Description
‘If anger were to erupt here in the neighbourhood / that everyone carries inside their hearts…’ Armandino Liberti, a Roman proletarian, lived an unusual life and sang about it in an unusual way, in songs full of anger, irony, compassion and political awareness. ‘Everything I know, the street taught me,’ he said; and what he learned on the street, Armandino poured into songs that were never simple and always direct, telling stories of injustice, marginalisation, even defeat, but never resignation: redemption comes from struggle and from the awareness that no one can save themselves alone, no one can be saved unless everyone else is saved.
This CD/book, which opens the new series of the “I Giorni Cantati” collection, brings back the songs of Armandino Liberti through archive sources, interviews, recordings, but above all through dialogue with the creativity of many different musicians who reinterpret them in their own way and, all together, offer us an incredible fresco of Roman song today and of Armandino Liberti’s ‘rebellious and untamed’ city of Armandino Liberti.
Texts by Alessandro Portelli, Omerita Ranalli, Enrico Grammaroli, Marco Marcotulli, Marcello Teodonio, Matteo Portelli, Glenda Furini, Flaminia Campodonico, Demetra Cuomo, Cristiano Modica.
Songs reinterpreted by Montelupo, Banda Jorona, Piero Brega, Sara Modigliani, Simone Saccucci, Ludovica Valori, Ardecore, Piero Brega, Gianni Bozzo, Matteo Portelli, Tangram.
