Dear Japanese friends
I'm back from an Italian festival that happened yesterday night, in Cambiano, near Turin.
It was dedicated to LEO CHIOSSO, a very well known lyricist, in Italy, who wrote songs mainly for Fred Buscaglione (an important artist in the Italian musical scene, in the musical history of Turin, of which I talk in "33" for arti & mestieri, introducing him like an alternative artist, out of the boundaries of his time... on a similar wave length to arti & mestieris' approach in the sense of searching his "unique" artistic path, out of what was happening around him in that time).
Leo Chiosso also wrote songs for other Italian well known artists like Mina, Lelio Luttazzi, Johnny Dorelli, Giorgio Gaber, Rita Pavone.
The first Buscaglione-Chiosso hit was "Che bambola" of 1956; the song that brought Buscaglione to nation-wide celebrity and that without advertising and no promotion sold 980,000 copies!
In yesterday's festival, dedicated to Leo Chiosso, we had several well known artists from the Italian 60's & 70's.: Claudio Rocchi Giorgio Conte Goran Kuzminac Gian Pieretti, Donatello Maurizio Arcieri, Enzo Maolucci, in cluding with "arti & mestieri" another known band from Turin, now on "Electromantic Music", "Procession".
A curious thing: the very first song that I played live, on stage, in my life was "il Vento dell'Est" by Gian Pieretti as i told him yesterday night
(How can you forget the first time you played Live in front of an audience).
"Non dirne piu'", performed by Maurizio Arcieri, originally lead singer with New Dada, a 60's Italian band; it was a tune I played a lot in the sities wit my band, th "X5". "Non dirne piu'", originally called "Sick and Tired", was a Fats Domino's hot.
Yesterday I was happy to meet my friend Claudio Rocchi, a very well known and appreciated Italian artist in the 70', that I'm sure many Japanese friend know; Claudio Rocchi as well as arti & mestieri, has been with Cramps too (with his albums " A fuoco" and "non ce ne' per nessuono").
Originally he was with Stormy Six, later he started his solo career with "il Viaggio" (With Mauro Pagani as very special guest) an album that was very well accepted by critics and by Italian 70's audiences.
He conducted also "per Voi Giovani" the most important musical Radio Show, on national Radio in the end of 60's/70's who helped a lot in creating what has been called (especially in foreign countries) the fabulous Italian 70's. Yesterday He gave me his latest film, on DVD "Pedra Mendalza", a digital tale with music: I'm very interested on watching it sooon! Obviously we talked a lot about 60's, 70's, Cramps, Gianni Sassi, Per Voi Giovani and he told me an interesting, for all of you also, and that's Area's Paolo Tofani is coming back with a new project, soon.
I invite you to his very creative web site:
"www.claudiorocchi.com".
In the festival every "known" artist introduced one new talent, performing a tune in the artist's repertoire. The new artists were: Angeli di strada (performing Claudio's tune, "L'umana nostalgia), Sogni nel cassetto, Beatrice, Federico Rossi, Valerio Manni, Burning Highway, AnTarbh Rua and Processions' cover band was Joey Tassello and the Excellent Adventure that performed "Esplorare" (Electromantic Music - "Esplorare") while the band that performed an arti & mestieri's tune was " The Steamrollers" that performed "Arc En Ciel" form our repertoire (and from "Murales" on Electromantic Music.. I liked their fresh rendition of our tune, in a more heavy interpretation.
At the end the brilliant conductor Ernesto Saggese gave the prize to the winner (chosen by a qualified jury with Journalists, experts and Leo Chiosso's son) to the winner, AnTarbh Rua who performed Giorgio Conte's tune with 2 violins, acoustic guitar and cello, with a long intro by a bagpipe. But obviously, on a night like this, everyone is a winner.
An interesting happy Italian night!
At the end of the night it was nice to see together artists of about 5 different decades on the scene, and all together singin' the tune "Eri Piccola" by (leo Chiosso and Fred Buscaglione).
You can have a look at the interesting original Buscaglione's version on you tube
Search:
Fred Buscaglione - Eri Piccola
or go directly to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ycCoez382w
So you've seen that I like to alternate some main musical themes, with "everyday musical moments" that can be considerable by themselves or by their connection to my personal or general musical tales.
Yesterday it was a particular nice night for arti & mestieri and me and I liked to celebrate Leo Chiosso, an artist of my land, as Fred Buscaglione.
Regarding "musical lands", obviously especially after Second World War (but even before) and progressively from then on, with the advent of more media and a strong increase of "world communication", the artist's land ca be viewed as "a mix" of his native country and
"International influences" that in most part came form USA and England, but also India (as Claudio Rocchi would say), South America, Africa, your country Japan, itself and so as it is just simply a manifestation of artist's freedom to choose its expressive language whatever the language comes from, to choose "its country" and to build its own "DNA" blending its origins with new "homes" that the heart suggests. And sometimes it has a special taste, for me to remember, that I come from Piemonte, Turin, like yesterday night ...and going back at my little village, S. Sebastiano.
Earth, countries, Native Lands, traditions, origins an "imaginary lands and lascapes" are wonderful whisperer for the ones who creates.
I'm back later with my next step in the History of jazz-Rock.
Till then,
Stay happy, my friends
Beppe
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