Tatti è la località lontana da tre capoluoghi comunali ma vicina a molte situazioni che non sono né di capoluogo e nemmeno molto comuni, come un paio di altri posti che conosciamo (ma mica tanti).
In particolare, da Tatti nelle sere di tramonto invernale si possono vedere le cime innevate della Corsica. Qualcuno, in assenza di foschia, dice di avere visto anche le Baleari (ma forse era in “foschia di assenzio”). Tatti, oltre a ospitare una festa dell’olio, un rally autunnale, un festival Reggae (per 8 anni), un agricampeggio e vari microproduttori di cose bòne speciali (miele, zafferano e altre chicche) o stampe artigianali è la base di Mauro il Tirannosauro e di due dei componenti della Jug Band Colline Metallifere.
Una recente analisi di Tatti è stata fatta per Radio Popolare Milano, in mezzo ad altre spiegazioni su iniziative della rete pibinko.org (28.3.2020).
Brano musicale: in attesa di perfezionare il Tatti-twist, una jam session capitata nella stamperia di Wolfgang (aprile 2019).
La foto è scattata in direzione sud-ovest dalla parte Nord del paese.
Riceviamo da Raman “Peter” Crivelli la foto di un suo olio su tela 60×80 cm con invito a ripubblicare, ascoltando la Freedom Ballad che ci aveva spedito sabato scorso.
Jary Joe ci ha dato il permesso di ripubblicare il video fatto ieri sera dal suo amico Alin Corneliu Craciun. Per capire perché la Jug Band Colline Metallifere rilancia questo video dovete tornare al 2014, quando Jack O’Malley si ritrovò alla Combriccola in una jam session con il signore che suona qui dal balcone, e Peter Crivelli, che giusto una settimana fa ci ha mandato la Freedom Ballad. Da allora siamo rimasti in contatto, e non ci dispiacerebbe un giorno fare altra musica d’insieme.
A un primo impatto, per chi non conosce l’artista, potrebbe fare un effetto strano…un pensionato impazzito durante il lockdown che si mette a suonare a palla. Ma, come dicono in Val di Farma: “Vai a giudica’ la vacca a diace’“…Jary Jo è un chitarrista talentuoso che dalla Svizzera ha attraversato la storia musicale rock-pop dagli anni ’60 del secolo scorso in qua, e che ha collaborato anche con personaggioni molto noti (sotto ne abbiamo messi due..foto estratte dal video che trovate sul sito di Jary Joe).
La qualità dell’audio è quella che consente un telefonino dal palazzo dirimpetto, e il direttore della fotografia torna la prossima volta…ma l’energia arriva tutta e i più attenti riconosceranno nel set di Jary Joe una chicca degli anni ’60.
Jary Joe con Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian, al secolo Charles AznavourJary Joe con Brian Auger, al secolo Brian Auger
If you are taking a stroll downtown and you find a street performer that you like, you will leave a little money as a token of your appreciation, often in a hat. In this period where people’s whereabouts are a lot more digital, if you happen to find an act by Jug Band Colline Metallifere and you like it, you can support the band in digital mode. Click on the hat below, and choose your amount:
In the header image Mauro the T-Rex, at the end of one of his live shows with the JBCM.
Pleas note: the transaction will be for pibinko@gmail.com (which is always us, since pibinko runs the web side of the Jug Band Colline Metallifere)
…we know, the Tuscan Metalliferous Hills, llike other rural areas, are often the setting for sighting and exotic findings. Who could ever forget about the 2011 panther, the 2007 UFO near Roccatederighi, or -going further back- the Accesa Lake crocodile? [1].
Anyhow, should you be passing around Tatti, in the Massa Marittima area (Southern Tuscany), and you cross a T-Rex, do not be concerned. No need to call the wildlife service, or the guys from the prehistoric theme park in Valpiana, He did not escape, nor did he come to bother. On the contrary: he is here to collaborate on the Participatory Lithology project, given his experience since the Cretaceous. His name is Mauro.
Mauro, on a short “proximity pause”, contemplating the Bruna plain.
