Vol. 2 Omerta, Onuri E Sangu

Product Description
Volume 2 is a continuation of a musical journey through a chapter of Southern Italian cultural history that is as dark as it is fascinating. 22 tracks. PIAS America. 2003.

Vol. 2 Omerta, Onuri E Sangu,La Musica Della Mafia,Pias America,Int'l & World Music,Italian Folk,Italy,Pop,Traditional European Folk,World Beat,World Music

Average customer rating: oh boo-hoo, bad press Songs of the Bad Life: Part 2 Earthy and Raw Very good music...but very bad image and stereotype!

Vol. 2 Omerta, Onuri E Sangu La Musica Della Mafia Manufacturer: Play It Again Sam Us ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Italy | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music World Dance | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Similar Items: La Musica della Mafia: Il Canto di Malavita Italian Treasury: Calabria The Italian Treasury: Sicily Lost Souls Italian Folk Songs from Naples ASIN: B00008V5YR Release Date: 2003-04-22

Tracks:

1. Campani d'Asprumunti
2. Saggi cumpagni
3. Nun c'e pirdunu
4. Parlato
5. U mastru di lu sonu
6. Li carciri
7. Parlato
8. Arretu i sbarri
9. Parlato
10. Muttetta pi nu carogna
11. Tarantella santissima
12. Ninna nanna malandrineddu
13. Tira la pinna
14. A casanza
15. Zampugnaru onoratu
16. Cantu pi la me sorti
17. Pi fari u giuvanottu i malavita
18. La me galera
19. Si gira e si rivolta
20. Dialogo maladrino
21. Tarantella rose e sciuri
22. Vulimu paci

Album Description

Volume 2 is a continuation of a musical journey through a chapter of Southern Italian cultural history that is as dark as it is fascinating. 22 tracks. PIAS America. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

oh boo-hoo, bad press.......2006-11-18

This is music of 'ndrangheta, in Calabria, not the mafia. Stereotype? Take a walk through some of the towns in Calabria. You'll see music is unnecessary to promote this 'stereotype'.

How about the Communist/Jewish mafia of den Haag with its tentacles in Rome and everywhere else?

Songs of the Bad Life: Part 2.......2006-01-11

This CD is Vol. two of: La Musica della Mafia: Il Canto di Malavita, any collector of Mafia related items will find this a welcome addition to their collection. This paticular CD I believe stands on it's own, along side the first volume and is as good as that volume. As noted in my review of the previous CD, this music is best enjoyed with a fine wine, a traditional dinner, and candlelight. It is beautiful music and sets a wonderful mood.

Earthy and Raw.......2004-04-07

When I first played this CD through, I did not like it near as much as Vol 1 Il Canto di Malavita. The song selection seemed weaker and the singers less polished than on the first compilation. So often does a follow-up to a surprise hit fail to live up to the listener's expectations, that I nearly resigned myself to putting this on the shelf and letting it collect dust.
Instead, I took a different tack and decided to listen with new ears as though I'd never heard the first volume. Once I'd done that, I found a lot about Omerta, Onuri e Sangu to enjoy.
To begin with, the music here is earthy and raw. It reminds me a lot of the folk music of many lands. I can hear strains of Greek, Spanish, Arab, and even Argentine musical influences as it plays through. My favorites are Ninna Nanna Malandrineddu, a mother's song urging her son to vengeance; Tira La Pinna, the mournful gypsy-influenced song of a condemned man; A Casanza, a rollicking guitar-driven tarantella that relates the story of a prison power struggle; La Me Galera, the story of a wrongfully imprisoned man that has an Argentine feel to the music; and Si Gira e Si Revolta, the melancholy story of a man rotting in his cell and yearning for freedom.
About the only negative here is that there are too many short pieces and "parlati" which clutter up the CD and give one the impression it is longer than it is.
If you liked Il Canto di Malavita, then come to this with an open mind and give it a chance, too. If you have heard neither "Il Canto..." nor this CD, then buy them both and try to listen without comparing them. You will be glad you did.

Very good music...but very bad image and stereotype!.......2004-01-08

Beeing a sicilian and an ethnomusicologist I can say that the music recorded on this cd is of a QUALITATIVE LEVEL and REPERTORY which ARE EXCEPTIONAL,I decisevly though don't like the terrible stereotype of the image of Sicily only connected with the criminal world,there is a lot of more interesting and beautifull things to focus on in this land than the mafia.
For example what about the mafia in China,Japan,Russia,Albania,or even...the USA!
I really don't agree with the TITLE of this cd,the connection of these wonderfull sounds with such a terrible criminal stereotype is highly harming,in fact,the sicilian culture as well...
Lisen to the music...and please forget that Sicily is ONLY mafia,it'not true...and it's not any badder than many other"civilised"places in the world.

Rock Music:

1. Wenn Ein Schiff Voruber Fahrt [Import]
2. World Groove Mix, Vol. 1
3. 1.0 [Enhanced]
4. Addy en el Pais de las Frutas y los Chunches
5. Allegro
6. Amazing Grace [Import]
7. Arabic Jukebox [Import]
8. Avodas Halevi
9. Baayo [Original recording remastered]
10. Bali: Music from the Morning of the World

Rock Music

rock music

Recommended Music:

Dfa Compilation [Import]

Beethoven: Piano Concertos 2 & 4

CHOPIN: Favourite Noctures / Kathryn Stott

Matter + Form

Beyond the Maybe Machine

Bootylicious [CD-single] [Import]

Ao Amigo Vinicius [Import]

Break the Grip of Shame [CD-single]

Domani [Import]

Bottesini: Reverie; Ero E Leandro

Bleach

Cuban Collection [Import]

Boot Camp [Explicit Lyrics]

Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges

The Fabulous Bill Holman