Caterina Valente bleibt ihren Grundsätzen immer treu, und so war sie auch hier nicht für ein Interview zu überreden. Sie hat es sich aber nicht nehmen lassen, Sohn Eric van Aro bei den Dreharbeiten der ARD Serie “Legenden” einen Besuch abzustatten. Zu sehen ist das Portrait über Caterina Valente am 18.04.2012 um 22.45 Uhr in der ARD
Cara Mina,
navigando su Internet ho scoperto uno straordinario patrimonio sommerso: Jula de Palma, Flo Sandon’s, Caterina Valente, Lucia Mannucci, che per modernità, talento e swing, spesso non hanno niente da invidiare alle colleghe d’Oltreoceano. La cosa che sorprende è la freschezza che questi pezzi conservano anche dopo mezzo secolo. Spesso leggo di persone che chiedono consigli per cantare, mi permetto di suggerire di andarsi a sentire un po’ questa “roba”. Un saluto affettuoso,
Lorenzo
Ciao Lorenzo, mi piacerebbe sapere che “strada” hai fatto per arrivare lì. Secondo me conoscevi già molto bene i nomi delle quattro cantanti che mi citi. Sono completamente d’accordo con te. Sono splendide e non temono confronti.
Ho un dolcissimo ricordo di Flo Sandon’s che ho visto la primissima volta che sono salita su un palco. Lei e il marito, il grande Natalino Otto, erano le star della serata. Io, sconosciutissima, cantavo con un gruppo cremonese, per la prima volta, appunto. Eravamo in una classica balera lombarda. Alla fine ricordo che mi dissero: “Lei farà strada”. La prima cosa che mi stupì fu il fatto che mi dessero del lei e poi pensai: “Questi due sono matti…”. Invece…
Jula, Cia, tutte brave. Ma Caterina Valente, che io chiamo maestra, è una musicista pazzesca. Pensa che ha inciso un disco come chitarrista addirittura con Chet Baker, figurati. Cercalo su youtube. E come voce, come padronanza rimane la più forte. Un bacio.
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CASTAGNOLA, Switzerland, Oct. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — When Eric van Aro read a European tabloid report that his mother, famed Italian singer Caterina Valente, had been hospitalized following a nervous breakdown — a patently false story — he knew he had to set the record straight. So van Aro (http://www.ericvanaro.com, http://www.eraki.com), an acclaimed singer and producer in his own right, did what he does best: he went into the recording studio. The result is the new deep house track EVIL GAMES (The Tabloid Song), a searing indictment of today’s “report first, ask questions later” style of tabloid journalism.
“Tabloids have always made up stories about my family. But the reports about my mother being hospitalized were particularly damaging because they had begun to be picked up by more mainstream news outlets,” van Aro explained. “Although they were completely untrue, these stories came out just as my mother was grieving the loss of her brother, my Uncle Pietro, and our family friend Peter Alexander. It was hurtful and unnecessary.”
EVIL GAMES is a cooperative effort between van Aro and Marco Finotello, one of Italy’s foremost house music composers and producers. Though van Aro’s lyrics are at times wry — “No news ain’t good news/So the papers say/Truth don’t matter/Lies are better/A malicious game” — his message is crystal-clear: those who distort truth for the sake of selling tabloids are playing a dangerous game with other people’s lives.
An energetic dance track set to an intoxicating house beat, EVIL GAMES marks van Aro’s 4th release on the deep house music scene. Though van Aro has a strong jazz background, his albums have spanned everything from country western to world beat. EVIL GAMES, however, may be his most personal work to date.
“Marco Finotello and I worked hard to make an irresistible deep house track with a message to a particular segment of the media,” said van Aro. “I hope EVIL GAMES helps raise awareness of the damage done when lies are passed off as news.”
EVIL GAMES (The Tabloid Song) is available internationally in The Original Mix, The Radio Edit, and The Deep Mix from iTunes, Amazon, and other digital music retailers. Watch the music video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKwaIsGHGn4. Learn more at http://www.ericvanaro.com and http://www.eraki.com.
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A demonic game — but those expecting something satanic from this song will be disappointed, even if the devil did have a hand in it.
Confused?
That is exactly what this is all about — the confusing headlines and tales told by the darker sides of the media, who like to loudly spread often invented, sensationalized stories that do not reflect the truth.
Got that?
“Only bad news is good news” is one of the most common principles applied in the world of news. And bad news that has just been invented is then dished up as questions, giving evil flight to new rumors.
Don’t you think that’s strange?
For Eric van Aro & Marco Finotello, this is all good reason to provide a humorous musical critique, accompanied by an intoxicating house beat, of the devilish games played by this segment of the press in their track “Evil Games”, which has been met with great enthusiasm and high praise by the international house music scene.
Curious?
As of September 23, three different mixes of EVIL GAMES will be available internationally from digital download stores such as iTunes, Amazon and others. Have a listen for yourself……
“Evil Games (Original Mix)” starts off with a low bass mid tempo synth beat, a perfect tempo for workout music . The singer’s voice is a low-baritone as if Frank Zappa and Barry White got together for a coffee conversation, and then decided to call it a DJ-set. The vague lyrics of the song have political overtones and are reflective of the economic and political uncertainty of the times: “No news aint good news so the papers say.” The vocal tone and quality when the lyrics “Evil games. Stop em playin’…” are sung, sounds strikingly similar to pop singer Seal’s breath-taking, soaring voice. The end of the song tails off into the wind with some fussy-sounding muted guitar fills and a drunken frenetic beat. The contemporary and soothing sounds would be a good fit for a movie drama scene or even a television commercial.
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