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{{Short description|2009 live tribute album by Cristiano De André}}
{{more citations needed|date=October 2018}}
{{Infobox album
| name       = De André canta De André
| type       = live
| artist     = [[Cristiano De André]]
| cover      = Deandrecantadeandre.jpg
| alt        =
| caption    = Album cover
| released   = September 2009
| recorded   = 2009
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[progressive rock]]
| length     = {{Duration|m=61|s=24}}
| label      = [[Universal Music Group]]
| producer   = Luciano Luisi, Cristiano De André
}}
{{Infobox album
| name       = De André canta De André, Vol. 2
| type       = live
| artist     = [[Cristiano De André]]
| cover      = Deandrecantadeandre2.jpg
| alt        =
| caption    = Album cover for the second volume
| released   = September 2010
| recorded   = 2010
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[progressive rock]], [[Folk music|folk]]
| length     = {{Duration|m=54|s=56}}
| label      = [[Universal Music Group]]
| producer   = Luciano Luisi, Cristiano De André
}}
'''''De André canta De André - Cristiano De André Live''''' ["DeA sings DeA"] is a [[Live album|live]] [[tribute album]] by [[Cristiano De André]], consisting of updated covers and remakes of songs written (or co-written) and originally performed by his late father [[Fabrizio De André]], recorded during Cristiano's 2009-2010 tour of Italy (originally started on the tenth anniversary of Fabrizio's passing) and released as a [[Compact disc|CD]]+[[DVD]] bundle.{{efn|Unlike other similar releases, the two-disc, dual-format bundles of both volumes are not "[[Special edition|special]]" or "deluxe editions", but the standard ones. As of 2020, they are still in print and available in the same formats.}} Similarly to De André Senior's 1979-1980 release [[In Concerto - Arrangiamenti PFM]], it was followed by a ''Volume 2'' in 2010, recorded during the same shows and released in the same 2-disc format.<ref>[https://www.discogs.com/Cristiano-De-Andr%C3%A9-De-Andre-Canta-De-Andre-Cristiano-De-Andre-Live/release/5115229 Entry] for ''De André canta De André'' at [[Discogs]]</ref><ref>[https://www.discogs.com/Cristiano-De-Andr%C3%A9-De-Andr%C3%A9-Canta-De-Andr%C3%A8-Vol-2/release/9919089 Entry] for ''De André canta De André, Vol. 2'' at [[Discogs]]</ref>
In 2017, Cristiano De André released a ''[[De André canta De André Vol. 3|Vol. 3]]'' as a follow-up to the first two releases, including twelve new covers and remakes.
==Track listing==
===''De André canta De André''===
#"Mégu megún" <small>([[Fabrizio De André]]/[[Ivano Fossati]] [lyrics]; F. De André/[[Mauro Pagani]] [music])</small>
#"'Â çímma" <small>(F. De André/Fossati [lyrics]; F. De André/Pagani [music])</small>
#"Ho visto Nina volare" <small>(F. De Andrè/Fossati)</small>
#"Se ti tagliassero a pezzetti" <small>(F. De André/[[Massimo Bubola]])</small>
#"Smisurata preghiera" <small>(F. De André/Fossati; based on poems by [[Álvaro Mutis]])</small>
#"Verranno a chiederti del nostro amore" <small>(F. De André/Giuseppe Bentivoglio [lyrics]; F. De André/[[Nicola Piovani]] [music])</small>
#"Amico fragile" <small>(F. De André)</small>
#"La canzone di Marinella" <small>(F. De André)</small>
#"Quello che non ho" <small>(F. De André/Bubola)</small>
#"Fiume Sand Creek" <small>(F. De André/Bubola)</small>
#"Il pescatore" <small>(F. De André [lyrics]; [[Gian Piero Reverberi]]/Franco Zauli [music])</small>
All songs originally recorded and performed by [[Fabrizio De André]].
