The tuft of hair now incanutito, the violin, especially in a culture cut off from poets, philosophers, minstrels of the renaissance, theologians transposed into the songs: the most popular is a singing jewish easter, Chad Gaya, that in the readjustment becomes To the fair of the East’, a nursery rhyme unforgettable with the bull that drank the water that quenched the fire that burned the stick that beat the dog that bit the cat that ate the mouse that at the market my father bought.
Angelo Branduardi a song that is 50 years long
the years Pass and Angelo Branduardi turned 70 a few days but it always remains itself, and is probably the best compliment you can make to this singer-songwriter is not rare, but unique. Now, he launches a new tour that will touch the whole of Italy tied to the disk, The path of the soul, dedicated to Hildegard of Bingen , the medieval mystic, German, scientist, philosopher, theologian, playwright, writer, painter. “And a musician: I was very touched that in the year one Thousand a woman to write music. Part of these melodies were esoteric and that this could be stress through measures of music, that is, with the use of the music vertical, which in those times was not there, her harmonies, progressions. I tried to build a suite that had a beginning and an end, the music, with a prelude and a coda, as it was used once. And this will be the first part of the concert, then spend the rest of my repertoire. The ladder will be largely unavoidable because if you are not playing at The fair of the East, The water flea, Confessions of a scoundrel, and many other songs should I asserragliare in the dressing room. So the people will go out and happy. And what else is music?”.
