Nicolò FABI awarded by VxL Voci per la Libertà as absolute winner of "A song for Amnesty 2020"_Live unplugged video song"Io sono l'altro"

In 2013 the singer, song writer & guitarist Nicolò Fabi won the most prestigious Italian Award for intellectual music which is the "Premio Tenco" with his album entitled "Ecco". 

In the year 2012 he has been guest star at Voices for Freedom - Amnesty International Italia. Now it's the turn of his victory at the same Festival/Contest & event. Nicolò Fabi has been prized the absolute winner of the Stars Session of the Festival "Una canzone per Amnesty - Voci per la Libertà" 2020, 23rd edition which took place from July 31 to August 2 in the outside Arena of the Congress Centre in Rosolina Mare - Rosapineta (RO, Italy). 

The reason is to be found in the lyrics of his song "Io sono l'altro" (I am the other one) which deepened in the topic held by the Association VxL on Human Rights, this time considering "the other" not necessarily different for his social, ethnic, religious, politic diversity but from being, reasoning, behaving differently from ourselves. As we should love differences, diversity is not the same concept. Diversity can rather be found in selfish behaviours, in the absence of confrontation, in the lack of sharing, in the incapability to listen & learn, in the blindness in front of the needs of other people, prevarication always under the flag of the well known quotation "Mors tua vita mea". 

The other is someone "either" than myself who, at the very end, could be just me seen by someone else or from another perspective...In other words: I am the other one, who thinks differently from you. But what you see is just my clothes. Then let's wear them, go around and you will see how if feels…

We have recorded the video of his song live on the spot,fading in also some stage photos of this musician, taken in different moments of his performance which can be considered a generous half a concert.

The magic intense atmospheres Fabi can create when he performs live, have been well beyond our expectations. His moods, harmonics & style totally merged in the meaning of what he sings, his voice, his so touching lyrics moved the whole audience and many broke into tears while he was performing some songs of his repertory. 

We personally think Fabi is even more appreciable live than in studio recordings... What he gives & lends in acoustic live, unplugged & solo with just his guitar, is an amazing experience, very strong and moving...

For this reason with pure passion we have been engaging our whole time as independent photoreporters at this festival in recording the videos of his performances and shooting him. 

More is yet to come and will be published in our Youtube channels. All our videos are NOT monetized & shared with the public for no-profit for the passion we have to scout or promote quality music and to sensibilize people to some important nowadays topics through music, especially when it applies to Human Rights.

The prized song, "Io sono l'altro", is taken from 

the album "Tradizione e tradimento" issued in Fall 2019 

& is available on all the music platforms: https://pld.lnk.to/TradizioneETradimento 

Label: UMG (on behalf of Universal Music Italia Srl.); BMG Rights Management (US), LLC & 2 more. 

Artist: Nicolò Fabi Meet the artist on: www.niccolofabi.it 

The music video & motion of the prizing of Nicolò Fabi, live recorded, will be broadcasted in première tonight, Thursday August 20 at 8:00 pm Italian time (+2 GMT) and from tonight on visible to everyone.

 

LYRICS (N. Fabi):   

Io sono l'altro sono quello che spaventa, sono quello che ti dorme nella stanza accanto 

Io sono l'altro puoi trovarmi nello specchio, la tua immagine riflessa il contrario di te stesso. 

Io sono l'altro sono l'ombra del tuo corpo sono l'ombra del tuo mondo,

quello che fa il lavoro sporco, al tuo posto.      

Sono quello che ti anticipa al parcheggio e ti ritarda la partenza, 

il marito della donna di cui ti sei innamorato 

sono quello che hanno assunto quando ti hanno licenziato                                             

Quello che dorme sui cartoni alla stazione sono il nero sul barcone 

sono quello che ti sembra più sereno perché è nato fortunato o solo perché ha vent'anni in meno 

Quelli che vedi sono solo i miei vestiti adesso facci un giro e poi mi dici E poi…

Io sono il velo che copre il viso delle donne ogni scelta o posizione che non si comprende.   

Io sono l'altro quello che il tuo stesso mare lo vede dalla riva opposta, io sono tuo fratello, quello bello. 

Sono il chirurgo che ti opera domani, quello che guida mentre dormi     

Quello che urla come un pazzo e ti sta seduto accanto, il donatore che aspettavi per il tuo trapianto.   

Sono il padre del bambino handicappato che sta in classe con tuo figlio 

il direttore della banca dove hai domandato un fido, 

quello che è stato condannato,  

il presidente del consiglio.                                                                                                                      

Quelli che vedi sono solo i miei vestiti adesso vacci a fare un giro e poi mi dici 

e poi mi dici,   mi dici   e poi mi dici,   mi dici.  E poi…

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More photos on Voci per la Libertà in the various yearly editions can be watched on our Flickr albums: 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/vintage_events_italy/albums 

 

Editorial written by #AEupani

Web diffusion: Stefano Wolf

Rome: Summertime Jazz Festival, 1st – 31st July 2009

Summertime, a jazz festival that takes place every year in Rome, is one of the main events organised at the “Casa del Jazz” (jazz house).

The Casa del Jazz in Rome, which was inaugurated few years ago in Villa Osio, a property which had been confiscated from the boss of the Magliana gang Enrico Nicoletti, has soon become a landmark for jazz musicians and lovers. The Casa del Jazz, which arises in a beautiful park, includes various spaces which are all meant to promote the knowledge of jazz music and to host concerts and recording sessions. In the three buildings that make up the Casa del Jazz, indeed, there are a professional recording studio, a library that hosts audio-video material and Italian and international jazz magazines and books, an audiovisual archive where you can find the recordings of the concerts that have taken place in the Casa del Jazz, and last but not least an auditorium with approximately 150 seats that hosts live concerts, but also films projections, lectures on the history of jazz, listener’s guide for those who are not expert, press conferences, records and books presentations, workshops and master classes. The ideal place for all jazz lovers, who often plan their holidays in Rome just to immerse themselves in their favourite music.

Summer is certainly the best period to visit the Casa del Jazz: for some years the beautiful park of Villa Osio has hosted Summertime, an important jazz festival featuring the best Italian and international jazz musicians. Jazz music will be played throughout July, thanks to a series of concerts that have already convinced many jazz lovers to book hostels in Rome. The festival will kick off on the 1st of July with “The Unknown Rebel Band”, featuring piano player Giovanni Guidi, which tells stories of freedom, rebellion and justice through music, and will then go on with “Giovani leoni europei” (young European lions), a project realised with the help of some European institutions that will bring on the stage of the Casa del Jazz young Italian, Swedish, Dutch and German musicians. One of the aims of the festival, and more in general of the Casa del jazz, is supporting young talented musicians, besides hosting jazz icons. And famous jazz players will not miss in the festival: the audience of Villa Osio will enjoy the music played by important artists like Baptiste Trotignon, an excellent piano player that will play in a quintet made of some of the most interesting musicians of New York’s scene, Italian Enrico Pieranunzi, American trumpeter Dave Douglas, who will perform with the Brass Ecstasy, a homage to Lester Bowie and his Brass Fantasy, and many more.

Other events that you cannot miss include the performance of Leo Pantarei, an Italian percussionist participating in the Omparty project who plays a very original kind of music, the concert of the trio lead by piano player Marc Cary, which plays acoustic jazz mixing different music traditions (Afro-American, Indian, Western African and Native American’s), and the performance of the Sinenomine Ensemble, which is characterised by a thorough research on folk music, sounds and vocality.

Do not miss this event: book now a hotel in Rome.


Date: 1st – 31st July 2009
Location: Casa del Jazz, Rome, Italy



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