Rino Gaetano - Sotto i Cieli di Rino (2003)

Sotto i cieli di Rino (2003) è una doppia raccolta postuma del cantautore italiano Rino Gaetano. Nel 2005 è stata pubblicata una raccolta di tre cd dal titolo Sotto i cieli di Rino Special Edition contenente cinquanta brani, tra cui 4 inediti in spagnolo. La raccolta non aggiunge alle precedenti "Gianna e le altre"(1990) e "La Storia"(1998), se non una versione remixata de "Ma il cielo è sempre più blu", a cura di dj Molella, accolta con scarso successo dai fan del cantautore, che si segnala per la presenza di alcuni versi che poi furono censurati nella versione originale.



English
Rino Gaetano was born in Crotone, in the southern Italian region of Calabria. At the age of nine, he had to follow his parents to Rome, where he spent the rest of his life.

After a few shows at Folkstudio, he was discovered by Vincenzo Micocci and released his first single in 1973, "I Love You Marianna" (with "Jacqueline" on the B-side) under the pseudonym 'Kammamuri', produced by Antonello Venditti and Piero Montanari. The title referred to Gaetano's fondness for his grandmother Marianna, who used to play with him as a child, but it was also interpreted as a pun on loving marijuana.

In 1974 he published his first album, Ingresso libero, to little commercial and critical success; however, the LP featured the same eccentric style that would go on to characterize his career. Success came the following year with the 45 rpm record "Ma il cielo è sempre più blu"; on the album, Gaetano mixed his unique musical talent with a typical "man from the street" attitude and socialistic ideals (then very common among the Italian youth). In 1976 his song "Berta filava" also became very popular, with a long pun on "the good old' times" when Berta would work hard and go out with men.

In 1978 Gaetano took part in the Sanremo Music Festival performing the song "Gianna" and reaching third place after Anna Oxa and Matia Bazar. Gaetano had originally planned to perform "Nuntereggae più", which was a highly-innovative (for the times) half-sung/half-spoken proto-rap against several Italian sportsmen, politicians and other high-profile figures; producers of the show refused to let him sing that one, pointing out that it also mentioned the then-active Red Brigades, so he picked "Gianna" instead. The song went on to dominate the charts for several weeks.

An extremely versatile artist, he played the role of the Fox from Pinocchio in a movie directed by Carmelo Bene and filmed in Rome during 1981.

His career was cut short by a car accident at the age of 30. On June 2, 1981, his car (a Volvo 343) crashed into a truck on the Via Nomentana street in Rome. After the crash, Gaetano was reportedly injured but still alive, but was then rejected by five hospitals, and died on the way to a sixth. He was buried in Verano Cemetery, just a few days before his wedding date. One of his own songs, "La canzone di Renzo", featured a similar death for one of the characters.



Tracks



CD1

Ma il cielo è sempre più blu (Molella remix) - 3:13
Nuntereggae più - 5:11
Berta filava - 3:41
Spendi spandi effendi - 4:04
Aida - 4:27
Mio fratello è figlio unico - 3:20
Escluso il cane - 4:19
Io scriverò - 4:15
E io ci sto - 4:07
Ti ti ti ti - 3:18
Michele o' pazzo è pazzo davvero - 3:38
E cantava le canzoni - 3:18
Rare tracce - 2:52



CD2

Gianna - 3:53
Ahi Maria - 5:38
Sfiorivano le viole - 5:00
I tuoi occhi sono pieni di sale - 2:55
Tu, forse non essenzialmente tu - 3:38
Cogli la mia rosa d'amore - 4:02
Ad esempio a me piace il sud - 4:16
A Khatmandu - 2:56
Sei ottavi - 3:21
Le beatitudini - 3:54
Nel letto di Lucia - 4:43
Glu glu - 2:38
Ma il cielo è sempre più blu (2ª parte) - 4:13