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'Stories and loves of anarchy' with drawings by Sergio Staino

Songs and events that tell an idea of ​​freedom and revolt in the volume with CD by Sergio Secondiano Sacchi

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The fourth volume of the series

"I libri del Club Tenco"

, published by Imilibri,

confirms that "songs do not fan revolutions" but certainly the transformations that affect a society and the feelings that accompany them can be told with great effectiveness.

, has the ambition to retrace, in 21 songs, the events that fueled that idea of ​​freedom and revolt that has gone down in history as anarchy.

Signed by

Sergio Secondiano Sacchi

and with drawings by

Sergio Staino

, respectively artistic director and president of the Club Tenco di Sanremo,

'Stories and love of anarchy'

deals with the continuous metamorphosis of an ideal of which over the centuries there have been several incarnations to depending on the contexts and the protagonists.

From the cathartic ideal of the hymn of the revolt, with the messianic hopes of rebirth to new life in Lunigiana at the end of the nineteenth century, we move on to more concrete positions within the trade union world of the Industrial Workers of the World, from illegalism of Buenaventura Durruti and the Solidarios to the bloody action of the Bonnot gang, from the tension towards a collective political project to the solitary gesture of a "train launched against injustice":

twenty-one love stories

, in short,

for many possible types of anarchy.

Retracing the events evoked in the songs, the book reconstructs a very lively cultural and political climate that, from the Paris Commune, reaches almost to the present day, focusing on the deeds of authors who have entered arrogance into revolutionary mythology, from Joe Hill to Pietro Gori up to Giuseppe Pinelli, without neglecting the "anonymous comrades" who contributed to nurturing that ideal.

Extending also to not very well known realities, such as that of Argentine anarchism, the story dwells on the intertwined legacies of the Great War which, with the birth in Europe of totalitarian regimes, will lead to the defeat, in Spain, of armies composed of fighters of different nationality, but supported by hopes never dom.

At the origin of the volume there is a show

Cançons d'amor i d'anarquia

, presented for the first time at the Teatre Joventut in Barcelona and then resumed also in Italy: and the vivacity and strength of a live is felt in the attached CD to the volume, made entirely with live recordings in the different contexts that hosted the show, of which the director Carlos Benpar also made a documentary film.

Compact and assorted the cast that includes Italian, Spanish and English performers to highlight the international breath of a movement that knew no borders, having the whole world as a homeland:

Juan Carlos Biondini, Silvia Comes, Vittorio De Scalzi, Dani Flaco, Julyen Hamilton, Joan Isaac, Alessio Lega, Olden, Anna Roig, Wayne Scott, Scraps Orchestra and Peppe Voltarell

i.

Passionate and engaging interpretations, theirs, with an excellent recovery of the sounds and not a few novelties among which a Catalan version of Francesco Guccini's Locomotiva, a trilingual version (Italian, Catalan and French) of the Canzone del Maggio by Fabrizio de André, a choral reprise of Here's to you by Joan Baez and Ennio Morricone and some Spanish songs little or nothing known in Italy.

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