I am always confronted with Eros Ramazzotti, when I speak with German friends of Italian music, at best, with Laura Pausini and a few yet know Tiziano Ferro or Gianna Nannini (with older people I talk at all about music, about Al Bano to escape). Usually it is then reserved my car radio, closer to my visitors at full volume that Italy certainly has a very lively, musically and lyrically great music scene that has nothing to do so with the fishermen of Capri and the like hit. In addition to the usual commercial crap are always observed absolutely fantastic singer & songwriter as Francesco de Gregori or unmatched Fabrizio Tues Andrè, politically oriented bands such as Banda Bassotti or disclose the following Modena City Ramblers, or regionally based musicians such as Davide van de Sfroos . And even commercially successful projects do not need to necessarily come artistically worthless, as the rap / crossover artists Articolo 31 or Jovanotti show for years.

Modena City Ramblers: Tues Un'giorno pioggia (sung by Alberto Morselli!)

The Modena City Ramblers are for me one of the most interesting and lively Italian-speaking groups of all time. Born in 1991 as an open group of friends of Irish folk music, the project has to date dozens of smuggled by members of the stage, brought 10 albums and thousands of live performances and convinced still with impressive versatility, unverblasster enthusiasm and impressive live performances. The name is of course intended as a tribute to the Dublin City Ramblers, where I am - especially in the early albums - more reminiscent of the Pogues and the Waterboys feel, and later Les Negresses Vertes and Mano Negra. Like the Pogues, the MCR modernization of traditional Irish and Celtic tunes driven by fusion of punk and ska elements to an extremely danceable version of the folk punk, but they - quite aptly - named Combat folk. Over time, especially under the influence of the fluctuating number of members, opened the musical spectrum the band of original Celtic, Irish and Scottish roots and influences, to klezmer and traditional Italian, South American and Balkan folk music. What remains is the endless versatility, the joy of playing, which can appear even studio recordings such as jam sessions, and the facility will be interwoven with the musical genres and styles together.

Modena City Ramblers: I 100 Passi

100 steps (Original title: I Cento Passi) is an Italian film by director Marco Tullio Giordana from the year 2000. The film depicts the life of the Italian politician and anti-Mafia fighter Giuseppe "Peppino" Impastato.

Broader audiences make the MCR first known as the opening act just that Pogues in 1992 in Modena, 1994 following a collaboration with Bob Geldof. 1997 Terra e Liberta appears strongly influenced by the members of the Patagonia trip "Cisco" (Stefano Bellotti), and Alberto and Giovanni to Mexico and Cuba, both clearly by the author Gabriel Garcia Marquez ("Cent'anni Tues solitudine"). The subsequent tour culminates in a concert in Cuba, with 100,000 listeners. Stylistically, one can note that the role-model clearly shifted towards Mano Negra and the pure Celtic roots of their music much more extended and international traditional music influences are subjected. After several new formations, side projects, exchanges of experiences, tours, and generally chaotic years in January 2008, the first appears on an international market-oriented album, "Bella Ciao - Italian Combat Folk for the Masses" from Universal (Italy: Mezcal), produced by Terry Woods and filled with newly arranged old photographs of the MCR, partly translated into English, as well as a new recording which clearly Irish-born "Roisin the Bow".

Modena City Ramblers: Tues Cent'anni solitudine

Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez, Gabriel is the story of the rise and fall of the Buendia family and the village was founded by her Macondo.

As already mentioned, I think the MCR for one of the most exciting musical projects italienischsprächigen room at all. Of course, it brings over the years, infinitely varied versatility with it, that no one complete discography alike can find good: From its beginnings as a loose association of lovers of Irish folk music meant to her current appearances as well known live band, the Ramblers always rather as an open project than a band in the traditional sense. I am personally with bands like the Pogues, the socialized New Model Army and the Waterboys, so I may just have been the early recordings around "Una Grande Famiglia" better, however the success of the Spanish-rooted albums still convinced of excellent musicianship.

Modena City Ramblers: La banda del sogno interrotto

Lowest common denominator remained the last 27 years of its existence, a very clear left-wing political position against Fascism, the Mafia and exploitation - as well as with the equally excellent Banda Bassotti . Favorites for all concerts are also very traditional labor songs, and songs like guerrilla warfare Bella ciao, Fischia il vento or Contessa. Here they are in addition to the above mentioned Banda Bassotti most beautiful in the tradition of great songwriters like Francesco de Gregori or early Alessio Lega, which I am determined to turn to the future once. In any case, it is not einzsuchätzen high enough that there are still bands

Modena City Ramblers: Canto di Natale

I want to write but not too much ... like the Italians saying goes "The proof of the pudding is in the eating" - look at the videos and get your own picture of the boys.

Modena City Ramblers at Wikipedia (German)
Modena City Ramblers at Wikipedia (Italian)
Official website of the Modena City Ramblers