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Gianna Nannini: un'esplosione rock
Capostipite del rock italiano al femminile, nonché per anni unica rockeuse nostrana da esportazione, musicista eclettica forgiata da sette anni di studi al Conservatorio, Gianna Nannini ha attraversato quarantanni di canzoni conquistando più generazioni di fan e riuscendo a restare a galla senza mai snaturare il suo stile, pur evolutosi negli anni dal rock irruento e dalle produzioni internazionali degli esordi verso un cantautorato altrettanto sanguigno, ma molto più morbido e accessibile.
Gianna Nannini: a rock explosion
Founder of Italian rock for women, as well as for years the only local export rockeuse, eclectic musician forged from seven years of study at the Conservatory, Gianna Nannini has gone through forty years of songs conquering more fans than she managed to stay afloat without ever distorting the old style, although evolved over the years from the impetuous rock and the international productions of the beginning towards an equally sanguine songwriting, but much softer and more accessible.
Vedi com’è facile perdere il cielo con l’eternità.
(Indimenticabile) - Gianna Nannini: un'esplosione rock
Capostipite del rock italiano al femminile, nonché per anni unica rockeuse nostrana da esportazione, musicista eclettica forgiata da sette anni di studi al Conservatorio, Gianna Nannini ha attraversato quarantanni di canzoni conquistando più generazioni di fan e riuscendo a restare a galla senza mai snaturare il suo stile, pur evolutosi negli anni dal rock irruento e dalle produzioni internazionali degli esordi verso un cantautorato altrettanto sanguigno, ma molto più morbido e accessibile.
See how easy it is to lose heaven with eternity.
(Unforgettable)
Gianna Nannini: a rock explosion
Founder of Italian rock for women, as well as for years the only local export rockeuse, eclectic musician forged from seven years of study at the Conservatory, Gianna Nannini has gone through forty years of songs conquering more fans than she managed to stay afloat without ever distorting the old style, although evolved over the years from the impetuous rock and the international productions of the beginning towards an equally sanguine songwriting, but much softer and more accessible.
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC OOnt was a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. Wikipedia
He was a bright light in the world of music.
May he Rest In Peace.
"Trionfo della Morte" a Pisa sul palco di Piazza Cavalieri - Università, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Tedesco di nascita (Hannover, 14 dicembre 1965), irpino d'origine (il padre, Vito, è di Calitri, la madre, Antonietta, di Andretta) ed emiliano d'adozione (tra Reggio, Parma e Modena), Vinicio Capossela ha conosciuto la dura gavetta dell'emigrante, facendo del randagismo una filosofia di vita.
Miglior cantautore italiano della sua generazione, Vinicio Capossela è ormai un menestrello onnivoro e globale, che ha assorbito suoni e culture di ogni angolo del mondo.
“Ballate per uomini e bestie” è un’opera di grande forza espressiva che guarda alle pestilenze del nostro presente travolto dalla corruzione del linguaggio, dal neoliberismo, dalla violenza e dal saccheggio della natura. In un’epoca in cui il mondo occidentale sembra affrontare un nuovo medioevo inteso come sfiducia nella cultura e nel sapere e smarrimento del senso del sacro, Capossela sceglie di pubblicare un canzoniere che, evocando un medioevo fantastico fatto di bestie estinte, creature magiche, cavalieri erranti, fate e santi, mette in mostra le similitudini e il senso di attualità che lo legano profondamente alle cronache dell’oggi.
"Il racconto e il canto divengono strumento per tentare un riavvicinamento al sacro e alle bestie, indispensabile punto di accesso al mistero della natura, anche umana".
VINICIO CAPOSSELA
Pisa 8 luglio 2019
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"Triumph of Death" in Pisa on the stage of Piazza Cavalieri - University, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
German by birth (Hanover, 14 December 1965), originally from Irpinia (his father, Vito, is from Calitri, his mother, Antonietta, from Andretta) and an Emilian by adoption (between Reggio, Parma and Modena), Vinicio Capossela has known the hard apprenticeship of the emigrant, making stray dogs a life philosophy.
