''De André canta De André - Cristiano De André Live''
DeA sings DeA"is a
live
Live may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Live!'' (2007 film), 2007 American film
* ''Live'' (2014 film), a 2014 Japanese film
* ''Live'' (2023 film), a Malayalam-language film
*'' Live: Phát Trực Tiếp'', a Vietnamese-langua ...
tribute album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century a ...
by
Cristiano De André
Cristiano De André (; born 29 December 1962) is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician. During his career, he competed four times in the Sanremo Music Festival, receiving three Critics' Awards.
Biography
The son of Fabrizio De André and his ...
, 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 and the most-prominent '' cantautore'' of his time. He is also known as Faber, a nickname given by the friend Paolo Villaggio, as a referen ...
, recorded during Cristiano's 2009-2010 tour of Italy (originally started on the tenth anniversary of Fabrizio's passing) and released as a
CD+
DVD
The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any ki ...
bundle. Similarly to De André Senior's 1979-1980 release
In Concerto - Arrangiamenti PFM, 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 and the most-prominent '' cantautore'' of his time. He is also known as Faber, a nickname given by the friend Paolo Villaggio, as a referen ...
/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 ...
yrics F. De André/Mauro Pagani
Mauro Pagani (born 5 February 1946) is an Italian people, Italian musician and singer.
Pagani was born in Chiari, Lombardy, Chiari, Lombardy. A multi-instrumentalist, he made his debut in the music world in 1970 in music, 1970 as violinist and f ...
usic
#"'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)
#"Smisurata preghiera"
(F. De André/Fossati; based on poems by Álvaro Mutis
Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo (August 25, 1923 – September 22, 2013) was a Colombian poet, novelist, and essayist. His best-known work is the novel sequence '' The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll'', which revolves around the character o ...
)
#"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 classical musician, theater and film score composer. In 1999, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score for Roberto Benigni's film '' Life Is Beautiful'' (1997).
Biography
After ...
usic
#"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) 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 in a wid ...
/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 and the most-prominent '' cantautore'' of his time. He is also known as Faber, a nickname given by the friend Paolo Villaggio, as a referen ...
.
*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 docu ...
''
*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 and the most-prominent '' cantautore'' of his time. He is also known as Faber, a nickname given by the friend Paolo Villaggio, as a referen ...
'' (1981), also known as ''L'Indiano''
*Track 6 originally released on ''
Storia di un impiegato''
*Track 7 originally released on ''
Volume 8 Volume Eight or Volume VIII or Volume 8 may refer to:
* ''Volume 8'' (Fabrizio De André album)
*'' Volume 8: The Threat Is Real'', by Anthrax
*''Volume Eight'', an album published by Volume magazine
VOLUME is a biannual international magazine ...
''
*Track 8 originally released on ''
Volume 1 Volume One, Volume 1, Volume I or Vol. 1 may refer to:
Albums
* ''Volume One'' (The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band album), 1966
* ''Volume One'' (Sleep album)
* ''Volume One'' (Fluff album)
* ''Volume One'' (She & Him album), 2008
* ''Volum ...
''
*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 people, Italian musician and singer.
Pagani was born in Chiari, Lombardy, Chiari, Lombardy. A multi-instrumentalist, he made his debut in the music world in 1970 in music, 1970 as violinist and f ...
; "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
Medley or Medleys may refer to:
Sports
*Medley swimming, races requiring multiple swimming styles
* Medley relay races at track meets
Music
*Medley (music), multiple pieces strung together
People
*Medley (surname), list of people with this nam ...
: "Andrea"
(F. De André/Bubola)/"La cattiva strada"
(F. De André/Francesco De Gregori
Francesco De Gregori Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, 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 referrin ...
)/"Un giudice"
(F. De André/Bentivoglio/Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 – March 5, 1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of '' Spoon River Anthology'', ''The New Star Chamber and Other Essays'', ''Songs and Satires'', ''The Great V ...
yrics F. De André/Piovani usic
#"La collina"
(F. De André/Bentivoglio/Masters yrics F. De André/Piovani usic +
Reprise
In music, a reprise ( , ; from the verb 'to resume') is the repetition or reiteration of the opening material later in a composition as occurs in the recapitulation of sonata form, though—originally in the 18th century—was simply any re ...
(F. De André/Piovani)
#"Crêuza de mä"
(F. De André yrics Pagani/F. De André usic
#"Bocca di Rosa"
(F. De André lyrics
Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist. The words to an extended musical composition such as an opera are, however, usually known as a "libretto" and their writer, ...
; F. De André/Reverberi usic
#"La canzone dell'amore perduto"
(F. De André yrics F. De André/Georg Philipp Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann (; – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the most prolific composers in history, at least in terms of surviving works. Telemann was considered by his contemporaries to b ...
usic
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 al ...
