Noi, come fiumi
Posted in Folk Music, Canzone on Apr 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Angelo Branduardi is my favourite contemporary Italian singer. He’s my generation too. His songs are a mix of rock, folk and ancient music, about vague inner yearnings for a better, unrealisable world or a perfect love. There was lot of it about in the 1960s. Sometimes it’s a bit much, but a glass or two of wine releases the inner bonds of constraint and the ancient hippy in me rises to the surface. Here’s one of his best.
‘We’re rivers running to the sea, divided, yearning for each other, searching blindly, like rivers running to the sea.’
