Edoardo Bennato is releasing a reissue of the album La Torre di Babele for its fiftieth anniversary — the record with which, in the mid-1970s, he continued his ironic, fairy-tale-grounded line of Italian songwriting. OndaRock ↗
Fabrizio De André's album Anime salve is thirty years old, and OndaRock, in an extensive text, calls it his spiritual testament. De André wrote it together with Ivano Fossati, and it remained his last studio album. OndaRock ↗
Marlene Kuntz's Il vile is also marking its thirtieth anniversary, and in the most practical way of the three — the tour has gained new stops in Brussels, Rome, Bologna and Milan. OndaRock ↗
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All three artists are now newly represented with lyrics on SuperMusic.cz. From Bennato: Il gatto e la volpe, Sono solo canzonette and Un giorno credi; from De André: Bocca di rosa, La canzone di Marinella and Il pescatore; from Marlene Kuntz: Nuotando nell'aria, La canzone che scrivo per te and Sonica.
The three anniversaries in a single week show well how broadly layered the Italian catalogue is: Bennato represents the ironic song of the 1970s, De André the Genoese school of the singer-songwriter, and Marlene Kuntz the alternative wave of the 1990s.
Illustrative photo: Edoardo Bennato at a concert in Luxembourg (2016). Photo: Gorup de Besanez / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
Italian scene opens its archives: Bennato after fifty years, De André after thirty
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