ERIC CLAPTON Live at Budokan, Tokyo, 2001

Eric Patrick Clapton (IPA: [ˈɛɹɪk ˈpætɹɪk ˈklæptən]; Ripley, 30 marzo 1945) è un cantautore, chitarrista e compositore britannico.

Soprannominato «Slowhand» («Mano lenta») e «God» («Dio»), definito da Chuck Berry «The Man of the Blues» («l’uomo del blues»), Clapton è annoverato fra i chitarristi
blues e rock più famosi e influenti.

Nell’arco della sua lunga carriera, ha collaborato con altri artisti acclamati e ha militato in numerosi gruppi (The Yardbirds, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Cream,
Blind Faith, Delaney & Bonnie, Derek and the Dominos) prima di affermarsi come solista, sperimentando nel corso degli anni svariati stili musicali, dal blues di matrice
tradizionale al rock psichedelico, dal reggae al pop rock.

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Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945), is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential
guitarists of all time.[1] Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”[2] and fourth in Gibson’s “Top 50
Guitarists of All Time”.[3] He was also named number five in Time magazine’s list of “The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players” in 2009 [4]

In the mid-1960s, Clapton left the Yardbirds to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed the power trio Cream
with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce, in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and “arty, blues-based psychedelic pop”.[5] Furthermore, he
formed blues rock band Blind Faith with Baker, Steve Winwood, and Ric Grech. For most of the 1970s, Clapton’s output bore the influence of the mellow style of JJ Cale
and the reggae of Bob Marley. His version of Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff” helped reggae reach a mass market.[6] Two of his most popular recordings were “Layla”,
recorded with Derek and the Dominos; and Robert Johnson’s “Crossroads”, recorded with Cream. Following the death of his son Conor in 1991, Clapton’s grief was expressed
in the song “Tears in Heaven”, which featured in his Unplugged album.

Clapton has been the recipient of 18 Grammy Awards, and the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In 2004, he was awarded a CBE at Buckingham Palace for
services to music.[7][8][9] In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering
substance abusers.

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Antony & The Johnsons

Gli Antony and the Johnsons sono un gruppo musicale di New York.
Nato in Inghilterra, a Chichester, West Sussex nel 1971, Antony Hegarty si trasferì ad Amsterdam nel 1977 per 18 mesi prima di sistemarsi a San José
(California) nel 1981. Negli Stati Uniti frequenta una scuola cattolica dove fa parte del coro. Al suo 11º compleanno gli viene regalata una tastiera Casio e si cimenta con le canzoni dei Soft Cell, Kate Bush e Yazoo. Da adolescente fu influenzato dal synth pop britannico, in particolare da cantanti come Marc Almond e Boy George. Attratto dal palcoscenico, frequenta la School for the Performing Arts di San José e l’Università della California a Santa Cruz. All’età di 18 anni mette in scena le prime performance, ispirate a John Waters e all’icona-guru Divine. Attratto dal mondo newyorchese degli anni ottanta, ispirato anche da personaggi come Joey Arias che cantava A Hard Day’s Night vestito da Billie Holiday, si trasferisce nella grande mela. Il “Mondo di New York” risulta essere più consono alla sua sensibilità artistica e alla sua ricerca espressiva incentrata sul tema dell’identità.

Nel 1990 Antony entra nella dimensione che più sente appartenergli, impersonando una drag queen ed esibendosi al Pyramid Club in guêpière, testa rasata e sigaretta fra le dita. Antony (con gli altri componenti del gruppo, i Blacklips) scrive scenari, canzoni, arrangiamenti ed entra in scena in tarda notte come Fiona Blue, drag queen e archetipo androgino ispirato da Klaus Nomi, Leigh Bowery e Diamanda Galas. Nello stesso periodo Antony si laurea in Teatro Sperimentale.

Nel 1995 Antony decide di dedicarsi completamente alla musica, dai Blacklips appena sciolti chiama il batterista Todd Cohen, che insieme a Joan Wasser e Maxim Moston ai violini, Jeff Langston al basso elettrico, Jason Hart al piano e Michele Schifferle ospite al violoncello, formano l’orchestra artefice dei raffinati arrangiamenti delle sue composizioni. Nascono così Antony and the Johnsons, nome ispirato a Marsha P. Johnson, il travestito newyorchese che nel 1970 fondò la casa di accoglienza per travestiti STAR, la cui tragica fine nel fiume Hudson sarà evocata in River Of Sorrow.

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Antony and the Johnsons is a music group presenting the work of Antony Hegarty and her collaborators.

British experimental musician David Tibet of Current 93 heard a demo and offered to release Antony’s music through his Durtro label. Antony started the band, its name inspired by the transgender rights activist Marsha P. Johnson.[3] The debut album, Antony and the Johnsons, was released in 1998. In 2001, Hegarty released a short follow-up EP, I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy, which, in addition to the title track, included a cover of “Mysteries of Love”, a David Lynch/Angelo Badalamenti song and “Soft Black Stars”, a Current 93 cover.

Producer Hal Willner heard the EP and played it to Lou Reed, who immediately recruited Hegarty for his project The Raven. Now gaining more attention, Hegarty signed to US-based record label Secretly Canadian, and released another EP, The Lake, with Lou Reed guest-performing on one of the tracks. Secretly Canadian also re-released Hegarty’s debut album in the United States to wider distribution in 2004.

Antony’s second full-length album, 2005’s I Am a Bird Now, was greeted with positive reviews and significantly more mainstream attention. The album featured guest appearances by Lou Reed, Rufus Wainwright, Boy George and Devendra Banhart, and circled themes of duality and transformation. I Am a Bird Now featured arrangements by Maxim Moston and Julia Kent and was mixed by Doug Henderson. In September 2005 Antony and the Johnsons were awarded the Mercury Prize or the best UK album of 2005. Rival Mercury nominees, and favorites for the prize, the Kaiser Chiefs suggested that Antony got in on a technicality; despite the fact she was born in the United Kingdom she spent much of her time in the US – although they later apologized for the suggestion that she wasn’t a deserving winner.
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Jimi Hendrix Greatest Hits

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Jimi Hendrix, all’anagrafe James Marshall Hendrix (Seattle, 27 novembre 1942 – Londra, 18 settembre 1970), è stato un chitarrista e cantautore statunitense.

È stato uno dei maggiori innovatori nell’ambito della chitarra elettrica: durante la sua parabola artistica, tanto breve quanto intensa, si è reso precursore di molte strutture e del sound di quelle che sarebbero state le future evoluzioni del rock attraverso un’inedita fusione di blues, rhythm and blues/soul, hard rock, psichedelia e funky.^[3]

Secondo la classifica stilata nel 2011 dalla rivista Rolling Stone, è stato il più grande chitarrista di tutti i tempi. Si trova infatti al primo posto della lista dei 100 migliori chitarristi secondo Rolling Stone, precedendo Eric Clapton e Jimmy Page.^[4]

Due sue esibizioni, in particolare, sono entrate di prepotenza nell’immaginario collettivo: il suo esordio al festival di Monterey del 1967, in cui concluse la performance dando fuoco alla sua chitarra davanti ad un pubblico allibito, e la chiusura del festival di Woodstock del 1969, durante la quale, con dissacrante visionarietà artistica, reinterpretò l’inno nazionale statunitense in modo provocatoriamente distorto e cacofonico.^[5]

Hendrix è stato introdotto nella Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nel 1992.^[6]

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James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music”.^[1]

Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the US Army; he was granted an honorable discharge the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the chitlin’ circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers‘ backing band and later withLittle Richard, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after being discovered by Linda Keith, who in turn interested bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals in becoming his first manager. Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience: “Hey Joe“, “Purple Haze“, and “The Wind Cries Mary“. He achieved fame in the US after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the US; it was Hendrix’s most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. The world’s highest-paid performer, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 beforehis accidental death from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age of 27.

Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in utilizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He helped to popularize the use of a wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, and was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: “Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began.”^[2]

Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year, and in 1968, Billboard named him the Artist of the Year and Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Rolling Stone ranked the band’s three studio albums, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, among the 100 greatest albums of all time, and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time.

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Cat Stevens Greatest Hits

Yusuf Islam, nato Steven Demetre Georgiou e a lungo conosciuto con il suo nome d’arte Cat Stevens (Londra, 21 luglio 1948), è un cantautore britannico.

Figlio di padre greco-cipriota (Stavros Georgiou) e madre svedese (Ingrid Wickman), cresce a Shaftesbury Avenue, nel quartiere di Soho a Londra, sopra il ristorante di proprietà del padre dove veniva spesso suonata musica popolare greca, dalla quale verrà influenzato.[2] Per un breve periodo della sua infanzia si sposta con la madre a Gävle in Svezia, dove impara i primi rudimenti della pittura dallo zio Hugo. Ciò influenzerà la carriera artistica del futuro Cat Stevens, spesso autore delle copertine dei propri album.

