On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, “Francesco Guccini – Between the Via Emilia and the West”, the famous concert film shot in Piazza Maggiore in Bologna on 21 June 1984.
The event at the cinema will be an opportunity to relive all the emotions of that evening on the big screen. The film in theaters will be preceded by an unreleased video introduction by Francesco Guccini himself.
Pre-sales will open on November 20th, the list of rooms will soon be available on nexostudios.it. From today, Wednesday 6 November, the trailer of the concert film is also online, which can be seen below.
The cinema event is distributed by Nexo Studios in collaboration with Concerto Music and Universal.
In conjunction with the release of the film, the double live album of the same name will also be republished, which contains the great classics of the Modena singer-songwriter, published in 1984 as the result of 4 concerts that Guccini held that year. The re-edition of “Fra la via Emilia e il West” has a completely remastered audio for the occasion and on the cover the original drawing that Bonvi, a great friend of Francesco Guccini, created for the poster of the concert in Piazza Maggiore.
It will be available digitally, 2cd, 2Lp, 2cd+2Lp deluxe box with exclusive pressing.
A special edition of the box numbered with autographed print will be available only on the Universal Music online shop. Pre-order is available at the following link.
Concert tracklist:
I'm Back (performed by Andy J. Forest)
Song for a friend
Autogrill
Auschwitz (carried out by Team 84)
Nanin Pupin (performed by the Viulan)
The old man and the child
God is Dead (performed by the Nomads)
The Cuckoo / Jack Of Diamonds / Moonshiner (folk medley performed by Deborah Kooperman)
Song of the twelve months
The island not found
Genoa for us (performed by Paolo Conte)
Piazza Grande (performed by Lucio Dalla)
Small town
Maddalena (performed by Pierangelo Bertoli)
The locomotive
Tracklist album “Between the Via Emilia and the West”:
Disc 1
1. Song For A Friend
2. Autogrill
3. The Old Man and the Child
4. The Pensioner
5. The Island Not Found
6. Asia
7. Song of the Portuguese Girl
8. Song of the Osteria Fuori Porta
9. The Friar
Disc 2
1. Small Town
2. Venice
3. Bologna
4. Parka
5. Meeting
6. See Cara
7. Another Day Is Gone
8. Almost Love Song
9. The Locomotive
On 21 June 1984, Bologna was invaded by over 160 thousand fans who came to attend what turned out to be an unprecedented musical event for the time: the concert to celebrate twenty years of Francesco Guccini's musical activity. On stage in Piazza Maggiore, celebrating with him, great friends and colleagues such as Lucio Dalla, Paolo Conte, Nomadi with Augusto Daolio, Pierangelo Bertoli and many others took turns.
The title “Between the Via Emilia and the West” comes from a verse of the song “Piccola città” in which Guccini talks about his hometown of Modena. Francesco Guccini said: “The Via Emilia cut Modena in two; the road where I lived, on one side, intersected with it. On the other side there were already the wide fields of the suburbs. They were a bit like our “West “domestic: it was enough to take a walk, or cross a road, and there were already Indians and cowboys, horses and arrows; there was, in short, the Adventure, translated into “Po” from films and comics. Then the way Emilia continued to cut Modena in two, but the West had a different face, and the “American myth”, that of many generations besides mine, spoke a different language, that of rock, of record covers, of James Dean's face in Youth burned, of the books that others just before us had discovered and turned into Italian. But the two references always existed, one foot here and one there, the dream (or rather, the utopia) and the reality…”.
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