Best Italian singer-songwriter of his generation, Vinicio Capossela is now an omnivorous and global minstrel, who has absorbed sounds and cultures from every corner of the world.
"Ballads for men and beasts" is a work of great expressive power that looks at the plagues of our present overwhelmed by the corruption of language, neoliberalism, violence and the plundering of nature. In an era in which the western world seems to face a new Middle Ages understood as a distrust of culture and knowledge and loss of the sense of the sacred, Capossela chooses to publish a songbook that, evoking a fantastic Middle Ages made of extinct beasts, magical creatures, knights wandering, fairies and saints, it shows the similarities and the sense of actuality that binds him deeply to the chronicles of today.
"The story and the song become an instrument to attempt a rapprochement with the sacred and the beasts, an indispensable access point to the mystery of nature, even human".
VINICIO CAPOSSELA
Pisa 8 July 2019
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Mario Biondi, anima soul targata "liotru" (la statua dell'elefante simbolo di Catania)
Ascolti la sua voce e pensi subito ad un artista americano di colore, con quel timbro profondo alla Barry White, che arriva dritto all’anima.
Invece, con sorpresa ed orgoglio, scopri che si tratta di Mario Biondi, cantante e compositore siciliano, nato e cresciuto a Catania.
La musica ha un grande potere: ti riporta indietro nel momento stesso in cui ti porta avanti, così che provi, contemporaneamente, nostalgia e speranza.
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Listen to his voice and immediately think of an American black artist, with that deep Barry White tone, which goes straight to the soul.
Instead, with surprise and pride, you discover that it is Mario Biondi, Sicilian singer and composer, born and raised in Catania.
Music has great power: it brings you back the moment it brings you forward, so that you feel nostalgia and hope at the same time.
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a video edited by Eugenio Costa
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Poeta-autore di testi tra i più belli e suggestivi della canzone d’autore italiana. Si è sempre lasciato ispirare dalla produzione poetica europea del Novecento.
Le sue canzoni di valore ricchissime di metafore mi hanno fatto sognare da più di quarant’anni.
Un piccolo mio omaggio a Francesco.
Guarda qui ------->> www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK033zIdW00
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Poet-author of some of the most beautiful and suggestive texts of Italian songwriting. He has always been inspired by the European poetic production of the twentieth century.
His valuable songs full of metaphors have made me dream for more than forty years.
A small homage to Francesco.
Look here ------- >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK033zIdW00
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Sei nell’anima
E lì ti lascio per sempre
Sospeso
Immobile
Fermo immagine
Un segno che non passa mai.
(Sei nell’anima)
Nasce a Siena nel 1954 e dagli anni Ottanta è una delle voci italiane più conosciute nel rock internazionale.
Gianna Nannini: un'esplosione rock
Capostipite del rock italiano al femminile, nonché per anni unica rockeuse nostrana da esportazione, musicista eclettica forgiata da sette anni di studi al Conservatorio, Gianna Nannini ha attraversato quarantanni di canzoni conquistando più generazioni di fan e riuscendo a restare a galla senza mai snaturare il suo stile, pur evolutosi negli anni dal rock irruento e dalle produzioni internazionali degli esordi verso un cantautorato altrettanto sanguigno, ma molto più morbido e accessibile.
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You are in the soul
And there I leave you forever
Suspended
Building
Freeze frame
A sign that never goes away.
(You are in the soul)
Gianna Nannini was born in Siena in 1954 and since the 1980s she is one of the best known Italian voices in international rock.
Gianna Nannini: a rock explosion
Founder of Italian rock for women, as well as for years the only local export rockeuse, eclectic musician forged from seven years of study at the Conservatory, Gianna Nannini has gone through forty years of songs conquering more fans than she managed to stay afloat without ever distorting the old style, although evolved over the years from the impetuous rock and the international productions of the beginning towards an equally sanguine songwriting, but much softer and more accessible.