All’inizio della sua carriera musicale, Georgiou adotta il nome “Cat Stevens” dopo che un’amica gli fa notare che i suoi sembrano gli occhi di un gatto. Siamo in pieno periodo Swinging London, e Stevens incarna in pieno lo stereotipo del cantante pop commerciale dell’epoca, un’immagine dalla quale egli si distanzierà notevolmente negli anni a seguire. Dopo i primi due album Matthew and Son e New Masters, che ottengono un tiepido successo soprattutto grazie a qualche singolo come I Love My Dog, Stevens si ammala gravemente di tubercolosi e passa un certo periodo in un sanatorio di Midhurst, nella campagna inglese. Qui comincia a riflettere sul proprio futuro, sulla propria carriera (cambia casa discografica), sul proprio stile di vita, decidendo di operare un drastico cambiamento anche a partire dall’immagine: capelli più lunghi, barba e abiti più informali.

Il periodo lontano dalle scene lascia il segno e nel giro di due anni (1970 e 1971) dà alle stampe Mona Bone Jakon, Tea for the Tillerman e Teaser and the Firecat, che lo faranno diventare famoso in tutto il mondo: Lady D’Arbanville che arriva prima in Francia per quattro settimane, seconda nei Paesi Bassi ed ottava nel Regno Unito, Wild World, Father and Son, Morning Has Broken, Moonshadow, Peace Train tra le più celebri. Da segnalare la presenza tra i musicisti di artisti del calibro di Peter Gabriel (flauto in Katmandu) e Rick Wakeman, all’epoca quasi sconosciuti ai più.

Lo stile musicale che ne esce fuori è quello che contraddistinguerà Cat Stevens per tutta la sua carriera: chitarre acustiche in primo piano, sonorità delicate, richiami alla tradizione greca, testi a metà strada tra la canzone d’amore ed il misticismo, il tutto condito dalla calda vocalità dello stesso Stevens. In questo periodo partecipa alla colonna sonora del film Harold e Maude, con brani già editi e i due inediti Don’t Be Shy e If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out. Gli album successivi Catch Bull at Four, Foreigner, Buddha and the Chocolate Box e Numbers abbandonano in parte lo stile acustico per soluzioni sperimentali più elettriche.
Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens (2009)
Decisivo è in tal senso l’ingresso, nel gruppo di musicisti che accompagna Stevens, del tastierista Jean Roussell. Tra i brani di maggior successo di tali album vi sono Sitting, The Hurt e Oh Very Young. Nel frattempo Stevens intraprende una serie di tour intorno al mondo e arriverà a vendere oltre quaranta milioni di dischi. Il suo unico concerto in Italia si tiene a Roma nel 1974. Si trasferisce successivamente in Brasile per motivi di tasse, e comincia ad avvicinarsi a tematiche prettamente religiose. Nel 1976 suo fratello, di ritorno da un viaggio a Gerusalemme, gli regala una copia del Corano: quest’avvenimento segnerà la vita del cantautore.

Nel 1977, dopo aver rischiato di morire annegato a Malibù, secondo un aneddoto da lui stesso citato più volte, Stevens si converte all’Islam adottando il nome Yusuf Islam. Incide ancora Isitzo e Back to Earth dopodiché si ritira completamente dalle scene e diventa un membro eminente della comunità musulmana di Londra, aprendo anche la Islamia Primary School, una scuola nel nord della capitale britannica. Balza agli onori delle cronache nel 1989, quando apparentemente appoggia la fatwa lanciata contro lo scrittore Salman Rushdie per i suoi I versi satanici. In realtà Islam, il quale si trovava al Kingston Polytechnic di Londra per un incontro con gli studenti, si era limitato a spiegare il perché di quella condanna da parte del mondo musulmano, senza mai invocare direttamente alcuna sanzione, precisando successivamente che non avrebbe appoggiato la richiesta dell’ayatollah Khomeini in quanto lesiva della legislazione britannica. Questa controversia comunque gli avrebbe causato l’ostracismo di gran parte del mondo musicale per lungo tempo.

Nel 2004 Islam è di nuovo nell’occhio del ciclone quando gli viene negato l’ingresso negli USA perché il suo nome è nella lista degli indesiderati dopo gli eventi dell’11 settembre 2001. Il cantautore si trovava su un volo Londra-Washington, quando all’improvviso l’aeroplano viene dirottato in un altro aeroporto e Islam viene trattenuto e fatto tornare in patria. Il caso fa mobilitare anche l’allora Ministro degli Esteri britannico Jack Straw in difesa del cantante. Yusuf Islam vive tuttora a Londra con sua moglie e i suoi cinque figli. Ha fondato associazioni benefiche come Muslim Aid e Small Kindness per assistere le vittime della carestia in Africa. Inoltre, il cantante ha donato parte delle royalties del suo Box Set americano del 2001 al fondo per le vittime degli attentati dell’11 settembre 2001.

Tornato a calcare le scene, collaborando di nuovo con Peter Gabriel in occasione di un concerto in onore di Nelson Mandela a Johannesburg nel 2013, duettando con Ronan Keating il brano Father and Son, nel 2006 ha pubblicato l’album An Other Cup. Nel 2007 pubblica un DVD live, Yusuf’s Cafè Session, registrato durante un concerto tenuto al Porchester Hall di Londra, mentre nel 2009 esce il suo album Roadsinger, per il quale nel 2011 si è esibito in un tour europeo. Nel 2012 ha scritto, sceneggiato e prodotto un suo musical, denominato Moonshadow, in world premiere a Melbourne, con 58 appuntamenti in Australia: il tour europeo è ancora da definire. Nel 2014 partecipa come ospite alla serata iniziale del Festival di Sanremo dove propone Peace Train, Maybe There´s a World (con citazione di All You Need Is Love dei Beatles) e Father and Son e annuncia il suo prossimo album, in fase di ultimazione. Nel 2014 esce il suo ultimo album Tell ‘Em I’m Gone, metà cover e metà scritte da lui, accompagnato dal nuovo tour Peace train… late again tour con un’unica data italiana al Forum di Assago.

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Cat Stevens

Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou, 21 July 1948), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, humanitarian, and education philanthropist. His 1967 debut album reached the top 10 in the UK, and the album’s title song “Matthew and Son” charted at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. His albums Tea for the Tillerman (1970) and Teaser and the Firecat (1971) were both certified triple platinum in the US by the RIAA.

His 1972 album Catch Bull at Four spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard 200, and fifteen weeks at number one in the Australian ARIA Charts. He earned two ASCAP songwriting awards in 2005 and 2006 for “The First Cut Is the Deepest”, and the song has been a hit for four different artists. His other hit songs include “Father and Son”, “Wild World”, “Peace Train”, “Moonshadow”, and “Morning Has Broken”. In 2007 he received the British Academy’s Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song Collection.

In December 1977, Stevens converted to Islam[10] and adopted the name Yusuf Islam the following year. In 1979, he auctioned all his guitars for charity[11] and left his music career to devote himself to educational and philanthropic causes in the Muslim community. He was embroiled in a long-running controversy regarding comments he made in 1989 about the death fatwa on author Salman Rushdie. He has received two honorary doctorates and awards for promoting peace from two organisations founded by Mikhail Gorbachev.

In 2006, he returned to pop music – releasing his first album of new pop songs in 28 years, titled An Other Cup. With that release and for subsequent ones, he dropped the surname “Islam” from the album cover art – using the stage name “Yusuf” as a mononym. In 2009, he released the album Roadsinger, and in 2014, he released the album Tell ‘Em I’m Gone, and began his first US tour since 1978. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.

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Viaggiatore – Traveler

Viaggiatore

Son venuto da lontano,
son venuto da oriente
con il mio cuore in mano
e te nella mente.
Ho bussato alla tua porta,
il tuo castello visitato,
tu mi hai aperto piano,
il tuo sorriso regalato.
Avevo con me
il sacchetto dei sogni,
avevo il limpido ricordo
dei nostri voli d’aquile in cielo.
Quanto cercare, quanto sudare,
prima di vedere il fondo del lago.
Acqua cheta ed arcobaleni,
le tue mille capriole…
dovevo conoscere, dovevo vedere.
Ed ora tu qui…
Principessa dei sogni,
Donna e fiore d’aprile.
Quando la Vita si svela
Regalando colore e profumo.
Chi le mie pupille allieta
E mi regala tesoro,
adesso è qui, concreta.
Io non posso ripartire,
io non posso restare,
ora che la mia Vita è rubata,
devo andare di là dal mare.
Prendo coraggio ed indietro ritorno,
seguo la ragione e vado,
con la morte nel cuore,
richiudo la porta del sogno
e riprendo il mio grigiore.

20.10.2001 Poetyca

Traveler

I come from afar,
I came from the east
with my heart in my hand
and you in mind.
I knocked on your door,
your castle visited
you made me open floor
give your smile.
I had with me
bag of dreams,
I remember the clear
our flights of eagles in the sky.
As for search, as sweating,
before seeing the bottom of the lake.
Acqua Cheta and rainbows
your one thousand somersaults …
I know, I see.
And now you are here …
Princess of dreams
Woman and flower in April.
When life is revealed
Give color and fragrance.
Who gladdens my eyes
It gives me treasure,
is now here, concrete.
I can not leave,
I can not stay,
Now that my life is stolen,
I have to go across the sea.
I take courage back and forth,
follow reason and go,
with a heavy heart,
closes the door of the dream
and continue my dullness.

20.10.2001 Poetyca

Incontro – Meetings

 

Incontro

Cadeva
dalla notte un sogno
stella
di un universo affranto.

