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by Cristiano De André, consisting of updated covers and remakes of songs written (or co-written) and originally performed by his late father
Fabrizio De André Fabrizio Cristiano De André (; 18 February 1940 – 11 January 1999) was an Italian singer-songwriter, the most prominent ''cantautore'' of his time. His 40-year career reflects his interests in concept albums, literature, poetry, political pro ...
, recorded during Cristiano's 2009-2010 tour of Italy (originally started on the tenth anniversary of Fabrizio's passing) and released as a CD+
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bundle. Similarly to De André Senior's 1979-1980 release
In Concerto - Arrangiamenti PFM ''Fabrizio De André in Concerto - Arrangiamenti PFM'' In Concert—Arrangements by PFM"is a 1979 live album by Fabrizio De André featuring Italian progressive rock band Premiata Forneria Marconi, also known as PFM, as his backing band, reco ...
, it was followed by a ''Volume 2'' in 2010, recorded during the same shows and released in the same 2-disc format. In 2017, Cristiano De André released a '' Vol. 3'' as a follow-up to the first two releases, including twelve new covers and remakes.


Track listing


''De André canta De André''

#"Mégu megún" (
Fabrizio De André Fabrizio Cristiano De André (; 18 February 1940 – 11 January 1999) was an Italian singer-songwriter, the most prominent ''cantautore'' of his time. His 40-year career reflects his interests in concept albums, literature, poetry, political pro ...
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Ivano Fossati Ivano Alberto Fossati (born 21 September 1951) is an Italian pop singer from Genoa. He was a member of the progressive rock group Delirium and has worked with Fabrizio De André, Riccardo Tesi, Anna Oxa, Mia Martini, Ornella Vanoni, Shirley Bass ...
yrics F. De André/
Mauro Pagani Mauro Pagani (born 5 February 1946) is an Italian musician and singer. Pagani was born in Chiari, Lombardy. A multi-instrumentalist, he made his debut in the music world in 1970 as violinist and founding member of the progressive rock band Premi ...
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#"'Â çímma" (F. De André/Fossati yrics F. De André/Pagani usic #"Ho visto Nina volare" (F. De Andrè/Fossati) #"Se ti tagliassero a pezzetti" (F. De André/
Massimo Bubola Massimo Bubola (15 March 1954) is an Italian singer-songwriter, record producer and arranger. During his career, he cooperated with lot of Italian musicians in writing lyrics and musics, and his most significant cooperation was with Fabrizio De ...
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#"Smisurata preghiera" (F. De André/Fossati; based on poems by
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#"Verranno a chiederti del nostro amore" (F. De André/Giuseppe Bentivoglio yrics F. De André/
Nicola Piovani Nicola Piovani (born 26 May 1946) is an Italian light-classical musician, theater and film score composer, and winner of the 1998 Best Original Dramatic Score Oscar for the score of the Roberto Benigni film ''La Vita è bella'', better known to ...
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#"Amico fragile" (F. De André) #"La canzone di Marinella" (F. De André) #"Quello che non ho" (F. De André/Bubola) #"Fiume Sand Creek" (F. De André/Bubola) #"Il pescatore" (F. De André yrics
Gian Piero Reverberi Gian Piero Reverberi (born 29 July 1939 in Genoa) is an Italian pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, and entrepreneur. Biography After obtaining Diplomas in piano and composition from the Paganini Conservatory in Genoa, Reverberi worked ...
/Franco Zauli usic
All songs originally recorded and performed by
Fabrizio De André Fabrizio Cristiano De André (; 18 February 1940 – 11 January 1999) was an Italian singer-songwriter, the most prominent ''cantautore'' of his time. His 40-year career reflects his interests in concept albums, literature, poetry, political pro ...
. *Tracks 1 and 2 originally released on ''
Le nuvole ''Le nuvole'' (''The Clouds'') is an album by Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André, released in 1990. The songs were written by Fabrizio De André and Mauro Pagani. As Pagani revealed in an interview within the 2011 DVD biographical docum ...
'' *Tracks 3 and 5 originally released on ''
Anime salve ''Anime salve'' is the final album released by Italian singer/songwriter Fabrizio De André in 1996. It was written together with fellow Genoan Ivano Fossati. In a 2011 interview within the DVD documentary series ''Dentro Faber'' .e. ''Inside Fa ...
'' *Tracks 4, 9 and 10 originally released on ''
Fabrizio De André Fabrizio Cristiano De André (; 18 February 1940 – 11 January 1999) was an Italian singer-songwriter, the most prominent ''cantautore'' of his time. His 40-year career reflects his interests in concept albums, literature, poetry, political pro ...
'' (1981), also known as ''L'Indiano'' *Track 6 originally released on ''
Storia di un impiegato ''Storia di un impiegato'' ("Story of a white-collar worker") is an album released by Fabrizio De André. It was issued in 1973 by Produttori Associati and reissued several times by Ricordi and BMG. Track listing # ''Introduzione'' (''Introduc ...
'' *Track 7 originally released on '' Volume 8'' *Track 8 originally released on ''
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'' *Track 11 originally released as a standalone single in 1970 *All songs arranged by Luciano Luisi, except for "Mégu megún", originally arranged by
Mauro Pagani Mauro Pagani (born 5 February 1946) is an Italian musician and singer. Pagani was born in Chiari, Lombardy. A multi-instrumentalist, he made his debut in the music world in 1970 as violinist and founding member of the progressive rock band Premi ...
; "Ho visto Nina volare", originally arranged by Piero Milesi; "Amico fragile", "La canzone di Marinella" and "Il pescatore", originally arranged by PFM.


