Valzer del Mercato (an Italian Market Walz) by Luisa Cottifogli

Imagine an Italian market, the colors, the smells, the sounds... an original song by Cottifogli about a new-born love between a black fish seller and a white woman: when he passes by with cases full of fish she doesn't smell a stink, just a scent of roasted coffee and coconut ...

Luisa Cottifogli - voice
Gabriele Bombardini - guitars, live electronics
Vincenzo De Ritis - accordion

Lyrics translation:

A painter's palette could not render the color (nor a cook's pot the flavor)
of a great love just born among the stalls of a market
blue fish fresh fish in the eyes of the one who secretly loves her
he plays the hard man with his friends but when he is alone in front of her almost like a chameleon he retreats behind a wall he looks at her secretly lost in a dream that will come true only if she wants it

When you call the echo of the roads answers you
without too many rules without boundaries that is the way we like life

Red tomatoes act as a frame for green cicories little carrots different types of a mankind which offer a big selection of colors from the light brown to the fiery red of the chili to the yellow of the Chinese or the black of Africa far away a varied world guttural sounds languages ​​that you’ve never heard
every day is a market day on the roads of any village knick-knack sounds of a bazaar

When you call…

Beautiful in the caramel color of his dark skin with a sure air he shows off his eyes made of pure ebony big hands big mouth when he passes by with cases full of fish she doesn't smell a stink just a scent of roasted coffee and coconut he is left speechless when she kisses him and lays his head on her heart a white woman with a black man pedlars stories of true love without any limit or any roof living as you like

When you call…

Live at Villa Persevera Studio, Santo Stefano (Ravenna), 6th August 2024, recorded and mixed by Gabriele Bombardini, shooting by Elia Cialdini.

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Italy
Aiò Nené
Vengo dal Nord ma sono del Sud
Radici
Roots
Accordion, accordeon
fisarmonica
Vincenzo de ritis
Gabriele Bombardini
Luisa Cottifogli
Original Valzer
Best Italian song
Best Italian voice
Italian traditional
Richard Galliano

https://www.luisacottifogli.com
http://www.gabrielebombardini.net