/2016 - 22:06
Mourir pour des idées
Ripresa dai sottotitoli del video YouTube sopra proposto, con trascrizione diretta. La variante del portoghese utilizzato è chiaramente brasiliana.
MORRER POR IDEIAS
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inviata da Riccardo Venturi 10/2/2016 - 20:41
Le Père Noël et la petite fille, incl.Leggenda di Natale; La canzone di Marinella; Bocca di Rosa
Da questa pagina di traduzioni polacche da Fabrizio De André
RÓŻYCZKA
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inviata da Kaśka Janiak tramitte Krzysiek Wrona 10/2/2016 - 19:44
La guerra di Piero
POLACCO / POLISH [2] - Szymon Gruda
Versione polacca cantabile di Szymon Gruda segnalatami da Kaśka Janiak (very cool) [KW]
da questa pagina
Versione polacca cantabile di Szymon Gruda segnalatami da Kaśka Janiak (very cool) [KW]
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PIERO
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inviata da Kaśka Janiak tramite Krzysiek Wrona 10/2/2016 - 19:30
Mourir pour des idées
Dall'album "Suppliche e celebrazioni" (2008).
L'animazione è di Dario Faggella (http://www.faggella.it)
MORIR PER UN'IDEA
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inviata da Riccardo Venturi 10/2/2016 - 18:30
Pe' Stefano
A tutti i poeti manca un verso: ogni tanto anche lo staff di Canzoni Contro la Guerra inciampa su qualche canzone dalla micidiale e irreparabile bruttezza, come questo rap in romanesco imitazione di un originale già esiziale per proprio conto, la cui funesta aura adombra ogni pur lodevole intenzione...
Io non sto con Oriana 10/2/2016 - 16:29
Fabrizio De André: Monti di Mola
Dal blog Fabrizio De André in English
"Monti di Mola" takes place on the Emerald Coast of Sardinia. De André called the song a metaphor showing the impossibility of reaching one's dreams in a society that has become bureaucratic and standardized, where the imagination of the culture can't expand to accept "impossible dreams" that are on the verge of coming true. The song is in the Gallurese dialect.
It took six years after the tremendous success of Creuza de mä for De André to release his next studio album, Le nuvole (The Clouds). In the meantime, he and Mauro Pagani explored several avenues of musical collaboration which did not come to fruition. De André had this to say about Le nuvole: "I realized that people are just pissed off, and since Le nuvole is a symbol of this dissatisfaction, the transference, the intermediary for this general discontent, I would say that the album was welcomed... (continua)
"Monti di Mola" takes place on the Emerald Coast of Sardinia. De André called the song a metaphor showing the impossibility of reaching one's dreams in a society that has become bureaucratic and standardized, where the imagination of the culture can't expand to accept "impossible dreams" that are on the verge of coming true. The song is in the Gallurese dialect.
It took six years after the tremendous success of Creuza de mä for De André to release his next studio album, Le nuvole (The Clouds). In the meantime, he and Mauro Pagani explored several avenues of musical collaboration which did not come to fruition. De André had this to say about Le nuvole: "I realized that people are just pissed off, and since Le nuvole is a symbol of this dissatisfaction, the transference, the intermediary for this general discontent, I would say that the album was welcomed... (continua)
MOUNTAINS OF MOLA
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inviata da Riccardo Venturi 10/2/2016 - 09:55
Sidùn
Dal blog Fabrizio De André in English
"Sidon is a coastal city halfway between the southern border of Lebanon and Beirut. At the time this song was written, Lebanon was in the midst of a civil war that began in 1975 and that saw Israel invade and push towards Beirut in 1982. In De André's words, "Sidon is the Lebanese city that gave us, beyond the letters of our alphabet, even the invention of glass. I imagined myself, after the sudden attack of General Sharon in 1982, as a middle-aged Arab man, dirty, desperate, certainly poor, holding in his arms his own son, chewed up by the steel tracks of an armored tank. . . . The 'little death' alluded to at the end of this song should not be confused with the death of a little boy. Rather it is understood metaphorically as the end of a civilization and culture of a small country: Lebanon, Phoenicia, which at its discretion was perhaps the greatest... (continua)
"Sidon is a coastal city halfway between the southern border of Lebanon and Beirut. At the time this song was written, Lebanon was in the midst of a civil war that began in 1975 and that saw Israel invade and push towards Beirut in 1982. In De André's words, "Sidon is the Lebanese city that gave us, beyond the letters of our alphabet, even the invention of glass. I imagined myself, after the sudden attack of General Sharon in 1982, as a middle-aged Arab man, dirty, desperate, certainly poor, holding in his arms his own son, chewed up by the steel tracks of an armored tank. . . . The 'little death' alluded to at the end of this song should not be confused with the death of a little boy. Rather it is understood metaphorically as the end of a civilization and culture of a small country: Lebanon, Phoenicia, which at its discretion was perhaps the greatest... (continua)
SIDON
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inviata da Riccardo Venturi 10/2/2016 - 05:58
Nella mia ora di libertà
Dal blog Fabrizio De André in English
"In the final song, the worker realizes that individual protest has little chance of having results against power, and that to change things it's necessary to join with others and to act en masse, as did the students of May 1968 in France." - Dennis Criteser
IN MY HOUR OF FREEDOM
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inviata da Riccardo Venturi 10/2/2016 - 05:23
Ballata degli impiccati
Dal blog Fabrizio De André in English
"La ballata degli impiccati" is closely related to a 1462 poem, "Ballade des pendus" by François Villon, written in prison while waiting for his execution. Whereas Villon asks for pity for the condemned, the lyrics of De Andrè and Bentivoglio express rancor for those who judged, for those who buried, even for those who remembered, all of whom will inevitably also meet their ends.
