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Angelo BranduardiAngelo Branduardi is an Italian pop singer and composer. Biography He was born December 12, 1950 in Cuggiono, Italy and was educated as a classical violinist. At the age of 18 he composed the music for the Hooligan's Confession, by Sergei Yesenin, still one of his finest songs. He is married to Luisa Zappa, who wrote the lyrics for many of his songs. Luisa and Angelo have two daughters, Sarah and Maddalena, both musicians. Works The beginnings Angelo's first album was never released, and resulted from a co-operation with Maurizio Fabrizio, composer and gifted performer. The first released album, Angelo Branduardi '74 was arranged with Paul Buckmaster. The minstrel La Luna is a prelude to the following works. Alla Fiera dell'Est (1976) was Angelo's first vastly popular album, followed by La Pulce d'Acqua (1978) and Cogli la Prima Mela (1979). In those albums Branduardi exploits themes and patterns from ancient music, mostly Renaissance and early Baroque. Lyrics have a broad spectrum of inspiration: a Danse macabre, the theme of Satan's mistress, Chinese, Native American and Druidic tradition, the apocryphal Gospels. Concertation owes much to the talents of Maurizio Fabrizio, and exploits unusual instruments for pop music: dulcimer, Pan flute, lute, clarinet, among others - mixed with more standard guitar-bass-and-drums. Experimentation and crisis Subsequent albums mark experimentation and differentiation. Branduardi (1981) has a more intimate tone, Cercando l'Oro (1983) a very sophisticated and delicate arrangement (starts with a String Quartet), Branduardi canta Yeats (1985) is a tribute to William Butler Yeats. Pane e Rose (1988) is a still inspired, but increasingly dark picture of life and death. 1991 with Il Ladro marks a very delicate point of Branduardi's life, edging on depression, echoed in a dark, almost cemeterial, style of singing. Back to life The album Si puó fare 1993 brings back Branduardi to normality, but the artist is now struggling to evade the minstrel character which is now too strict for him. In 1994 he publishes Domenica e Lunedì, dedicated to Franco Fortini. New directions In 1996, during the celebrations for the restoration of the Duomo of Spilimbergo after the catastrophic 1976 earthquake, he records the extraordinary album Futuro Antico, in which he poses as a early Baroque musician, reusing, mixing, wording pre-existing material along with his own. This experience, together with musicians and musicologists, will continue with Futuro Antico II and Futuro Antico III. In 1998 Branduardi teams with Italian stand-up comedian and writer Giorgio Faletti for Il Dito e la Luna. He reworks earlier musical themes with writings of and about St. Francis to produce L'Infinitamente Piccolo; he writes a musical on the same topic (Francesco). In 2003 a new album, Altro ed Altrove, in a time period marked by a rise of racism and intolerance, brings together (mainly) love stories from several cultures. External links Branduardi, Angelo Branduardi, Angelo Branduardi, Angelo Branduardi, Angelo
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