PRESS RELEASE (30/07/2014)
Saturday, August 2, will stop in Loano, the summer tour of Cristiano De Andrè, promoted by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano and organized by the I.So THeatre.
At 9:30 pm, Cristiano De André will be in concert in the’Prince's Garden Summer Arena with “Way of Mutual Love - Live Tour 2014.”, which marks the artist's live return after winning the 64th Sanremo Festival of the Critics“ Award ”Mia Martini" and the award “Sergio Bardotti” for best lyrics, with the song “Invisibili.”.
Cristiano De André will perform on the Loano stage his hits(from “Behind the Door” to “Things I Forget”)and songs from his latest album “As in heaven so in war (Special edition)”(from “Invisibili” to “Il cielo è vuota” to “Non è una favola”), as well as some of Faber's masterpieces that have now become part of Cristiano's live repertoire(from “Il pescatore” to “Creuza de ma,” to “La canzone dell'amore perduto”), in a concert that promises to be full of intense emotions.
On the tour, multi-instrumentalist Cristiano De André will be accompanied by Osvaldo Di Dio (guitars), Massimo Ciaccio (bass) and Davide Devito (battery).
“As in Heaven so in War (Special edition)” (Nuvole Production/Universal Music Italia)is the reissue of Cristiano De André's album released in 2013, and also contains the two songs presented at the 64th Sanremo Festival “Invisibili ”and “Il cielo è vuoto.”.
This is the tracklist: “Invisibles,” “The Sky is Empty,” “Not a Fairy Tale,” “Drawings in the Wind,” “Believe Us,” “My Being Good,” “The Wind Will Blow,” “Naive and Romantic,” “Blood of My Blood,” “Living,” “Tiredness,” and “The Dumpster Doll.”.
Released 12 years after “Scaramante” and after the extraordinary success of “De André sings De André vol. 1 & 2,” “As in heaven so in war” is characterized by a great deal of research work, both on words and sounds. To record it, Cristiano flew all the way to California, to Berkeley, where he recorded in the legendary Fantasy Studios entrusting the production and arrangements to Corrado Rustici, who masterfully enriched the songs with world scents and enveloping sounds that enhance lyrics full of meaning and pathos. He availed himself of the collaboration of a well-rehearsed team of musicians: bassist and drummer, Kaveh Rastegar and Michael Urbano, who by now enjoy a fair amount of popularity even in Italy for being Ligabue's rhythm section; while the pianist is a session man of clear renown already working alongside the likes of Sting, Stevie Wonder, Elton John and the late Whitney Houston. Cristiano has played violin, bouzouki and acoustic guitar.
The songs that make up “Come in cielo così in guerra” (the unreleased tracks plus the Italian version of Noir Désir's “Le vent nous portera”) are direct and immediate, and they strike from the first listen. But with each subsequent listen, one discovers an unprecedented detail, a nuance, a sound that was missed the first time around.
The title of the record is a way of saying enough is enough to the too many distortions that characterize our society. Enough of castes, dishonest people, a certain kind of corrupt politics, the distortions of globalization. Cristiano talks about the difficulty of living: his own, telling us about his inner torments with wide autobiographical glimpses (“Drawings in the Wind,” “My Being Good,” “Naive and Romantic,” “Blood of My Blood,” “Living”), and more generally broadening the view to what is happening in the society around us. Listen to “It's Not a Fairy Tale,” “Believe Us,” “Tiredness,” “The Dumpster Doll,” and you will realize that it spares nothing and no one: banks, the church, the media subculture, the commodification of sex and even souls.
Price Tickets: Full 23 euro, Reduced 21 euro
Ticket sales and presale
Lollipop records - Via Garibaldi 64, Loano - tel. 019-675488
Central Bar, Italy Square, Loano
Box office opening at the Prince's Garden Summer Arena
on the day of performance from 8 p.m.
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