Anime salve

Anime salve
Studio album by Fabrizio De André
Released	September 19, 1996
Genre	Italian singer-songwriters, Folk, World music
Length	46 min 25 s
Label	Ricordi BMG
Producer	Fabrizio De André Piero Milesi
Fabrizio De André chronology
Le nuvole (1990) Anime salve (1996)

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Anime salve is the final album released by Italian singer/songwriter Fabrizio De André in 1996. It was written together with Ivano Fossati, who co-sings in "Anime salve" and " Â cúmba". In a 2011 interview within the DVD documentary series Dentro Faber [i.e. Inside Faber] about De André's life and works, Fossati stated that he and De André composed all the music for the album by actually playing together in the latter's country house in Sardinia, working on almost-complete lyrics by De André, to which Fossati added a few lines.^[2]

Overview

The album, released after six years of studies, shows marked influences of Latin-American music, as well as from Eastern Europe and Mediterranean ones (the latter deriving from the original project, which De André had begun with Mauro Pagani). Most of the lyrics deal with the theme of solitude and diversity, often considered as positive, free state of life: the Brazilian transsexual immigrant ("Princesa"), the Romani people ("Khorakhanè"), the poor anchovy fisher ("Le acciughe fanno il pallone"), the man in love ("Dolcenera"). The title itself, though generally translated as "Saved souls", ethimologically means "Solitary spirits".

The song "Disamistade" deals with a feud between two families in rural Sardinia. "Smisurata preghiera" ("Endless prayer") is inspired to poems by Álvaro Mutis, who later became De André's friend. Its lines "for the one who travels in a stubborn and opposite direction, / with his special mark of special desperation" sum up the entire album's poetical stance, as well as much of De Andrè's work.

Track listing

1. "Princesa" (4:52)
2. "Khorakhanè" (5:32)
3. "Anime salve" (5:52)
4. "Dolcenera" (4:59)
5. "Le acciughe fanno il pallone" (4:47)
6. "Disamistade" (5:13)
7. "Â cúmba" (4:03)
8. "Ho visto Nina volare" (3:58)
9. "Smisurata preghiera" (7:08)

All songs written by Fabrizio De André and Ivano Fossati.

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