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Moby Soundtrack for Gianpietro Carlesso YouTube Presentation

Mobygratis, Moby‘s free music service dropped me an email today in response to my request to use a Moby track to accompany my short You Tube presentation of Gianpietro Carlesso’s sculptures. I am very pleased to announce that Moby has kindly given his permission for me to use the track I selected. I’m really excited […]

Elio e le Storie Tese – Shpalman

This is a curious number by interesting Italian group Elio e Le Storie Tese. I’m sure its having a dig at someone, but I’m not sure who. Perhaps one of my Italian readers can let me know. The video was shot in Milan, and perhaps you can guess which area. I know, but do you? […]

A List Italian of Singers

I came across a list of Italian singers while wandering the web. It’s here If you visit the list you can click on the names and will be taken to some brief information about the singers. Some may find this interesting. The English is a little quaint, but at least an attempt has been made. […]

Jeff Healey 1966 – 2008

I was saddened to hear about the passing away of Jeff Healey today.  If you did not know he was a talented Canadian blues-rock guitarist, singer, and jazz trumpeter and clarinetist.  But what was really amazing about this guy was that he was blind. I have a couple of his albums and like his music a […]

Disco, Disco, Music, and an Old Problem

We have a slight problem where we live in Milan. There is a sort of disco which backs onto our apartment block and the volume of the music, and in particular the bass, can get rather disturbing at times. Five times a week, on average. Still, you can probably thank the disco music for its […]

Giorgia – vivi davvero

I just can’t stop. Here’s two Giorgia songs, first there is with Vivi davvero – Really live, another Italian singer who has caught my ear. An interesting video shot during the Italian Festival Bar music programme, complete with topless dancers: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyuFMP3ZdLM[/youtube] She’s has a powerful voice and her music is a sort bluesy Italian soul, […]

RIP – Lucio Dalla – Attenti al lupo

The late Lucio Dalla was a well known and well liked singer/song writer in Italy.  He made some wonderful music and will be missed. One of his tracks I’ve always rather liked is this one – Attenti al Lupo – Beware the Wolf. The track is well worth listening to, and might help you with […]

The Land of My Fathers

This is the Italian version of a song that has already been done in Swedish and English, apparently.  Very nice, well I like it. Great way to improve your ability to comprehend spoken Italian.  It’s quite rocky, so if you are not into rock, you may not like it. [youtube]http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ajyc-KuDj8[/youtube] Blame Nathalie for this, in […]

Le Vibrazioni

While on the subject of music, here is an Italian band that I rate quite highly too. They are called ‘Le Vibrazioni’ and I think they are still around. I guess you could say they are an Italian version of Oasis, although please feel free to disagree with me about this. Anyway, you can hear […]