''De André canta De André, Vol. 2''

#"Anime salve" (F. De André/Fossati) #"Nella mia ora di libertà" (F. De André/Bentivoglio yrics F. De André/Piovani usic #"Don Raffaè" (F. De André/Bubola yrics F. De André/Pagani usic #"Cose che dimentico" (F. De André/Carlo Facchini yrics C. De André usic #"Â duménega" (F De Andrè yrics Pagani usic # Medley: "Andrea" (F. De André/Bubola)/"La cattiva strada" (F. De André/
Francesco De Gregori Francesco De Gregori OMRI (born 4 April 1951) is an Italian singer-songwriter. In Italy, he is popularly known as "Il Principe dei cantautori" ("The Prince of the singer-songwriters"), a nickname referring to the elegance of his lyrics. He is of ...
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/"Un giudice" (F. De André/Bentivoglio/
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yrics F. De André/Piovani usic
#"La collina" (F. De André/Bentivoglio/Masters yrics F. De André/Piovani usic +
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(F. De André/Piovani) #"Crêuza de mä" (F. De André yrics Pagani/F. De André usic #"Bocca di Rosa" (F. De André
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; F. De André/Reverberi usic
#"La canzone dell'amore perduto" (F. De André yrics F. De André/
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All songs originally recorded and performed by Fabrizio De André, except "Cose che dimentico", originally performed by Fabrizio and Cristiano De Andrè. *Track 1 originally released on ''Anime salve'' *Track 2 originally released on ''Storia di un impiegato'' *Track 3 originally released on ''Le nuvole'' *Track 4 originally recorded in 1998, first released in 2005 on the collection ''In direzione ostinata e contraria'' *Tracks 5 and 8 originally released on ''
Crêuza de mä ''Crêuza de mä'' (; "Muletrack by the sea") is the eleventh studio album by Fabrizio De André, entirely sung in the Ligurian language, more specifically in the dialect of Genoa. All the songs were written by De André and Mauro Pagani, with a ...
'' *Track 6: previously unreleased medley of songs originally released on ''
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'' (6a), ''Volume 8'' (6b) and '' Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo'' (6c) *Track 7: previously unreleased medley of songs originally released on ''Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo'' *Track 9 originally released on ''Volume 1'' *Track 10 originally released on ''Canzoni'' *All songs arranged by Luciano Luisi, except "Nella mia ora di libertà" and "Â duménega", arranged by Cristiano De André & Luciano Luisi.


''Notturno dell'Amistade'' DVD

#"Disamistade" (F. De André/Fossati) #"Franziska" (F. De André/Bubola) #"Valzer per un amore (Valzer campestre)" (F. De André yrics
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*Track 1 originally released on ''Anime salve'' *Track 2 originally released on ''Fabrizio De André'' (1981) *Track 3 originally released on ''Canzoni'' *Tracks 1 and 3 arranged by
Markus Stockhausen Markus Stockhausen (born May 2, 1957) is a German trumpeter and composer. His recordings and performances have typically alternated between jazz and chamber or opera music, the latter often in collaboration with his father, composer Karlheinz Sto ...
; track 2 arranged by Malasangre.