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"Perché le idee sono come farfalle, che non puoi togliergli le ali, perché le idee sono come le stelle, che non le spengono i temporali, perché le idee sono voci di madre, che credevamo di avere perso, e sono come il sorriso di Dio, in questo sputo di universo.“ Roberto Vecchioni è un cantautore, paroliere, scrittore, poeta, ed ex insegnante, accademico italiano.
"Because ideas are like butterflies, you can't take their wings off them, because ideas are like stars, they don't turn off thunderstorms, because ideas are mother's voices, which we thought we had lost, and they're like the smile of God, in this spit of the universe. "Roberto Vecchioni is a singer-songwriter, lyricist, writer, poet, and former teacher, Italian academic..
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Juno & Grammy Award winning ,Alex Cuba on stage at the Uptown Waterloo Jazz Festival.
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada
My photo for the single artwork of DrewJam's latest song 'See You in England'.
Check out the track:-
See You in England on YouTube Music
More information and the links for iTunes etc are at DrewJam.com
27th April 2019 - Newton Faulkner arrived on most peoples radar when he covered Massive Attacks "Teardrops", but there is so much more to this singer and musician. Here he is performing to his adoring fans (and giving me the staredown) at Liverpools O2 Academy..
I've been looking around awhile
For someone like you
And I knew when I saw you smile
No one else would do
Oh baby, I've been looking for you
Maybe, you've been looking too
Baby, now no one else will do
Except you..
SERIE GLI ULTIMI DELLA TERRA
"From the series 'The Last of the Earth,' this portrait captures a street musician in his element, guitar in hand, pouring his soul into his music. His weary gaze and weathered appearance hint at the hardships of a life lived on the margins, a life often overlooked in the rush of the city. This is a tribute to the resilience and artistry of those who seek survival and solace on the streets. We so often miss them as we hurry through our busy lives caught up in our own thoughts, problems and selfish desires. This photo serves as a reminder to acknowledge the unseen and unheard voices among us.
"Dalla serie 'Gli Ultimi della Terra', questo ritratto cattura un musicista di strada nel suo elemento, con la chitarra in mano, che riversa la sua anima nella sua musica. Il suo sguardo stanco e l'aspetto segnato suggeriscono le difficoltà di una vita vissuta ai margini, una vita spesso trascurata nella fretta della città. Questo è un tributo alla resilienza e all'arte di coloro che cercano la sopravvivenza e la consolazione per le strade. Molto spesso li perdiamo mentre corriamo attraverso le nostre vite impegnate presi dai nostri pensieri, problemi e desideri egoistici. Questa foto serve a ricordare di riconoscere le voci non viste e inascoltate tra noi.
Nyang Woolshed, Moulamein, NSW, Australia
Kutcha Edwards is a distinguished singer songwriter whose people are the Mutti Mutti from Balranald in western NSW. Kutcha was part of the stolen generation being taken from his family in Balranald as an infant. Here, in between performances at the Nyang Woolshed near Moulamein, NSW, he tells his life story and and speaks of his family with which he eventually reconnected.
4th July 2019 - American songstress 'Sola' performing a superb final set at 'Happy Accidents' 1st Anniversary gig at 'Phase 1' in Liverpool.
Mural of singer-songwriters Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline (née Virginia Patterson Hensley)
mural artist: unknown
Il 4 gennaio del 2015, a Roma, moriva il musicista che ha conquistato un intero Paese (e non solo) con la sua musica meticcia: il torrido suono nero del blues e il calore del mediterraneo.
Cinque anni senza Pino Daniele, io dico cinque anni senza Pino, lo ricordo come un amico fraterno. Perché, come sanno tutti quelli che hanno amato la sua musica, Pino è stato molto di più del celebrato artista che ci raccontano le cronache musicali. Pino è stato per me una compagnia quotidiana, la voce calda che mi ha fatto innamorare del suono blues, di echi di jazz e di rock anglosassoni e anche di tammurriate e suoni del Mediterraneo.
