LIGURIA TRANSATLANTICA / BOSSA FIGGEU compiled by Ma Nu in partnership with Denis Longhi
“South American Jazz & Bossanova flavours from 60s & 70s in Liguria, north west Italy. Melody sounds really close to Brazilian Portuguese and instrumental tracks smells of South American Jazz.
Nonetheless, the sound landscape clearly reflects the Italian Library Music of the time. This mingling was made possible by the commercial and cultural interconnections during the discovery of the New World: the local Ligurian language was influenced by new stimuli from the new territories and vice-versa.
Moreover, from the end of the Nineteenth Century, a strong migration of Italians involved South America, with numbers comparable to the Italian migration in the USA, but less known because less represented in films or narrative.
As a result of these connections, these songs sound mellow, carioca and exotic, based on the phonetics of one of the most musical, folkloric and peculiar Italian dialects.
The artwork project is a homage to lithographs and ADV that were inspired by the first tourist and migration trips departing from Genoa towards Rio De Janeiro. The lithographs were recovered by “L’Image” an existing art gallery in Alassio, a small town in Liguria.
“Bossa Ligure” can be seen as a micro-genre and a different form and aesthetic of Brazilian music, which is unknown to many, but that we would like to make available with this collectanea. A musical and a cultural expression which reveals a strong influence and connection to the Brasileiro sound in an unexpected territory.
01) NATALINO OTTO – Bossa Figgieu
(Gianfranco Reverberi)
Published by Sugarmusic Spa
℗ 1964 LORD MUSIC
Courtesy of LORD MUSIC
02) GINO PAOLI – O Straccè
(Franco Piccolo, Sergio Alemanno)
Published by De Vega
℗ 1975 Sony Music Entertainment (Italy) S.P.A.
Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment (Italy) S.P.A.
03) BRUNO LAUZI – O Frigideiro
(Giorgio Calabrese – Bruno Lauzi – Gianfranco Reverberi – Giorgio Calabrese)
Published by Sugarmusic Spa
℗ 1965 Warner Music Italia Srl, a Warner Music Group Company
Courtesy of Warner Music Italia Srl
04) GINO PAOLILLO – Sognando Rio
(Vittorio Medaglia, Gino Paolillo, Ottavio De Santis)
Published by Genova Ed. Di De Longis Franco
℗ 1973 Radio Records
05) NATALINO OTTO – O Pescou
(Gianfranco Reverberi – Giorgio Calabrese)
Published by Sugarmusic Spa
℗ 1964 LORD MUSIC
Courtesy of LORD MUSIC
06) BRUNO LAUZI – Sto cicchetton de un Gioan
(Gianfranco Reverberi – Franco Franchi)
Published by Sugarmusic Spa
℗ 1963 Warner Music Italia Srl, a Warner Music Group Company
Courtesy of Warner Music Italia Srl
07) AUGUSTO MARTELLI – Scia cattaen, scia me i fa i taggiaen
Published by Edizioni Musicali Martelli di Martelli J. / Warner Chappell Music Italiana Srl
Edizioni Musicali Martelli di Martelli J.
Courtesy of Edizioni Musicali Martelli di Martelli J.
08) ROBERTO ARNALDI – Ho fatto un viaggio
Published by ED. MUS. PUPA-DISC.TRASH DI RIGA V. A. / ELISEO
EDIZIONI MUSICALI E.M.E. SRL
℗ 1980 Peer-Southern Productions srl – Milano
Courtesy of Peer-Southern Productions srl – Milano
09) GINO PAOLILLO – Seduzione
(Vittorio Medaglia, Gino Paolillo, Ottavio De Santis)
Published by Genova Ed. Di De Longis Franco
℗ 1973 Radio Records
10) AUGUSTO MARTELLI – Bom De De Bom Bom
(Augusto Martelli, Franco Franchi)
Published by Edizioni Musicali Martelli di Martelli J. / Warner Chappell Music Italiana Srl
℗ 1976 Edizioni Musicali Martelli di Martelli J.
Courtesy of Edizioni Musicali Martelli di Martelli J.
11) NATALINO OTTO – Arrio
(Gianfranco Reverberi – Elio Mereu)
Published by Sugarmusic Spa
℗ 1964 LORD MUSIC
Courtesy of LORD MUSIC
12) NINO FERRER – Rua Madureira (Italian version)
(Diane Beretta, Nino Ferrer)
Published by Beusher Paul Editions S A
℗ 1969 Riviera
