My b&w portrait of Italian singer and composer Manuel Agnelli chosen for Premi David di Donatello 2022 (Thanks to my dear friend Francesca Risi)
MANUEL AGNELLI & PREMI DAVID DI DONATELLO 2022
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STEVEN VAN ZANDT COVER STORY
Plug n’ Play Swiss music magazine, December 2021: Steven Van Zandt cover story. Thanks to KINDA Agency for the exclusive photo session in a typical Milanese court. Very special thanks to Mr. Van Zandt for his willingness and for sharing real rock tales.
RUSSIA: THEY TALK ABOUT ME
Two articles on my photo projects in a very popular Russian news-media-photography website Photar.ru.
ENJOY!
(Thanks to Alexey Aksyonov)
LIVE MUSIC: THE HIDDEN RHYTHM OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES
WHO: Xabier Iriondo and Snare Drum Exorcism
WHAT: A live show. East and West. Vibes and rules. The hidden rhythm of human activities. Tierra/Maree EP (Wallace Records)… Environmentalism
WHEN: December 16, 2021
WHERE: Germi Luogo di contaminazione
WHY: Along the line between black and white you may discover the source of a common pleasure
“FUJI X PASSION”, NOVEMBER 2021: TAKING PICS DURING A RALLY
In FUJI X PASSION, November 2021 issue, Taking pictures during a rally: Individual tales and collective narrative in the eyes of a photographer, my photographic essay. ENJOY!
GERARDO BALESTRIERI: WE LIVE IN CORTO’S AGE
Gerardo Balestrieri invited the audience to follow Corto Maltese around the World … From Venice to the Far East … passing through Ireland and the Horn of Africa… Without forgetting the countries which are dear to himself… A set of sonic postcards to caress the rhythms of the dream…
From Venice to Far East
Find yourself in the mist
Nobody was at home
When mind climbed the dome
Away from the stage
We live in Corto’s age
TIME TO LOSE OURSELVES… THE THIRD SOUND IN MILAN
Not even bad weather stopped them! Arriving late through heavy rains at the Arci Bellezza club in Milan, after a super fast soundcheck – 10 minutes announced by the roar of Andreas Miranda’s bass – The Third Sound just waited for the last notes of the Kane Nero live to immediately blast the ballroom with their mixture of psychedelic drones and post-new wave. Velvet Underground meet the Grateful Dead on stage! An epic sonic ride that began with an instrumental track and continued with Your Love Is Evol from First Light, their latest LP. Time seemed to lose meaning… Hakon Aðalsteinsson and Robin Hughes’s guitars are like crazy clock-hands… Getting to lose oneself is a pleasure … and then finding yourself at the foot of the stage to chat with drummer Fred Sunesen and fellow musician Andreas.
A DIFFERENT DAY
Be in style with the human soul… A Different 9/11, a different day… A paper plane… Remembering September 11, 2001… (All frames taken with FujiFilm X30 in Milan, September 10, 2021)
ARE YOU READY FOR A BRAND NEW BEAT?
Like in a Spike Lee movie. Sound coming from the street. Sound for the people on the street. Former members of The Jumpers, musicians Tiberio Longoni and Tony Fisher revived the ‘hood with an impromptu DJ set from the windows of the PONKJ bar, not far from The Canal District-Navigli. Roots, reggae, ska, dub, soul, funk and Stax Records classic hits… these are the songs that “rocked” and made the people in town sweat in a hot late afternoon. Music is not afraid of the dark: Tiberio and Tony continued to play records even when the sun went down. Don’t shoot the DJs, the party has to go on!
… Callin’ out around the world / Are you ready for a brand new beat / Summer’s here and the time is right / For dancing in the street…
EXTRALISCIO AND POPULAR MUSIC
At the beginning of the live show at Elisabetta Sgarbi’s La Milanesiana, Mirco Mariani, one of the founding leaders of the Extraliscio band, recalled that liscio is the popular music of all Italians: someone in the audience seemed puzzled.
Then, as the band progressed with their energetic performance, that “strange” statement made more and more sense to the Milanese audience: all of us have been at least once in our life in a balera, the traditional liscio dance hall (see Gabriele Basilico’s book Dancing in Emilia).
Looking at Italian musical tradition but at the same time deeply aware of the need to refresh the language of popular music, the members of the band demonstrated how important lessons for the present can always be drawn from the past.
Do I mean that Extraliscio sound like archaeologists?
Certainly not! The Extraliscio are rather like explorers of the contemporary world, ready to prick the Past-Present and Present with punk and world music splinters.
What about the Future?
Take a melting pot spirit into the balera – the Extraliscio’s suggestion!
TELLING WITH MY EYES 