Figurati Krzyś. A proposito di questa canzone che come dici ti è venuta in mente con Άνθρωπε αγάπα, ma di che cosa parla? Ho provato a decifrare un po' il testo polacco visto che non è lungo, ma mi manca qualche pezzo... forse proprio importante per coglierne il significato...
Stanislava 27/11/2013 - 15:08
A giudicare dalla traduzione inglese parrebbe una canzone sulla morte...
Non so davvero perchè sia stata proposta sulle CCG...
Forse krzyś può spiegarcelo...
Se solo lo sapessi...a volte faccio strane associazioni, mi succede fin da bambino e ormai ignoro proprio perché ciò accade. Tutte due le canzoni hanno qualcosa dell'inno generazionale, la poetica è molto simile, una canzone parla di amore, un'altra di morte, ma entrambi invocano un essere superiore, l'ignoto. La versione inglese sembra rendere abbastanza bene il significato delle parole, comunque posso provare a fare un traduzione italiana. Tanto per mettere un altro po' di peace & love "alla polacca". Tutto qua...
La stragrande maggioranza della popolazione italiana sottomessa all'impero era irredentista, come viene riconosciuto sia dalla storiografia, sia dalle stesse fonti austriache.
La storiografia riteneva, sino a circa vent’anni addietro, che fossero stati favorevoli all’Unità principalmente le classi “alte” dell’aristocrazia e della borghesia, di cui appariva evidente ed innegabile il consenso massiccio ed in alcune regioni quasi unanime, mentre invece sosteneva che le classi popolari fossero state indifferenti e talora persino ostili.
Questa posizione tradizionale si è radicalmente modificata con gli studi più recenti, i quali hanno dimostrato che anche l’artigianato, il ceto operaio, le masse rurali furono largamente sostenitrici dell’Unità, certo con molte variazioni d’accento e motivazioni. Ciò che è avvenuto grazie ad un ampliamento profondo delle conoscenze, dovuto ad un cambio di paradigma... (continuer)
In 1994, Bruce Springsteen recorded an unreleased album with Shane Fontayne and other members of the 1992-1993 touring band. Springsteen's manager Jon Landau wasn't a fan of the project (the 1994 album), and recommended shelving it and focusing more on a "career overview"; this lead to the Greatest Hits sessions with the E Street Band in early 1995.
Springsteen called the band in early January 1995, and they assembled for the recording sessions on 09 Jan 1995 at the Hit Factory in New York City, NY. This was their first studio reunion in 11 years (since the Born In The USA sessions) and their first ever with Nils Lofgren. HIGH HOPES was among the songs recorded during these sessions. Being a cover, it is not surprising that the song was not included on the Greatest Hits album.
The Blood Brothers Documentary
Producer/director/photographer Ernie Fritz was given complete... (continuer)
On 18 Nov 2013 it was announced on Bruce Springsteen's official website that HIGH HOPES will be released as a single on 25 Nov 2013. The single's artwork was revealed simultaneously. On 19 Nov 2013, six days prior to its official release, the songs leaked on the internet. HIGH HOPES was released on 25 Nov 2013 as a digital single on Amazon.com and iTunes.
Music Video
A music video of HIGH HOPES was released on 25 Nov 2012 on both Bruce Springsteen's official website and Bruce Springsteen VEVO's YouTube channel. The video was posted to celebrate the High Hopes album's announcement. It was directed by Thom Zimny and features photos from Danny Clinch, Australian tour footage (March 2013) featuring Tom Morello shot by Chris Hilson, vintage documentary footage, and some of the song's lyrics. Springsteen also posted liner notes about the High Hopes album along with the song's video on his website.
”The Wall” is something I’d played on stage a few times and remains very close to my heart. The title and idea were Joe Grushecky’s, then the song appeared after Patti and I made a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. It was inspired by my memories of Walter Cichon. Walter was one of the great early Jersey Shore rockers, who along with his brother Ray (one of my early guitar mentors) led the ”Motifs”. The Motifs were a local rock band who were always a head above everybody else. Raw, sexy and rebellious, they were the heroes you aspired to be. But these were heroes you could touch, speak to, and go to with your musical inquiries. Cool, but always accessible, they were an inspiration to me, and many young working musicians in 1960′s central New Jersey. Though my character in “The Wall” is a Marine, Walter was actually in the Army, A Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Infantry.... (continuer)
26/11/2013 - 15:51
"A promising rock 'n' roll voice was silenced in Vietnam"
Published in the Asbury Park Press
By JEAN MIKLE, STAFF WRITER
He was a quiet, soft-spoken guy who wore dark clothes and pointy-toe boots, and had shoulder-length hair before it was in fashion.
He liked listening to The Animals, The Kinks and The Rolling Stones, but never tried to be a guitar god. Instead, the only instrument he really played was a tambourine. When he got up on stage and began to sing, people saw something special in Walter Cichon.
"He wasn't just a singer, he was a front man. He was a character, a personality," said "Stormin' "Norman Seldin. "This guy had a magnetism about him." Cichon was the lead singer for The Motifs, the Shore-area's first "hot" rock 'n' roll band. His older brother, Raymond, was the lead guitar player, and Seldin was the group's teen-age manager.
In 1967, the future looked bright for... (continuer)
Tutto quello che ci rimane di Walter Cichon e dei suoi Motifs: If I Gave You Love, 1966.
Di lì ad un paio d'anni Walter Cichon, promettente rocker e front man, sarebbe stato ucciso in Vietnam... Come spiega l'articolo qui sopra, fu ammazzato insieme ad altri suoi compagni in una furiosa battaglia, colpito (per fortuna) da un proiettile in testa... Ma, siccome la ritirata americana fu molto precipitosa, morti e feriti furono abbandonati e, quando tornarono per riprenderli, trovarono i loro corpi completamente smembrati dai vietcong. Allora i comandi militari, piuttosto che raccontare come erano andate davvero le cose, preferirono far credere alla famiglia che Walter non fosse mai stato ritrovato, "missing in action"... La US Army ammise la morte di Walter solo nel 1974 ed i suoi funerali furono celebrati l'anno successivo...
Un istante per morire ammazzato e 7 anni per avere degna sepoltura...
Come per la maggior parte delle canzoni di Don Ata, le parole del testo sono scritte dalla moglie Antonieta Pula Pepin sotto lo pseudonimo di Pablo del Cerro.