2002

1996
Cerco tiempo

2000
La vida que vendrá

da "Il quinto mondo" (2002)

[1992]
Album: "Generation Terrorists"

(Woodstock, 1969)

Richie Havens ha costruito sul palco di Woodstock uno dei momenti significativi del festival, di quelli che restano come punti fermi nella memoria di quell'evento. La sua "Freedom" resta una delle canzoni più emblematiche del festival. [...] Richie Havens, forse anche per il ritardo di altri, dovuto al caos che si era creato sulla stada che portava a Bethel, dove effettivamente si svolse il festival, fu il primo ad affrontare i cinquecentomila della platea, che probabilmente non erano ancora tutti, e a provare comunque il brivido che trasmetteva. Havens definì quella sensazione un "incidente cosmico". La sua "Freedom" (improvvisata sullo standard Motherless Child, sembra perché Havens aveva finito le canzoni del suo repertorio ma continuava ad essere richiamato sul palco dal pubblico), che innescò la prima scintilla fra il palco e la sterminata platea di Woodstock, risente... (Continues)

Chanson extraite de l'album "Ici et maintenant", de Fred ALPI.
Fred ALPI : paroles, musique, chant, guitares électriques
JAP : basse, guitare électrique
Julien TERZICS : batterie

Amore e guerra - 2005

1995
Paranoia e potere

Forse non proprio contro la guerra, ma contro la condizione di partenza di molte persone che nascono in paesi falcidiati dalle guerre.

(2004)
Album: L'uomo sogna di volare

feat. Gabriel o Pensador

Si sono presentati sul palco a Rock Politik assieme a Gabriel o Pensador con questa canzone. Niente male davvero

(1985)
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Music by Elton John

The song Nikita appeared on the "Ice on Fire" album, which was released in 1985. It is the song that made me fall for Elton and his music! The song is about the old communist USSR and East Germany (the video was shot near the Berlin Wall in Germany) and how people were not free to do as they pleased. It's not about a particular person, just a general fictional story about how difficult it would be in those days for a Western man to be in love with a woman from the communist side of the world
(from Elton John FAQ)

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Nikita è una canzone di argomento simile a Heroes di Bowie, un amore da un lato all'altro del muro di Berlino.
È interessante però notare che Nikita è un nome maschile in russo (ma non in francese) e, conoscendo il personaggio, credo che la cosa sia in qualche modo voluta.

[ca. 1950 - 1950's]

Lyrics as printed in "Jimmy Martin and the Osborne Bros. -- Sunny Mt. Boys" Songbook, 1950s, reprinted in liner notes, "Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys," Bear Family Records BCD 15 705-1 EI, 1994.

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[1940]
Lyrics as reprinted in Pete Seeger (ed.), Woody Guthrie Folk Songs, London, 1973, pp. 237-238.
© 1963 Ludlow Music Inc., New York, NY

[1946]
Lyrics by Woody Guthrie
To the tune of The Great Dust Storm by the same
Sull'aria di The Great Dust Storm dello stesso Guthrie

"I wrote this ballad on the 16th day of August in the year 1946, one block from the wreckage of the Atlantic Ocean, on the beach at Coney Island, New York." -Woody Guthrie.

Or this one I made up so's you wouldn't be forgetting what happened to this famous Negro soldier less than three hours after he got his Honorable Discharge down in Atlanta....
(I sung this Isaac Woodard song in the Lewisohn Stadium one night for more than 36,000 people, and I got the loudest applause I've ever got in my whole life. This song is a long song, but most of the action is told in Isaac's own words. I made this ballad up because we'll need lots of songs like this one before we win our fight for racial equality in our big free United States.)
Woody Guthrie, as quoted in... (Continues)

[1942]
Testo di Agnes "Sis" Cunningham
Lyrics by Agnes "Sis" Cunningham

Sull'aria di The Danville Girl
To the tune of The Danville Girl

Sung to the tune of "Danville Girl," Cunningham's "Belt Line Girl" offered solace to all the "Rosie the Riveters" working in America's defense plants.

Lyrics as recorded by THE ALMANAC SINGERS, New York, NY, c. Feb 1942, and reprinted ibid., p. 104.
ORIGINAL ISSUE: "DEAR MR. PRESIDENT," Keynote K-305-B (KEYNOTE ALBUM 111), 1942.
[AGNES "SIS" CUNNINGHAM, solo vocal]

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[1863]
Testo e musica di Stephen Collins Foster
Lyrics and music by Stephen Collins Foster

Canzone popolare della guerra civile americana (1860-1865). Interpretata, tra gli altri, nel 1928 dai Carolina Twins (Gwen Foster e Dave Fletcher), di cui rappresentò un cavallo di battaglia.

"Although [Gwen] Foster was widely recorded -- both on his own and as a member of several groups -- little of his history is known... After leaving the [CAROLINA] TAR HEELS, Foster recorded with... Dave Fletcher, one of the original members of the Four Yellowjackets. These were credited to 'Fletcher and Foster' -- Gennett, and 'The Carolina Twins' -- Victor...
Gwen Foster's importance lies not in some great ability to create original songs, but in his innovation and improvisation in dealing with basically traditional material, and his fine musicianship...
Another waltz from the Carolina Twins. Probably this one dates back top the American Civil War. The Song is interesting because Fletcher and Foster have added a yodel which would never have been present in more traditional versions."

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[1927]
Testo di Jimmie Rodgers
Lyrics by Jimmie Rodgers
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Sull'aria di Once I Had A Sweetheart
To the tune of Once I Had A Sweetheart
[==> Joan Baez Ballad Book, Vol. I]


© 1927 Peer International Corporation
Lyrics as reprinted in Dorothy Horstman, Sing Your Heart Out, Country Boy, New York, NY, 1976, p. 282-283

MRS. CARRIE RODGERS: "A pal of Jimmie's, Sammie Williams, told his sweetheart good-bye and went to France -- to be killed in action. So before the war was over, Jimmie found time to pick out words and air to his first composition, a sentimental song.... From the first his railroad buddies liked the song, and the young fellows in Meridian who were his boon companions liked it. With banjo, guitar, uke, they hung around the all-night places or strolled the streets playing and singing Jimmie's song along with 'Sweet Adeline' and other... (Continues)