last moon

lunedì 28 novembre 2011

The life comes from the sea




From the sea comes every life 
And from the sea came the ancient fathers of Sardinia;
From the sea they did get their food
Before they discovered
Our rich, great land of Sardinia!

From the sea came the roman enemies
Conquerors, destroyers
And after them
Other avid merchants
Came to exploit, to kill.

But I still hope
That soon this same sea
Which is named after us
Might define again
The borders of our own land
And Sardinian people
Might take the sceptre of command
That the fate and the story
Has assigned to them
And just to them

Ignazio Salvatore Basile

Sardinia 1981

Englished from original Sardinian language by the same author

mercoledì 23 novembre 2011

The Best rock guitar player of any time

Jimi Hendrix, The rock  legend, has been voted the best guitarrist never playng on stage.
As matter of fact he was my favourite, though I remember I.ve dreamed with Jimmy Page (third place), Eric Clapton (second place), David Gilmour (strangely not included in the top ten) and some more.
I remember the Jimi Hendrix double track "Eletric Ladyland": a real masterpiece on rock music history.
It was my first track in tthe early seventies, that I swapted with a boring romantic italian compilation.
What a shame he died at 27. Who knows how many other emotions he could have granted to rock fans all over the world?
Read more on this
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2065359/emailArticle.html

venerdì 18 novembre 2011

If I


If I were a newspaper
I would publish
just in the front page
all in capital letters
each and every day
"The 10% of people own the 90% of reachness";
If I were a television
I would show
just at any news edition
how the 1% of people
are impoverishing
and paupering
the 99% left!
If I were an opinion maker
I would say the people
that the Earth 
belongs to all the men
while a few of them
have risen walls and banners
to grab goods and money;
If I were what I am
I would say
as I do say
that now the time has come
to make justice and equity
and start giving to each man
what he deserves
what God has done
for every one.

martedì 1 novembre 2011

Let them celebrate



Let them celebrate
the end of your world,
they want to celebrate:
the american dream is over;
they are celebrating 
money growing over nothing;
let them celebrate
discovering your rootless brushes;
they need to celebrate
the burial ceremony
of criminal capitalism;
they 'got celebrate
the funeral
of greed octopus
which scrounges their people!
Let them celebrate
the dawn of new distribution
of richness of earth!
Let them celebrate
the end of your world.