Piccola
luce di un cammino,
raccolta
con tenerezza accesa.

Fiamma
inestinguibile alimenta,
sorrisi
nuovi dall’incedere lento.

Speranze
sopiscono tormento.

16.01.2001 Poetyca

 

Meetings

Fell
by night dream
star
a broken world.

Small
light of a journey,
collection
with tenderness on.

Flame
inextinguishable powers,
smiles
new dall’incedere slow.

Hopes
sleeping torment.

16.01.2001 Poetyca

Roxy Music – Avalon (1982) (FULL ALBUM)

I Roxy Music sono stati un gruppo musicale glam rock britannico attivo tra il 1971 e il 1983.

Considerati una delle maggiori influenze per il movimento musicale new romantic e synthpop dei primi anni ottanta, in particolare al riguardo di gruppi come Duran Duran, ABC, Spandau Ballet, Japan.

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Roxy Music were an English glam rock group formed in 1971 by Bryan Ferry, who became the group’s lead vocalist and chief songwriter, and bassist Graham Simpson. Alongside Ferry, the other longtime members were Phil Manzanera (guitar), Andy Mackay (saxophone and oboe) and Paul Thompson (drums and percussion). Other former members include Brian Eno (synthesiser and “treatments”), Eddie Jobson (synthesiser and violin), and John Gustafson (bass). Although the band took a break from group activities in 1976 and again in 1983, they reunited for a concert tour in 2001, and toured together intermittently between that time and their break-up in 2011. Ferry frequently enlisted members of Roxy Music as session musicians for his solo releases.

Roxy Music attained popular and critical success in Europe and Australia during the 1970s and early 1980s, beginning with their debut album, Roxy Music (1972). The band was highly influential as leading proponents of the more experimental, musically sophisticated element of glam, as well as a significant influence on early English punk music. They also provided a model for many new wave acts and the experimental electronic groups of the early 1980s. The group is distinguished by their visual and musical sophistication and their preoccupation with style and glamour.[3] Ferry and co-founding member Eno have also had influential solo careers, the latter becoming one of the most significant record producers and collaborators of the late 20th century. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Roxy Music No. 98 on its “The Immortals – 100 The Greatest Artists of All Time” list.

The band’s last studio album was 1982’s Avalon. In 2005 they began recording a new studio album, which would have been their ninth, and would have been their first record since 1973 with Brian Eno, who wrote two songs for it and also played keyboards.[5] However, Bryan Ferry eventually confirmed that material from these sessions would be released as a Ferry solo album, with Eno playing on “a couple of tracks,”[6] and that he doesn’t think they’ll ever record as Roxy Music again. The album ultimately became Ferry’s 2010 album Olympia.

Roxy Music played a series of 40th anniversary shows in 2011, but has since become inactive as a performing entity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxy_Music

Leonard Cohen

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Leonard Norman Cohen (Montréal, 21 settembre 1934) è un cantautore, poeta, scrittore e compositore canadese. È uno dei cantautori più celebri, influenti e apprezzati della storia della musica.

Nelle sue opere esplora temi come la religione, l’isolamento e la sessualità, ripiegando spesso sull’individuo. Vincitore di numerosi premi e onorificenze, è inserito nellaRock and Roll Hall of Fame, nella Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame e nella Canadian Music Hall of Fame. È inoltre insignito del titolo di Compagno dell’Ordine del Canada, la più alta onorificenza concessa dal Canada. Nel 2011, ricevette il Premio Principe delle Asturie per la letteratura.

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Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQ (born 21 September 1934) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, painter, poet, and novelist. His work has explored religion, politics, isolation, sexuality, and personal relationships. Cohen has been inducted into both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation’s highest civilian honor. In 2011, Cohen received aPrincess of Asturias Awards for literature.

The critic Bruce Eder assessed Cohen’s overall career in popular music by asserting that “[he is] one of the most fascinating and enigmatic … singer/songwriters of the late ’60s … [and] has retained an audience across four decades of music-making…. Second only to Bob Dylan (and perhaps Paul Simon) [in terms of influence], he commands the attention of critics and younger musicians more firmly than any other musical figure from the 1960s who is still working at the outset of the 21st century.”

One of his notable novels, Beautiful Losers (1966) received attention from the Canadian press and was considered controversial because of a number of sexually graphic passages.^[4] The Academy of American Poets has commented more broadly on Cohen’s overall career in the arts, including his work as a poet, novelist, and songwriter, stating that “Cohen’s successful blending of poetry, fiction, and music is made most clear in Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, published in 1993, which gathered more than 200 of Cohen’s poems … several novel excerpts, and almost 60 song lyrics… While it may seem to some that Leonard Cohen departed from the literary in pursuit of the musical, his fans continue to embrace him as a Renaissance man who straddles the elusive artistic borderlines.”

Cohen’s first album was Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967) followed by Songs from a Room (1969) (featuring the often-recorded “Bird on the Wire”) and Songs of Love and Hate (1971). His 1977 record Death of a Ladies’ Man was co-written and produced by Phil Spector, which was a move away from Cohen’s previous minimalist sound. In 1979 Cohen returned with the more traditional Recent Songs, which blended his acoustic style with jazz and Oriental and Mediterranean influences. “Hallelujah” was first released on Cohen’s studio album Various Positions in 1984. I’m Your Man in 1988 marked Cohen’s turn to synthesized productions and remains his most popular album. In 1992 Cohen released its follow-up, The Future, which had dark lyrics and references to political and social unrest. Cohen returned to music in 2001 with the release ofTen New Songs, which was a major hit in Canada and Europe. In 2006 Cohen produced and co-wrote Blue Alert, a collaboration with jazz chanteuse Anjani Thomas. After the success of his 2008–13 world tours, Cohen released the highest charting album in his entire career, Old Ideas, to positive reviews. On 22 September 2014, one day after his 80th birthday, Cohen released his 13th studio album, Popular Problems, again to positive reviews.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen

The Beatles Playlist (Greatest Hits)

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The Beatles sono stati un gruppo musicale rock inglese^[5], originario di Liverpool e attivo dal 1960 al 1970. La formazione ha segnato un’epoca nella musica, nel costume, nella moda e nella pop art^[6]. Ritenuti un fenomeno di comunicazione di massa di proporzioni mondiali^[7], a distanza di vari decenni dal loro scioglimento ufficiale – e dopo la morte di due dei quattro componenti – i Beatles contano ancora un enorme seguito e numerosi sono i loro fan club esistenti in ogni parte del mondo^[8].

Secondo una stima del 2001, è risultato in assoluto il gruppo musicale di maggior successo commerciale, con vendite complessive che superano il miliardo di dischi e di musicassette^[9], e per la rivista Rolling Stone i Beatles sono i più grandi artisti di tutti i tempi^[10].

L’aura che circonda lo sviluppo del loro successo mediatico e che ha favorito la nascita della cosiddetta Beatlemania e lo straordinario esito artistico raggiunto comemusicisti rock sono inoltre oggetto di studio di università, psicologi e addetti del settore

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band that formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the greatest and most influential act of the rock era.^[1] Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with severalgenres, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements in innovative ways. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as “Beatlemania“, but as the group’s music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, they came to be perceived as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the era’s sociocultural revolutions.

The Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960. Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act and producer George Martin enhanced their musical potential. They gained popularity in the United Kingdom after their first hit, “Love Me Do“, in late 1962. They acquired the nickname “the Fab Four” as Beatlemania grew in Britain over the following year, and by early 1964 they had become international stars, leading the “British Invasion” of the United States pop market. From 1965 onwards, the Beatles produced what many consider their finest material, including the innovative and widely influential albums Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), The Beatles (commonly known as the White Album, 1968) andAbbey Road (1969).

After their break-up in 1970, they all enjoyed successful musical careers of varying lengths. McCartney and Starr, the surviving members, remain musically active. Lennon was shot and killed in December 1980, and Harrison died of lung cancer in November 2001.

According to the RIAA, the Beatles are the best-selling music artists in the United States, with 178 million certified units. They have had more number-one albums on the British charts and sold more singles in the UK than any other act. In 2008, the group topped Billboard magazine’s list of the all-time most successful “Hot 100” artists; as of 2015, they hold the record for most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart with twenty. They have received ten Grammy Awards, an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards. Collectively included in Time magazine’s compilation of the twentieth century’s 100 most influential people, they are the best-selling band in history, with estimated sales of over 600 million records worldwide.^[2][3] The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, with all four being inducted individually as well from 1994 to 2015.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles

Molto di più ( gabbiano rivestito di cielo) – Much more (gull covered sky) – Assumptions of a song

Molto di più ( gabbiano rivestito di cielo)
– Ipotesi di una canzone

Dov’eri tutte le volte che ti cercavo?
Volevo un amico come te…
Tutte le lacrime che versavo.
Sola.
Nella mente te.

Ero una ragazzina, ti sognavo,
non ti conoscevo ancora
e tu non conoscevi me.

Ora tu corri sull’autostrada,
nascondi lo sguardo
dietro gli occhiali da sole
e ripensi a queste strane ore…
la tua vita è sempre una corsa,
sorridi di più ma…
mancava qualcosa,
non sapresti dire.

