Traditional music Italian Folk/traditional Songs (also in dialects) and Dances

Fiume Amaro-Bitter River

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[h=2]Bitter river[/h]Chorus:
There's a bitter river inside of me
Blood of my wound
but more bitter is the kiss
of your mouth that still hurts me


The beach is long, long is the wave
Anxiety is long, it never goes away
And the tears are falling on my sin
on my pain that you don't know


Chorus...


And you don't know what cold is
What is the night without a moon
And not knowing in what moment
your pain will assault you"



Chorus."




 
Apulia Ensemble


 
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Medieval Tuscan song:

Five Hundred Little Gold Chains:

And five hundred little gold chains
They tied your heart to mine

They made the knot so tight
That it will not be untied
either by you or by me


They made the knot so strong
That it will not untie until death.



 
Gli Scarriolanti of Marzabotto, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna.

I'd know them even before they start to sing. These people come from an area which was the scene of one of the worst massacres on Italian soil during WWII.

 
Inno dei Congedanti


“All’armi, all’armi,
all’armi siam Borghesi, son giorni e non son mesi.
E non si sente più la ritirata, Nemmeno il contrappello e l’adunata, E non si mangia più nella gavetta, perché l’abbiam lasciata alla burbetta.
Burbetta sparati, se hai tre mesi, per noi son giorni e non son mesi.
Se siam Borghesi che male c’è se noi siam nati prima di te.
Siam Congedanti, un passo avanti,
un’altra firma noi vogliamo far, e senza firma nel firmamento, questo è il momento che a casa andiam. ....
..............”
There are also other lyrical variations of this song.
 
Aria Caddhipulina
(Puglia, Notte della Taranta 2018)

 
Aria Caddhipulina
(Puglia, Notte della Taranta 2018)


He's excellent as always, his energy never flags, and he also never seems to age. He's looked exactly the same for years and years. It must be the Salento. :)
 
Briganti di Terra d’Otranto

- Mannaggia lu Scirocco -


 

Che t’aggia di’ - Mina, Celentano
Puglia, Foggia dialect (Celentano’s parents are from Foggia province)

 
For those who don't get the cultural reference, it's Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow :)

Geniuses at comedy, both of them in this film.

 
Piercing nostalgia for one's childhood places in this Genovese dialect song. It has Italian subtitles. He could be speaking for me. The houses are still standing, but they're not ours anymore.

 
LP sings Pizzicarella 🤯
🕷 Night MMXVIII



 
Lecce Mia - Tito Schipa
Classical Song in Leccese Dialect



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Tito Schipa​
 
Core 'ngrato: Ungrateful Heart-Enrico Caruso

Translated lyrics:

"Caterina, Caterina, why do you say those bitter words?
Why do you speak and torment my heart, Caterina?
Don't forget, I gave you my heart, Caterina,
don't forget.


Caterina, Caterina, why do you come and say those words that hurt me so much?
You don't think of my pain,
you don't think, you don't care.


Ungrateful heart,
you have stolen my life.
Everything is finished
and you don't care any more!


Catarí', Catarí'
you do not know that even in church
I bring my prayers to God, Catari.
And I recount my confession to the priest: "I am suffering
from such a great love."


I'm suffering,
I'm suffering from not knowing your love,
I'm suffering a sorrow that tortures my soul.
And I confess, that the Holy Mother
spoke to me: "My son, let it be, let it be.""

What a voice, what technique, what phrasing and expression. These are remastered versions, so we're only getting a taste of his voice. I can't even imagine the effect if one had heard him live.


The Three Tenors version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTq46yOaYWI




 
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Tamburrieddhu Mia
... My tambourine came from ROME
:)
... Lu Tamburrieddhu mia vinne te ROMA ...
(Leccese Dialect of Puglia - Some English)

 
Quant'è bello lu primm'ammore
Alessia Macari (Ciociara, but born in Ireland by Italian parents)
In her own words:
“Io sono nata e cresciuta in Irlanda, i miei genitori sono italiani, sono ciociari.”




original by Apulian born Tony Santagata
https://youtu.be/GjI_Y4LhzGk
 
Cicirinella Teneva Teneva

 
Gianna Nannini
🕷

Fimmene (Women)

Leccese dialect (Salento)





Pizzicata


 
Capodanno - Nino D’Angelo
(
Neapolitan)







 
Quant'è bello lu primm'ammore
Alessia Macari (Ciociara, but born in Ireland by Italian parents)


Ciociaro, Lazio
(Beauty #8, almost #9 :))
 

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