The skinny biodynamic farmer’s manifesto
Mezzogiorno di grano, Jug Band Colline Metallifere @ Café Bar Tatti, Stuttgart, Germany, 2-Jun-19
Covering The Etruschi from Lakota (which Dario and Simone are part of ) song on rural issues…. video by Scoopic /Eberhard Niethammer. This was on day three of our German mission.
The world through a brezel
In Erdmannhausen, hosted by our friends at Huober Brezel’s, just before starting the trip back to Tuscany (June 3, 2019). Check out the full report here.
Renzo Rosso with the Metalliferous Hills Jug Band
Now that we recovered the “jet lag” following our mission to Germany, we can start to tidy up the documentation that we collected during our trip.
Here is a cameo by Renzo Rosso, Hydraulic and Maritime Constructions and Hydrology professor at Politecnico di Milano (also MS and PhD tutor for Jack o’Malley), who came to visit the JBCM for a moment of artistic exchange. On one side Renzo Rosso and his CD “Children of a Lesser River“, on the other side the inter-generational, international, geomusical collective. This was on May 30, 2019, around 5.30PM.
As a musical enticement, for a hydrology master we proposed our cover of “When the Levee Breaks” by Led Zeppelin. Simone and Renzo also had some debate on electric guitars. Some of you may also note a correlation between characters with and without hat.
Livin’ Milano
Livin’ Milano – first version circa 1991. Third version (with the last part changed): October 2018
di Andrea Giacomelli / pibinko / Jack o’Malley
Blues in E
Mi La Mi
You live in Milano – the air is bad for your nose
La Mi
You live in Milano – the air is bad for your nose
Si
but let me tell you something baby
La Mi
you live in Milano you know how it goes
Mi – fisso
Monday morning – you get on the bus
You go to work in the same old fuss
Friday evening – a couple of beers
Mi7
You don’t see no women – and that has been going on for years
La Mi
but you’re living in Milano – the most beautiful town on the Earth
Si La Mi
You live in goddamned old Milano – but you don’t know what that is worth
Hey Baby, don’t you realize
you’re breathing shit, I ain’t tellin’ no lies
You are just sinking in that pool of regret
people call Milano, don’t you ever forget
but you’re living in Milano – the most beautiful town on the Earth
You live in goddamned old Milano – but you don’t know what that is worth
So girls, that’s how the story goes
I got out of town, it’s improving my nose
You wanna meet us, we’re up here in the hills
or we can come to Milano, but you’ve gotta pay the bills
…….
Adattamento in italiano:
Adaptation to Italian
Tu vivi a Milano – l’aria lì fa male al naso
Tu vivi a Milano – l’aria lì fa male al naso
Ma sai te ne dico una, bella
tu vivi a Milano e non sei lì per caso
E’ la mattina, di lunedì
vai là in ufficio, e ti pare un sacrificio
Venerdì sera – due birre con gli amici
Di donne nun c’è ombra, ti dedichi alla bici
ma tu vivi lì a Milano, la più bella città del pianeta
stai in questo cazzo di Milano, perché te l’ha detto il tuo profeta
Oh ragazzi, non vi rendete conto
respirate gas, non vi faccio lo sconto
lì nelle sabbie –– mobili di rimpianti
che chiamano Milano, e vi vedo, siete tanti
RIT
Via ragazze –– qui le storie son finite
Son partito da Milano, mi è passata la rinite
Per entrare in confidenza, dài venite giù in collina
O se no si vien su noi, a veder la Madonnina
The Metalliferous Hills Jug Band Geomusical Mission to Germany, via Politecnico di Milano: how did it go?
From May 30 to June 3, 2019, the Metalliferous Hills Jug Band (in Italian: Jug Band dalle Colline Metallifere), with a formation including Dario Canal, Simone Sandrucci, Scheibe, Jack o’Malley conducted a mission combining musical, territorial promotion, twinning…you name it (you might want to check last week’s presentation article). This was quite challenging, but overall smooth and with an extremely positive effect for those who were there.
We had seven performances in three days, over 2600 km of whereabouts, night sky quality measurements, typical southern Tuscany product tasting, and various moments of audience engagement. We had participants singing, checking maps and articles related to the activities of the JBCM collective, and we are now working on the next events on this line of activity.
Below is a brief summary of the experiences of our last five days. For more information and booking: jugbandcm@pibinko.org or +393317539228.