*Tracks 1 and 2 originally released on ''[[Le nuvole]]''
*Tracks 3 and 5 originally released on ''[[Anime salve]]''
*Tracks 4, 9 and 10 originally released on ''[[Fabrizio De André (album)|Fabrizio De André]]'' (1981), also known as ''L'Indiano''
*Track 6 originally released on ''[[Storia di un impiegato]]''
*Track 7 originally released on ''[[Volume 8 (Fabrizio De André album)|Volume 8]]''
*Track 8 originally released on ''[[Volume 1 (Fabrizio De André album)|Volume 1]]''
*Track 11 originally released as a [[Il pescatore|standalone single]] in 1970
*All songs arranged by Luciano Luisi, except for "Mégu megún", originally arranged by [[Mauro Pagani]]; "Ho visto Nina volare", originally arranged by [[Piero Milesi]]; "Amico fragile", "La canzone di Marinella" and "Il pescatore", originally arranged by [[Premiata Forneria Marconi|PFM]].
===''De André canta De André, Vol. 2''===
#"Anime salve" <small>(F. De André/Fossati)</small>
#"Nella mia ora di libertà" <small>(F. De André/Bentivoglio [lyrics], F. De André/Piovani [music])</small>
#"Don Raffaè" <small>(F. De André/Bubola [lyrics]; F. De André/Pagani [music])</small>
#"Cose che dimentico" <small>(F. De André/Carlo Facchini [lyrics]; C. De André [music])</small>
#"Â duménega" <small>(F De Andrè [lyrics]; Pagani [music])</small>
#[[Medley (music)|Medley]]: "Andrea" <small>(F. De André/Bubola)</small>/"La cattiva strada" <small>(F. De André/[[Francesco De Gregori]])</small>/"Un giudice" <small>(F. De André/Bentivoglio/[[Edgar Lee Masters]] [lyrics], F. De André/Piovani [music])</small>
#"La collina" <small>(F. De André/Bentivoglio/Masters [lyrics], F. De André/Piovani [music])</small> + [[Reprise]] <small>(F. De André/Piovani)</small>
#"Crêuza de mä" <small> (F. De André [lyrics]; Pagani/F. De André [music])</small>
#"Bocca di Rosa" <small>(F. De André  [[lyrics]]; F. De André/Reverberi [music])</small>
#"La canzone dell'amore perduto" <small>(F. De André [lyrics]; F. De André/[[Georg Philipp Telemann]] [music])</small>
All songs originally recorded and performed by Fabrizio De André, except "Cose che dimentico", originally performed by Fabrizio and Cristiano De Andrè.
*Track 1 originally released on ''Anime salve''
*Track 2 originally released on ''Storia di un impiegato''
*Track 3 originally released on ''Le nuvole''
*Track 4 originally recorded in 1998, first released in 2005 on the collection ''In direzione ostinata e contraria''
*Tracks 5 and 8 originally released on ''[[Crêuza de mä]]''
*Track 6: previously unreleased medley of songs originally released on ''[[Rimini (album)|Rimini]]'' (6a), ''Volume 8'' (6b) and ''[[Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo]]'' (6c)
*Track 7: previously unreleased medley of songs originally released on ''Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo''
*Track 9 originally released on ''Volume 1''
*Track 10 originally released on ''Canzoni''
*All songs arranged by Luciano Luisi, except "Nella mia ora di libertà" and "Â duménega", arranged by Cristiano De André & Luciano Luisi.
===''Notturno dell'Amistade'' DVD===
#"Disamistade" <small>(F. De André/Fossati)</small>
#"Franziska" <small>(F. De André/Bubola)</small>
#"Valzer per un amore (Valzer campestre)" <small>(F. De André [lyrics]; [[Gino Marinuzzi]] [music])</small>
*Track 1 originally released on ''Anime salve''
*Track 2 originally released on ''Fabrizio De André'' (1981)
*Track 3 originally released on ''Canzoni''
*Tracks 1 and 3 arranged by [[Markus Stockhausen]]; track 2 arranged by Malasangre.
