Comments (0) The concert in Fulelli was a night full of emotions. Actually I can not say anything more about it at this place. To read the full story click here, for pictures of the concert click here. The videos are of the new songs “Tu Mi Manchi” and “Peccatu”. Absolute stunning!
Stéphane Mangiantini
Jean-François Bernardini
Rizzanese in Corsica
The Rizzanese is an endangered river in southern Corsica. Since 2007 a 40 meter high dam is being under construction, which should be ready in 2012. The purpose of the dam is generating electricity. You can read all about it on this website, where you can still sign the petition.
I Muvrini has taken the fate of the river to their hearts. They support the protest campaign against the building. Prior to the Giru, they released a single CD with one song, the “Canzona di u Rizzanese”, and the instrumental version as well. Every evening at the Giru they played that song, that Jean-François Bernardini initiated with this text:
(…) cela est peut-être encore un peu plus vrai à l’heure où le Rizzanese, un des plus beaux fleuves du monde, qui fait partie de 3% des rivières absolument pures et intactes en Europe, à l’heure où le Rizzanese se meurt par la construction d’un barrage, puisque nous l’avons déçidé, puisque nous l’avons choisi. L’avons-nous fait en connaissance de cause? Pas si sur. Je n’ai certes pas de réponse, sauf que l’on pourrait songer au fait que le soleil pose en quinze minutes sur la planète l’équivalent de la consommation énergétique de la terre entière pendant un an. Ici ce n’est certes pas lae soleil qui manque – peut-être les yeux pour voir… Mais j’ai juste envie de dire que ça vaut peut-être le coup de s’accorder au chant des rivières et le plus défigurant ça pourrait être encore l’indifférence. Juste d’essayer de comprendre que les rivières ont quelque chose à nous donner et de bien plus grand, bien plus éternel que l’énergie électrique… Juste dire la tristesse, l’écoeurement aussi, devant cette plaie béante qu’est aujourd’hui la vallée du Rizzanese, avec des milliers d’arbres profanés et des forêts entièrement rasées par les bulldozers… Ecouter, écouter couler le chant de la rivière, sente cantà u fiume, sente cantà u Rizzanese – demain il pourrait peut-être nous manquer…
Cum’è una fata chì si chjina – comme une fée s’incline
Pè facci sparte lu so onore, un diume corre – pour faire partager tout son honneur, un fleuve coule
Cum’è ghjuvellu di favore un fiume corre – comme un joyau comme un faveur, un fleuve coule…
… un fiume corre… un fiume more…
Le 23 août prochain il y aura une journée “A canzona di u Rizzanese” in Zoza in Pruprià sarà un cuncertu pour que le Rizzanese ne reste pas orphelin de nos voix, même face à un chantier de deux cents millions d’euros… Mais tout l’or du monde ne rachètera jamais la richesse du Rizzanese…
(…) This is perhaps more true where the Rizzanese, one of the most beautiful rivers in the world; belonging to 3% of the cleanest and most pristine rivers in Europe; is currently dying because of the construction of a dam. A dam that we have decided and chosen to build. Did we fully, consciously make that decision? I certainly have no answer, except we might consider the fact that in fifteen minutes, the sun deposits an amount of energy on the planet that is equivalent to the global energy consumption during one year. And we are certainly not lacking in sunshine- but, perhaps we lack the eyes to be able to see it. But, I just want to say that it is perhaps worthwhile to try and sing along with the rivers, and that the most disfiguring part could be our indifference. Just trying to understand the rivers can give us something; something that is much bigger; something that is more timeless than electric energy…..Just talking about the sadness- the disgust, even, at the sight of the gaping wound that the valley of the Rizzanese has become today….with thousands of mutilated trees and forests cut down by bulldozers…Hear, hear the song of the flow of the river “sente cantà u fiume, sente cantà u Rizzanese” – tomorrow we might be missing him…
Cum’è una fata chì si chjina – Like a fairy bending down
Pè facci sparte lu so onore, un fiume corre – To make us share its dignity a river flows
Cum’è ghjuvellu di favore un fiume corre – Like a jewel, like a favor, a river flows…
The 23rd of the next August will be “A Canzona di u Rizzanese ” day. It will take place in Sozza (Propriano) with a concert allowing the voices of the Rizzanese to be heard. And even though it is in the presence of a construction site worth two hundred million euros … all the gold in the world can never, ever buy back the wealth of the Rizzanese …
Indeed, the concert in Propriano was dedicated to the Rizzanese. More on that later.