''
*Track 6: previously unreleased medley of songs originally released on ''
Rimini
Rimini ( , ; or ; ) is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy.
Sprawling along the Adriatic Sea, Rimini is situated at a strategically-important north-south passage along the coast at the southern tip of the Po Valley. It is ...
'' (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 Gino Marinuzzi
Gino Marinuzzi (24 March 188217 August 1945) was an Italian conductor and composer, particularly associated with the operas of Wagner and the Italian repertory.
Biography
Marinuzzi was born and studied in Palermo; graduating from the Palermo ...
usic
*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 2 May 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 St ...
; track 2 arranged by Malasangre.
Overview
All songs were newly arranged by keyboardist,
programmer
A programmer, computer programmer or coder is an author of computer source code someone with skill in computer programming.
The professional titles Software development, ''software developer'' and Software engineering, ''software engineer' ...
and composer Luciano Luisi in a
rock
Rock most often refers to:
* Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids
* Rock music, a genre of popular music
Rock or Rocks may also refer to:
Places United Kingdom
* Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wale ...
/
hard rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and Distortion (music), distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the Garage rock, garage, Psychedelic rock, psychedelic and blues ...
style, with hints of
prog rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early-to-mid-1970s. Initially termed "progressive pop", the ...
and
electronica
Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mos ...
. 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,
metal
A metal () is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electrical resistivity and conductivity, electricity and thermal conductivity, heat relatively well. These properties are all associated wit ...
,
power pop
Power pop (also typeset as powerpop) is a subgenre of rock music and form of pop rock based on the early music of bands such as the Who, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Byrds. It typically incorporates melodic hooks, vocal harmonies, ...
and
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (informally known as ELP) were an English progressive rock Supergroup (music), supergroup formed in London in 1970. The band consisted of Keith Emerson (keyboards) of The Nice, Greg Lake (vocals, bass, guitars, producer) ...
", the new arrangements were, according to Luisi and Cristiano De André, a way to distance De André Jr.'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
electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external electric Guitar amplifier, sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickup (music technology), pickups ...
, 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
Medley or Medleys may refer to:
Sports
*Medley swimming, races requiring multiple swimming styles
* Medley relay races at track meets
Music
*Medley (music), multiple pieces strung together
People
*Medley (surname), list of people with this nam ...
on the second volume, and "La canzone dell'amore perduto", at the end of the same volume, performed by De André Jr. on
piano
A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...
, backed by a soft guitar accompaniment by Di Dio and a
double bass
The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...
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
Franco Mussida's in the 1979 ones.
Bonus DVDs
''Filming Around Tour''
''Filming Around Tour'' (a deliberately ungrammatical
portmanteau
In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds, of two or more words together. of "Filming around" and "Around (the) tour", meant as "About the tour"), is a short (37 minutes)
documentary film
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
, 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
Genoese dialect
Genoese, locally called or (), is the prestige dialect of Ligurian, spoken in and around the Italian city of Genoa, the capital of Liguria.
A majority of remaining speakers of Genoese are elderly. Several associations are dedicated to keeping ...
, 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
Rodolphe Kreutzer
Rodolphe Kreutzer (15 November 1766 – 6 January 1831) was a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas, including '' La mort d'Abel'' (1810).
He is probably best known as the dedicatee of Beethoven's Violin Son ...
or to
Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire ...
'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,
stream-of-consciousness
In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative mode or method that attempts "to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind" of a narrator. It is usually in the form of an interior monologue which i ...
-like structure. The germ of the song was born during a summer evening which the De André family spent in their rural house in
Sardinia
Sardinia ( ; ; ) is the Mediterranean islands#By area, second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia an ...
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
bawdy
Ribaldry or blue comedy is humorous entertainment that ranges from bordering on indelicacy to indecency. Blue comedy is also referred to as "bawdiness" or being "bawdy". Like any humour, ribaldry may be read as conventional or subversive. Ribald ...
song where he exposed all of his friends' defects and vices. After they had left, he retreated into the same
garage
A garage is a covered structure built for the purpose of parking, storing, protecting, maintaining, and/or repairing vehicles. Specific applications include:
*Garage (residential), a building or part of a building for storing one or more vehicl ...
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''
''Notturno dell'Amistade''
Sardinian">Sardinian_language.html" ;"title="iterally "Nocturne of Friendship", from Sardinian language">Sardinian recorded live on 3 July 2010 at the medieval Castello Pallavicino in Varano de' Melegari, is a 3-song excerpt from a longer show performed by Cristiano De André with various guest artists as a benefit concert for Dori Ghezzi's charity organization ''Fondazione Fabrizio De André''. The show included orchestrated and re-arranged versions of songs by Fabrizio De André, performed by all the guests.
*"Disamistade" is arranged by trumpeter and composer
Markus Stockhausen
Markus Stockhausen (born 2 May 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 St ...
and performed by the local
chamber orchestra
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...