Adesso anche se provi a scacciarmi
Con una mano dai tuoi pensieri,
sai che…
non posso andare via,
sono parte di te.

Ecco ci siamo trovati
Dopo esserci a lungo cercati,
vite diverse e lontane
ma nella mente te,
nella mente me.
Fugaci contatti di questi
Mondi distanti che
Riempiono: minuti, ore, giornate,
il cuore.
Energie e speranze nuove.
Sincronia, lunghezza d’onda,
esperienza unica e rara che
regala luce e voglia di donare amore.

Un incontro strano,
forse casuale,
o un gioco del destino.
La tecnologia
Che regala antiche “sensazioni”
Di già vissuto.
Se mi domandi
Quando o dove
Potrei dire forse solo
Nella mia fantasia.
Ma tu sai quanto
In fondo reale per te sia.

Dentro te senti corde “vibrare”,
ricordi cancellati che tornano
a respirare
dopo lunghe attese.
Ora comprendi quale musica
Devi ascoltare,
quale ritmo seguire.
Solo quello che suggerisce
Il tuo cuore.

18.05.2001 Poetyca

Much more (gull covered sky)
– Assumptions of a song

Where were all the times you tried?
I wanted a friend like you …
All the tears that poured.
Alone.
In the mind you.

I was a kid, I dreamed,
did not know you yet
and you did not know me.

Now you run on the highway,
Hide gaze
behind sunglasses
and think about these strange hours …
your life is always a race
smile more, but …
something was missing,
wouldst not say.

Now even if you try to chase
With a hand from your thoughts,
you know …
I can not go,
are part of you.

Here we found
After we had long sought,
different lives and distant
but mind you,
in my mind.
Fleeting contacts of these
Distant worlds
Fill: minutes, hours, days,
heart.
Energy and new hopes.
Briefcase, wavelength,
experience unique and rare
gives light and wants to give love.

A strange encounter,
perhaps random
or a game of fate.
Technology
That gives the old “feelings”
Already lived.
If you ask me
When or where
I could say perhaps only
In my imagination.
But you know what
At the bottom is real for you.

Inside you hear strings “vibrate”
erased memories that come back
breathing
after long delays.
Now understand what music
You have to listen,
which follow the rhythm.
Only one that suggests
Your heart.

18.05.2001 Poetyca

Alla ricerca di Pace – Looking for Peace

Alla ricerca di Pace

Non ci accorgiamo spesso che, prendiamo gli altri come bersaglio da colpire con le nostre frustrazioni; attribuiamo ” colpe” e crediamo irrisolvibili alcune situazioni, ci chiudiamo nella gabbia delle illusioni,perchè pensare che altri abbiano torti e noi assolutamente ragione ci pone nella condizione di sentirci superiori alle situazioni. A volte accade il ripetersi di esperienze o ” nodi” che siamo incapaci di sciogliere e tutto parte da noi stessi, dal nostro attaccamento, dal nostro ego ferito. Ed è sempre da noi l’opportunità di fermarci a cogliere cosa e perchè alimenti la nostra reazione di rabbia.
Perchè si ami attribuire colpe a ” ologrammi” esteriori?
Mi viene in mente, quando da bambini, se cadevamo o ci facevamo male contro qualcosa, per consolarci un adulto diceva che la ” colpa” era del sasso che ha fatto inciampare o della porta contro la quale urtavamo.
Magari ci credevamo e vedere come si attribuisse ” colpa” agli oggetti ci faceva stare meglio.
Ora non si starebbe meglio se, nel retto sforzo, non provassimo a rendere pace il nostro cuore.
La nostra non realtà è spesso indotta dai mezzi di informazione; dal nascondere i veri motivi delle cose.
Come si sa è sempre stato nella politica delle guerre cercare motivazioni al farle scoppiare, motivazioni che montino giudizi ” contro” ma la realtà si lega alle risorse di un territorio che facciano gola, al potere che amplifichi l’egemonia e sempre a carico della vita di innocenti.
Miseria, divisione, sopruso e quella forma di violenza non sempre fisica sono i mezzi per piegare un popolo e parole come ” pulizia etnica” , come ” genocidio”, ” olocausto,” sono tra le più ignobili che l’umanità possa aver coniato. Spero sempre che ci possa essere un ravvedimento ed un modo di condurre verso un’inversione di rotta che non conosca violenza ma dialogo ed equanimità.
Forse, agire dal nostro piccolo mondo del quotidiano non sarebbe sufficiente ma che non ci sia confusione tra “pace ” e quei movimenti politici che dietro alle bandiere hanno altri fini. La pace si conquista ( parola forte che appare bellica) dentro di sè per essere poi capaci di avere comportamenti costruttivi.

La guerra, come si sa, è sempre stata antagonista dell’amore, della saggezza e dell’equità. Minacce, promesse di rivendicazione sono quanto possa mettere in atto chi voglia caricare di rabbia gente che in fondo non ha chiesto guerre. Difesa ed offesa, mezzi che non si giustificano ma fanno perdere il senso della misura; ogni guerra ha conosciuto atti immorali, il piegare ” il nemico” dimostrando la propria forza.
Un’ombra ingigantisce la fama di chi se la costruisce, è mostrarsi potente è farsi temere; mezzi che sono lontani dall’abbandonare la forza per mostrare maggiore maturità.
Poi, si fa anche tanto parlare, senza realizzare nulla; una forma di dispersione che non arriva neppure all’essenzialità e che non ha alcuna opportunità risolutiva per situazioni che degenerano in violenza e prevaricazione.
Si resta impotenti, incapaci di trovare soluzioni e superamento di condizioni che si trascinano senza fine.
Si tratta di libere scelte, per noi, per coloro che davanti ad un dilemma possano essere presi nella trappola del ” fare come gli altri”, perchè magari li fa stare meglio. Ci sono persone ” attive” – sentono il bisogno di essere presenti ad alzare la voce – a muoversi e magari le fa stare meglio. Ci sono poi persone che, nel silenzio sono partecipi ai dolori del mondo seppure apparentemente distanti. Credo, semplicemente, che senza altrui suggerimenti, attivi con alzare di voci o apparentemente ” passivi” e compassionevoli – senza alcun giudizio – perchè il dolore, la privazione e la violenza tocca tutti indistintamente e non solo una parte della terra rispetto ad un’altra. Tutti siamo uno, infatti, credo che si possa includere nella nostra via anche la capacità di ” allargare il cerchio” del nostro non- dividere, del nostro ascolto nelle piccole cose del quotidiano che siano briciola di pace che s’espande. Possiamo lavorare su noi stessi, cercare pace interiore per non allargare a macchia d’olio effetti che incrinano armonia.
Si parte dal non giudizio o meglio dal non alimentare dualità. Andare ad una manifestazione, in libertà perchè si sente di farlo e non per ” moda” o perchè non si trovano altre soluzioni , per aver letto un manifesto che invitasse a farlo o perchè ce lo consigliano ( è poi una soluzione la marcia di Pace?) è opportuno solo se si sente – lo si accoglie -da consapevoli; come per la pratica.
Semplicemente si deve dare voce e manifestazione a quel rispetto per tutti gli esseri sensienti senza ricerca di torto o ragioni, di verità o menzogna perchè la guerra, tutte le guerre, non ha sconfitti e vincitori;
se si arriva all’odio, al mancato dialogo – si è tutti sconfitti.
In particolare se per il potere si calpesta il valore di vite.

In fondo tutti coloro che possono, in base alle proprie caratteristiche ed opportunità, dare voce alla pace, possono coinvolgere gli altri nel parlarne, con amorevolezza e lontani dal giudizio. Per parlare di pace si deve essere pace.
La consapevolezza è la capacità di raccogliere dalle esperienze del passato per offrire – qui ed ora – energie al futuro nella via di trasformazione – dalle tenebre dell’ignoranza alla luce dell’Amore.
Noi possiamo!
Poetyca 13.08.2006

