Enrico Fink: voice and flute
Paola Bortolotti: voice
Daniela Nocentini: clarinets
David Macinai: trumpet
Stefano "Grande" Batelli: baritone flugelhorn
Lorenzo Iosco: bass clarinet, soprano sax
Massimo Ferri: guitars
Arlo Bigazzi: bass
Sergio Odori: cajon, tapan, darrabuka, udu drums
Adriano "Nano" Checcacci: drums
Homeless. Homeless is the name of a wonderful but terrible song, sung by Paul Simon together with Ladysmith Black Mambazo in an album which made the history of world music.
Homeless are the invisible ones, crowding the streets of the richest cities.
Homeless means exile, homeless is the two thousand years of Jewish history.
But homeless can also be a state of mind, the free choice of refusing to root in a fixed place.
Utopia: we are guests, not owners, of this Earth. Even though we do not remember it often enough, it's the word of the Bible, of the book that should unite peoples who continue, instead, to fight each other in the name of flags, of homelands, sometimes in the name of that same book...
Homeless is the music of this show. It starts from the long history of Jewish tradition, but does not stop, not even in that exiled home. It runs towards a goal that is the running itself.
It runs and rushes along, between people and genders and cultures, between dances, street music, dancing music, fighting music, music of rage and music of joy.
And it won't stop, it won't find a home, not even on the stage: the band will come down between the audience, and the music will be a march, a run, a dance: towards that goal that is no goal, that home that is no home.
Homeless.
Here you can download a tune recorded live in a March 2006 concert: it's the classic klezmer tune "Firn di Mekhutonim Aheym". It's a waltz and it's a march, a wedding march: but a rather special wedding march, because it's not the march of the bride towards the wedding canopy - it's the march of the bride's parents, going home after the wedding. And the bride's parents are happy, sure: but also sad, because they are alone.
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