Modena City Ramblers

  • Betty Vezzani (since 2004)
  • Massimo "Ice" Ghiacci
  • Franco D' Aniello
  • Francesco " Fry " Moneti
  • Roberto Zeno
  • Arcangelo " Kaba " Cavazzuti
  • Luca " Gabibbo " Giacometti (up † 2007)

The Modena City Ramblers are a Established in 1991, Italian folk - rock band with mostly political lyrics. They describe their style as "combat folk ". About the original idea to make Irish folk with lyrics in Italian or in modenesischem dialect, the band soon developed far beyond and grabbed elements, for example, from the Balkans and from Arabic music on. The comprehensive study of the liberation movements in Latin America, which included a trip to Mexico the band, was reflected in many pieces, often in Spanish, down. The repertoire but always been part modernized versions of traditional workers and partisan songs such as Bella Ciao.

Career

The Modena City Ramblers have been founded in 1991 by a group of friends who want to go Irish folk without much of a claim. On March 17, 1991 at St. Patrick 's Day with a concert in Modena decided the founding members of the band as a tribute to the Dublin City Ramblers Modena City Ramblers give the name to. In 1992, the bassist Massimo Ghiacci to the group. During a concert in a club called Kalinka in Carpi Stefano " Cisco " Bellotti first entered the stage to sing The Wild Rover. At this time the Modena City Ramblers were less a band in the true sense, but rather an open group where the members constantly coming and going. This form has held up well over the entire history of the group. 2004 increased singers " Cisco " from the band. On October 6, 2007 died Luca " Gabibbo " Giacometti, the man at the mandolin at age 43 in a car accident.

Discography

Albums

Mini CD

DVD

  • 2004 - Clan Banlieue - 12 anni di canzoni, concerti, interviste, viaggi, video Inediti

Trivia

  • Some lyrics of the album Terra e libertà (1997), such as Macondo Express, Il ballo di Aureliano, Remedios la bella and Cent'anni di solitudine, based on the 1982 published book Hundred Years of Solitude of Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez. The fifteenth and last track is also based on a Marquez - Book: L' amore ai tempi del caos is a modification of Love in the Time of Cholera.
  • Some of the albums lyrics 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 relate to historical events or literary sources, such as: I funerali di Berlinguer (Album Riportando tutto a casa 1994, relating to Enrico Berlinguer )
  • Al Dievel / La marcia del Diavolo (Album La grande famiglia 1996, regarding Germano Nicolini )
  • L' unica superstite (Album La grande famiglia 1996, relating to crimes of the Wehrmacht in the Emilia ( region ),
  • Don Quixote ( album Terra e libertà of 1997, relating to Don Quixote,
  • La legge giusta (Album Radio Rebelde 2002, relating to the events of the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001,
  • El Presidente (Album ¡ Viva la vida, la muerte Muera! 2004, with respect to Silvio Berlusconi,
  • I cento passi (Album ¡ Viva la vida, la muerte Muera! 2004, with respect to the film 100 steps, which focuses on the murder of Giuseppe Impastato
  • Il sentiero (Album Appunti parti giani 2005, with respect to the novel Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno by Italo Calvino
  • The album Radio Rebelde 2002 was named after the Cuban radio station Radio Rebelde.
  • The album ¡ Viva la vida, la muerte Muera! 2004 was named after a quote from the EZLN.
  • The album Appunti parti giani 2005 was created with many musical guests, including Billy Bragg ( All you fascists, cover version of Woody Guthrie ), Goran Bregović (Bella Ciao ), Casa Del Vento ( Notte di San Severo) and Piero Pelù, ex - Litfiba (La guerra di Piero, cover version by Fabrizio De André ).
Italy Folk-Rock Torrita di Siena Homage Emilia (region of Italy) One Hundred Steps
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