==Overview==
All songs were newly arranged by keyboardist, [[Programming (music)|programmer]] and composer Luciano Luisi in a [[Rock music|rock]]/[[hard rock]] style, with hints of [[Progressive rock|prog rock]] and [[electronica]]. Described by Luisi on the documentary video ''Filming Around Tour'', on the bonus DVD bundled with the original 2009 release, as "a cross between rock, [[Heavy metal music|metal]], [[power pop]] and [[Emerson, Lake & Palmer]]", the new arrangements were, according to Luisi and Cristiano De André, a way to distance De André Jr.'s live performances from his father's studio and live recordings (which Luisi views as sacred and untouchable), while at the same time bringing them closer to Cristiano's own sensitivity.<ref>''Filming Around Tour'' documentary film</ref> All songs feature a prominent [[electric guitar]], heavily distorted and often [[Effects unit|processed]], played by Osvaldo Di Dio, as well as Luisi's vintage-sounding keyboards and synths. The only exceptions are a 3-song, fully [[Acoustic music|acoustic]] [[Medley (music)|medley]] on the second volume, and "La canzone dell'amore perduto",{{efn|During live performances, Cristiano De André dedicates "Verranno a chiederti del nostro amore" and this song to his mother - his father's first wife, Enrica "Puny" Rignon. In the ''Filming Around Tour'' documentary, Cristiano states that, although he is very fond of [[Dori Ghezzi]] as he grew up with her, he still feels a great deal of filial love toward his mother.}} at the end of the same volume, performed by De André Jr. on [[piano]], backed by a soft guitar accompaniment by Di Dio and a [[double bass]] part by Davide Pezzin. [[Premiata Forneria Marconi|PFM]]'s influential 1979 arrangements (originally released on [[In Concerto - Arrangiamenti PFM|Fabrizio De André in Concerto - Arrangiamenti PFM]]) for "Amico fragile", "La canzone di Marinella" and "Il pescatore" were reproduced almost verbatim, although Di Dio's guitar is still more prominent in the new versions than [[Franco Mussida]]'s in the 1979 ones.
==Bonus DVDs==
===''Filming Around Tour''===
''Filming Around Tour'' (a deliberately ungrammatical [[portmanteau]] of "Filming around" and "Around (the) tour", meant as "About the tour"), is a short (37 minutes) [[documentary film]], by filmmaker Daniele Pignatelli, about the making of the tour. It includes excerpts from behind-the-scenes interviews with Cristiano De André and the band, as well as full live performances of "'Â çimma", "Se ti tagliassero a pezzetti", "Amico fragile" and "Fiume Sand Creek".
*At the start of the film, De André Jr. describes the tour as a "passing of the baton" from his father to himself, and, at the end, he states that he always felt his father's presence on stage.