Overview

All songs were newly arranged by keyboardist,
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and composer Luciano Luisi in a
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style, with hints of
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and
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. Described by Luisi on the documentary video ''Filming Around Tour'', on the bonus DVD bundled with the original 2009 release, as "a cross between rock,
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and
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", the new arrangements were, according to Luisi and Cristiano De André, a way to distance De André Junior's live performances from his father's studio and live recordings (which Luisi views as sacred and untouchable), while at the same time bringing them closer to Cristiano's own sensitivity. All songs feature a prominent
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, heavily distorted and often processed, played by Osvaldo Di Dio, as well as Luisi's vintage-sounding keyboards and synths. The only exceptions are a 3-song, fully acoustic medley on the second volume, and "La canzone dell'amore perduto", at the end of the same volume, performed by De André Jr. on
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, backed by a soft guitar accompaniment by Di Dio and a
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part by Davide Pezzin. PFM's influential 1979 arrangements (originally released on Fabrizio De André in Concerto - Arrangiamenti PFM) for "Amico fragile", "La canzone di Marinella" and "Il pescatore" were reproduced almost verbatim, although Di Dio's guitar is still more prominent in the new versions than
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's in the 1979 ones.


Bonus DVDs


''Filming Around Tour''

''Filming Around Tour'' (a deliberately ungrammatical
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, by filmmaker Daniele Pignatelli, about the making of the tour. It includes excerpts from behind-the-scenes interviews with Cristiano De André and the band, as well as full live performances of "'Â çimma", "Se ti tagliassero a pezzetti", "Amico fragile" and "Fiume Sand Creek". *At the start of the film, De André Jr. describes the tour as a "passing of the baton" from his father to himself, and, at the end, he states that he always felt his father's presence on stage. * Talking about the songs from ''Crêuza de mä'', ''Le nuvole'' and ''Anime salve'' written in
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, Cristiano admits that he had a hard time learning all the words and their correct pronunciations, as he had never sung in Genoese before backing his father on his 1997-1998 ''Anime salve'' tour (his final one). He also states that De André Sr. had a habit of wrongly pronouncing the German surname 'Kreutzer' (mostly referring either to classical musician
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or to
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's Violin Sonata No. 9, popularly known as "Kreutzer Sonata" and dedicated to him) in a similar way to the Genoese word ''crêuza'', and that the song "Crêuza de mä", which Cristiano included in the tour setlist, ended up being regularly referred to by all the band members, including himself, as "Kreutzer del mar", using the correct pronunciation of "Kreutzer" - i.e. "Kròiza". *In an interview clip, Cristiano reveals the truth behind some of the nastiest, most cynical lines in "Amico fragile" Frail friend" one of Fabrizio De André's best-known songs, and about its disconnected,
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-like structure. The germ of the song was born during a summer evening which the De André family spent in their rural house in
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with a group of friends; after dinner, everybody got drunk and Fabrizio was forced to sing in spite of him not wanting to. In his intoxicated state, he improvised a
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song where he exposed all of his friends' defects and vices. After they had left, he retreated into the same
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where Cristiano is filming the interview, and wrote the whole of "Amico fragile" right away. The interview clip starts with Cristiano singing the first line of the song while performing its intricate accompaniment on acoustic guitar, displaying his prowess on the instrument; the film then cuts to his full onstage live performance of the same song, after which Cristiano talks about it.


''Notturno dell'Amistade''

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and performed by the local
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Vianiner Philarmoniker with the Cappella Farnesiana choir. It features a new introduction for
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and an expanded orchestration for strings and choir, also including improvised
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parts by Stockhausen. *"Franziska" features Spanish female quartet Malasangre (literally "Bad Blood", formed by sisters Maria, Marta and Pilar Robles with their cousin Pilar Crespo) and a radical
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-style re-arrangement by Malasangre themselves. It is played much faster than Fabrizio De André's original recording on ''L'Indiano'', features prominent nylon-string guitars and is partly sung in Spanish. During the instrumental interludes between verses, the Robles sisters dance on their own. *"Valzer per un amore (Valzer campestre)" features a
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-oriented orchestral arrangement and a trumpet part by Markus Stockhausen, as well as an excerpt from
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's popular "Waltz 2", taken from his 1956 Suite for Variety Orchestra. A very similar arrangement, including a shorter Shostakovich excerpt, was adopted for the same song by British arranger and conductor Geoff Westley, on his 2011 tribute album ''
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Personnel

All personnel credits taken from CD booklets.


