Si di mè

Si di mè1- Ne’n tarra ne’n celu
text: Jean-Claude Acquaviva music: Jean-Claude Acquaviva – Bruno Coulais

2- Santa R’ghjina
text: Jean-Yves Acquaviva music: Jean-Claude Acquaviva – Bruno Coulais

3- Reame meiu
text: Jean-Claude Acquaviva music: Jean-Claude Acquaviva – Bruno Coulais

4- Affrescu
text: Marcellu Acquaviva music: Jean-Claude Acquaviva – Akhenaton – Bruno Coulais

5- Tra Noi (translated)
text: Marcellu Acquaviva music: Jean-Claude Acquaviva – Bruno Coulais
Homage, written by Marcellu Acquaviva, a contemporary young poet, in honor of A. F. Filippini, a Corsican poet who died in exile in Italy.

6- Dormi
text: Jean-Claude Acquaviva music: Jean-Claude Acquaviva – Bruno Coulais

7- Tbilissi (guestsinger: Guram Tamazashvili)
text: Jean-Claude Acquaviva music: Jean-Claude Acquaviva – Bruno Coulais

8- Si
text: Jean-Claude Acquaviva music: Jean-Claude Acquaviva – Bruno Coulais

9- Tempu
text: Ghjuvan Ghjaseppiu Franchi music: Jean-Claude Acquaviva – Bruno Coulais

10- L’attesa
text: Marcellu Acquaviva music: Jean-Claude Acquaviva – Bruno Coulais

11- A’laltru mondu (guestsinger: Antoine Ciosi)
text: Francois Vincenti music: Dominique Vincenti – arrangement: Bruno Coulais

12- Memorie
text: Anton’Francescu Filippini music: Jean-Claude Acquaviva – Bruno Coulais

13- Visioni care
text: Anton’Francescu Filippini music: Jean-Claude Acquaviva – Bruno Coulais

14- A’di’ti di tù (guestsinger: Marie-jo Allegrini)
text: Jean-Claude Acquaviva music: Jean-Claude Acquaviva – Bruno Coulais

15- L’Aria (guestsinger: Marie Kobayashi)
(part from the opera “Il Gioco di Robin e Marion”)
text: Orlando Forioso music: Bruno Coulais

16- Chjarura
text: Marcellu Acquaviva music: Jean-Claude Acquaviva – Bruno Coulais

5 Tra Noi

Issa lingua di i mei grazia à voi fù quella
Chì incantava le sere di a mio zitellina
Issa lingua di i mei grazia à voi fù bella
Quant’un’alba di maghju, un sfogu d’albaspina

Trà noi ci fù lu mare è u tempu chì u face
Trà noi li bisesti di e guerre orrende
Ma ci fù da fà ponte a musa ch’ù si tace
E parolle di focu, e splendite lucende

Pienghje u murianincu u so figliolu persu
Pienghje a Corsica sana quellu chì si n’andò
In paese di Dante à mantene u versu
Di quelli di una volta, quelli antichi maiò

Qqualsiasi lu locu, u fiume, u paese
Ch’è vo travirsarete in sonniu dopu vita
E brame di u meiu à e vostre sò appese
Da fà compia sta notte chì dura senza lita.

 5 Between us

This language of my people has -through your doing-
Bewitched the evenings of my sweet childhood
This language -through your doing- seemed to me
Like a sunrise in may, like a bunch of hawthorn

Between us, there was the sea and the wind that stirred it up
Between us, the rubble of unspeakable conflicts
But there was also the neverending poem
Those words like a flaming torche, with a splendid brilliance

Today the world mourns for a lost son
In unison an entire island weeps
Over the one who reached the land of Dante
To guard those who grieve

And wherever you go, whatever verges and banks
You may cross in hereafter dreams
Your footsteps and ours will amble together
To where this night ends