Vianiner Philarmoniker (founded by Trio Amadei, a young trio of classical players, and taking its name from Vianino, another local castle - as a deliberate parody of
Wiener Philharmoniker) with the Cappella Farnesiana choir. It features a new introduction for
brass
Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions which can be varied to achieve different colours and mechanical, electrical, acoustic and chemical properties, but copper typically has the larger proportion, generally copper and zinc. I ...
and
strings
String or strings may refer to:
*String (structure), a long flexible structure made from threads twisted together, which is used to tie, bind, or hang other objects
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Strings'' (1991 film), a Canadian anim ...
and an expanded orchestration for strings and choir, also including improvised
flugelhorn
The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet, but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B♭, though ...
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
flamenco
Flamenco () is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the Gitanos, gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, and also having historical presence in Extremadura and Region of Murcia, ...
-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
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, h ...
-oriented orchestral arrangement and a trumpet part by Markus Stockhausen, as well as an excerpt from
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.
Shostak ...
'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 ''
Sogno n° 1''.
Personnel
[All personnel credits taken from CD booklets.]
Musicians
*
Cristiano De André
Cristiano De André (; born 29 December 1962) is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician. During his career, he competed four times in the Sanremo Music Festival, receiving three Critics' Awards.
Biography
The son of Fabrizio De André and his ...
-
Acoustic guitar
An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...
,
12-string guitar
A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Typically, the strings of the lower four courses are tuned in ...
,
violin
The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...
,
electric violin
An electric violin is a violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound. The term most properly refers to an instrument intentionally made to be electrified with built-in pickups, usually with a solid body. It can also refer to a violin fi ...
,
piano
A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...
,
bouzouki
The bouzouki (, also ; ; alt. pl. ''bouzoukia'', , from Greek , from Turkish ) is a musical instrument popular in West Asia (Syria, Iraq), Europe and Balkans (Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey). It is a member of the long-necked lute fam ...
, lead vocals
*Luciano Luisi -
Keyboards,
synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis a ...
s,
programming
Program (American English; also Commonwealth English in terms of computer programming and related activities) or programme (Commonwealth English in all other meanings), programmer, or programming may refer to:
Business and management
* Program m ...
,
backing vocals
A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...
*Osvaldo Di Dio -
Electric
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by Maxwel ...
, acoustic and
classical guitar
The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...
s, backing vocals
*Davide Pezzin -
Bass guitar
The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...
,
double bass
The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...
*Davide De Vito -
Drums
The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...
Musicians on ''Notturno dell'Amistade''
*Cristiano De André - Classical guitar, lead vocals
*
Markus Stockhausen
Markus Stockhausen (born 2 May 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 St ...
-
Trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...
,
flugelhorn
The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet, but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B♭, though ...
*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,
Milan
Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...
*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
*
FOH engineer - Giancarlo Pierozzi
*
Monitors
Monitor or monitor may refer to:
Places
* Monitor, Alberta
* Monitor, Indiana, town in the United States
* Monitor, Kentucky
* Monitor, Oregon, unincorporated community in the United States
* Monitor, Washington
* Monitor, Logan County, West ...
engineer - Vincenzo "Cina" Cinone
*
PA engineer - Alessandro Sbruzzi
*
Lighting designer - Massimiliano Camporeale
*Stage managers - Massimo Delle Molle, Gianmaria Ofredi
*
Lighting technician
An electrical lighting technician, or simply lighting technician, is 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 ...
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; an 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
*
Art direction
Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to super ...
and
design
A design is the concept or proposal for an object, process, or system. The word ''design'' refers to something that is or has been intentionally created by a thinking agent, and is sometimes used to refer to the inherent nature of something ...
- Stefano "Steo" Zacchi for Showbiz Design,
Bologna
Bologna ( , , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the List of cities in Italy, seventh most populous city in Italy, with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its M ...
*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, also called 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 sep ...
- Costume Nacional
''Filming Around Tour''
*A film by Daniele Pignatelli
*
Camera
A camera is an instrument used to capture and store images and videos, either digitally via an electronic image sensor, or chemically via a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. As a pivotal technology in the fields of photograp ...
- 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 recording of a film, television production, music video or other live-action piece. The cinematographer is the chief of the camera ...
- Daniele Pignatelli
*
Post-production
Post-production, also known simply as post, 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 indivi ...
- Art3fatti
*
Audio mixing
Audio mixing is the process by which multiple sounds are combined into one or more audio channels. In the process, a source's volume level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated or enhanced. This practical, aest ...
- Sing Sing Studio
*Produced by Marco Mandelli and Daniele Pignatelli
*Executive producer - Marco Mandelli
*
Editor
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, 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, organization, a ...
and
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
* ''D ...
- 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
Notes
References
{{Authority control
Fabrizio De André
2009 live albums
2000s tribute albums