#gazzè

[unwinkyselvatico]

Ci sono affetti, in effetti, che affetti non sono stati mai.

[raccontiacapo]

Ma c'è che ti ritrovo in ogni dove,

Vorrei fingere che non sia dolore,

Respiro, sì, però respiro male,

Rimani tra il pensiero e le parole

[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2005 - Number 63 - Marina Rei - "Fammi entrare"

The Festival di Sanremo had undergone another revolution for 2005. After the changes brought in for 2004 led to record low viewing figures, RAI acted quickly. Not only did they bring in Paolo Bonolis and Gianmarco Mazzi to take over the show running and artistic direction, but they completely shook up the schedule.

For this Sanremo, there were four semi-finals and five groups. A group for the men, the women, the groups, the 'Classic' section and a newcomers section - only three acts could get through from each group to the traditional big Saturday final. I'm unsure if this was to ensure representation in the final or if was to move Sanremo closer to the type of division of acts that went on in the X Factor.

Either way, one of the groups consisted of five female acts, one of whom was Marina Rei. She's the daughter of Ennio Morricone's drummer and had been singing in the clubs of Rome since she was 18. 2005 is her fourth Sanremo, having debuted in 1996 in the New Proposal's category and finished third. She also won the 1997 Un disco per l'estate competition with a cover of the Real Thing's You to Me Are Everything rendered as Primavera in Italian.

Marina is well versed at this, in complete contrast to the selection for the 2004 Sanremo, 2005 is back to the bigger names. For Fammi Entrare (Let Me In) she is joined on stage by pianist Riccardo Sinigallia to sing a song about a devoted couple, very much in love who nevertheless have a barrier between them. Now there's trouble and Marina wants to help, she wants to be allowed to share the burdens. The song builds to a climax with smooth legato strings and more conventional rock instrumentation building a base of drama underneath Marina's pleas. Resolution isn't reached, with the last line being:

Con il buio cadrà la notte

With darkness, night will fall.

It's a song filled with anguish and desperation to save something and someone from the precipice.

Marina really sells this - she's living it on the Ariston stage with a variety of percussion instruments for her to use to assist with scene setting. It's beautiful.

Fammi Entrare wasn't supposed to be the song that Marina sang at Sanremo this year. Another song Song'je - her first song sung in Neopolitan dialect - was lined up to be sung with Francis DiBella, but apparently regulations meant she had to switch. I'm unsure what those regulations were.

Unfortunately, Marina wasn't one of the three female acts to make it through to Saturday and she was eliminated at the semi-final stage. This disappointment also marks Marina's final competitive performance at Sanremo. She did appear again, as a guest in 2008 singing with regular collaborator Max Gazzè, and again as a guest in 2014 returning the favour by singing with Riccardo Sinigallia.

Happily though, this Sanremo barely marks the half-way mark in what has been a stellar music career for Marina. After this she left the major Italian labels to which she had been signed and began to manage her own output and signed to an independent label OPM. The album containing both Fammi Entrare and Song'je was released by them later the same year.

Continuing throughout the 21st century, she's released album after album, performed, toured and collaborated with numerous other Italian singers and composers. Her most recent recorded releases were in 2022.

[azure-trash]

[loveisjustawaytodieblog]

Sai, qualcosa tipo il "Cielo in una stanza"

È quello che ho provato prima in tua presenza

Dicono che gli angeli amano in silenzio

Ed io nel tuo mi sono disperatamente perso

Sento che respiri forte in questa cornetta

Maledetta, mi separa dalla tua bocca

Posso rivederti già stasera

Ma tu non pensare male adesso

Ancora il solito sesso

[io-rimango]

“Ma sotto questa tua corazza, lo so,

c'è una ragazza che sta lì in bilico

sopra il solito ancestrale timore

che hanno tutti di lasciarsi soltanto andare.”

[horacio-oliveira-74]

E invece è me soltanto che ha salvato...

[vodka-virgos]

POV it's the early 2000s and you're an indie pretentious bastard from Milan

[breaddo]

max MILF (Man I Love Fishing) gazzè

[pensieriaparole]

non c'è letteratura che ci sappia raccontare

[kseenefrega]

Max Gazzè - La Vita Com'è

[koufax73]

mixtraks #394: la playlist che non scende a Ciampino

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5f5MvHUqNvT3efl11phWys?si=d0949daa67924409 Abbiamo messo Fulminacci sulla cover della mixtraks #394, per celebrare l’uscita del suo nuovo album, Infinito+1, e del singolo che lo lancia, Puoi, con i Pinguini Tattici Nucleari. La settimana peraltro provvede a una serie di uscite altrettanto interessanti, per esempio quelle di Max Gazzé, Elasi con Willie Peyote,…

[eurovision-revisited]

2000 Stockholm - Number 3 - Max Gazzè - "Il timido ubriaco"

At the time of writing and singing Il timido ubriaco (The Shy Drunk), Max Gazzè had been married for five years. The song is almost an apology. He's a man who is weak, who is worried about losing his wife. That neither he, nor the words he writes can reach her. He cannot do anything apart from drink wine, worry, and get angry with himself. Here he is on the biggest stage in Italian music saying all of that poetically in his almost comically high voice.

In contrast to the lyrics, the music builds up, starting out with his voice and bass and simple synth line, but then the orchestra comes in, adding soaring strings and finally, a choral line. By the end it's proud, somewhat defiant but most of all tremendously happy with its lot. He's not much of a man, but hey maybe he's not that worried about his ability to write words that makes his wife smile.

Max is a Charlie Chaplin figure on stage. He's been wondering around the European music scene throughout the nineties, starting off in Brussels, going to England for five years to be part of a Northern Soul/acid jazz band (no, really), then to France and eventually back to Italy to be part of a trio and to release his own albums, including one that is a tribute to Robert Wyatt - another singer with a distinctive voice and passion.

His first brush with Sanremo was in 1999 in the giovani section. Now in 2000 he's been promoted to the big league. While not winning, his wonderful writing earned him fourth place and both the prizes for best music and best arrangement. Since 2000 he's done a lot. Not only loads of albums and collaborations (including being part of Stuart Copeland's Gizmo), he's entered four further Sanremos, most recently in 2021.

His music is never the same twice and he continues to write, innovate and explore musically far beyond Italy's borders.

[bobbole]

Cara Valentina il tempo non fa il suo dovere E a volte peggiora le cose Credimi pensavo davvero di avere superato Il momento difficile Ed ancora adesso non mi è chiaro lo sbaglio che ho fatto Se il vero sbaglio è stato il mio Perché dai miei trent'anni ti aspettavi un uomo Col senso del dovere Perché chi s'innamora non deve dirlo a nessuno Oppure un'imprudente enfatica demenza Nel farti le carezze girata dall'altra parte