Looking for Peace

We don’t often notice that, we target others to target with our frustrations; we attribute “faults” and believe some situations to be unsolvable, we lock ourselves in the cage of illusions, because to think that others are wrong and we absolutely right puts us in a position to feel superior to situations. Sometimes the repetition of experiences or “knots” happens that we are unable to untie and everything starts from ourselves, from our attachment, from our wounded ego. And it is always with us the opportunity to stop and understand what and why feed our anger reaction.
Why do you love to blame external “holograms”?
It occurs to me, when as children, if we fell or hurt ourselves against something, to console us, an adult said that the “fault” was of the stone he tripped or the door we hit.
Maybe we believed it and seeing how we attributed “guilt” to objects made us feel better.
Now it would not be better if, in the right effort, we did not try to make our heart peaceful.
Our non-reality is often induced by the media; from hiding the real reasons for things.
As you know, it has always been in the politics of wars to look for motivations to make them burst, motivations that mount judgments “against” but reality is tied to the resources of a territory that make a throat, to the power that amplifies hegemony and always borne by life of innocents.
Misery, division, abuse and that form of violence that is not always physical are the means to bend a people and words like “ethnic cleansing”, like “genocide”, “holocaust,” are among the most ignoble that humanity could have coined. I always hope that there can be a repentance and a way of leading towards a change of direction that knows no violence but dialogue and equanimity.
Perhaps, acting from our small everyday world would not be enough but that there is no confusion between “peace” and those political movements that have other purposes behind flags. Peace is conquered (a strong word that appears warlike) within oneself in order to be capable of constructive behavior.
War, as we know, has always been the antagonist of love, wisdom and fairness. Threats, promises of vindication are what can be put in place by those who want to charge people with anger who have not asked for wars. Defense and offense, means that are not justified but make you lose the sense of measure; every war has known immoral acts, to bend “the enemy” by showing its strength.
A shadow magnifies the fame of those who build it, it is to be powerful and to be feared; means that are far from abandoning strength to show greater maturity.
Then, there is also a lot of talk, without realizing anything; a form of dispersion that does not even reach essentiality and that has no solution opportunity for situations that degenerate into violence and abuse.
We remain powerless, unable to find solutions and overcome conditions that drag on endlessly.
These are free choices, for us, for those who, in the face of a dilemma, can be caught in the trap of “doing like the others”, because maybe it makes them feel better. There are “active” people – they feel the need to be present to raise their voices – to move and maybe make them feel better. Then there are people who, in silence, participate in the pains of the world, although apparently distant. I simply believe that without others’ suggestions, you are active with voices or apparently “passive” and compassionate – without any judgment – because the pain, deprivation and violence affects everyone indiscriminately and not just one part of the earth compared to another . We are all one, in fact, I believe that we can also include in our way the ability to “widen the circle” of our non-sharing, of our listening to the little things of everyday life that are a crumb of peace that expands. We can work on ourselves, seek inner peace so as not to spread effects that damage harmony like wildfire.
It starts from non-judgment or better not from nourishing duality. Go to a demonstration, in freedom because you feel like doing it and not because of “fashion” or because there are no other solutions, for having read a poster that invited you to do it or because they recommend it to us (is the Peace March a solution? ) it is only appropriate if you feel it – you welcome it – by being aware; as for practice.
Simply one must give voice and manifestation to that respect for all sensible beings without seeking wrong or reason, of truth or lie because war, all wars, has no defeats and winners;
if it comes to hatred, to lack of dialogue – everyone is defeated.
In particular if the value of lives is trampled for power.
After all, all those who can, according to their characteristics and opportunities, give voice to peace, can involve others in talking about it, lovingly and far from judgment. To speak of peace one must be peace.
Awareness is the ability to gather from past experiences to offer – here and now – energies to the future on the path of transformation – from the darkness of ignorance to the light of Love.

We can!

Poetyca 13.08.2006

Parole magiche – Magic worlds

🌸Parole magiche🌸

Parole
magiche
associate
ad altre
parole
risvegliate
regalano
sempre
emozione

Tu sei
enfasi
e memoria
svelata
ricchezza
come
una scatola
all’apparenza
vuota

25.06.2021 Poetyca
🌸🌿🌸#Poetycamente
🌸Magic words

Words
magical
associated
to others
words
awaken
they give
always
emotion

You are
emphasis
and memory
unveiled
wealth
how
a box
apparently
empty

25.06.2021 Poetyca

Sola – Alone

Sola

Sola su questa spiaggia.
Tiro sassi tra le onde,
sola…
lascio orme
che il vento cancella.

Freddo la tempesta
mi regala
e brividi percorrono
lentamente la mia pelle.

Proprio ora che vorrei:
una coperta,
un caldo abbraccio,
tutte le parole che
mi sappiano riscaldare.

Adesso io cammino
ancora
E non mi curo
Più di nulla.

Solo ora ho capito
D’esser sola
Alle prese
D’un sogno
Che all’alba non scolora.

09.10.2001 Poetyca

Alone

Alone on the beach.
Shooting rocks in the waves,
alone …
leaving footprints
remove the wind.

Cold Storm
gives me
and chills run through
slowly my skin.

Right now I want to:
a blanket
a warm embrace,
all words
I know heat.

Now I walk
still
And I do not care
More than anything.

Only now I understand
On being alone
Grappling
In a dream
That does not dawn fades.

09.10.2001 Poetyca

Il mio viaggio – My journey

Il mio viaggio

“ Io sono qui …accanto a te
la mia Luce ti seguirà.”
Con stupore e curiosità
È iniziato il mio viaggio,
ho sempre guardato intorno a me,
ho amato la Vita,
animali e piante,
le bellezze del Creato.
“ Io sono qui accanto a te
la mia Luce ti seguirà…cercami!”
Ho sempre cercato
Un senso, un impercettibile
E delicato significato
In ogni emozione,
l’ho sempre assaporato
anche se a volte
il dolore m’ha soffocato.
“ Io sono qui…accanto a te
la mia Luce ti seguirà…
non arrenderti!”
anche se a volte la delusione
il mio cammino ha rallentato
non m’arrendo perché
il mio viaggio
non è terminato.
“ Io sono qui…accanto a te
la mia Luce ti seguirà…
ascoltami!”
Mi farò forza e continuerò
A cercare,
a seguire il mio cammino,
il mio ideale,
quello che non ho mai abbandonato,
seguirò le stelle
della notte,
la Luce sincera
che ho
nel cuore,
sentirò le mie emozioni
e mi lascerò guidare.
“io sono qui…accanto a te
la mia Luce ti seguirà…
vieni!”
Arriverò dove il dolore
Sarà un ricordo,
non mi potrà sfiorare,
dopo fatiche e lacrime
non sarò sola perché…
chi mi era sempre accanto
mi mostrerà il Suo Volto
e la Vera Vita sarà con me.
10.03.2001 Poetyca
MY JOURNEY
“I’m here beside you …
my light will follow. “
With wonder and curiosity
It started my journey,
I always looked around me,
I love life,
animals and plants,
the beauty of Creation.
“I’m here beside you
My Light will follow you … look for me! “
I have always tried
A sense, an imperceptible
And delicate meaning
In any emotion,
I’ve always enjoyed
although sometimes
pain choked me.
“I’m here beside you …
My Light will follow you …
Do not give in! “
although sometimes the disappointment
my journey has slowed
not because m’arrendo
my journey
is not over.
“I’m here beside you …
My Light will follow you …
listen! “
I will strength and will continue
A search,
to follow my path,
my ideal
that I never abandoned
follow the stars
night,
Light sincere
Me and my
heart,
feel my emotions
and let me drive.
“I’m here beside you …
My Light will follow you …
come! “
I will arrive where the pain
It will be a memory,
I can not touch,
after toil and tears
I will not be alone because …
who was always beside me
show me your face
and the true Life will be with me.

10.03.2001 Poetyca

Psychedelic Furs

The Psychedelic Furs è un gruppo musicale post-punk inglese degli anni ottanta
con Richard Butler come frontman ed autore principale, riformatosi nel 2000

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Psychedelic_Furs

The Psychedelic Furs are an English rock band founded in 1977. Led by singer Richard Butler and his brother Tim Butler on bass guitar, the Psychedelic Furs are one of the many acts spawned from the British post-punk scene. Their music went through several phases, from an initially austere art rock sound, later touching on new wave and hard rock.

They scored several hits in their early career, but were launched to international attention in 1986 when the film director John Hughes used their song “Pretty in Pink” for his movie of the same name. A newly recorded version of the song became the Psychedlic Furs’ biggest hit to that time. “Heartbreak Beat”, from their 1987 album Midnight to Midnight, was the Furs’ biggest Top 40 entry in the US.

The Psychedelic Furs went on hiatus in 1991, and the Butler brothers formed a new band called Love Spit Love. The Psychedelic Furs later regrouped in 2001 and continue to perform around the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Psychedelic_Furs

Natale – Merry Christmas

Natale

Gente
si affretta per le strade,
brillio
di stelle di cartone,
sorriso dolce
scolpito
su volti di bimbi,
attese,
occhi sognanti.
Affermare fantasie,
luci colorate
su alberi di Natale,
famiglie unite
intorno al focolare,
giochi di carte,
ridere e scherzare,
giocosa atmosfera
si ripete.
Ricordi di giorni felici
ora lontani.
Luci
si spengono,
tra strade e piazze.
Torna il silenzio,
si aspetta
un altro Natale.

11.12.2001 Poetyca

Christmas
               
People
hastens the streets,
sparkle
of cardboard stars,
sweet smile
graven
on the faces of children,
expectations,
dreamy eyes.
Stating fantasies,
colored lights
on Christmas trees,
families united
around the hearth,
card games,
laughing and joking,
playful atmosphere
is repeated.
Memories of happy days
hours away.
lights
go out,
between streets and squares.
Back silence,
expects
another Christmas.

  11.12.2001 Poetyca

Compassione – Compassion – Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Compassione

“La parte migliore di tutto è che non importa per quanto tempo pratichi, o quale metodo usi, ogni tecnica di meditazione buddista alla fine genera compassione.”

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Compassion

“The best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist meditation ultimately generates compassion.”

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

The Best of Bruce Springsteen

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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (pronuncia americana: [bɻuːs ˈfɻɛdəɻɪk ˈʤoʊzəf ˈspɻɪŋstiːn]; Long Branch, 23 settembre 1949) è un cantautore e chitarrista statunitense.

