(Italian Folk, World Music, Street Ballads, Beggar Songs) Matteo Salvatore - Chants de Mendiants en Italie / Lamenti di Mendicanti - 1988, FLAC (image+.cue) lossless

[ENG]
Matteo Salvatore first came to the belated attention of many American listeners via the wonderfully eclectic soundtrack to the movie "Big Night." His singing is not beautiful in a conventional sense, far from it; rather, his infinitely shaded manipulations of words and tone create an immediate and often disturbingly intimate communication with listeners, even when he is raucous, riotous, and improvisational.
[IT]
Matteo Salvatore, cantastorie, nato ad Apricena (Foggia) nel 1925. "Artigiano del folk", esporta sin dagli anni '50 le sue ballate in tutto il mondo ed è riuscito, nel corso della sua lunga carriera, ad attirare l'attenzione della critica più qualificata. Dotato di una voce originalissima, dal timbro acuto, tipico della vocalità popolare dell'area garganica, ricca di capacità affabulatorie, inizia a incidere dischi verso i primi anni '60, dove racconta in modo alterno storie di una Puglia fino ad allora sconosciuta, ricca di contraddizioni sociali ed economiche. Con il diffondersi dell'interesse per il folk revival cresce la popolarità di Salvatore che partecipa a numerosi festival in tutta la penisola, producendo una serie di dischi dove racconta, utilizzando le strutture formali ed esecutive tipiche del repertorio dei cantastorie, le vicissitudini di quegli anni, dall'emigrazione al nord, alle lotte contadine per la conquista delle terre. Personaggio fascinoso e contraddittorio, dalla vita burrascosa, è stato dipinto come il simbolo del cantore ribelle, ed è considerato "maestro" e punto di riferimento dalle successive generazioni di musicisti e gruppi "emergenti" che si rifanno alla tradizione culturale della terra di appartenenza.

Beautiful magical Folk voice from poor beggar who learned old songs on the streets, created his own songs. Poetic, beautiful voice. Simple in its arrangements, but straight from the heart.
Harmonia Mundi's Musique d'Abord series presents classic recordings from their legendary catalogue in a "no frills" format for a French audience. This release includes minimal notes but does provide sung texts, albeit with translations in French ONLY. The program, taken from an analog LP, is frustratingly brief. The sound is clear, and each track has a natural presence and ambience, but don't expect digital depth or brilliance.

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