Tutti morimmo a stento, released in 1968, was one of the first concept albums in Italy. In De Andrè's own words, the album "speaks of death, not of bubble gum death with little bones, but of psychological death, moral death, mental death, that a normal person can encounter during his lifetime." After the success of Volume I, De André was provided for this next album a cutting edge recording studio complete with an 80-member orchestra, directed by Gian Piero Reverberi, and a... (continua)
"La ballata degli impiccati" is closely related to a 1462 poem, "Ballade des pendus" by François Villon, written in prison while waiting for his execution. Whereas Villon asks for pity for the condemned, the lyrics of De Andrè and Bentivoglio express rancor for those who judged, for those who buried, even for those who remembered, all of whom will inevitably also meet their ends.
Tutti morimmo a stento, released in 1968, was one of the first concept albums in Italy. In De Andrè's own words, the album "speaks of death, not of bubble gum death with little bones, but of psychological death, moral death, mental death, that a normal person can encounter during his lifetime." After the success of Volume I, De André was provided for this next album a cutting edge recording studio complete with an 80-member orchestra, directed by Gian Piero Reverberi, and a... (continua)
BALLAD OF THE HANGED MEN
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inviata da Riccardo Venturi 9/2/2016 - 21:49
Fabrizio De André: Amico fragile
Dal blog Fabrizio De André in English
"De André wrote "Amico fragile" in a drunken rage after attending a party of rich Italians vacationing on Sardinia. They were only interested in having him play guitar and sing his songs, whereas De André wanted to engage people in discussions about events going on in Italy. He became ever more frustrated and inebriated with the shallowness of the evening, returning home to stay up all night and produce this "stream of semi-consciousness" rant. The song was a staple in his live shows and was one of De André's favorites." - Dennis Criteser
"De André wrote "Amico fragile" in a drunken rage after attending a party of rich Italians vacationing on Sardinia. They were only interested in having him play guitar and sing his songs, whereas De André wanted to engage people in discussions about events going on in Italy. He became ever more frustrated and inebriated with the shallowness of the evening, returning home to stay up all night and produce this "stream of semi-consciousness" rant. The song was a staple in his live shows and was one of De André's favorites." - Dennis Criteser
FRAGILE FRIEND
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inviata da Riccardo Venturi 9/2/2016 - 20:47
Andrea
Dal blog Fabrizio De André in English
"Andrea" is both an anti-war song and a statement of solidarity with and acceptance of gays, as the song is about the love between two men (Andrea is a man's name in Italian). The setting for the song is World War I, which can be deduced because intense battles occurred on the ground in the mountains of Trent during WWI, whereas in WWII Trent suffered bombing from the air by the Germans toward the end of the war.
Rimini grew out of De André's disappointments with the political events of the previous couple of years. In close collaboration with Massimo Bubola, a young 24-year-old who had just released his first album, De André explored several social and political themes, including abortion, homosexuality, and how the petty bourgeois attempted to move into the ranks of the powerful and rise above the political and social turmoil of the times. The music... (continua)
"Andrea" is both an anti-war song and a statement of solidarity with and acceptance of gays, as the song is about the love between two men (Andrea is a man's name in Italian). The setting for the song is World War I, which can be deduced because intense battles occurred on the ground in the mountains of Trent during WWI, whereas in WWII Trent suffered bombing from the air by the Germans toward the end of the war.