«The Boss», come è sempre stato soprannominato, è uno degli artisti più conosciuti nell’ambito della musica contemporanea ed è considerato uno dei più rappresentativi fra i musicisti rock.^[1] Accompagnato per gran parte della sua carriera dalla E Street Band, è divenuto famoso soprattutto per le sue coinvolgenti e lunghissime esibizioni dal vivo, raggiungendo il culmine della popolarità fra la seconda metà degli anni settanta e il decennio successivo.

Fra i suoi album di maggior successo si annoverano Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River e Born in the U.S.A., lavori emblematici della sua poetica volta a raccontare le lotte quotidiane degli “ultimi” d’America, ovvero proletari, immigrati e diseredati;^[2] con il disco The Rising è intervenuto anche sulla tragedia degli attentati dell’11 settembre 2001.^[3] Springsteen è noto inoltre per il suo sostegno a numerose iniziative di carattere sociale e per il suo impegno a favore dello sviluppo del suo Stato d’origine, il New Jersey. Negli anni duemila ha partecipato attivamente al dibattito politico, appoggiando le campagne presidenziali di John Kerry e di Barack Obama.^[4]

In più di quarant’anni di carriera ha venduto circa 120 milioni di dischi.^[5] Il suo lavoro gli è valso parecchi riconoscimenti, tra cui venti Grammy e un Oscar oltre all’onorificenza del Kennedy Center Honor, che gli è stata attribuita per il suo contributo alla diffusione della cultura americana nel mondo.

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and humanitarian. He is best known for his work with his E Street Band. Nicknamed “The Boss”, Springsteen is widely known for his brand of poetic lyrics, Americana working class, sometimes political sentiments centered on his native New Jersey, and his lengthy and energetic stage performances, with concerts from the 1970s to the present decade running over three hours in length.

Springsteen’s recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful studio albums, Born in the U.S.A. and Born to Run, showcase a talent for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily American life; he has sold more than 64 million albums in the United States and more than 120 million records worldwide, making him one of the world’s best-selling artists of all time.^[2][3] He has earned numerous awards for his work, including 20Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award as well as being inducted into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Springsteen

Ecco la Pace – Just peace

Ecco la Pace

Pace
Quattro lettere che
regalano sereno sentire,
non sono poca cosa,
regalano alito di Vita.

Se la pace ti cresce nel cuore
se la regali con gioia e sorrisi,
fai un immenso dono.

Povero è colui che non trova pace,
quanti tormenti ha il suo cuore,
ma il riflesso della pace interiore
è nel vedere lasciare le armi ad ogni nazione.

Fin quando fratello contro fratello
con odio la spada muove,
con soprusi, massacri e violenza
la Vita non è rispettata.

Non esiste una reale ragione
che possa l’odio giustificare,
basta compiere un passo
verso l’amore e la pace realizzare.

Pace cancellata, pace sparita,
va sempre cercata
se crediamo alla Vita.

Non è facile armonizzare
chi non sa cosa sia amare,
ma se si crede ancora
ad un mondo migliore
cominciamo dalla pace nel cuore.

21.10.2001 Poetyca

Just Peace

Peace
Five letters
offer serene feel,
they are not a small thing,
give the breath of life.

If peace will grow in the heart
if the gifts with joy and smiles,
make a great gift.

Poor is the one who finds no peace,
he torments his heart,
but a reflection of inner peace
is to see leave the weapons to every nation.

Until brother against brother
I hate moving with the sword,
with oppression, massacres and violence
Life is not respected.

There is no real reason
that may justify the hatred,
just take a step
to love and make peace.

Peace canceled, peace disappeared,
should always be sought
if you believe in Life.

It is not easy to harmonize
who does not know what it is to love,
but if you still believe
to a better world
start with peace in my heart.

21.10.2001 Poetyca

PJ Harvey

Polly Jean “PJ” Harvey (Yeovil, 9 ottobre 1969) è una cantautrice e musicista britannica.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/PJ_Harvey

Polly Jean Harvey, MBE (born 9 October 1969), known as PJ Harvey, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, composer and occasional artist.Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments including piano, organ, bass, saxophone, harmonica and, most recently, the autoharp.

Harvey began her career in 1988 when she joined local band Automatic Dlamini as a vocalist, guitarist, and saxophone player. The band’s frontman, John Parish, would become her long-term collaborator. In 1991, she formed an eponymous trio and subsequently began her professional career. The trio released two studio albums, Dry (1992) and Rid of Me (1993) before disbanding, after which Harvey continued as a solo artist. Since 1995, she has released a further six studio albums with collaborations from various musicians including John Parish, former bandmate Rob Ellis, Mick Harvey, and Eric Drew Feldman and has also worked extensively with record producer Flood.

Among the accolades she has received are the 2001 and 2011 Mercury Prize for Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000) and Let England Shake (2011)[ respectively—the only artist to have been awarded the prize twice—eight Brit Award nominations, six Grammy Award nominations and two further Mercury Prize nominations. Rolling Stone awarded her 1992’s Best New Artist and Best Singer Songwriter and 1995’s Artist of the Year, and listed Rid of Me, To Bring You My Love (1995) and Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea on its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. In 2011, she was awarded for Outstanding Contribution To Music at the NME Awards.[10] In June 2013, she was awarded an MBE for services to music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PJ_Harvey

Bruce Cockburn playlist

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Bruce Cockburn (Ottawa, 27 maggio 1945) è un cantautore canadese.

Il suo stile, con il personalissimo modo di suonare la chitarra, fonde generi come pop, folk, rock, reggae e jazz. Le liriche sono ispirate dalla sua visione umanistica e metafisica della vita vicina all’etica cristiana. 

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Cockburn

Bruce Douglas Cockburn OC (/ˈkoʊbərn/; born May 27, 1945)^[1] is a Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter whose career spans over 40 years. His song styles range from folk to jazz-influenced rock and his lyrics cover a broad range of topics that reveal a passion for human rights, politics and spirituality.

In 2014, he released his memoirs, Rumours of Glory: A Memoir.^[2]  

Cockburn was born in 1945 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and spent some of his early years on a farm outside Pembroke, Ontario. He has stated in interviews that his first guitar was one he found around 1959 in his grandmother’s attic, which he adorned with golden stars and used to play along to radio hits.^[3] Cockburn attended Nepean High School, where his 1964 yearbook photo states his desire “to become a musician”.^[4]He attended Berklee School of Music in Boston for three semesters in the mid-1960s. In 1966 he joined an Ottawa band called The Children, which lasted for about a year. In the spring of 1967 he joined the final lineup of The Esquires. He moved to Toronto that summer to form The Flying Circus with former Bobby Kris & The Imperials members Marty Fisher and Gordon MacBain and ex-Tripp member Neil Lillie. The group recorded some material in late 1967 (which remains unreleased) before changing its name to Olivus in the spring of 1968, by which time Lillie (who changed his name to Neil Merryweather) had been replaced by Dennis Pendrith from Livingstone’s Journey. Olivus opened for The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream in April 1968. That summer Cockburn broke up the band with the intention of going solo, but ended up in the band 3’s a Crowd with David Wiffen, Colleen Peterson, and Richard Patterson, who had been a co-member of The Children. Cockburn left 3’s a Crowd in the spring of 1969 to pursue a solo career.

Cockburn’s first solo appearance was at the Mariposa Folk Festival in 1967, and in 1969 he was a headliner. In 1970 he released his self-titled, solo album. Cockburn’s guitar work and songwriting won him an enthusiastic following. His early work featured rural and nautical imagery and Biblical metaphors. Raised as an agnostic, early in his career he became a Christian.^[5] Many of his albums from the 1970s refer to Christianity, which in turn informs his concerns for human rights and environmentalism. His references to Christianity include the Grail imagery of 20th-century Christian poet Charles Williams and the ideas of theologian Harvey Cox.^[6]

In 1970 Cockburn became partners with Bernie Finkelstein in the music publishing firm Golden Mountain Music.^[7]

While Cockburn had been popular in Canada for years, he did not have a big impact in the United States until 1979, with the release of the album Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws. “Wondering Where the Lions Are“, the first single from that album, reached No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US in June 1980, and earned Cockburn an appearance on NBC‘s hit TV show Saturday Night Live.

Cockburn was married from 1969 to 1980 and has a daughter from that marriage.^{[citation needed]} He wrote the song “Little Seahorse”, released on In the Falling Dark, in late 1975 about the time when his daughter wasin utero.^{[citation needed]}

Through the 1980s Cockburn’s songwriting became increasingly urban, global and political as he became more involved with progressive causes. His political concerns were first hinted at on the albums: Humans,Inner City Front and The Trouble with Normal. They became more evident in 1984, with his second US radio hit, “If I Had a Rocket Launcher” (No. 88 in the US) from the Stealing Fire album. He had written the song a year earlier, after visiting Guatemalan refugee camps in Mexico that were attacked by Guatemalan military helicopters. His political activism continues to the present. Cockburn has travelled to countries such as Mozambique and Iraq, played benefit concerts, and written songs on a variety of subjects ranging from the International Monetary Fund to land mines. His internationalist bent is reflected in the many world musicinfluences in his music, including reggae and Latin music.

