[For the English version scroll down] Che belle le canzoni di Ivano Fossati. Non l’ho ascoltato per molti anni e all’improvviso ho sentito la sua voce in una canzone che accompagnava i titoli di coda di un film italiano, guardato sul volo da Johannesburg a Doha la scorsa settimana. Adesso sono a casa. È sabato sera. In “terra straniera”, come si dice da qualche parte. Ascolto Fossati e sento molta nostalgia per gli anni nei quali […]
Like every summer, the Heinävesi Music Festival brought classical music to this small town in Eastern Finland
It is summer. I am on holiday and spending time at our cottage in Eastern Finland. I am fixing things. Collecting branches. Pick up logs and doing piles to dry the firewood before the autumn. I listen to podcasts while working, and yesterday I stumbled upon a very moving interview on BBC’s The Documentary. It is a conversation between the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and the Australian songwriter, Nick Cave. Their conversation spoke to […]
I listen in my earphones this Italian song. Outside the windows the roofs of Hanoi. Ten of thousands of houses and homes with their daily lives, their happiness and their sadnesses. Lorenzo, in the meantime he is singing his ‘Mi fido di te’, and yet yesterday his life changed and is now missing, all of a sudden, such a big part of it. Yet his song tells a story of some years ago and I […]