It seemed a good idea to me to start the new year with the conviction that we can still protect nature rather than damage it. Please sign the petition.
The following video was shot at the concert in Francardu, on August 21 during the Giru 2009. Below is the text of the translation of this beautiful song followed by the official video, the studio version of this song.
| Sottu à u celu chì macina | Under a restless sky |
| Cum’è una fata chì si chjina | Like a fairy bending down |
| Sin’ à l’arice di marina | Towards the seashore |
| Un fiume corre | A river flows |
| Un ci hè più fiore chì ùn la sà | There is no flower that does not know |
| Ogni funtana o trizinà | No source and no bird |
| Quì ci hè da pienghje pè àvà | From now on we just fell like crying this is a place to cry |
| In terra sacra sai o Mà | Do you know mama, on this sacred ground |
| Sò triste l’ore | it is a sad time |
| Pè facci sparte lu s’onore un fiume corre | To make us share its dignity a river flows |
| Cum’è ghjuvellu di favore un fiume corre | Like a jewel, like a favor, a river flows |
| Di paccutiglia è di parè pesanu un maghju pè un rè | From triviality and appearance they’re erecting a pylon for a king |
| U paradisu hà brusgià mettenu focu à u campà | The paradise will burn life itself is put to fire |
| Sò triste l’ore | It is a sad time |
| D’una traita un crepacore un fiume more | Because of a betrayal a heartache a river is dying |
| Cum’è una spada in lu so core un fiume more | Like from a sword in his heart a river is dying |
| S’è tù ci pensi à l’onde chjare ùn statti fora | And when you think of the bright waves, please do not stay outside |
| Di fà u mondu chì ci pare hè ghjunta l’ora | The time has come to build the world we dream of |
| Cum’è una terra chì si pesa | As a world rising high |
| Cum’è un sole cum’è un cantu anu da turnà | Like a sun like a song they will return |
| Cum’è una terra chì si pesa | Like a world rising high |
| I nostri cori i nostri andà i nostri venti anu da girà… | our roads our hearts, our ways our winds must change |
I Muvrini - Friends of the Rizzanese
If you are in Corsica in the first half of December, you’re lucky. Besides the concert in Biguglia on Friday, December 11, you can also hear Jean-François reading from his book Dicocorse. He will do so on Monday, December 14 at the theater in San Angelo, in the Rue Angelo in Bastia. The lecture will start at 21.00 hours. Tickets are available at Boutique Alexandre in Bastia and at the theater itself on December 11. The tickets cost 12 euros.
Take a look at the website of Dicocorse and deliver there your own special contribution as a real Dicocorseur!
Poster of Jean-François Bernardini's lecture
Jean-François Bernardini reads his Dicocorse
A benefit concert for the fight against cancer will take place in Biguglia in Corsica on Friday, December 11. I Muvrini will also occur there, along with Alain Abad, Rachel et Betty and Orizonte. If you have attended the concert of Muvrini in Saint Florent or Bastia on Corsica, then you might have seen Alain Abad as support act. Click here to watch a video of his performance in Bastia. You might know Orizonte of their contribution “U Studiente” on the double CD “Pour une Fondation de Corse”. Rachel et Betty is a comedy duo of which you can find several videos on the internet. Click here to watch a video of theirs with a persiflage of the beautiful song “L’anniversariu di Minetta” in the background. Too bad they talk through it!
The hall will open at 21:00 and tickets (€ 30) can be purchased at the Géant Casino in Furiani and Toga, Bastia: the jeweller’s Vanucci and Julien Dorcel, Boutiques Alexandre and at the hall on the night of the concert. That hall is the Saint Sébastien in Biguglia, which is located on Route National 193.
Message Corse Matin December 3 2009
The title of the new album of I Muvrini is "Gioia". The new single "Una Terranova" is a cooperation with Grand Corps Malade. The release of both items is scheduled on Monday, March 22. Click here to find more info about "Gioia" and how to order it online.
You can listen to sound bites of the I Muvrini songs on the websites of Fnac , Virgin and Apple's Itunes store. You can also buy their albums, books, and t-shirts in their digital shop. Click here to get there.
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