In 1991 Intrepid Records released Kick at the Darkness, a tribute album to Cockburn whose title comes from a phrase in his song “Lovers in a Dangerous Time“. It features the Barenaked Ladies‘ cover of that song, which became their first Top 40 hit and an element in their early success. This lyric was also referenced by U2 in their song “God Part II” from their album Rattle and Hum.

In the early 1990s, Cockburn teamed with T-Bone Burnett for two albums, Nothing but a Burning Light and Dart to the Heart. The latter included a song, “Closer to the Light”, inspired by the death of songwriter Mark Heard, a close friend of Cockburn and Burnett. Cockburn frequently refers to Heard as his favourite songwriter and he was one of many artists who paid tribute to Heard on an album and video titled Strong Hand of Love.

In 1998 Cockburn travelled with filmmaker Robert Lang to Mali, West Africa, where he jammed with Grammy Award-winning blues musician Ali Farka Toure and kora master Toumani Diabate. The month-long journey was documented in the film River of Sand, which won the Regard Canadien award for best documentary at the Vues d’Afrique Film Festival in Montreal. It was also invited for competition at the International Festival of Environmental Films in Paris.^[8]

Some of Cockburn’s previously published material had been collected in several albums: Resume, Mummy Dust, and Waiting for a Miracle. His first greatest hits collection was Anything Anytime Anywhere: Singles 1979–2002, released in 2002.

In January 2003 Cockburn finished recording his 21st album, You’ve Never Seen Everything, which features contributions from Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne, Sam Phillips, Sarah Harmer, Hugh Marsh, Jonell Mosser, Larry Taylor and Steven Hodges. (Taylor and Hodges, formerly of Canned Heat who performed at Monterey and Woodstock in the 1960s, may be known best for their work with Tom Waits).

Cockburn performed a set at the Live 8 concert in Barrie, Ontario, on July 2, 2005. Speechless, an instrumental compilation of new and previously released material, was released on October 24, 2005. His 22nd album, Life Short Call Now, was released on July 18, 2006.

Canadian senator and retired general Roméo Dallaire, who is active in humanitarian fundraising and promoting awareness, appeared on stage at the University of Victoria with Cockburn. The October 4, 2008, concert was held to aid the plight of child soldiers.^[9]

In 2009 Cockburn travelled to Afghanistan to visit his brother, Capt. John Cockburn, and to play a concert for Canadian troops. He performed his 1984 song “If I Had a Rocket Launcher” and was temporarily awarded an actual rocket launcher by the military. Cockburn has stated that, while unsure of the original Invasion of Afghanistan, he supported Canada’s role there.^[10]

Cockburn released his studio album Small Source of Comfort in 2011. “Lois on the Autobahn”, a cheerful and experiential instrumental recalling “Rouler sa bosse” from Salt, Sun and Time is a tribute to Cockburn’s mother, Lois, who succumbed to cancer in 2010.^{[citation needed]}

Cockburn married his longtime girlfriend M.J. Hannett shortly after the birth of his second daughter, Iona (b. November 2011) in 2011.^[11][12] As of 2014, the family lives in the San Francisco area, where Cockburn is writing his memoirs up to 2004.^[13]

A documentary film, Bruce Cockburn Pacing the Cage,^[14][15] was released in 2013 on television and a brief theatrical showing; directed by Joel Goldberg, gave a rare look into Cockburn’s music, life and politics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Cockburn

John Mellencamp – full album- the best of – greatest hits

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John Mellencamp (Seymour, 7 ottobre 1951) è un musicista, cantante e compositore statunitense.

Conosciuto inizialmente con i nomi d’arte di Johnny Cougar, John Cougar e John Cougar Mellencamp, nella sua carriera ha venduto oltre 40 milioni di dischi, è stato nominato a 13 Grammy Awards vincendone uno.

Mellencamp è stato inoltre inserito nella Rock and Roll Hall of Fame il 10 marzo 2008.^[2] Le sue più grandi influenze musicali sono state Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie ed iRolling Stones

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mellencamp

John J Mellencamp,^[1] also known as John Cougar Mellencamp (born October 7, 1951), is an American Rock singer-songwriter, musician, painter and occasional actor known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. Mellencamp rose to superstardom in the 1980s while “honing an almost startlingly plainspoken writing style that, starting in 1982, yielded a string of Top 10 singles,”^[2] including “Hurts So Good,” “Jack & Diane,” “Crumblin’ Down,” “Pink Houses,” “Lonely Ol’ Night,” “Small Town,” “R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.,” “Paper in Fire,” and “Cherry Bomb.” He has sold over 40 million albums worldwide and has amassed 22 Top 40 hits in the United States. In addition, he holds the record for the most tracks by a solo artist to hit number-one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Trackschart, with seven, and has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, winning one. Mellencamp released his latest album, Plain Spoken, on September 23, 2014 to widespread critical acclaim.

Mellencamp is also one of the founding members of Farm Aid, an organization that began in 1985 with a concert in Champaign, Illinois to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on their land. The Farm Aid concerts have remained an annual event over the past 30 years, and as of 2015 the organization has raised over $45 million to promote a strong and resilient family farm system of agriculture.

Mellencamp was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 10, 2008.^[3] His biggest musical influences are Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, James Brown and The Rolling Stones.^[4] Said longtime Rolling Stone contributor Anthony DeCurtis: “Mellencamp has created an important body of work that has earned him both critical regard and an enormous audience. His songs document the joys and struggles of ordinary people seeking to make their way, and he has consistently brought the fresh air of common experience to the typically glamour-addled world of popular music.”^[5]

The late Billboard magazine editor-in-chief Timothy White said in 2001: “John Mellencamp is arguably the most important roots rocker of his generation. John has made fiddles, hammer dulcimers, Autoharps and accordions lead rock instruments on a par with electric guitar, bass and drums, and he also brought what he calls ‘a raw Appalachian’ lyrical outlook to his songs. Mellencamp’s best music is rock ‘n roll stripped of all escapism, and it looks directly at the messiness of life as it’s actually lived. In his music, mortality, anxiety, acts of God, questions of romance and brotherhood, and crises of conscience all collide and demand hard decisions……This is rock music that tells the truth on both its composer and the culture he’s observing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mellencamp

Soft Cell

Soft Cell è un duo britannico di musica elettronica dei primi anni ottanta che riscosse un buon successo di pubblico e di critica, composto da: Marc Almond (voce) e David Ball (sintetizzatore) e riformatosi poi nel 2003.

Le loro canzoni, di orientamento musicale synth-pop, oltre che raccontare storie d’amore, si focalizzano spesso su tematiche controverse quali il sesso estremo, il travestitismo, l’uso di droghe e persino l’omicidio.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_Cell

Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s, consisting of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball. The duo are principally known for their 1981 hit version of “Tainted Love” (#8 US) and 1981 debut album entitled Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret.

In the United Kingdom, they had ten Top 40 hits including “Tainted Love” (#1 UK), “Torch” (#2 UK), “Say Hello, Wave Goodbye” (#3 UK), “What!” (#3 UK), and “Bedsitter” (#4 UK), and also had four Top 20 albums between 1981 and 1984. In 1984, the duo split but reformed from 2001 to 2004 to tour and record new material, releasing their fifth studio album, Cruelty Without Beauty in 2002.

Soft Cell’s songs have been covered by various artists including Nine Inch Nails, David Gray, Nouvelle Vague, Marilyn Manson, and A-ha.[4] Their track, “Memorabilia”, earned recognition for the band as pioneers of the synth-oriented techno genre.[5] The duo have sold 10 million records worldwide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_Cell

Non mollare – Do not give up – Rumi

🌸Non mollare🌸

Quando tutto
sembra opporsi a te,
Quando senti
che non saresti capace
di sopportare
un altro minuto,
non mollare.
Quello è il momento
in cui il destino cambierà

Rumi
🌸🌿🌸#pensierieparole
🌸Do not give up

When everything
seems to oppose you,
When you hear
that you would not be able
to endure
another minute,
do not give up.
That is the moment
where fate will change

Rumi

★★。¸.☆☆Buonanotte¸.☆☆

Parole – Words

🌸Parole🌸

Parole
rase
e silenzi
in occhi
e cuore
Parole
come semi
gettati
nei solchi
di ogni emozione
Parole
pazienti
oltre confine
in attesa
di Primavera
Parole
vive
in abbraccio
nell’Eden
della poesia

16.03.2020 Poetyca
🌸🌿🌸#Poetycamente
🌸Words

Words
rase
and silences
in eyes
and heart
Words
as seeds
thrown
in the furrows
of every emotion
Words
patients
beyond the border
waiting
of Spring
Words
lives
in embrace
in Eden
of poetry

16.03.2020 Poetyca

Vangelis – Spiral [Full Album] 1977

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Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (gr. Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου; Volos, 29 marzo 1943) è un polistrumentista e compositore greco di musica elettronica e new age, noto con il nome d’arte di Vangelis.

Fra le sue opere più acclamate compaiono alcune colonne sonore (come quelle per i film Momenti di gloria, Blade Runner, Antarctica, Missing – Scomparso, 1492 – La conquista del paradiso, Alexander, Luna di fiele). Inoltre ha composto l’inno per i Mondiali di calcio Giappone-Corea del Sud 2002.

