Modena City Ramblers
Modena City Ramblers | |
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General information | |
Genre (s) | Folk rock |
founding | 1991 |
Website | http://www.ramblers.it |
Current occupation | |
Davide "Dudu" Morandi (since 2004) Betty Vezzani (since 2004) Massimo "Ice" Ghiacci Franco D'Aniello Francesco "Fry" Moneti Roberto Zeno Arcangelo "Kaba" Cavazzuti |
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former members | |
Stefano "Cisco" Bellotti (until 2004) Luca "Gabibbo" Giacometti († 2007) |
The Modena City Ramblers are an Italian folk rock band founded in 1991 with mostly political lyrics. You yourself describe your style as "combat folk". The band soon developed far beyond the original idea of doing Irish Folk with Italian texts or in a Modenese dialect and picked up elements from the Balkans and Arabic music, for example . The extensive preoccupation with the liberation movements in Latin America, which also included a trip by the band to Mexico , was reflected in many pieces, often in Spanish. The repertoire always included modernized versions of traditional workers' and partisan songs such as Bella Ciao .
Band history
The Modena City Ramblers were formed in 1991 out of a group of friends who wanted to do Irish folk without a lot. On March 17, 1991 on St. Patrick's Day , during a performance in Modena , the founding members decided to give the band the name "Modena City Ramblers" as a tribute to the Dublin City Ramblers . In 1992 bassist Massimo Ghiacci joined the group. It was during a concert at a club called Kalinka in Carpi that Stefano "Cisco" Bellotti first stepped on stage to sing The Wild Rover . At the time, the Modena City Ramblers were less of a band in the true sense of the word, but more of an open group where members kept coming and going. This form has persisted throughout the history of the group. In 2004 singer "Cisco" left the band. On October 6, 2007, Luca "Gabibbo" Giacometti, the man at the mandolin , died in a car accident at the age of 43.
Discography
Albums
- 1994 - Riportando tutto a casa
- 1996 - La grande famiglia
- 1997 - Terra e libertà
- 1998 - Raccolti (live)
- 1999 - Fuori campo
- 2002 - Radio Rebelde
- 2004 - ¡Viva la vida, muera la muerte!
- 2005 - Appunti partigiani
- 2006 - Dopo il lungo inverno
- 2008 - Bella Ciao - Italian Combat Folk for the Masses
- 2009 - Onda Libera
- 2011 - Sul tetto del mondo
- 2012 - Battaglione Alleato
- 2013 - Niente di nuovo sul fronte occidentale
- 2014 - Venti
- 2015 - Tracce clandestine
- 2017 - Mani come rami, ai piedi radici
Mini CD
- 1998 - Cent'anni di solitudine (MCR)
- 1999 - L'Italia ai tempi dei Modena City Ramblers
- 2003 - Modena City Remix
- 2003 - Gocce (iniziativa Acqua per la Pace)
- 2004 - El presidente (single from ¡Viva la vida, muera la muerte! )
DVD
- 2004 - Clan Banlieue - 12 anni di canzoni, concerti, interviste, viaggi, video inediti
Trivia
- Some lyrics from the album Terra e libertà (1997), such as B. Macondo Express , Il ballo di Aureliano , Remedios la bella and Cent'anni di solitudine are based on the 1982 book Hundred Years of Solitude by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez . The fifteenth and final title is also based on a Marquez book: L'amore ai tempi del caos is a modification of Love in the Times of Cholera .
- Some of the lyrics of the albums Terra e libertà (1997), Fuori campo (1999) and Radio Rebelde (2002, song Una perfecta excusa ) were inspired by the Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda .
- Many texts of the MCR refer to historical events or to literary sources, such as B .:
- I funerali di Berlinguer (album Riportando tutto a casa from 1994, reference to Enrico Berlinguer ),
- Al Dievel / La marcia del Diavolo (album La grande famiglia from 1996, reference to Germano Nicolini),
- L'unica superstite (album La grande famiglia from 1996, reference to Wehrmacht crimes in Emilia (region) ),
- Don Chisciotte , ( 1997 album Terra e libertà , referring to Don Quixote ),
- La legge giusta ( Radio Rebelde album from 2002, relating to the events of the G8 summit in Genoa 2001 ),
- El Presidente (album ¡Viva la vida, muera la muerte! From 2004, referring to Silvio Berlusconi ),
- I cento passi (album ¡Viva la vida, muera la muerte! From 2004, reference to the film 100 steps , which deals with the murder of Giuseppe Impastato ),
- Il sentiero (album Appunti partigiani from 2005, reference to the novel Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno by Italo Calvino )
- The 1994 album Riportando tutto a casa was named after the Bob Dylan album Bringing It All Back Home .
- The 2002 album Radio Rebelde was named after the Cuban radio station Radio Rebelde .
- The album ¡Viva la vida, muera la muerte! from 2004 was named after a quote from the EZLN .
- The 2005 album Appunti partigiani was created with many musical guests, including Billy Bragg ( All you fascists , cover version by Woody Guthrie ), Goran Bregović ( Bella Ciao ), Casa Del Vento ( Notte di San Severo ) and Piero Pelù ( La guerra di Piero , cover version by Fabrizio De André ).
Web links
- Official site (Italian)
- Band biography on music-base (German)