World is a Puddy Cake

Busker’s memoir

Should I stay or should I go?

1997 January 7th – Should I leave? It depends on who stands for you the other side! Thou hast thrown a life and borrowed nine more like cats, you can give checkmate even to Death if you stay in the game! The weak line becomes strong, you raze a castle to make way for a slum, why not? Look like a misty ghots on beach vacation, but you know that’s just a joke. Do not get hurt when you fall, remember? Leaving? Stay? Depends on what you have to do! Your crashed identity is just a surreal experiment of interior urbanistic project, an invisible city. Like Venice suspended between three worlds, sky, earth and water: a laboratory for neurotic architects, terrific open-air workshop. Can survive only if willing to change, to transform, to put constantly in challenge. Underground canals, cathedrals destroyed and sunk in the mire brackish, on Turks assault just remove the signs and get lost in the fog of lagoons, then you get behind a column and shout: “Buaw!”. See them running away … Inside the labirynth you are undisputed emperor, as long as you should not take yourself too seriously: just begin philosophize and see sprouting donkey ears. You’ll have to get used to.It seems impossible, but in front of that coffee you are a good fellow givin’ up his comfort to have a class, while under the clock tower you better seem a fine chansonnier for some futuristic theater. Inside winery and restaurants among holiday coasts you grow  a modernist composer looking for lush fourth, ninth, thirteenth harmonies, on your mute guitar neck; between the benches of jazz festivals you become a fooly anthropologist writing articles on bar napkins and bop poems ignoring the unbearable radio drone; Then you find yourself in red shirt under the arcades of central park yearnin’ to an excited crowd improbable digital revolutions. To change you clothes, just have to change your scenario, every day get up, open the book of fate and shuffle cards. Stay? Leaving? It depends on who you want to be! Throw the dice, move the towers, then go back and delete the account as waves erase a love letter on the sand. On a day like today. Leaving? Stay? As long as your life is just a dream, it will never be real … New Island, new adventure; remember it’s only a charmin’ game, the world a boundless trifle, an immense Toyland, a puddy cake … If not take it seriously, nothing serious can happen to you. — (Continua)

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One man band videos

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Gerardo Matos Rodríguez. La Cumparsita. Tango. Monghidoro, 2024
Anonimo XIX secolo, Gli scariolanti, Cà di Guglielmo Luglio 2023
Federico Berti e Fabio Galliani, Tacabanda e Ocarina, Giugno 2023
Cherubini-Fragna, Signora Illusione. Monghidoro, 2023
Filippini-Morbelli, Sulla Carrozzella. Loiano, 2022
Consuelo Velazquez, Besame Mucho. Rebecq, 2022
Federico Berti, Polka Sfregatette, Bazzano, 2023
Traditional, Morettina, Loiano, Bologna
Panzeri-Rastelli-Mascheroni, Papaveri e papere, Fidenza, 2019
Traditional, Il cacciator del bosco, Niksic, Montenegro
Nisa-Redi-Leonardi, Carovaniere, Official video, 2022
Traditional, Manfrina e Morettina, Bologna, 2017
Traditional, Polka montanara, Monghidoro, 2019
Bixio-Cherubini, Mazurka della nonna, Lastra a Signa, 2018
Traditional, Giga, Monghidoro, 2018
Eldo Di Lazzaro Reginella campagnola, Budrio, 2017
Bixio-Cherubini, La mia canzone al vento, Lognola, 2021
Traditional, La Cionfa, Monghidoro, 2021
Arlen-Harburg, Somewhere over the rainbow Monghidoro, 2021
Gershwin-Du Bose, Summertime, Corinaldo 2019
Traditional, Galoppa, Parade. Corinaldo, 2019
Casiroli-Rastelli, Evviva la Torre di Pisa, Bologna 2018
Frati-Raimondo, Piemontesina bella, Bagnarola di Budrio 2018
Bixio-Cherubini, Lucciole vagabonde, Bologna 2018
Federico Berti, La Torre del Serpe, Otranto 2018
Piazza Marino, Il ragazzo con tre fidanzate, Bazzano 2023
Simons-Marks, All of me, Modena 2022