MARINI Giovanna con BRESCHI Francesca
L'Italia in lungo e in largo

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Giovanna Marini, accompanied by the splendid voice of Francesca Breschi, has reworked and recorded twenty-one songs for this “historic” anthology, in which she has collected some of the most well-known pieces of her vast musical catalogue. “Lamento per la morte di Pasolini” and “I treni per Reggio Calabria”, “Ragazzo gentile”, “Io vorrei” and many more tracks in her innovative style, a precursor to rap, that Marini has been using since the Sixties. The album is completed by the addition of several pieces by well-respected songwriters from the Italian folk music tradition, like Fausto Amodei, Matteo Salvatore and Caterina Bueno. Two great voices and a guitar. Twenty-one tracks. A great piece of Italian folk music history.

Giovanna Marini, accompanied by the splendid voice of Francesca Breschi, has reworked and recorded twenty-one songs for this “historic” anthology, in which she has collected some of the most well-known pieces of her vast musical catalogue. “Lamento per la morte di Pasolini” and “I treni per Reggio Calabria”, “Ragazzo gentile”, “Io vorrei” and many tracks in her innovative style, a precursor to rap, that Marini has been using since the Sixties. The album is completed by the addition of several pieces by well-respected songwriters from the Italian folk music tradition, like Fausto Amodei, Matteo Salvatore and Caterina Bueno.

This is an album that captures the emotions and tells the story of a poetic Italy that is very much alive, “in lungo e in largo” (“all over the country”) as the title suggests, through a selection of stories and songs that have gained a sense of urgency, to sing and to be listened to now!
These songs are an important
part of my immense musical archive. Actually, I don’t know whether to even call them songs, maybe not. They are dialogues, memories, events that have struck me, ideas that have come out of those experiences.
I was travelling, and I still do, all over Italy. It’s a country rich in stories that are quite diverse, like its people.
And I draw lots of emotions and lots of surprises from them. I can’t seem to sing and talk about my own things; I prefer to tell other people’s stories, and consider them my own."
Giovanna Marini