Monday, July 7, 2008

How To Get Shiny Pokemon

“Quarant’anni cantati. Canzoni e vita dell’ultimo cantastorie” (libro – Edizioni Il Campano, Italia 2008): il libretto rosso dei pensieri (scomodi) di Pino Masi.


There is a story yet to be written, as well as the celebrations and revisionism on Sixty-eight of these months. A glorious history, hard, suffering, with little satisfaction for his players who have now lost hope of being compensated by the official story, one that ends up in books and is the subject of recurring conferences and television lounges. A minority history, born out of illegitimate because also the channels of political parties and the vibrant "of origin" linked to the Communist Party of the time.

Pino Masi Take, for example, "storyteller" is defined as years, but certainly agitator, intellectual proletarian, artist tout-court. A true hero, at least for us, with a life behind without compromise and thirty processes to load.
Yet those who know it? How many remember him among the leaders of the seventies, as an organizer of the Canzoniere Pisano, the club in October, the songbook of the proletariat and close relations with Workers Power, author of memorable songs like "Ballad of the Compass" (the first lead I seen in my life was there, and they were the shots of the police, other than a dispute referred to the Years of Lead ... ")," Violence ", the" Ballad of the Fiat "," Workers' Power, "" Release all "," The time of a gun "?

I suoi dischi non si trovano più da anni (e quando si trovano, considerati oggetti da collezionismo, hanno valutazioni da capogiro…) tanto che si è trovato costretto recentemente a rieditarseli da solo, riversando in digitale i pochi vinili rimastigli…
L’abbiamo incontrato a Pelago, nell’ambito del ventennale del Busker Festival, dove ci trovavamo invitati dall'intraprendente, geyser-man Bruno Casini a dire la nostra sulla contestazione in Italia, ed è stato l’incontro per noi più emozionante, più disorientante.

In una conferenza quasi improvvisata, Pino Masi ha raccontato di sé in quegli anni, di cosa è stata per lui la contestazione, di cos’è vivere in un paese che ha lasciato che si eliminassero Pinelli, Pasolini, Rostagno senza voler perseguire i mandanti reali. Com'è stato sopravvivere al loro ricordo, allo strupro di storie, vite, affetti cercando di trovare un senso nel continuare a raccontare la storia del Paese "dal basso".

"Anni di dure provocazioni", scrive Masi, "di vili aggressioni e pestaggi, di omicidi mirati, di orrende stragi, di atroci montature e pressioni, avevano trasformato noi 'figli dei fiori' non violenti e vegetariani, noi assertori e felici praticanti del Love&Peace... in 'lottatori continui': eroi amati ma poi, prestissimo, braccati and stressed. How many love songs I wrote, which I love - I wonder now - if I had not written for defense? What - really 'other' - questions I was trying, if not stressed by the events? "(P. 83)

And again: "(...) Dragged to defend them from terrorism, we became some 'bad' in almost As they and others do not, but who calls them 'leaden years' ... we must remember that these were years of love and joy of life and true friendship, those of our younger years. Before violence was one of them thrashing in '67 (to peaceful gatherings of young people against the Vietnam War). First was the lead against us in the bush, in '68. Terrorism was only one of their bombs, from '69 until '93. This is history, the rest is disinformation: revisionism and dirty propaganda "(p. 84).

Even Masi, in a sense, was killed. While survived all these years, he has been deprived of the freedom of expression , removed the material opportunities to continue to denounce the "bourgeois power" and continue talking, as he says, "the people".
"I live on charity," he said without embarrassment. "I have to go and sing in local Tenco's songs, and De Andrè Guccini ...".
awkward, ideas, direct, spit in the face of the establishment, was isolated, and then weakened, even from that universe that he had found in one of the most courageous and lucid in those years.

Caused by a direct application of the public ("Can you tell us something about your relationship with the Institute De Martino?"), Masi preferred to writing off the end of the introductory essay to his songs, collected in a publication distributed by some months (this is the fourth edition of a songbook published in 2000), reading words with strong voice uncomfortable, unambiguous, that can not fail to reflect:

"Out of the teeth (and only with extreme pain and to uncover the specific mechanisms , small or large or very large, which kill an artist, a poet, a storyteller) means now here, for example, to remember that the navy (in '68, author of a fabulous LP against American culture, but still registered at SIAE) in forty years I have never wanted to give a penny of the rights of all the songs composed and recorded by me from '66 to '75 (which she received because, on its proposal, which I received a verbal promise in front of her, she recorded all in his name - the pseudonym Vitavisia - because I was not writing to the SIAE and she said, I would spend the share of the profits) to my complaints (and thus further damage) now says that around the earnings that are dalle mie cose sono talmente esigui che in quaranta anni non si è ancora ripagata dalla fatica della trascrizione!

Ovvio che questo della Marini è solo un piccolo esempio di pratica pidocchieria, ci sono altri esempi più grandi, da vomito, che non posso tacere. Che ne pensa ad esempio il nostro Lettore di Paolo Pietrangeli? Nel ’68 egli scrisse e cantò “Contessa” sugli stessi palchi dove io pure cantavo ed ha, ora da anni, mutato mestiere: regista del super squallido Maurizio Costanzo (‘ex’ piduista) Show e seguenti, sulla antenne Mediaset del noto (‘ex’ piduista) Silvio ‘Bandana’. Feci bene allora io, preveggente, (ero sul stage next to him at Pisa in '68, in Wisdom, with the courtyard full of students, as historical photos available, and sang a song in two turns for one) to tell him that he had the leather boots with zipper to be true bourgeois and, then, I did not like his song: he had just sung his "Countess" and I - from serious storyteller - I told him (during the applause, then touched back to me and not stealing time or scene) that his singing "Take the hammer and sickle bring / drop down to the streets / beaten with that!" reminded me of the 'Let us arm ourselves and lots "of jokes about Benito Mussolini.