* Talking about the songs from ''Crêuza de mä'', ''Le nuvole'' and ''Anime salve'' written in [[Genoese dialect]], Cristiano admits that he had a hard time learning all the words and their correct pronunciations, as he had never sung in Genoese before backing his father on his 1997-1998 ''Anime salve'' tour (his final one). He also states that De André Sr. had a habit of wrongly pronouncing the German surname 'Kreutzer' (mostly referring either to classical musician [[Rodolphe Kreutzer]] or to [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]'s [[Violin Sonata No. 9 (Beethoven)|Violin Sonata No. 9]], popularly known as "Kreutzer Sonata" and dedicated to him) in a similar way to the Genoese word ''crêuza'', and that the song "Crêuza de mä", which Cristiano included in the tour setlist, ended up being regularly referred to by all the band members, including himself, as "Kreutzer del mar", using the correct pronunciation of "Kreutzer" - i.e. "Kròiza".<ref>''Filming Around Tour'' documentary film</ref>
*In an interview clip, Cristiano reveals the truth behind some of the nastiest, most cynical lines in "Amico fragile" ["Frail friend"], one of Fabrizio De André's best-known songs, and about its disconnected, [[Stream of consciousness (narrative mode)|stream-of-consciousness]]-like structure. The germ of the song was born during a summer evening which the De André family spent in their rural house in [[Sardinia]] with a group of friends; after dinner, everybody got drunk and Fabrizio was forced to sing in spite of him not wanting to. In his intoxicated state, he improvised a [[Ribaldry|bawdy]] song{{efn|The tune to which De André improvised his bawdy lyrics is unknown, but it bore no resemblance to "Amico fragile". In a scene within the 2018 [[Biographical film|biopic]] ''Fabrizio De André: Principe libero'' [i.e. "Free prince"], the singer, as portrayed by [[Luca Marinelli]], sings a parody of "[[Il pescatore]]" using vulgar, scurrilous lyrics.}}  where he exposed all of his friends' defects and vices. After they had left, he retreated into the same [[Garage (residential)|garage]] where Cristiano is filming the interview, and wrote the whole of "Amico fragile" right away. The interview clip starts with Cristiano singing the first line of the song while performing its intricate accompaniment on acoustic guitar, displaying his prowess on the instrument; the film then cuts to his full onstage live performance of the same song, after which Cristiano talks about it.
===''Notturno dell'Amistade''===
''Notturno dell'Amistade'' [literally "Nocturne of Friendship", from [[Sardinian language|Sardinian]]], recorded live on 3 July 2010 at the medieval Castello Pallavicino in [[Varano de' Melegari]], is a 3-song excerpt from a longer show performed by Cristiano De André with various guest artists as a [[benefit concert]] for [[Dori Ghezzi]]'s charity organization ''Fondazione Fabrizio De André''. The show included orchestrated and re-arranged versions of songs by Fabrizio De André, performed by all the guests.
*"Disamistade" is arranged by trumpeter and composer [[Markus Stockhausen]] and performed by the local [[chamber orchestra]] Vianiner Philarmoniker (founded by Trio Amadei, a young trio of classical players, and taking its name from Vianino, another local castle - as a deliberate parody of [[Vienna Philharmonic|Wiener Philharmoniker]]) with the Cappella Farnesiana choir. It features a new introduction for [[Brass instrument|brass]] and [[String instrument|strings]] and an expanded orchestration for strings and choir, also including improvised [[flugelhorn]] parts by Stockhausen.
*"Franziska" features Spanish female quartet Malasangre (literally "Bad Blood", formed by sisters Maria, Marta and Pilar Robles with their cousin Pilar Crespo) and a radical [[flamenco]]-style re-arrangement by Malasangre themselves. It is played much faster than Fabrizio De André's original recording on ''L'Indiano'', features prominent nylon-string guitars and is partly sung in Spanish. During the instrumental interludes between verses, the Robles sisters dance on their own.
*"Valzer per un amore (Valzer campestre)" features a [[jazz]]-oriented orchestral arrangement and a trumpet part by Markus Stockhausen, as well as an excerpt from  [[Dmitri Shostakovich]]'s popular "Waltz 2", taken from his 1956 [[Suite for Variety Orchestra (Shostakovich)|Suite for Variety Orchestra]]. A very similar arrangement, including a shorter Shostakovich excerpt, was adopted for the same song by British arranger and conductor Geoff Westley, on his 2011 tribute album ''[[Sogno n° 1]]''.
