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twelve o’clock, April 21, 2021 – 2:17 pm
And again Amancio Prada, Adriana Varela, Joan Isaac and a vocal memory of Luis Eduardo Aute who just passed away for Covid in the fifth solo album of the Calabrian troubadour formerly Premio Tenco, a journey from Brel to Vysotskij with original songs
Nomadic by vocation and restless by temperament, constantly moving from one continent to another, Peppe Voltarelli has become an ambassador of songwriting in the world: numerous tours abroad, from Latin America to Canada, countless participations in international festivals, numerous and illustrious collaborations started in the places where he found himself, from Spain to New York, with his records published in different countries, from Argentina to France, which have often also climbed the charts. It is therefore not surprising that, for his new album, “Planetario”, he decided to compete with the greats of international song, from Jacques Brel to Bob Dylan, from Leo Ferré to Vladimir Vysotskij, offering a superb proof of his incomparable skills as an interpreter. . But what makes this new recording venture unique, the fifth in his solo career, is the fact that other giants of speaking in music sing together with him, in two voices, their songs which thus acquire a completely new flavor.
Silvio Rodriguez, the most famous and important troubadour in Latin America, capable of filling the great stadiums of South American capitals and performing in New York’s Central Park, sings with him the opening song of the disc, “Little daytime serenade”, already performed in Italy from Gigliola Cinquetti and Fiorella Mannoia. Likewise an absolute star of the Spanish-speaking world like Joan Manuel Serrat, already taken up in Italy by Mina and Guccini and to whom Gino Paoli he has dedicated an entire disc, he intervenes at the opening of one of his famous pieces, “La saeta”.
And the same happens with Amancio prada, formerly Tenco Award in 2010, known all over the world for the elegance of his creations, Adriana Varela, the undisputed queen of tango for thirty years, e Joan Isaac, who interprets in two voices with Voltarelli his most famous song, “Margalida”, dedicated to the companion of a young anarchist garroted in 1974 by Franco.
Two Italians present in this anthology of great songs, that is Sergio Endrigo with his courageous, for the time, “The First Company”, and Domenico Modugno, with a song that is anything but frivolous like “Musetto”: authors to whom the former leader of the Parto delle Nuvole Pesanti has already dedicated several shows. A separate case is that of Luis Eduardo Aute which, together with Joan Manuel Serrat and Joaquín Sabina, formed the great Trinity of the Spanish songwriting. Intending to participate in the project, he passed away for covid during the recordings for which the heirs, as if to give a concrete follow-up to his will, authorized the use of his voice, taken from a live held with Silvio Rodriguez a short time before .
Tailored to the life and art experiences of the Calabrian singer-songwriter but conceived and launched in Spain during some of his concerts, “Planetario” is an ambitious project that, from Catalonia, aims to renew the lesson of Amilcare Rambaldi around the fruitfulness of an encounter between artists of different nationalities. Produced by Sergio Secondiano Sacchi and Danile Caldarini for Cose di Amilcare, it therefore moves in the opposite direction to musical sovereignty and colonization refers to one geography of the soul which extends from the expanses of olive trees of the Sibaritide to the ports of Northern Europe, supporting artists and musicians with translations of extraordinary refinement such as, for example, “Millenovecenoquarantasette”, a successful transposition in post-war Naples of a classic of Joaquin Sabina. Voltarelli provides voice and passion to this drawing, placing himself at the center of a collective excursion as his ideal protagonist for which he appropriates these songs according to his own sentimental code. At the same time the Catalan version of one of his songs, “Marinai”, entrusted to Rusó Sala, seals his originality also as an author and places himself in the same way on the hemispherical vault of this “planetarium” where the emotions and thoughts entrusted to a song move.
The artist’s paintings complete the cd-book Anna Corcione who puts one of his works for Earth Day on the cover and lyrics by Sergio Secondiano Sacchi e Laura Lombardi and a story by Voltarelli himself who is, among other things, a fine writer (in preorder on Imbalances without shipping costs for a limited number of copies and until April 30).
21 April 2021 | 14:17
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