Eleven years after Pino Daniele’s disappearance, his music returns to the centre of a project that tries to reread its heritage through a different perspective. “Keep On Movin’ – Rediscovering the music of Pino Daniele” was born as a tribute to one of the most influential and original Italian singers, able to build a musical language in which they live Neapolitan song, blues and jazz.
The project was presented yesterday at the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, a reference space for the promotion of Italian culture in the United States. “We are here at Casa Zerilli-Marimò, an important space for Italian and American culture,” says Chiara Izzi, voice of the project. “For us it is also a symbolic place, because Pino Daniele had performed here before a sold out concert at the Apollo Theater”.
The initiative was born by Nicola Corso, creator of the project and bassist on stage, with the aim of returning new life to the repertoire of Daniele. «My husband and I Nicola Corso wanted to bring back the music of Pino Daniele in a new key». “With different arrangements, but also choosing not so well known songs, of the small hidden gems”.
The approach is not that of the nostalgic tribute. Rather than faithfully reproduce the original sound, the project chooses to move away from the most recognizable elements of the universe of the Italian singer.
In program eight songs: And while ago, Lazzari felici, Baccalà, Star bene a half, Il mare, Assaje, Cammina and Bambina. The songs were selected to offer an overview that keeps together the most beloved and least frequented songs by the general public. A choice that, according to Izzi, reflects well the richness of Pino Daniele’s repertoire. “In his music there are many worlds: there are songs of love, lighter songs, but also important themes such as social injustice and the value of the roots”.
However, if you indicate the song that you feel most tied to, the singer has no doubt. «I asked myself to enter the ladder Stay well in half», he says. «It is a later Pino Daniele, from the nineties, that I love a lot. It is a song of love that speaks of missed opportunities, of all those things that we would like to say to someone but that we cannot say for fear of expose ourselves”.
More than just a commemorative tribute, “Keep On Movin” is an invitation to listen again to Pino Daniele.
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