AND
This day, the song ‘Tierra del Fuego’ by Mario Corradini Trío wins the Newcomer Award at the Arezzo Wave Festival, which at that time was the largest festival in Italy. The eight songs on the album were recorded in Terni (Italy), where Corradini provided his guitar and vocals.
The event was a launching pad for young Italian rock groups, lasted six days and was completely free. In recent years, the festival has multiplied the number of venues in the city and also carried out an increasing number of extra-musical and cultural activities.
The eight songs were composed by Corradini and the album is composed as follows: The Immigrants, Kite Dance, Magical and Anarchist Tango, The Days of a Lonely Man, A Train to Return Home, On the Other Side of the World, Wind of the Moon and Tierra del Fuego.
Corradini described the content of his album as follows: “We made music with South American connotations that Europeans define as ethnic jazz or World Music. They put those labels on it and it is difficult to make them understand that you also make Argentine music if you don’t make tango. For Italians, Argentine music has almost everything to do with tango” (Cristian Vitale. Pagina 12. Buenos Aires, 11/3/2012).
As the trio is made up of two Italian musicians, he was consulted about the explanations he should have given about that end of the world: “They have very beautiful visions of Tierra del Fuego, but they can’t imagine what it is like. I named the album that way, thinking about the Lighthouse at the End of the World, which for me is the perfect allegory of death, because it is a lighthouse that illuminates towards nothingness.”
Mario Corradini has an extensive career as a composer and performer. He was co-founder of the group Irreal, together with Juan Carlos Baglietto and Manuel Wirtz, a legendary band that was a precursor to the trova rosarina. He also contributed his compositions to the littoral music, which were performed by Mercedes Sosa, Teresa Parodi and Las Voces Blancas. He also participated in the ‘Guitarras del Mundo’ movement that toured the country.
He is one of the many who was forced to emigrate due to the repeated crises suffered by the country.
He currently lives in Fermo, a medieval town, surrounded by sea and hills, near Ancona. From there “Corradini took his music through Croatia, Switzerland, Slovenia, Germany. AND
He recorded seventeen albums” (op.cit.).
