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Carters’ cries, lullabies and tales of errant crocodiles: Lero Lero and the battle for Sicily’s soul
Italy’s south has long been either romanticised or patronised. A Palermo collective has dived into historic archives to recover surreal rhymes and surprising songs that defy the island’s picture-postcard image ‘What do I do now that I no longer have my mother?” ...
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Italy’s south has long been either romanticised or patronised. A Palermo collective has dived into historic archives to recover surreal rhymes and surprising songs that defy the island’s picture-postcard image ‘What do I do now that I no longer have my mother?” ...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Carters’ cries, lullabies and tales of errant crocodiles: Lero Lero and the battle for Sicily’s soul, Italy’s south has long been either romanticised or patronised. A Palermo collective has dived into historic archives to recover surreal rhymes and surprising songs that defy the island’s picture-postcard image ‘What do I do now that I no longer have my mother?” Lero Lero sing on Com’haiu a Fari , the opening track of their self-titled debut album. “If I still had my mother, I would not love you.” What may sound like the kind of honest self-reckoning a modern songwriter has dragged out of therapy sessions is actually a traditional Sicilian folk text once sung by a washerwoman, reimagined here through three voices modelled on Sicilian Settimana Santa polyphonies. For this Palermo collective, maternal loss is also metaphor: symbolic of Sicily’s ruptured cultural inheritance, which they recover through archival labour songs, carters’ cries and lullabies, then reshape through electronics and
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