[1] In fact, the most incredibly strange sighting remembered in the pibinko.org network goes back to the Seventies. A local newspaper wrote that in the lower Cornia Valley a giant toad was lurking in the crops. Possibly it became so big due to a diet warped by old-school fertilizers. Should anybody remember about this piece of news, or has documentation about similar episoded, please write to micalosapevo@pibinko.org.
All of the Big Kahunas in the music production business were hearing about this for some time: a collaboration between the Jug Band Colline Metallifere, the geomusic guys, and Mauro the T-Rex. First they heard about a potential joint tour in Japan. Then, that mishap with Pellegro, the tenor sax with the Jerry Brecker quartet..so, for one reason or another, the affair was not going anywhere.
Then came Participatory Lithology. This story turned out to provide the right setting. Inspired by a famous American duo from the Sixties, Simone Sandrucci, lead guitar with the JBCM, and Mauro, take some lyrics by Jack O’Malley on the story of this little resilience project, and end the tune with an invitation for all their audience. The video is subtitled in English (not all may understand the T-Rex accent) and in Italian. If you like it, please consider putting something in our digital busking hat.
[Technical note: to get to a perfect syncing of the tracks used in this video with pibinko’s netbook is almost impossible in less-than-geologic time. Please enjoy this demo take in the meantime, and we will see if we can provide a proper edit once we can have more suitable hardware. Or, if you would like to help out on a second edit, please write].
The Jug Band Colline Metallifere (Metalliferous HIlls Jug Band) represents the musical branch in the little Participatory Lithology exercise launched on March 21, 2020 from Tatti, Southern Tuscany, by the pibinko.org network. In pratice, with Mauro the T-Rex as our creative director (see him spinning some vinyls in the header image) we are:
Curating a series of daily posts proposing songs related to rocks, minerals, and stonesuna (the Lithobag)
[If you missed Lithobag #1, with the preface to this blog series, you can find it here]
[If you don’t know Participatory Lithology, check out its first week summary, and be sure to check our title track before you read on.]
Coming up is a Lithobag suggested on March 25 by Elio from Cascina, not far from Pisa and the leaning tower. This comes after yesterday we learned that Participatory Lithology was presented as a “rocky” project…so want to share some real rock.
The peculiar thing about this song is that for some reason “Big Tube” does not expose the original version by Jimi Hendrix…you get it as covered by Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Steve Lukather, played at 45 rpm, in reverse…and the version by Jaco Pastorius, who manages to go beyond Jimi in terms of psychedelia. But I couldn’t find the original version on Big Tube (so here it is from an alternative site).
As a proper video, I would in any case like to propose one of the most recent covers. Please welcome Gary Clark Jr. (which we like in the Jug Band Colline Metallifere, often proposing hisGovernor song).
This version of Third Stone from the Sun should possibly go with a big cup of tea, and sample C018 from the Participatory Lithology gallery. The original version actualy has some lyrics, which Jimi’s successors eventually forgot. And regards to Elio!
Strange beautiful grass of green, | strana e bellissima erba verde
With your majestic silver seas | con i tuo maestosi mari d’argento
Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer | le tue misteriose montagne, che vorrei vedere più da vicino
May I land my kinky machine? | posso far atterrare la mia strana macchina?
Although your world wonders me, | per quanto il vostro mondo mi stupisca
With your majestic and superior cackling hen | con le vostre maestose e superiori galline starnazzanti
Your people I do not understand, | non riesco a capire la vostra gente
So to you I shall put an end | per cui metterò fine a voi
And you’ll never hear surf music again | e non sentirete mai più musica surf
Imagine a jazz club ambiance: low ceiling, spirals of smoke in the air, whisky with ice, stirred, not shaken.
Images flow in the background, between snapshots of Tatti, Southern Tuscany, the home base of Participatory Lithology, and details of some of the “rocks” that the classifiers are analyzing from their homes.