Rimini grew out of De André's disappointments with the political events of the previous couple of years. In close collaboration with Massimo Bubola, a young 24-year-old who had just released his first album, De André explored several social and political themes, including abortion, homosexuality, and how the petty bourgeois attempted to move into the ranks of the powerful and rise above the political and social turmoil of the times. The music... (continua)
ANDREA
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inviata da Riccardo Venturi 9/2/2016 - 20:36
Canzone per l’estate
Dal blog Fabrizio De André in English
"The music of "Canzone per l'estate" is entirely De Gregori's, while the lyrics were co-written. De André described the song as somewhat autobiographical, describing the tension between the bourgeois life he grew up in and lived much of his life in, and his attraction to anarchism and to society's outcasts who seemed more genuine and alive than the upper classes. Indeed the song describes well the soul-sapping nature of a comfortable, prosperous life that takes one away from vitality and even political engagement ("your eyes closed to the people")." - Dennis Criteser
SONG FOR THE SUMMER
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inviata da Riccardo Venturi 9/2/2016 - 20:25
La cattiva strada
Dal blog Fabrizio De André in English
"Literally, "cattiva strada" means "bad road." But in a moral sense, if you're straying down the wrong path, going down a slippery slope or leading someone astray, you're on a "cattiva strada" and more than a paving crew will be needed. Author and De André expert Cesare Romana observed the following about "La cattiva strada": "The song is among the most illustrative of the philosophy of a great moralist disguised as an 'immoralist.' The bad road represents a pirate ethic, and also the free port where the powers-that-be don't come. Thus it comes to be defined as bad, yet holding these mainstream powers at a distance endows a force most subversive and revolutionary that can be placed at our disposition: love. The fact is that De André never moved far from the bad road. He continued to think that the humanity, love and dignity of man resided there, and... (continua)
"Literally, "cattiva strada" means "bad road." But in a moral sense, if you're straying down the wrong path, going down a slippery slope or leading someone astray, you're on a "cattiva strada" and more than a paving crew will be needed. Author and De André expert Cesare Romana observed the following about "La cattiva strada": "The song is among the most illustrative of the philosophy of a great moralist disguised as an 'immoralist.' The bad road represents a pirate ethic, and also the free port where the powers-that-be don't come. Thus it comes to be defined as bad, yet holding these mainstream powers at a distance endows a force most subversive and revolutionary that can be placed at our disposition: love. The fact is that De André never moved far from the bad road. He continued to think that the humanity, love and dignity of man resided there, and... (continua)
THE ERRANT WAY
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inviata da Riccardo Venturi 9/2/2016 - 18:41
C'era una volta
Chanson italienne – C'era una volta – Giorgio Laneve – 1976
Aux débuts des années '70, dans la vague « cantautorale » (chansonnière) italienne qui aura duré, plus ou moins, jusqu'à la fin de la décennie pour ensuite succomber (même musicalement) lors des années de strontium de la décennie suivante, Giorgio Laneve représenta une voix certes menue et polie, mais avec des traits d'originalité (et d'authentique poésie). Ingénieur électronique de formation, Giorgio Laneve commença fort jeune et, pendant une certaine période, il jouit même d'une certaine popularité, sans jouer des coudes (moi-même je me rappelle d'avoir vu une allusion à lui dans le journal de Mickey Mouse, je ne plaisante pas). En 1970, à 24 ans à peine, arriva à l'improviste en second au alors très célèbre « Disque pour l'été » avec Amore dove sei?Amour où es -tu ? , qui reste probablement sa chanson la plus célèbre. Il... (continua)
Aux débuts des années '70, dans la vague « cantautorale » (chansonnière) italienne qui aura duré, plus ou moins, jusqu'à la fin de la décennie pour ensuite succomber (même musicalement) lors des années de strontium de la décennie suivante, Giorgio Laneve représenta une voix certes menue et polie, mais avec des traits d'originalité (et d'authentique poésie). Ingénieur électronique de formation, Giorgio Laneve commença fort jeune et, pendant une certaine période, il jouit même d'une certaine popularité, sans jouer des coudes (moi-même je me rappelle d'avoir vu une allusion à lui dans le journal de Mickey Mouse, je ne plaisante pas). En 1970, à 24 ans à peine, arriva à l'improviste en second au alors très célèbre « Disque pour l'été » avec Amore dove sei?Amour où es -tu ? , qui reste probablement sa chanson la plus célèbre. Il... (continua)
IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS
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inviata da Marco Valdo M.I. 9/2/2016 - 15:23
Canzone per l’estate
In realtà, Fabrizio De André descrisse questa canzone (il cui testo è, sarà bene ricordarlo, stato scritto assieme a Francesco De Gregori) come in un certo qual modo autobiografica. Parla, secondo De André, della tensione tra la vita borghese in cui era cresciuto e aveva vissuto parte della sua vita, e l’attrazione per l’Anarchia e per gli “ultimi” della società, che gli sembravano molto più vivi e genuini delle classi superiori. Fatta salva l’oscurità del testo, caratteristica del resto saliente di quell’album “degregoriano”, si avverte comunque abbastanza bene l’attacco alla vita borghese, confortevole e prospera, che distoglie l’essere umano dalla vitalità e dall’impegno politico (gli “occhi chiusi sulla gente”). Per quel che mi riguarda, l’ho sempre avvertita molto come una canzone sulla dissoluzione della famiglia borghese.