Vangelis inizia a comporre a 4 anni ed è autodidatta per gran parte delle sue conoscenze musicali. Si rifiuta di prendere lezioni e tuttora non ha una conoscenza base sulla lettura e scrittura di note musicali.

Nei primi anni sessanta fonda il gruppo pop Forminx, che diviene popolare in Grecia. Durante la rivolta studentesca del 1968 si trasferisce a Parigi e fonda il gruppo dirock progressivo Aphrodite’s Child con Demis Roussos e Loukas Sideras.

Vangelis inizia la sua carriera da solista nell’anno 1973 con la composizione delle colonne sonore di due film del produttore francese Frederic Rossif. Il suo primo album da solista è Earth (1973).

Dopo essersi trasferito a Londra, firma un contratto con la RCA e inizia a lavorare nel suo studio di registrazione privato (Nemo Studios). In questi anni produce alcuni dei suoi album più famosi, come Heaven and Hell (1975), Spiral (1977) e China (1979).

Assieme a Jon Anderson (cantante degli Yes) pubblica diversi dischi negli anni ottanta e novanta con il nome di Jon & Vangelis. Ha inoltre collaborato con alcuni artisti italiani, in qualità di arrangiatore: Riccardo Cocciante, Claudio Baglioni, Milva, Patty Pravo, Krisma. Gli album italiani dove è preponderante il suo influsso sono E tu… di Claudio Baglioni, dove le melodie delle tastiere richiamano quelle già utilizzate dagliAphrodite’s Child, e Concerto per Margherita di Riccardo Cocciante.

Nel 1982 vince l’Oscar per la colonna sonora del film Momenti di gloria di Hugh Hudson. Nello stesso anno inizia la collaborazione con il regista Ridley Scott per il quale scrive la colonna sonora per Blade Runner, divenuta presto un cult, come d’altronde il film stesso. Per lo stesso regista firmerà, qualche anno più tardi la riuscita colonna sonora di 1492 – La conquista del paradiso. La più grande popolarità gli giunge appunto per la composizione di queste famose colonne sonore, nelle quali unisce melodie eleganti a sonorità d’atmosfera, piegando voce umana, strumenti classici e suoni elettronici al servizio di una musica sempre molto suggestiva ed evocatrice.

Curiosamente Vangelis non sembra essere molto interessato al suo sito ufficiale, Vangelis Information World, dal momento che lo stesso, online dal 1996, risulta tuttora (2014)…”in costruzione”.

Nel 1997 è uno dei protagonisti della cerimonia d’apertura dei Campionati del mondo di atletica leggera 1997 di Atene: in più riprese, durante la serata, Vangelis suona alcuni dei suoi pezzi più famosi accompagnato dall’orchestra e dal coro. Alcuni commentatori attribuiscono a questa performance un peso importante nella successiva assegnazione dei giochi olimpici alla capitale greca per l’edizione del 2004. Nel 2001, Vangelis registra Mythodea, una composizione scritta originariamente nel 1993 e utilizzata dalla NASA come il tema per la missione 2001 Mars Odyssey. In uno dei pochissimi concerti della sua carriera, Vangelis si esibisce al tempio di Zeus Olimpio di Atene ed esegue l’intero disco accompagnato da un’orchestra sinfonica e da un coro. Da questo concerto verrà realizzato un DVD che a tutt’oggi rimane l’unica documentazione ufficiale di un’esibizione dal vivo di Vangelis, se si escludono alcune sporadiche apparizioni televisive o un’esibizione trasmessa dalla tv olandese nel 1991, che però era completamente in playback . Nel bis del concerto, Vangelis ha eseguito Momenti di Gloria suonando il celeberrimo tema accompagnato dall’orchestra, mentre il pubblico, agitando delle torce, rendeva ancora più suggestivo e affascinante lo scenario in cui si svolgeva l’esibizione.

Nel 2002 compone l’inno del campionato mondiale di calcio 2002, in cui Vangelis unisce le musiche trionfali alle sonorità orientali. Di questo brano vengono realizzati molti remix, uno di questi in Italia è stato utilizzato nelle trasmissioni sportive RAI dedicate all’evento.

Nel 2004 viene pubblicata la colonna sonora del film Alexander, diretto da Oliver Stone e basato sulla vita di Alessandro Magno.

Nel 2007 Vangelis pubblica due album. Il primo è un set di 3 cd per il venticinquesimo anniversario dell’uscita di Blade Runner, intitolato Blade Runner Trilogy. Il secondo è la colonna sonora per il film El Greco, basato sulla vita del pittore ellenico-spagnolo.

Nell’autunno del 2008, realizza la traccia principale per Swiadectwo (intitolato Testimony al di fuori della Polonia), un documentario sulla vita del pontefice Giovanni Paolo II; il resto della colonna sonora è invece affidato al compositore polacco Robert Janson.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vangelis

Viaggiatori – Passengers

Viaggiatori

Ci sono persone che vivono in penombra
Tenendo raccolti in un angolo:
sogni,desideri,pensieri.

Altre nascondono dietro un sorriso
Le paure e le fatiche.

Chi invece ha perso le speranze,
crede che la vita non abbia valore.
Non vuole più lottare.

Quanto coraggio ci vorrebbe
Per uscire fuori?
Nessuno è solo,
siamo tutti viaggiatori
di questa vita,
tutti alla ricerca di “qualcosa”.
Se seguiamo gli stessi ideali,
la stessa rotta:
amore,vita,solidarietà
nel mare lasceremo una scia.
Ognuno ha un cammino,
ognuno è speciale…
per i suoi pensieri,
il suo dolore,
il suo viaggiare.
Anche tu hai qualcosa da dare.

Comincia il tuo cammino,
avrai come punto di riferimento
il cielo…
il cuore è la stella polare.
Se qualcuno annega
O ha paura.
Non l’abbandonare
Al suo dolore.

Lanciagli un po’ del tuo amore
Come fosse una scialuppa.
Quante tempeste,
quanta solitudine.
La salsedine brucia
Ma rende forti
Come lupi di mare.
Quando approderemo all’isola meravigliosa
Del nostro cuore,
lasceremo un segno
del nostro passaggio
amando gli altri
ed insegnando amore.
Se questo avremo imparato…
Avrà senso il nostro vagare.

12.05.2001 Poetyca

Passengers

There are people who live in darkness
Taking gathered in a corner:
dreams, desires, thoughts.

Others hide behind a smile
The fears and hardships.

Those who have lost hope,
believes that life has no value.
No longer wants to fight.

How much courage it would take
To leave out?
No one is alone,
We are all travelers
of this life,
all looking for “something”.
If we follow the same ideals,
the same route:
love, life, solidarity
into the sea leaving a trail.
Everyone has a journey,
everyone is special …
for his thoughts,
her pain,
its travel.
You also have something to give.

Begin your journey
you as a reference point
the sky …
the heart is the North Star.
If someone drowns
Or afraid.
Not abandon
His pain.

Lanciagli a bit ‘of your love
Like a boat.
How many storms,
how much solitude.
Salt water burns
But it makes strong
Like wolves of the sea.
When they land, beautiful island
Of our hearts,
leave a mark
of our passage
loving others
teaching and love.
If we learn this …
Will wander our way.

12.05.2001 Poetyca

Farfalla – Butterfly – Haiku

   Farfalla       
 
Farfalla dai luminosi colori
eri dal buio avvolta
ripiegata e sola.
Ma ecco che ora voli.
La Luce ti ha cercata
e nuova vita ti vibra
nelle ali.
Tra eterei viaggi
e colori  nuovi
la speranza
mai abbandoni.
Luce è amore
che ti accarezza il cuore.
Volo è il gioioso canto
di chi si vuol donare.
Farfalla dai colori accesi
vola e non ti fermare.

 10.11.2001 Poetyca

Butterfly
 
Butterfly with bright colors
were enveloped by darkness
folded and alone.
But here now flights.
The Light you sought
and new life will vibrate
in the wings.
Among ethereal travel
and new colors
hope
never leave.
Light is love
that caresses the heart.
Flight is the joyful song
of those who want to donate.
Butterfly with bright colors
flies and do not stop.

  10.11.2001 Poetyca

Specchio – Mirror

Specchio

Qui seduta e sola
presso la sponda
di questo lago
mi scruto.
Colgo nell’acqua
la mia immagine riflessa.
I capelli che al sole
hanno del rame il bagliore,
occhi profondi e scuri
che tutto sanno osservare,
su pelle candida
e di lentiggini spruzzata,
bocca pronta al sorriso.
Io qui che rifletto
le mie malinconie
ed il sentire mio.
Poi sento te che mi guardi
ed anche la tua immagine è nel lago.
Tu come me,
io ora so che uguale mi sei,
verrò sempre qui a cercare te.
Ora che ti conosco,
questo lago sarà sempre mio specchio.

23.10.2001 Poetyca

Mirror

Sitting here alone
at the shore
of this lake
stared at me.
I take water
my reflection.
The hair in the sun
have the glow of copper,
eyes deep and dark
know that all observed
on white skin
and sprinkled with freckles,
mouth ready to smile.
I here reflect
my blues
and my feeling.
Then you feel that you look at me
and also your picture is in the lake.
You like me,
I now know who are my equals,
always come here looking for you.
Now that you know,
this lake will always be my mirror.

23.10.2001 Poetyca