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Luciano Sartirana, ebullient Milanese film director and cinema teacher, informs us that Madrigale, his latest film, will take part in Venice Film Meeting 2007. VFM takes place in Venice alongside Venice Film Festival. The film will be shown on Tuesday 4th September at 3.30 p.m. at Astra theater. bring your dinner jackets, you may be rubbing shoulder with Keira Knightley for the happy hour. As proud authors of the end title’s soundtrack, we too deserve a few congratulations.
In the meantime, the website of Rossofuoco, the film production company of Davide Ferrario and of Mondine - From mother to daughter.

From Mother To Daughter

Playing Solfest was a lot of fun. British festivals, I had been told, are a totally separate experience. And it’s true: there is a great variety of music and activities, from puppets to raves, from children’s games to an indie music stage. And people are out to have some serious fun: many wear fancy dresses, so that the audience is crowded with superheroes, pirates, vikings, brightly coloured waliking beverage cans and even a dragon; and if the costume requires to stand half (or three quarters) naked in the rain with 12 Celsius, Brits are happy to call their Norman-Viking roots into action and just do it. When we went on (just before Badly Drawn Boy) the sun came out, a lot of people came from the whole area to rally at stage front and started to dance. Great fun! I hope to be back soon. I think we will.
Something funny: Chumbawamba ended their set with… Bella ciao!

The only Italian show of our summer tour 2007, Radicazioni festival, was really something different. The 700 sould of Alessandria del Carretto (”the highest village in the Pollino National Park”), together with about a thousand visitors, gave life to a real zampogna (the Southern bagpipes, as opposed to our Emilian piva) rave. Musicians from 10 to 80 years of age played until 6 in the morning, everyone danced like there was no tomorrow and in the raffle you could win a zampogna (first prize) and a live goat (second prize… I suppose you could make it into a zampogna!). I was almost shy of playing tunes in 4/$ to this crowd! The people to thank for this event are a group of village youngsters led by Paolo, student in Cosenza, a vague resemblance with young (Ernesto Che) Guevara. Really good, we northerners should learn from them!</lang_en>

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AAARGH! Paolino and I just wasted the night trying to work with the Onda ProTools sessions. Two machines, 4 hard drives, hours spent formatting, partitioning and browsing fora and knowledge bases, we tried everything short of calling in an exorcist, it’s all useless: DAE error -9131, the session loads but does not play back. Or it does, a little, but then jams again as soon as we try some relvant editing. Shame, I wanted to upgrade the show for our trip to England…

You bump into funny stuff hanging out in the web (in this case in Globalquerque’s website): the video of our show (2 years ago) at Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. There’s some rare&unreleased material, like the cover of Fabrizio De André’s Sidun and Immagina before Peter Walsh added his magic touch to the programming. The sound is too compressed, however.

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Through festival coordinator Steve Heath (you can read here his passionate account of the From mother to daughter Detroit experience) Rebecca Cook sends us some very nice pics of the show with Mondine. More, please…