DBT #394 Monday Morning Song - Santa Lucia
After the haunting of the blog, I updated the header picture to have the line "Dave's Eclectic Music Library - No Spotify Here" That's right, unless it's maybe a live video I recorded, the songs shared have to be in my possession. Yes only songs that I've bought, been gifted, or some in the past ripped from videos when not available to buy. I personally know buying used CD's and Vinyl in record stores doesn't get money back to the artists; but I can't do it all to restore their profit channel that Spotify and the clones have stolen from them.
All that pontification was because today's song pushes the boundaries of my library and of course I own the vinyl that I bought through a Bandcamp Friday. Italian music is just not in my library unless I acquired a Pavarotti record from someone else's library. (Yes there are many an album that I have been gifted, and yes I own this.) So when the Dallas paper said, "If the only Italian vocalist you know are Pavarotti and Bocelli, meet Amanda Pascali, a Texas singer-songwriter who takes an intriguing new approach to Italian music." Personally I would say the unique folky approach that makes me want to buy everything she puts out. She does call it Immigrant Folk, and explains it in this interview I did with her five years ago during the Great River Folk Fest songwriter contest.
Her recent Roses and Basil album is an incredible first vinyl release, of course I fell in love with her music first song "Hey Amorino" she submitted to the contest.
Today, she reimagines, or should I say retranslates Santa Lucia. The imagery she finds through her translation is nothing like Wikipedia say should be the words translated, and so entrancing. I've always how she moves gently between English and Italian. Here she is solo performing it...