Grazie a quel filo di voce così vera e potente, grazie a quel timbro nostalgico e all’acuto profondamente incazzato da “nero a metà”, ho imparato ad amare Napoli, mi sono riconosciuto e ritrovato, come tanti "Masaniello", ad impazzire di gioia a diversi suoi concerti.
L'ultima volta che visto Pino.
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On January 4, 2015, in Rome, the musician who conquered an entire country (and not only) died with his mestizo music: the torrid black sound of the blues and the warmth of the Mediterranean.
Five years without Pino Daniele, I say five years without Pino, I remember him as a brotherly friend. Because, as everyone who loved his music knows, Pino was much more than the celebrated artist who tells us about the music. Pino was a daily company for me, the warm voice that made me fall in love with the blues sound, with echoes of Anglo-Saxon jazz and rock and also with tammurriate and Mediterranean sounds.
Thanks to that thread of voice so true and powerful, thanks to that nostalgic timbre and the acute pissed off by "half black", I learned to love Naples, I recognized myself and found myself, like so many Masaniello, to go crazy with joy at several of his concerts.
The last time I saw Pino Daniele.
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He's a better singer than I am, but his brother Kodi just farted a pretty tune (two in a row!), so he may have some competition.
Jesus, that stinks.
4th June 2016 - Caron Wheeler, the voice of 'Soul II Soul' performing at Liverpool's 'International Mersey River Festival'.
A natural light photo, taken with the Nikon D810 and the stellar AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 (the old version).. Did som color grading in Lightroom as well.
Caroline Lavelle is an English singer-songwriter and cellist who has created three solo albums and contributed vocals, music, and production help to many ...
Here,she joins Loreena McKennitt on stage at the Goderich 2023 Celtic Roots Festival.
Goderich, Ontario
Canada
And this red angry bird is from her beloved Nashville. So if you get tweet trolled, follow Dolly's example. Don't sweat it.
Mural artist: unknown
Angry bird painter: also unknown
Another one of my ideas for what life would be like if Joanna Gleason pursued a different life: Singer Songwriter.
27th April 2019 - Relative newcomer Charlotte has a voice that is a pure weapon and here she is at the O2 Academy, Liverpool in support of Newton Faulkner..
Went to see US singer-songwriter Rod Picott at the Greystones in Sheffield - and not only was it an excellent gig, but he said some lovely things about my photography from the stage.
13th July 2019 - The best photo opportunity of the 'Deeper Cuts' festival on Seel Street had to be this delightfully esoteric and androgynous performer at Liverpool's 'Kazimier Gardens'
3rd August 2019- Amber Lane-McIvor of Manchester based 'Ambiere' brought a chilled ambient vibe to Jimmy's in Liverpool, partly due to the lack of a Drummer at the last minute. Despite an oddly placed position in the band order on the day, these guys manged to captivate an early audience that were mainly here for the Post Punk Indie vibe that was the mainstay of Jimmy's first alldayer in Liverpool..
22nd August 2019 - Starting with the photography conditions... Two diffused Red spots and a smoke machine.. great!! I have a Canon 7D mkII, which is a crop sensor sport camera coupled with a L series 70-200mm F2.8 so every shot is at 6400iso in this light, bring the noise... After much googling i came across a jolt from the past (2012) and Googles free download of the Nik Collection. This PS install is a gift from the Gods themselves for low light photographers that can't afford a full frame camera... Install it and have a play with 'dfine2', wow!!
Peter Broderick.. Looks like Nick Cave, but sings like Neil Young. Plus, he plays multiple instruments to multiple genres. Folk, Disco, Funk, Blues.. Nothing is beyond this young Americans grasp. Tonight it was the eternal spring of the late Arthur Russel's back catalogue of 'Disillusioned Idealism', a vast treasure trove of unfinished goods. Plus Arthur Russel helped create Sleeping Bag Records of the underground classic Kariya 'Baby Let Me Love You For Tonight' fame.
A treasure chest I for one cvan't wait to hear more from