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Ninna Nanna Malandrineddu

from Meghalaya by Caroline Mercier

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  • Meghalaya
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Meghalaya signifie "demeure des nuages" en Sanskrit. C'est aussi un État du Nord-Est de l'Inde.

    "L'inconnu constamment lapide ma cervelle de mémoires sans âges, aux origines dispersées, et me confie grâce au souffle de sentinelles que l'âme d'un poète a longtemps voyagé ; des contrées désertiques et sablonneuses, à celles que souvent visitent l'automne et la rosée."

    Includes unlimited streaming of Meghalaya via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Berceuse de la 'Ndrangheta. Une mère chante à son fils qu'il lui faudra apprendre à manier les armes en grandissant, car il doit venger l'assassinat de son père.

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Ninna Nanna Malandrineddu
(Italie, Calabre - XIXᵉ siècle
Musique, texte : Anonyme
Arrangements : Caroline Mercier, Arnaud Delpoux)

Vardati stu figghiu meu quant'esti beddu,
Comu somigghia a lu so papа,
Teni l'occhiuzzi i malandrineddu,
Cori i stu cori beddhu da mammа ;
Stami a sentiri figghuizzu caru,
Chi orfaneddu nascisti giа,
U patri toi ti l'ammazzaru,
Cu tradimentu e'nfamitа ;
E fai la ninna, E fai la nanna
E fai la ninna, E fai la nanna.

E tu t'ha fari randi, presti a crisciri,
Sferri e cuteddhi sempri ha maniari,
L'onuri da famigghia ha manteniri,
Figghiuzzu a to patri l'ha vendicari ;
Dammi pirdunu i sti paroli,
Ma no mi pozzu rassegnari,
Cacciami st'odiu chi tegnu'nto cori,
Figghiu a to'patri l'ha vendicari ;
E fai la ninna, E fai la nanna
E fai la ninna, E fai la nanna.

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from Meghalaya, released September 20, 2014
© 2014 Caroline Mercier

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Caroline Mercier Paris, France

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Caroline Mercier is a French punk trobairitz from the Italian-Spanish diaspora offering music with contemporary tones and a hint of her Andalusian roots. Her love for orality makes her sing in more than ten languages including Spanish, Ladino, Italian and Arabic, all of which are related to her pied-noir family.

[alternative, world, chamber, punk, dark, healing]
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