Riccardo Venturi 9/2/2016 - 08:06
Il testamento di Tito
Dal blog Fabrizio De André in English
"Il testamento di Tito" takes us into the Old Testament to the Ten Commandments. Tito, the so-called good thief from the Syriac Infancy Gospel, recounts how he violated each of the commandments (except "Thou shalt not kill"), offering critiques along the way. De André considered this song one of his very best for its hard-hitting social impact." - Dennis Criteser
TITO'S WILL
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inviata da Riccardo Venturi 9/2/2016 - 07:42
Il Pescatore
Dal blog Fabrizio De André in English
"Il pescatore" was released in 1970 as a single. One of De André's most popular songs, it never appeared on a studio album, but can be heard on several live albums." - Dennis Criteser
THE FISHERMAN
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inviata da Riccardo Venturi 9/2/2016 - 07:27
La domenica delle salme
Dal blog Fabrizio De André in English
""La domenica delle salme" is one of De André's most political songs, full of references not easily discernible. The second verse refers to a Milan retirement home resident who was discovered dead under mysterious circumstances. The third verse may refer to a series of murders by a neo-Nazi duo who tagged themselves as Ludwig. The fourth verse refers to the Polish refugees who came to Italy after the fall of the Soviet Union and who worked the streets cleaning car windows (i.e., redoing the makeup of the capitalists heading off to the beach). The fifth verse refers to businessmen looking to profit from the opening of the countries of the former Soviet Union, and the sixth verse refers to the neo-Nazism that subsequently raised its head. The seventh verse may refer to the need for another visible symbol for members of the left and the right to use to... (continua)
""La domenica delle salme" is one of De André's most political songs, full of references not easily discernible. The second verse refers to a Milan retirement home resident who was discovered dead under mysterious circumstances. The third verse may refer to a series of murders by a neo-Nazi duo who tagged themselves as Ludwig. The fourth verse refers to the Polish refugees who came to Italy after the fall of the Soviet Union and who worked the streets cleaning car windows (i.e., redoing the makeup of the capitalists heading off to the beach). The fifth verse refers to businessmen looking to profit from the opening of the countries of the former Soviet Union, and the sixth verse refers to the neo-Nazism that subsequently raised its head. The seventh verse may refer to the need for another visible symbol for members of the left and the right to use to... (continua)
PSALM SUNDAY
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inviata da Riccardo Venturi 9/2/2016 - 07:07
Carlo Martello torna [o: ritorna] dalla battaglia di Poitiers; o Carlo Martello
![Carlo Martello torna <i>[o: ritorna]</i> dalla battaglia di Poitiers; <i>o</i> Carlo Martello](img/thumb/c1095_130x140.jpeg?1328357200)
Dal blog Fabrizio De André in English
"This song was released in 1963 as the B side of a 45 with "Il fannullone" as the A-side. The text was written by a friend from childhood, Paolo Villagio, and the music is by De Andrè. The Battle of Poitiers occurred in 732, a battle between the Franks and the Moors in what is now northern France. The song is in the style of popular French pastourelles sung by medieval troubadours about encounters between knights and country girls. In 1965 a complaint was brought against De Andrè and his label Karim for obscene content in the lyrics. The case was settled in De Andrè's favor in 1968. The Italian in this song is an old style, and Riccardo Venturi has done a nice translation into a similarly "olde" style of English." - Dennis Criteser
CHARLES MARTEL RETURNS FROM THE BATTLE OF POITIERS
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inviata da Riccardo Venturi 9/2/2016 - 06:56
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