A Tatti dei sassi ho ritrovato | In Tatti I found some stones Lì giù nella cantina del poro zio Renato | Down in poor old Uncle Renato’s cellar
Forse li avrei buttati via | I might have thrown them away data la mia ignoranza di gee-ooo-logia | given my ignorance in geology
Poi venne l’ispirazione | Then I had an inspiration metter le foto in rete per catalogazione | to put their photos online to have them catalogued
Grazie agli amici in rete | thank to friend I have across the network mi son fatta un elenco che in molti invidierete | I eventually made a list that many of you will envy
To understand what Participatory Lithology is, and how we propose it, please see the summary of our first week of activity (March 21-27, 2020). In this project we have considered four roles: collectors, classifiers, entertainers, and sponsors. Let’s see here what entertainers can do.
Resident (at home) DJ
If, withouth looking it up on a search engine, you can think of a song mentioning rocks, stones, or minerals, you can write to micalosapevo@pibinko.org indicating
Song title
Link to a song video
and, if possible
Lyrics in the original language
an English translation of the lyrics, if the song is not in English (we encourage non-English songs!)
an Italian translation of the lyrics , if it is not in Italian
The indication of a sample from the participatory lithology gallery that you would related to the song.
…we don’t need each and all of these additional inputs, but the more you can send, the better
Mauro T-rex DJ spinning it in Tatti (GR).
Your proposal will be evaluated by the Participatoryt Lithology working group: Jack O’Malley, Mauro Tirannosauro, the Jug Band Colline Metallifere & friends). If the song fits in the context of the project, it will be added to a playlist from which one song per day is published in the Lithobag blog series. You will be indicated as the selectors for your song and we will thank you for our participation.
If the song you propose has not yet been published, but is already in the playlist (as of Apr. 4 we have about forty to go), your suggestiong will be summed to that of other “resident at home DJs” who proposed it, and you will all be credited for your suggestion when the song will be out on the Lithobag.
NB: If the song you propose will be the result of some online keyword search…ok, that is not forbidden but (1) Mauro the T-Rex will immediately notice and (2) what is the purpose of an online search in the context of Participatory Lithology?
Musicians and/or singers
We like DJ sets, but we like more the live stuff.
With the Jug Band dalle Colline Metallifere (i.e. Metalliferous Hills Jug Band) since 2018 we started a project where live music and outreach on environment, agriculture, and similar topics are merged in a single situation. Please check the JBCM site to get an idea. Among other exhibitions you should start from the events we held in Milan+ Brescia , then in Milan+Germania in 2019, and -more recently, in Roccastrada + Massa Marittima (Tuscany).
The JBCM in Sachsenheim, Germany, May 2019.
Bringing this format in Participatory Lithology, we started by writing some lyrics on songs that we use as jingles and promotion for the project. For the moment we have a first performance featuring Francesco Ceri from Matti delle Giuncaie. By Apr. 4 we will have a second performance out. For a third song, with English lyrics, we are looking for an English mother tongue vocalist/musician (Jack O’Malley from the JBCM is quite fluent, but it would be cool to find somebody born & bred in an English-speaking country).
So: if you like the Metalliferous Hills Jug Band vibe, and you would like to collaborate on new performances for Participatory Lithology, please write to micalosapevo@pibinko.org
Other forms of entertainment
Since the recreational part of participatory lithology was born inside a musical collective, it is easy for us to think in terms of musical options. However, if you are not musician, but you have other forms of expression, and you can think of a creative way to convey Participatory Lithologuy, you can still write us…we’re curious.
Saltimbanchi Off a Rho, circa 2005
What’s in it for you
The entertainers for Participatory Lithology (as well as other professional profiles participating, such as photographers and “classifiers”) are not here just for fun, or because they have a lot of free time in a lock-down phase. We know that what we are doing has an interesting non-local visibility: all project contents are issued in Italian and English, and you can check out from this page the coverage that pibinko.org activities have received in the past (and in these few weeks for P.L.). Then, if our prospective sponsors will see value in the project, we will have support that will share across participants. We will see!
In the article header: The la Hungry March Band from Brooklyn, NY, in Cagliari, Sardinia, 2005.
