Vasco at the Olimpico of Turin: “Celebrate life in times of hatred”
That of Vasco Rossiforever, It is a “amor Fati”. It is the “love of fate”, that is, the acceptance of one’s existence, in which one decides to embrace the joys, but also the deepest difficulties and suffering. This concept, often associated with Nietzsche’s philosophy, implies a life statement, a will to celebrate one’s being here and nowwhile the world burns. The existentialist rocker, at 73 years old, in a large secular rite at the Olimpico in Turin, in front of over 35 thousand peopleraises the breath that shakes us like leaves in the wind and this lap does it causing even more noise. It is the contingent and dark times that request it. For this reason, start the ladder with “reckless life”, a personal and generational hymn, becomes a manifesto.
It is perhaps one of the most exciting attacks that the Komandantedressed in a jacket that seems made of lava, has ever put in place in his “Never ending Tour” started in 2013 and interrupted only by the pandemic. And it is clear from the light he has in his eyes. “In front of a world full of hatred, violence, overturned values and darkness, we celebrate life. ‘Reckless life’ at the time was not happening by the right -thinking: it does not speak of self -destruction, but of the desire to live intensely and to risk for this“, He says in the backstage.” Life “,” being “,” we are “, are the most pronounced words in his songs. It is popular philosophy, it is thought that from staff it becomes community. It is a pure feeling that, between Hyenas and individualists today, makes music, to unite people. “Each song of this concert is a photograph of lived life, obstinate, complicated. In a word, a reckless life, in search of a meaning. Each research is always reckless”, He continues.
All the songs, as if they were rings of Saturn, turn around the concept of life, grip like an apple: “I am innocent”, “Futurist Manifesto”, “Valium”, among the most corrosive songs of “We are only us” of 1981, flow between provocation and irony, up to the “Living” jewel of 1993. In that “living or surviving without getting lost, and fighting and fighting against everything against” there is the raising of the highest survival. The disenchanted gaze of Blasco, as his discography teaches, also becomes ruthless and true analysis of society: “It was excluded” from 1996, with a vasco with a covered face like an ante-literam rapper, tells the intolerance that makes conflicts arise, the same that crawls in “enough”, while “the shots above” makes shed light on a power that does not know pity and on the responsibilities of those who are silent. A giant writing appears on the mega screen: “Fuck War”.
There are also goodiesproposals with sumptuous arrangements. “And time creates heroes”composed in the second half of the 70s, It seems written yesterday: “Meanwhile, he creates heroes while the sun burns again for his cocks. And the fatty earth and rich fruit jealousies, and the school teaches poems”. The red thread of the live is always present: “Living is not easy” from 2011 comes out of the lineup and is a caress on the wounds. Vasco, to that evil to live at Eugenio Montale, tries to give answers, tries to fill him. It does so through the rebelling of “There are those who say no”, with the sarcasm gringer of “I will lose”, but also with the sinuous wonder of bodies that are discoveredwho sweat, who cling to launches of bras and incandescent kisses: “Rewind” is the soundtrack of his “wild boys”spit out of the novel by William S. Burroughs.
With rocker, on stage, a good giant 86mt wide25mt and 28MT depth, with some reversed V -shaped screens, there is a compact formation: Wins Pastano (guitars and music direction of the shows), Stef Burns (guitars), Andrea Torresani (bass and choirs), Alberto Rocchetti (keyboards and choirs), Donald Renda (drums), Antonello D’Urso (programming, acoustic guitar and choirs), Roberta Montanari (choirs), Andrea Ferrario (sax), Tiziano Bianchi (trumpet) e Roberto Solimando (trombone). The third part of the performance with “Without words”, “Sally” and “If you could say” it is the most emotional. The regrets slide away and leave room for songs sung in chorus, in a cathartic way.
It makes us think how the live of a man of over seventy years, who carries victories and falls on his shoulders, be more feverish and vivid than many concerts by new generation artists. And it is not only a matter of songs, but of aptitude and truth. “Albachiara”, perhaps never as in this show, is the perfect ending: in the simple and erotic gesture of that hand with which the protagonist touches himself, alone, inside the room, while the world is out there, There is the pleasure of a simple existence that, however, does not want chains, despotes and commandments. But imagination, joy, future.
Scaletta:
Reckless life
I’m innocent but …
Futurist manifesto of the new humanity
Valium
Live
It was excluded
The shots above
How many times
And time creates heroes
A great movie
Living is not easy
Good or bad
It is enough
We are here
There are those who say no
I will lose
The witch (the Saturday evening diva)/What do you want from me/you want to stay still!/You want something from me
A song for you
Okay, that’s okay
Rewind
And now that it’s up to me
Without words
Sally
If I could tell you
It is just us
Song
Albachiara