Musicians

* Cristiano De André -
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,
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, lead vocals *Luciano Luisi -
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s, programming,
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*Osvaldo Di Dio -
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, acoustic and classical
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s, backing vocals *Davide Pezzin -
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*Davide De Vito -
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Musicians on ''Notturno dell'Amistade''

*Cristiano De André - Classical guitar, lead vocals *
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*Vianiner Philarmoniker Orchestra, conducted by Giancarlo Guarino *Cappella Farnesiana Choir, conducted by Antonello Aleotti *Malasangre - Classical guitars and vocals on "Franziska"


Production

*Produced by Luciano Luisi and Cristiano De André *Arrangements - Luciano Luisi (except as noted above) *Executive producer - Filippo Raspanti for MT Opera & Blue's *Recorded by Giancarlo Pierozzi *Mixed by Paolo Iafelice and Giancarlo Pierozzi at Noise Factory Studios,
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*Mix assistant - Davide Tessari *Mastered by Claudio Giussani at Nautilus Studio, Milan


Tour production

*Audio and lighting suppliers - Milano Music Service *Live production manager - Giovanni "Riccio" Colucci *
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- Giancarlo Pierozzi *
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engineer - Vincenzo "Cina" Cinone * PA engineer - Alessandro Sbruzzi *
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- Massimiliano Camporeale *Stage managers - Massimo Delle Molle, Gianmaria Ofredi *
Lighting technician Electrical lighting technicians (ELT), or simply lighting tech, are involved with rigging stage and location sets and controlling artificial, electric lights for art and entertainment venues (theatre or live music venues) or in video, television, o ...
s - Martino Fusi, Emanuele Ciani *
Truck driver A truck driver (commonly referred to as a trucker, teamster, or driver in the United States and Canada; a truckie in Australia and New Zealand; a HGV driver in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the European Union, a lorry driver, or driver in ...
- Luca Ceschi *Production manager - Luca Gnudi *Director - Pepi Morgia


Artwork

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Art direction Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the visi ...
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design A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design'' ...
- Stefano "Steo" Zacchi for Showbiz Design,
Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

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*Cover photo - Desirée Sapia *Additional photos - Guido Harari, Patrizia Andreozzi, Valeria Fioranti, Marta Mandelli, Marco Tomacelli *Tour poster design on CD back cover - Guido Harari *
Wardrobe A wardrobe or armoire or almirah is a standing closet used for storing clothes. The earliest wardrobe was a chest, and it was not until some degree of luxury was attained in regal palaces and the castles of powerful nobles that separate accomm ...
- Costume Nacional


''Filming Around Tour''

*A film by Daniele Pignatelli *
Camera A camera is an Optics, optical instrument that can capture an image. Most cameras can capture 2D images, with some more advanced models being able to capture 3D images. At a basic level, most cameras consist of sealed boxes (the camera body), ...
- Giovanni Bonatelli, Francesca Gasperini, Ronald Gomez, Massimiliano Navarra, Federico Salsano, Simone Serra, Daniele Pignatelli *
Cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ...
- Daniele Pignatelli *
Post-production Post-production is part of the process of filmmaking, video production, audio production, and photography. Post-production includes all stages of production occurring after principal photography or recording individual program segments. The ...
- Art3fatti *
Audio mixing Audio mixing is the process by which multiple sounds are combined into one or more channels. In the process, a source's volume level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated or enhanced. This practical, aesthetic, ...
- Sing Sing Studio *Produced by Marco Mandelli and Daniele Pignatelli *Executive producer - Marco Mandelli *
Editor Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, photographic, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, orga ...
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director Director may refer to: Literature * ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine * ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker * ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty Music * Director (band), an Irish rock band * ''Di ...
- Daniele Pignatelli *With the contribution of Mortaroli & Friends *Special thanks to all the musicians, the sound engineers, the tour technicians for their kindness, producers Michele Torpedine and Bruno Sconocchia, Pepi Morgia, Luvi De André, Dori Ghezzi, ''Fabrizio De André Foundation''... and of course to Cristiano and Fabrizio De André.


''Notturno dell'Amistade''

*Produced by Cristiano De André *Recorded live and mixed by Giancarlo Pierozzi *Executive producer - Filippo Raspanti for MT Opera & Blue's *Production company - Run Multimedia s.r.l., Lucrezia De Moli *
Film editing Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital ...
- Enrico Tomei *Special thanks to ''Fabrizio De André Foundation'' for the video images


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