[leva - рукоятка, рычаг, рабочая смена, военный призыв; гл. - "поднимай!"; levare l'ancora - поднимать якорь ]
U LEVA LEVA (Tuna Fishing Chantey)
Performers: Rocco Cannovino, Salvatore Canduci, Onofrio Lopresti with chorus of Calabrian fishermen. Recorded live in Vibo Valentia Marina (Calabria) on August 3, 1954
Recording Engineer: Alan Lomax
The Alan Lomax Collection - Italian Treasury - "Calabria"
A LINA LINA & URALLIRA (Tuna Fishing Chantey)
Performers: Giovanni Canduci, Onofrio Lopresti, Rocco Cannavino, Salvatore Canduci. Recorded live in Vibo Valentia Marina (Calabria) on August 3, 1954
Recording Engineer: Alan Lomax.
The Alan Lomax Collection - Italian Treasury - "Folk Music & Song Of Italy"
Photos by Alan Lomax.
In 1953, Alan Lomax and Diego Carpitella set out on a yearlong voyage of discovery that resulted in an exhaustive documentation of Italian folk music. " It was a mythic time. None of us suspected that that world - made of music, songs, poverty, joy, desperation, custom, violence, injustice, love, dialect, and poetry, formed over the course of millennia - would be swept away in a couple of years... by the voodoo of 'progress' " - Vittorio De Seta.
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