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Small sound guide for Italy, vol.1: folk-rock and emo Emo

Hurray! What better return to the activity of our mystic fallacy that - darling - the first text of the story takes on the title folk-rock and not talking about Bob Dylan !

Hephaestus, the aim in this first volume released today in Italy Sound Guide is to get a bit over a musical phenomenon quite insistent music, say, 'alternative' Italian. That is, the mix of folk with the most diverse musical styles: rock, alternative pop, rap, etc ...

But the first thing to do before getting into flour is to clarify how the hell are we talking about when we refer to folk. Because this folk not reminds us that Southern gentlemen clerks wear boots and hat, play the banjo at the door of his ranch, voted for Bush and Reagan and when their children become indies call themselves Kings of Leo n .

The following image illustrates the clothed themselves in Italian Mezzogiorno, ie southern area. Known for their poverty with respect to north (the difference can be outrageous), being the home of the mafia (Camorra, Mafia, 'ndraghetta and Cosa Nostra, the name changes with the area), being more' Mediterranean 'and more similar in landscape architecture and northern Spain to the Italian ... and as the origin of Italian folk.

Italian Folk located especially in the regions of Campania (famous for its capital, Naples, is the first to appear on the left coast), Calabria (toe of the boot), Puglia (the heel of the boot) and Basilicata (between the two above and below Campania). Its most famous is the Tarantella (not be confused with flamenco) and since I have no idea pajolera this type of music, I can only add that what may surprise the layman is the use of the tambourine and bells (plus strings), which are often very festive rhythms, which certainly can remember to a version without winds of Celtic music and / or medieval minstrel and troubadour music and that the use of the accordion, an instrument that comes in Italy for his connection up-to-right with Eastern Europe and immigration Zingara (Gypsy Eastern), is not at all discouraged discarded or even not so typical as those bells and tambourines.

Having demonstrated my utter incompetence in the field of folk music, it's time to move on to what matters, which is how the various styles of contemporary music has absorbed this historical heritage festivals, alcohol (again, dancing to drink , or to dance or drink due tutt'e ). As the subject is to speak at length, here's what is a small selection of themes and artists with a successful little explanation what they are doing:


1 - The historical note: Fabrizio de André

When you go in Italy, one side that comes up in the soup is Andrè lord books, biographies, pamphlets, tributes, records, etc ... It fits me here is that Mr. Fabrizio is a singer well known for his lyrics, poetry and some criticism, portraying the 'worst' of society and, incidentally, to society itself. As a good singer, had a complex Andrè troubadour and his music accompanied both American folk trend (translated into Italian Dylan) and Italian. Note in this its most famous track, with flutes and all:



By the way, not to recall that in Godfather tarantella sounds a known Campania:




2 - Rock, rap and tambourine: Caparezza Caparezza

is a man very rare. Her hair is long and curly, it says rapper but his subjects exude rock, metal and sometimes ... folk. from Puglia, the heel of his boot, his subject 'Vieni a ballare in Puglia' success has been achieved quite important in Italy (the first time I heard it was in a nightclub in Milan).

However, not everyone has caught the joke of the song, which seems to be a celebration of their region, there is a scathing criticism of poverty and misery in which both corruption and the 'ndraghetta (local mafia) has it sunk. Caparezza composed this song to learn the tragic deaths of several workers in their home area, although the subject is touching others' misfortunes' local The trick is to change the song 'die' for 'ballare': for 'see dancing in Puglia ' be read 'come to die in Puglia' .

Of course, nothing spoil tourism (English, do we sound familiar?). In the video nice to see phone-Caparezza Puglia showing the beauty of a group of tourists while trying to not see dead bodies scattered everywhere.

Nothing more explicit, however, that the refrain:

"Come dance in Puglia, Puglia, Puglia
where the night is dark, dark, dark
have your head up when you pass near a
crane because they may come loose and come down "

(I can promise and promise Italian for rhyme and not sound forced)

As you can see, the song is full of tambourines and folk rhythms . Ojito, who is oegadiza of balls: over here and have to ring for balls every time we gather to take even half a beer.

(the guy who goes to the top is Al Bano and, indeed, is a kind of Fary-Raphael famous in Italy ... note the gestures the Manolo Escobar, and certainly Al Bano is also Puglia)


3 - East Gypsy Punk: Gogol Bordello and Tarantella particular

Climb a couple of paragraphs and find the Tarantella from The Godfather, one of the most legendary. Well, have already heard?. Well, whether or not Italian, global-punks Gogol Bordello East have their own version which is worth hearing: Harem in Tuscany (Taranta). Interestingly taranta and not be called tarantella, and that the title speaks of Tuscany region for anything belonging to the Mezzogiorno (the area of \u200b\u200bPisa and Florence). The connections of the music of East and Italy, incidentally, are constant ... and roll festival that transmit infectious to the core.

4 - Tarantella all'inazione: cross-reference from another dimension

Afterhours are at a folk festival with Verdi: na to do . It is an excellent - most excellent - alternative rock band with a highly eclectic sound in the future will be talking balls, because they deserve it. And the only tambourines and bells they have seen were in music class when they went to school, fixed.

But that does not mean that one of my favorite songs of his 'I Milanesi amazzano il Sabato' be called 'Tarantella all'inazione' only has to tarantella tambourine . These gentlemen so lively and danceable rhythm it loaded, even with good taste. Everyone knows that modernacos or dance or smile.

5 - Veterans of power: Bandabardò, folk and good vibes

these And I have a recent memory, and I saw them live just five days. For two consecutive days filled a concert hall for bands with a jerk as Marta Sui Tubi or Il Teatro degli Orrori only made a date. says much of what Bandabardò stuck in the Italian alternative. Alternative ... and Perroflauta because, as happens in Spain with folk fusion bands, ska and reggae, the audience was mostly buenrollista. So I brought my Appreciation also, that I have, and I had as a dwarf.

And is that Bandabardò , which I find a little too light in their recordings, have a direct electric, intense and highly recommended. Bridging the gap, I found them on stage presence and recognition a kind of Italian Celtic . As a pioneer in this rock-folk, so cheerful, so leftish. A party, come on.

By the way, like the Celtic Valladolid are not Galicia, Bandabardò Florence are not the Mezzogiorno. Asin is globalization. I'm going to make me a falafel.

(well known and enthusiastic point, one of the biggest hits of Bandabardò)


(another familiar theme, are much more direct electrical disk)


(international buenrollismo)

6 - Après la Classe: folk-rock DJ

Another kind of local Celtic which I have still few references , of the Class A près are a rock band merged with folk and a tendency to tinker a bit with electronics, dishes, etc ... Personally, I sound between the original and the commercial: it is not to deny power to the next track (the title is written in a southern dialect unknown to me), but it is also true that of all the groups mentioned, is the one that sounds like MTV ...