Date: Friday, November 7, 2008
Miracler:
Gioia diBiase
Location:
NYC
About today’s Bonus Mix:
The Italians have a phrase which a lot of Americans could benefit from: “Il dolce far niente.” It celebrates the sweetness of doing nothing. Listening to such loafers as Paolo Conte, Nino Rota, and Federico Fellini (yep), if you can’t do nothing sweetly to this mix... well, the Italians probably have a phrase for that, too.
About Gioia:
Talk about street cred: our Miracler’s name is Gioia diBiase, por Dios. With her wavy auburn mermaid tresses and porcelain skin, she has just stepped out of a Botticelli painting and into your iPod®. Gioia’s the girl at the party whom you take to be the shy type until someone puts on the right record and a latent show-biz persona comes out, belting out the song in perfect pitch. In between parties, Gioia, a fabulously talented graphic designer, splits her time between SF, her home, and NYC, her home-for-now. (Come back soon.)
5 comments:
Hey Gioia,
I would love any mix that starts with Paolo Conte, but yours is singularly great and extremely easy to listen to and perfectly titled.
thanks!
Nice, another country heard from. I saw P. Conte at the SF Jazz fest a number of years ago -- fun stuff, dueling clarinet solos at one point. Of the stuff I was unfamiliar with, the Banda Ionica is my favorite. Thanks!
A little background--
The roots of Banda Ionica go back to Sicilian funeral marches.
Quel Mazzolin di Fiori is a classic from the Alpine region traditionally sung a capella and often attempted drunkenly in tavernas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYwstouBnaA
Enjoy.
Perhaps one of my fave mixes so far, being of the soundtrack listening persuasion, that and the general, old world, easy going vibe makes this a listen I can put my feet up to.
thanks,
old man
Really fun, Gioia. Thanks! I'm going to end every one of my mixes from now on with "Vivere!"
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