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The next 2 live gigs:

- this saturday

- on March 20th

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The Banksy Movie

Can’t wait to see it!

Jan 10 Playlist

“L’uomo che verrà” by Giorgio Diritti

A great movie. Beautiful, moving, political. Unmissable, to be promoted as much as possible, because fascism is around the corner. Again.

Ok, it’s also a film very close to my life, thanks to some friends of ours somehow involved: Giovanni Galavotti as screenwriter and Franzo Galavotti, Bernardo Bolognesi and Caterina Basso as actors.

Not forgetting Cineteca and Immagine Ritrovata..

Youtube People

The world is full of geniuses, and Youtube gets them all out of the cage.. a new generation of musician / videomakers, creating music and images at the same time, not necessarily for money…

Just two great examples that I love:

We live in the Banana Republic

Il A Fait Boum Live at Vag61.. again

This saturday!

Ode to Trattoria Rana

If I could make my personal chart of the 10 best things in life Trattoria Rana’s cutlet (cotoletta) will surely be in.

Last Saturday we celebrated there my 37th birthday and I ate 4 of them.. And in the end some genius among my friends asked for the ‘doggy bag’ and gave me the remaining 6.. which we ate yesterday evening. Pure heaven on earth.

Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akim

Great movie from a great director.. one of the best all over Europe, who already did another masterpiece, “Head On” / “La Sposa Turca”.

Don’t get trapped into the Avatar hook… stay true to real cinema.

Rest In Peace Vic and Lhasa

A bad way to celebrate the new decade coming.. Two great artists, two great losses.. too talented, too young, too fast..

Rest in peace Lhasa, rest in peace Vic.

Tigella day

2kg of tigelle.. Made by myself.. Very good!!!

Gradisco 09

It’s out. Cypran’s finest 25 selections, all together on a single mix (of course with separated traxx, Eva.. )

BLACKROC: Record of the year?

I’m working on the new Gradisco.. It’s almost ready.. I was only waiting for them.. read about this new Black Keys-release and was quite excited about it.. Well, it’s the next level.. My man Dan Auerbach and his partner really redefine the boundaries between rock and hip hop. Strongly recommended.

Ego-centric, earth-centric or space-centric?

Thanks to Bollett for this amazing and insightful video hint.. Dedicated to all the egocentrics of the world.

Respect!

I don’t know whether they were 100.000, 500.000 or 1.000.000.. What I know is that they have been great.

Join their movement

Happy birthday, “The Wall”!

Summer 1987… I remember I was 14.. I went to Corsica for a camping vacation with my parents.. it was the last vacation I spent with them in my life..

As everybody of that age I was rather unhappy, I felt lonely and deeply rebellious inside.. Before leaving for Corsica I got the right to spend the vacation on a single, separated tent, therefore I had at least the chance to keep a private space for my ’sturm und drang’. Ok, there was a specific main activity but it’s not what I want to recall here..

Instead I was reminding of a tape, one single tape.. the only one I took with me to be listened with a crappy walkman during those long nights.. Don’t ask me why I brought one tape for a 15-days vacation (while now we all have iPods with at least 500 albums inside..). This tape was the first album I got the chance to listen accurately in my life: it was “The Wall” by Pink Floyd..

Night after night I got more and more involved in the concept, the album mood, the lyrics, the different amazing songs.. No, not just “Another brick in the wall”.. I was more into “Mother”, “Hey You” and Her Majesty THE SONG OF THE SONGS: “Comfortably Numb”..

Today I read that it’s “The Wall”’s 30th birthday.. well, it’s an important anniversary then.. it’s the day I discovered that rock could become a form of art, change someone’s life, and make it better.

Thank you Roger, David, Rick, Nick. And thanks also to Gerald Scarfe for his powerful and scary illustrations, and to Alan Parker for that trippy movie.

Nov09 Playlist

Il A Fait Boum Live 21.11

3rd gig. This time in 4 of us..

Happy birthday Sara!

MASSIVE RESPECT

Lately I was almost forgotting why I love so much this band…