…e poi viene un giorno
che a guardarlo passare
sembra il giorno di un altro
e di un altro le cose da fare
e di un altro la voce
e anche l’ombra sui muri
e di un altro anche i fiori
che ho preso per te
e sono fiori d’inverno
ma per un’altra stagione
oppure un altro ricordo
che adesso non so
nient’altro che fiori
cosa vorranno mai dire
a guardarli di nuovo
non dicono più
perché viene un giorno…
—Gianmaria Testa, “Nient’altro che fiori”
And then there comes a day that, to watch it pass, seems the day of someone else, of someone else the things to do, of someone else the voice, even the shadows on the walls, and even these winter flowers that I gathered for you. And they’re winter flowers, but for some other season, or for some other memory, of what now I don’t know—nothing but flowers, whatever might they mean? As I look at them again, they say no more. Because there comes a day…
Great news, New Yorkers: Gianmaria Testa will make one of his rare visits to the United States on 25 May, playing Joe’s Pub with flugelhorn virtuoso Paolo Fresu.
Gianmaria’s 1999 CD Lampo, a masterpiece bathed in moonlight and haunted by time’s dizzying rush, has been reissued (including English-language texts this time around).
“Nient’altro che fiori,” from Altre latitudini, features, among others, the great trumpeter Enrico Rava, one of the sexiest men on the planet, who plays Birdland 20–23 February along with pianist Stefano Bollani and other crack musicians. Rava and Bollani have a new ECM CD, The Third Man.
Ti segnalo la strana coppia Bollani-Fava (ho scritto Fava ...e non Rava!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJuF2iwnrCs&feature=related
Posted by: Cristiana | 22 February 2008 at 13:52