Campo Amaro by Rosso Polare
Campo Amaro is the fourth album by Rosso Polare, the Milan-based duo of Cesare Lopopolo and Anna Vezzosi. These compositions were inspired by observing the waterways that surround the fields of various Italian regions, the so-called ditches (*fossi*), bodies of water that are often polluted, but may also be full of flora and wildlife, lined with bitter and edible herbs.
Throughout this land, small and distant chants emerge, twisted traditional songs of resistance or made-up tunes of revolution. There are small local legends that survive thanks to anonymous monuments placed in indiscreet contexts, rescued here through the vivid storytelling of Lopopolo and Vezzosi.
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un uomo
che non aveva la peste,
che non aveva la peste ma stava poco bene
era stato portato via per sbaglio
un uomo cane
un uomo femmina
un uomo vetro sul carro
si era messo a letto ma non aveva la peste
ma moriva piano con la voce piccola
il carro andava al lazzaretto e nessuno si domandava se
tutti i corpi avessero la peste
sulla strada c’era un albero
con i rami grossi
bastava un salto per appendersi e l’uomo saltò
l’uomo cane
l’uomo femmina
l’uomo vetro sul carro
che mentre saltava vedeva il legno scuro
che mentre saltava vedeva il campo
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A man
Who didn’t have the plague.
Who didn’t have the plague but felt sick
was brought away by mistake
A dog faced man
a female-man
a glass-man on the wagon
He had gone to bed but felt sick
slowly dying with a small, whispered voice
The wagon headed to the lazaretto,
nobody wondered if all the bodies
had the plague
A tree with strong arms stood on the road
just a jump to hang on it
and the man jumped
a dogman
a female-man
a glass-man on the wagon
who saw the dark bare wood whilst jumping
who saw the meadow whilst jumping
Tracklist
| 1. | preludio | 3:55 |
| 2. | gandino | 5:35 |
| 3. | campo amaro | 5:54 |
| 4. | erbacce | 5:28 |
| 5. | piaghe | 6:48 |
| 6. | la casa degli uomini | 6:24 |
| 7. | testamento fermo | 8:50 |
Credits
Written and performed by Cesare Lopopolo & Anna Vezzosi
Recorded between Milan and Brescia, 2022-2023
Mixed and produced by Cesare Lopopolo
Mastered by Angelo Harmsworth
Album art by Anna Vezzosi
Design by Josh Mason
License
All rights reserved.
Rosso Polare are Cesare Lopopolo and Anna Vezzosi, experimental duo from Milan, Italy. One from the city, the other from the countryside; they combined ideas and constructed a peculiar musical language based on a mixture of field recording, call and response improvisation and audio manipulation.