==Personnel==
<ref>All personnel credits taken from CD booklets.</ref>
===Musicians===
*[[Cristiano De André]] - [[Acoustic guitar]], [[Twelve-string guitar|12-string guitar]], [[violin]], [[electric violin]], [[piano]], [[bouzouki]], lead vocals
*Luciano Luisi - [[Musical keyboard|Keyboards]], [[synthesizer]]s, [[Programming (music)|programming]], [[Backing vocalist|backing vocals]]
*Osvaldo Di Dio - [[Electric guitar|Electric]], acoustic and [[Classical guitar|classical]] [[guitar]]s, backing vocals
*Davide Pezzin - [[Bass guitar]], [[double bass]]
*Davide De Vito - [[Drum kit|Drums]]
===Musicians on ''Notturno dell'Amistade''===
*Cristiano De André - Classical guitar, lead vocals
*[[Markus Stockhausen]] - [[Trumpet]], [[flugelhorn]]
*Vianiner Philarmoniker Orchestra, conducted by Giancarlo Guarino
*Cappella Farnesiana Choir, conducted by Antonello Aleotti
*Malasangre - Classical guitars and vocals on "Franziska"
===Production===
*Produced by Luciano Luisi and Cristiano De André
*Arrangements - Luciano Luisi (except as noted above)
*Executive producer - Filippo Raspanti for MT Opera & Blue's
*Recorded by Giancarlo Pierozzi
*Mixed by Paolo Iafelice and Giancarlo Pierozzi at Noise Factory Studios, [[Milan]]
*Mix assistant - Davide Tessari
*Mastered by Claudio Giussani at Nautilus Studio, Milan
====Tour production====
*Audio and lighting suppliers - Milano Music Service
*Live production manager - Giovanni "Riccio" Colucci
*[[Live sound mixing#Front of house mixing|FOH engineer]] - Giancarlo Pierozzi
*[[Stage monitor system|Monitors]] engineer - Vincenzo "Cina" Cinone
*[[Public address system|PA]] engineer - Alessandro Sbruzzi
*[[Lighting designer]] - Massimiliano Camporeale
*Stage managers - Massimo Delle Molle, Gianmaria Ofredi
*[[Lighting technician]]s - Martino Fusi, Emanuele Ciani
*[[Truck driver]] - Luca Ceschi
*Production manager - Luca Gnudi
*Director - Pepi Morgia
====Artwork====
*[[Art director|Art direction]] and [[design]] - Stefano "Steo" Zacchi for Showbiz Design, [[Bologna]] ([http://www.steo.biz www.steo.biz])
*Cover photo - Desirée Sapia
*Additional photos - Guido Harari, Patrizia Andreozzi, Valeria Fioranti, Marta Mandelli, Marco Tomacelli
*Tour poster design on CD back cover - Guido Harari
*[[Wardrobe (clothing)|Wardrobe]] - Costume Nacional
===''Filming Around Tour''===
*A film by Daniele Pignatelli
*[[Movie camera|Camera]] - Giovanni Bonatelli, Francesca Gasperini, Ronald Gomez, Massimiliano Navarra, Federico Salsano, Simone Serra, Daniele Pignatelli
*[[Cinematographer]] - Daniele Pignatelli
*[[Post-production]] - Art3fatti
*[[Audio mixing]] - Sing Sing Studio
*Produced by Marco Mandelli and Daniele Pignatelli
*Executive producer - Marco Mandelli
*[[Film editor|Editor]] and [[Film director|director]] - Daniele Pignatelli
*With the contribution of Mortaroli & Friends
*Special thanks to all the musicians, the sound engineers, the tour technicians for their kindness, producers Michele Torpedine and Bruno Sconocchia, Pepi Morgia, Luvi De André, Dori Ghezzi, ''Fabrizio De André Foundation''... and of course to Cristiano and Fabrizio De André.
===''Notturno dell'Amistade''===
*Produced by Cristiano De André
*Recorded live and mixed by Giancarlo Pierozzi
*Executive producer - Filippo Raspanti for MT Opera & Blue's
*Production company - Run Multimedia s.r.l., Lucrezia De Moli
*[[Film editing]] - Enrico Tomei
*Special thanks to ''Fabrizio De André Foundation'' for the video images
==Notes==
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