Non so – infine – se avrò la capacità di far capire qui tutta la delusione e il disappunto da me provati quando una amica che scrive per l’Unità mi ha informato che non poteva più inserire i testi delle mie vecchie ballate in un libro-inserto del giornale (come prima mi aveva detto di voler fare) perché le a me allora ignote edizioni “Ala Bianca” pretendevano troppi soldi per la loro pubblicazione.
Fui costretto a dover scoprire a causa di chi dovevo stavolta vomitare (io che da quei testi non ho mai preso una lira): il noto cantastorie Ivan Della Mea, da tempo capo del Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano (dalla scomparsa di Gianni Bosio e Pier Paolo Pasolini), si era venduto ma non so per quanto i diritti di pubblicazione di tutto il catalogo dei Dischi del Sole (da noi inciso senza alcuna ricompensa, ai tempi che Gianni Bosio lo compilava per darlo in uso al nostro popolo!).
Benedetto Iddio, mi viene ora da dire sempre fuori dai denti, non poteva accontentarsi – il piccolo uomo – di essersi preso dopo la morte di Gianni la direzione del suo istituto? Doveva appropriarsi (per venderlo o svenderlo per quattro soldi) del frutto del nostro lavoro, che avevamo voluto donare a tutti?” (pagg. 32-34).

Nella Storia ufficiale, si sa, c'è sempre qualcuno che vince e qualcuno che perde. L'Istituto De Martino - con Ivan Della Mea che di tanto in tanto ironic provocations launched by the Left Manifesto - it seems we can not discuss: an institution is, in fact, and is already a miracle that there is, after all.
But the film's release in the history of Discs Luke Shepherd Of The Sun (Fandango, 2004), writing (see http://www.lucaferrari.net/articolo.php?ID=179) that there was something that does not convince us in the reconstruction, defeated by an atmosphere of complacency that sounded a bit 'too out of tune ...

(July 7, 2008)


● DISCOGRAPHY PINE MASI:

( The Canzoniere Pisano )

Canzoniere Pisano - "Songs for workers' power" (EP - Blades of the Sun DS 67, 1967)
"Mario Piaggio", "Seven years ago," the Gino Pignone, "Olivetti Master" "Stornelli Pisa.

Canzoniere Pisano - "That night in front of the compass" (EP - Blades of the Sun DS 69, 1969)
"Oct. 15 at Saint Gobain," "Nation Telegraph printing master," "The girasullo" "That night in front of the compass."


( The Canzoniere of the Proletariat )

"The Ballad of Fiat" (A. Bandelli), "Violence" (A. Bandelli), "The Ballad of Pinelli" (P. Masi)
( 45giri - Lotta Continua LC 1, 1970)

"December 12" (LP - LP CO Circle October 01, 1970)
soundtrack of the short film directed by John Bonfanti brainchild of Pier Paolo Pasolini (screenplay Bonfanti and Goffredo Fofi).
"That" 12 December ", the film of which I speak, my dear patient reader, is the only one, among those of Pier Paolo Pasolini, of which - even now as I write - you can not find in Italy do not say the film, but not the title ... among many filmographies accurate "(P. Masi, P.. 78)
In reality, only have two in-depth articles on the genesis of the film site dedicated to Pasolini "Pages Progress" (http://pasolini.net/) within the "Cinema", but there is a version restored by the Fund Pier Paolo Pasolini "(36 minutes) on MySpace at: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=30814941

“Proletari in divisa”
“Da quando son partito militare”, “Questa prigione è scura”, “Ti ringrazio ministro”
(45giri – Lotta Continua LC2, 1971)

“Lotta Continua”, “L'ora del fucile”, “Compagno Saltarelli noi ti vendicheremo”
(45giri – Lotta Continua LC3, 1971)

"L'Internazionale proletaria"/"Se c'è la crisi per il padrone"/"Sarete voi padroni ad emigrare"
(45giri – Lotta Continua LC4, 1971)

“Liberare tutti”/ “Trenta luglio alla Ignis”
(45giri – Lotta Continua LC5, 1971)

"Prendiamoci la città"/"Tarantella di via Tibaldi"
(45giri – Lotta Continua LC6, 1971)

"Scade la ferma"
(45giri – Lotta Continua LC7, 1972)

"Quando verrà Lenin"
(45giri – Lotta Continua LC8, 1972)

Le canzoni della lotta armata in Irlanda:
"Libera Belfast "/"No! Nessuno mai ci fermerà"/"I volontari of Bogside "
(45giri - Lotta Continua LC9, 1972)

" Look here, 'Gioan, if you ricordet "
(45giri - Lotta Continua LC10, 1972)

" The Ballad Franco Serantini "/" There is no try "
(45giri - Lotta Continua LC 14, 1972)


( a soloist )

" Comrade seems like yesterday "(LP - I Dischi del Sole DS 1075/77, 1976)

"In Search of Mediterranean mother" (LP - Cramps Records CRSLP5401 / 1, 1977)
Registrato con il Tribal Karma Art Ensemble: Pino Masi (voce, chitarra, percussioni, tastiere), Rafael Garrett (clarinetto, flauto, basso), Roberto Della Grotta (basso), Lucio Fabbri (violino), Luca Cecchetti (percussioni)

Canzoni scaricabili gratuitamente all'indirizzo :
http://www.inventati.org/mp38/show_dir.php

Info e acquisto copie del libro :
info@campano.it

Contatti con Pino Masi :
telefono: 3491336907
http://www.repubblicapisana.it  

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