Thursday, May 30 Departure from the Metalliferous Hills (Southern Tuscany) to retrieve a night sky quality meter used for the Buiometria Partecipativa project at Radio Popolare Milano, and a seminar about from sound engineering to engineering with sound at the Dept. of Civil and Environmental engineering (also part of the 2019 Festival of Sustainability). For the scientific part of the performance, in addition to the talks by Jack O’Malley on rural area socioeconomics and buiometria partecipativa, we had a presentation by Wolfgang Scheibe on biodynamic agriculture, and -more in general- on the basics of quality agriculture.
Friday, May 31 Transfer from Milano to Sachsenheim, Germany, with a performance at Tender IBISA Kulturtreff. This is in the premises of the former train station, now used as a cultural community centre. On location we had goulash for all, a nice sunset background, with occasional trains passing by, plus travellers coming up from the stairs and finding a live band).
After the public part of the day, we were teleported in spaghetti and jam session with the dynamic Crissi, known in Germany as the Dizzy Bee frontman, and also active in other musical projects.
Saturday, June 1
In the evening we were at ristorante Salento in Vaihingen an der Enz. There was a peculiar situation during the final jam session on That’s All Right: Jack o’Malley’s stool collapsed, but some way he managed not to stop playing, and finishing the concert sitting on the floor. After the third live set, dinner at the Brau Tage in Ludwisgburg, including a night sky quality measurement in the festival square (17.7 mag/arcsec^2 around midnight).
Sunday, June 2: Early PM situation at Caffé Bar Tatti, downtown Stuttgart…very, very peculiar, and groovy (we look forward to see the video, since the gig was filmed with professional gear):
On Sunday evening, a concert in the farmyard at Völkleswaldhof in Oberrot, with another night sky quality measurement in the fields by the farm (recording 21.35 mag/arcsec ^2 with the Scilla sensor)
Monday June 3 We had a visit to the Huober Brezel factory, running for almost 70 years, guided by Wolfgang, our official skinny farmer and biodynamics expert, who actually worked in the factory in the Eighties, managing its transition to biodynamic processes. The header picture shows the JBCM collective at the end of the visit. Following this educational opportunity, we headed back for Tuscany. Below you see Simone driving somewhere South of Verona, brainstorming about Samoan lawyers, Bonfiglio, and various community engagement ideas which we will work on in the coming months.
Acknowledgements in no particular order: Romolo Chiari, Vittorio Giacomelli, Az. agricola Il Fontino, Az. vinicola Ampeleia, Az. Agricola Loriano Bartoli, DICA @ Politecnico di Milano, Tatti Café Bar Stuttgart, Tender Sachsenheim, Ristorante Salento Vahingen an der Enz, Christopher Mosselmann, Pius, Andreas and the Völkleswaldhof bei Oberrot, Benni & Markus, Brigitte, Crissi, Theo & Anton, Andy, the Rossknecht brewery, the Huober family, and others which we will add to this list once we recover the “jet lag”.
Sempre Allegri @ Tatti Bar Stuttgart, Germany
JBCM @ Tatti Café & Bar, Stuttgart, Jun. 2, 2019
JBCM @ Völkleswaldhof bei Oberrot (Jun. 2, 2019)
The “Germany 2019” project
The JBCM was hired to perform in Germany for a 2019 tour. This is also summarized in this blog post.
- Friday, May 31, in Sachsenheim, at the old train station, now renovated as a cultural centre (Tender Kulturtreff),
- Saturday, June 1, 1PM, in Ludwigsburg, at the Beer Fest
- Saturday, June 1, 8PM at the Salento Restaurant in Vaihingen an der Enz
- Sunday, June 2, at 3PM in the Cafe Bar Tatti, downtown Stuttgart.
- On its way up, the collective will stop in Milano, giving a geomusical talk at Politecnico di Milano, and possibly performing in the evening (the talk at Politecnico will be on Thursday, May 30, between 4PM and 7PM).
These locations did not come out of the blue. Wolfgang, our one-string bass player, was born around Stuttgart in 1947, and in that environment he started is artistic journey, first as a street musician (also being cited in a book on the history of beat music in Ludwigsburg), and then as a graphic designer and biodynamic agriculture consultant.
The tour will thus be for the younger members an exploration (even though Jack O’Malley was born in Frankfurt A/M and Dario Canal is by one quarter German and has worked in Germany before committing to be a rocker), and great comeback for Wolfgang: to perform in the places where he grew up.
Politecnico di Milano is the university where Jack O’Malley got his academic degrees (MS and PhD), and where since 2011 he periodically gives talks about his projects. The presentation in the “polimi space” will be an interesting summary on the topic of geomusic, on which the collective has been working for some years.