Gino D'Eliso – Kajmac Calan
This song speaks of emigration, but instead of addressing the migration from southern to northern Italy, as many have sung about (I'm reminded of Tenco, Dalla, and Gaetano), it tells the story of Trieste and a Slav who arrives after two days of travel by train. The story ends badly, between handcuffs and a deportation order (the West, however, is not sweet to you/I have a paper in my pocket that destroys your dreams/But the dawn over the gulf is not sweet for you). Gino, just like Fausto, Garbo, and in some way even Cattaneo, sought a different path in Italian singer-songwriter culture, one that primarily looked to Dylan and, in some cases, to the French school.
The Kajmakchalan is a mountain on the border between Greece and North Macedonia. It is the southernmost and highest peak, at 2,521 meters, of a range known in Greek as Monti Voras and in Macedonian as Nidže. It was the site of a fierce battle during World War I Battaglia di Kajmakchalan - Wikipedia
This song speaks of emigration, but instead of addressing the migration from southern to northern Italy, as many have sung about (I'm reminded of Tenco, Dalla, and Gaetano), it tells the story of Trieste and a Slav who arrives after two days of travel by train. The story ends badly, between handcuffs and a deportation order (the West, however, is not sweet to you/I have a paper in my pocket that destroys your dreams/But the dawn over the gulf is not sweet for you). Gino, just like Fausto, Garbo, and in some way even Cattaneo, sought a different path in Italian singer-songwriter culture, one that primarily looked to Dylan and, in some cases, to the French school.
The Kajmakchalan is a mountain on the border between Greece and North Macedonia. It is the southernmost and highest peak, at 2,521 meters, of a range known in Greek as Monti Voras and in Macedonian as Nidže. It was the site of a fierce battle during World War I Battaglia di Kajmakchalan - Wikipedia
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