Biography and anecdotes are left out of this “anarchic and poetic tale” where the words live outside the music that accompanies them. There is place, however, also for some excerpts of songs, performed with intensity and poetic vigor by the actress. Alongside the protagonist, the talented accordionist Giulia Bertasi, who is not limited to mere accompaniment, but herself becomes, in many cases, a dramaturgical complement, underlining intimate atmospheres between the tragic and the ironic […]. Marco Menini, Hystrio
In the history of Italian pop music there are songwriters who we could define as poets. One of these is Piero Ciampi. Passed away in January 1980, a misunderstood artist, the “cursed” son of Livorno in the 60s/70s. For many he was just a desperate alcoholic with a violent temper, for some of his closest friends he was “The best of us all”. Our show wants to be a journey into his universe. To do this we used only and exclusively the words of his songs and a couple of his poems, thus creating a recital that investigates the existential and poetic path of his soul. His songs, the wine, the escapes, the loves in the great poetry of Piero Ciampi, an exceptional character who will reinvent our authorial music. As a poet, a misfit to the system and outside the rules, in his work his life is a door that opens onto the darkest and (im)possible worlds of post-war Italian song and culture. A life at a precipice: outside the logic and the box, the path of a different person who had all the credentials to be an artist.
