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Ry Cooder Chávez Ravine

13 feb 07

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Well, donjunio, I’m waiting. Thank you for the valuable reports, Antonio. Haloa :)

Charles Ives The Unanswered Question

12 feb 07

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And it still happens that many works are commissioned. On the rest, I completely agree that we must look at the artist's purpose, at the impulse that drives them, to understand the difference with the mere craftsman.

Fabrizio De André Anime salve

12 feb 07

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But you know, the reading you give of Smisurata preghiera seems a bit reductive to me. It doesn't seem as schematic as you say; rather - as I mentioned - I see it as a summary of the spirit of the album. Moreover, the distance you place with the themes of La città vecchia seems excessive. After all, even in this latter piece, De André paired pietas ("victims of this world") with an invective against a certain hypocrisy ("if you judge as a good bourgeois"). As for pietas, it is not lacking in Smisurata Preghiera, where luck (deserved) is also invoked for this humanity of the defeated. In short, there is a strong, evident "manifesto of thought" that is constant. Faber's songs are not just songs; they are stones. Smisurata Preghiera is not only heavy, but being the result of his compositional maturity, it is a kind of summa of his thought. That’s why I wouldn't say it's overrated; rather, I would say the opposite. Bye.

Fabrizio De André Anime salve

12 feb 07

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I think this brings us back to another discussion, right? ;) Smisurata Preghiera - and not only - does not contain slogans. Slogans are part of advertising communication and certain low-profile politics, in my view. Smisurata Preghiera contains a poetic vision, which is quite the opposite. Something that soars high like a "combat robin." Something that speaks to us and that perhaps it would be good to listen to in its entirety. If all of this clashes with your vision (for reasons I don't understand), perhaps you will never be able to fully love De André.

Astor Piazzolla Adios Nonino

12 feb 07

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I often find myself in your proposals, Vì, and this is also a wonderful album. So beautiful that you perhaps weren't able to convey it, caught up in the passion of the tango. Hello.

Fred Neil Fred Neil

12 feb 07

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great proposal

Fabrizio De André Anime salve

12 feb 07

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But ajeje doesn't make much sense to take that song out of context and evaluate it separately. "Smisurata preghiera" is the moment of synthesis of the album; that's how it should be understood. As for the sound, I also feel it closer to Fossati than to Faber, but that song has all its strength (and sincerity) in those few words that say "la maggioranza sta come una malattia come una sfortuna come una anestesia come un'abitudine per chi viaggia in direzione ostinata e contraria," with the invocation to remember the disobedient servants to the laws of the pack. Then thinking that this song closes Faber's work perhaps gives it an even greater meaning - unfortunately unconscious.

Silvia Donati & Standhard 3io Singin' In The Brain

12 feb 07

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I had already heard about it excellently, album on wishlist.

Charles Ives The Unanswered Question

12 feb 07

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I will listen, thank you for this small but detailed portrait.

Fabrizio De André Anime salve

12 feb 07

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Well ... just for the record, in the anthology of Italian literature that I had in middle school, Faber was included, complete with text analysis. Now I’m not so sure. As for the rest of the review, I’m a bit perplexed because I didn’t grasp the connection to the themes of the album, which in some passages seems to me—perhaps—misinterpreted, like the reading of the Smisurata Preghiera, immense precisely because it calls for the defense of the oppressed, the defeated, the oppressed minorities, the solitary spirits described in the album. I don’t know... I also had the idea of a confused writing.