Tom Waits returns to play for Italian TV: the preview

Tonight on Rai3 the documentary “Last stop“, Proposed by” The human factor “. Is the An immersion among the “last” of the earth By telling unwanted US citizens, victims of a system without protection networks, forced to live in extreme marginal conditions. To accompany their stories, it is the voice of Tom WaitsThat Thus he returns to play after years of absence from the stages.

To sing it were the authors and directors Angelo Loy, Martino Mazzonis and Luigi Montebello, who reached him in the North of California, and filmed him. “Being there, in his recording studio, and witnessing the magic of his fingers on the piano, while his voice vibrated in the room, was an unforgettable moment. Having the opportunity to catch him in the documentary is a privilege that I will always carry with me” Luigi Montebello tells Rockol.

In the docu-film, in Ondaalle 23.10, through the poems taken from “Seeds on hard ground”, The US musician is counterpointed with the landscape of faces and situations told. Rockol anticipates a preview clip, by concession of Rai.

“Working with Tom Waits at this documentary was an extraordinary experience, which deeply enriched me.

He and his wife, Kathleen Brennan, are incredible people: deep, professional and genuinely involved in the theme. From the moment they decided to board the project, our dialogue has been continuous, leading us to define together their contribution to the film: a series of poems taken from Seeds on Hard Ground, which give color and depth to the scenes shot In the south of the United States, bringing the work on another plan “, tells the Montebello Genesis. which continues:” One of the most fascinating aspects of this creative process, as well as obviously to human exchange with Waits was associated with his poems with images, creating a sort of dialogue between the two dimensions, in which words and filmed scenes are enhanced by each other. Sometimes his lists describe what we see, other times a more bitter reading is offered, still others the combination works by contrast “.

Montebello also tells the genesis of the staging of materials that have different stories: “Although the two parts were born in different moments and contexts – the poem of Waits, inspired by the photographs of Michael O’Brien, was published in 2011, While the filming were made in the summer of 2024 – the correspondences are surprising. One in the other, revealing the same situations, the same dynamics. deeply stimulating “.

Except for some impromptu apparitionsTom Waits has been widely absent from the scenes for over a decade: with the help of Tiberius Snaidero – author of “The art of being Tom Waits” (Volibero) – we reconstructed the last stages of his career