| Author | Message | ||
     Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2307 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ivan Graziani - Lugano addio One of the great merits of Italian X-Factor is its occasional unearthing of classic songs you might not otherwise get to hear, in this case a gorgeous ballad from 1977, which, like a lot of golden age Italian pop, manages to pack in a whole lot of interesting stuff. Here, while the lyrics refers to Addio a Lugano, a song by Sicilian anarchist and poet Pietro Gori, written in 1895 after fleeing to Switzerland to escape from the reprisals of Italian law, Graziani slips it into a romantic context, with a girl from the north, daughter of a veteran who fought in the mountains, falling in love with a boy from the south, son of a fisherman, and Lugano deliberately identified for its beauty and natural, economic and social contrasts, a border town where different lifestyles, dreams and hopes meet. “You spoke to me about frontiers, financiers and contraband…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3KtATae A9M | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1570 Registered: 04-2005 |
Pentantangle - Sweet Child https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShDVFHjP mhk RIP Shel Talmy | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4943 Registered: 03-2005 |
How funny. I have a CD version of the "Sweet Child" album but I never noticed that Shel Talmy is the producer. It wouldn't have occurred to me. I associate him with The Kinks, early Who, Creation and the Easybeats' assault on the international music scene. I never knew he played a part in the folk scene. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2309 Registered: 10-2006 |
Lou Reed & John Cale - Berlin (Live, 1972) Never seen this before! Wonderful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_83BliF cFg | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2312 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Kinks - This Time Tomorrow Rollicking out the radio as fresh as a daisy, lovely guitar sounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwVJ7FWc 4rQ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10743 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go-Betweens - Heaven Says. Early Go-Betweens sounds better to me, the older I get. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veuB0nPD y24 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2316 Registered: 10-2006 |
Meimuna - C'est demain que je meurs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpoqbg42 TxQ "Founded in 2016 by singer and guitarist Cyrielle Formaz, Meimuna has established itself as one of the most valuable musical projects on the Swiss and European scene. Playing with musical and linguistic boundaries, it gracefully explores this land of delicate and fragile expression, on the borders of Anglo-Saxon folk and French-speaking poetry, an area few know how to cultivate." Oh, awright, then. |