kite (u2)

Something
Is about to give
I can feel it coming
I think I know what it is

I'm not afraid to die
I'm not afraid to live
And when I'm flat on my back
I hope to feel like I did

And hardness
It sets in
You need some protection
The thinner the skin

I want you to know
That you don't need me anymore
I want you to know
You don't need anyone
Or anything at all

Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you
I don't know
Which way the wind will blow

Who's to know when the time has come around
Don't want to see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye

It's somewhere I can taste the salty sea
There's a kite blowing out of control on the breeze
I wonder what's gonna happen to you
You wonder what has happened to me

I'm a man
I'm not a child
A man who sees
The shadow behind your eyes

Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you
I don't know
Where the wind will blow

Who's to know when the time has come around
I don't want to see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye

Did I waste it
Not so much I couldn't taste it
Life should be fragrant
Rooftop to the basement

The last of the rocks stars
When hip-hop drove the big cars
In the time when new media
Was the big idea
What was the big idea

Pino Daniele (English Version)

A sunday of many years ago , Renzo Arbore announced for that episode of his TV show ("L'Altra Domenica", Rai 2) the debut of a young Neapolitan singer. This strange man, without many words, picked up his guitar in hand and sang "Na ' tazzullela ' and cafe ."
It was an emotional earthquake for all young Neapolitans like me.

He was on his second album, but the appearance marked the emergence of a new music and it  confirmed the Arbore expertise and skill. The term 'new music' is not a coincidence because there was (still is) the experience of the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare and then just Musicanova: they were both rooted in the research of the ancient music interpreted in a modern key.
Today it would be called world music.
We had only classical singer with classic songs belonging to the classical tradition.
We did not know that our music could be connected to some musical passages.
We did not understand that it was possible to sing in Neapolitan without using stereotypes, and to include social protests never neglecting a certain degree of melodies, conceived in a modern sense.
It was an epiphany of the modern music we were expecting, not only in Naples.

The songs from the first album, "Terra mia", were shocking: they upturned the way in which we hear Italian and Neapolitan music.
The next three albums were the link between tradition and modernity musical understandings at the international level. We loved the intersection among rock, blues. jazz and our melodies of the past.

Pino Daniele (Pinuccio, as we called him between us) was able to fracture a stagnant landscape but he was also able to (re)build a collective musical knowledge.
The nicest thing was then to know that Pinuccio was receiving a growing success throughout Italy, and soon became the artist we all acknowledge now.

His personal evolution led him to play and sing with and for the greatest musicians and performers and to become a producer too.
But that Sunday was truly a different Sunday .

I could not do a ranking of my favorites: surely these two are among those that go deeper....

gli ultimi

Non credo Tosi sia una persona approssimativa o ottusa, anzi. L'ho ascoltato spesso e mi sembra una figura di amministratore capace e consapevole. Allora, mi chiedo, da dove nasce questo accanimento contro chi non è in condizione di provvedere a se stesso o addirittura, contro chi vorrebbe vorrebbe aiutare.
Posso immaginare che sia fastidioso passeggiare con persone che chiedono continuamente l'elemosina o altro: ma di fronte a me ho persone, questo non dovrei dimenticarlo.
Posso immaginare che Tosi abbia pensato all'effetto della sua misura, e l'abbia proposta quindi per disincentivare certe pratiche, ma l'economia non si applica agli esseri umani.

Ciò che è profittevole potrebbe essere umanamente disdicevole o addirittura riprovevole.

Dovrei invece preoccuparmi del perchè ci sono tante persone che si trovano in condizioni diverse dalla mia. Parlo proprio di me, che ho una famiglia, un lavoro, una casa e soldi sia per il sostentamento sia per gli svaghi e infine non ho disabilità.

Non tutti dobbiamo/possiamo diventare il buon samaritano ma la preoccupazione non dovrebbe essere per il fastidio ma dovrebbe essere orientata a capire per quale motivo la persona che mi chiede l'elemosina si è ridotta o è stata ridotta in questo stato.

A Verona come a Napoli o a Catania, le persone sono tutte uguali. A livello personale e istituzionale il nostro agire dovrebbe essere orientato all'equità sociale, al garantire dei requisiti minimi di sufficiente sostentamento.

Domani potrei essere io l'ultimo, ovvero il disabile, il derelitto, il lebbroso.
Non c'è bisogno di essere cristiani per capire che gli ultimi siamo noi.

Argomento lungo e spinoso, ma in fondo la domanda a cui dobbiamo rispondere è semplice.
Al centro della nostra vita cosa/chi mettiamo ?

Giustizia è riportare tutte le cose al loro senso. 

Oreste Benzi

Il bene, per me, può essere soltanto un'altra persona. Che cos'altro potrebbe essere?

I. Illich