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Ombra Latina

from Mental Tea by Angelo Romano

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People keep asking me about performing in Italian. But I'm Sicilian. And I want to be understood. So I came with this one: half Italian, half Sicilian, and the last part in English to make the point clear. A latin shadow in an album of songs composed in English as usual.

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Ombra latina, voce sincera
un suono che cade sulla sabbia nuda
croste di spazio, bottiglie di cielo
cemento e vuoto sotto un sole nero

Batte e ribatte quest'altra serata
un'eco nascosta dentro una serenata
mentre la voce produce un sentore
la musica è forte, ma sa esser soave

E poi s'arricogghie n'avutra sirata,
n'ecu ammucciata dintra na sirinata,
vuci arrimazzati supra tutti li mura,
ma la musica è duci, 'un ni lassa mai fòra

Cresce e matura un'altra stagione
un'altro timbro, un'altra canzone,
leggere le note come farfalle
si accingono ad esser conchiglie volanti.

Ombra latina, voce sincera,
un pezzo scritto su una pergamena,
finestre aperte, la brezza che fischia
l'odore di mare crea dipendenza.

Ùmmira latina, vuci sincera,
na canzuni scritta supra na pirgamina,
taliannu i varchi, lu ventu s'aisa
lu ciavuru dû mari duna dipindenza.

E poi s'arricogghie n'avutra sirata,
n'ecu ammucciata dintra na sirinata,
vuci arrimazzati supra tutti li mura,
ma la musica è duci, 'un ni lassa mai fòra

Ùmmira latina, vuci spardata,
spittannu l'alba di na nova jurnata
s'adduma la luci ni lati di strati
li cosi lari ni l'hamu scurdati

Latin shadow, honest voice,
a song written on a music note,
windows are open, wind whispering
the scent of the sea is quite addictive.

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from Mental Tea, released November 1, 2014
Angelo Romano: vocals, guitars

Cello introduction is a reworked version of a sample from Freesound.org released under a Creative Commons 0 license.

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Angelo Romano Palermo, Italy

Born 1982 in Sicily, Angelo Romano is a singer-songwriter with a totally personal approach to music and arts. His life is kind of a weird storybook, with several cities all around where he spent some time and lived his life: from Pisa to Florence, from Ottawa to Amsterdam, from Groningen to Berlin, Utrecht, Barcelona and then Palermo, where he is currently based. ... more

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