THREE SOULS

THREE SOULS

Jul 19, 2025 | A COFFEE WITH, WOMEN, MUSIC, MUSIC, ROCK, ROCK, A COFFEE WITH, WOMEN

Tre Anime Three souls is Carmen Consoli‘s new artistic project. 

The Cantantessa described the genesis and concept of these Three Souls on Instagram

One of the things around which I find myself reflecting more and more often is time. 

Many times we have found ourselves exchanging our reflections on time even here over our virtual cafés.

I continue to believe in and practise slowness and following the rhythms set by Nature to choose and be happy. 

Slowness. A luxury even.

If you can, do you practise slowness?
Do you like to slow down?

Or perhaps you like to organise a thousand things on the wave of ‘he who has time, waits for no time?’

Carmen also emphasises the use of Artificial Intelligence: why delegate our lives to machines?

What do we do with all this time gained because it is not lived?

In fact, very often we fall into the paradox: the acceleration of processes thanks to technology generally does not lead us to have more time for ourselves, but to find ourselves with more things to do. Do you agree?

Beyond speeches or declarations, to be fair, Carmen Consoli seems to live out of time.

Her bio boasts a very long list of awards, accolades, collaborations, yet she always manages to appear measured, always in the right place, with refined musical taste and more.

Elegant? No: True artist.

Artist who found inspiration in Quintus Ennius who spoke and wrote in three languages saying he had three hearts.

From three hearts to three souls:

Sicilian culture soul
Rock soul
Songwriting soul narrative

Sicilian as Nina: first woman poet in Italian literary history.

As you well know I always value the use of dialects. 

Rock like experimenting with his father’s Gibson, in the years of radiant Catania when R.E.M. opened the world tour in Catania with openings by the very young Radiohead.

Rock! Ça va sans dire …

Songwriter like La Cantantessa who gave us precious songs like Contessa Miseria from Mediamente Isterica.

Not surprisingly, time also appears in one of its facets in the lyrics of this song.

Confused and Happy, Butter Words, Orange Blossoms, The Last Kiss, In Black and White, do you continue with your favorite?

And what Souls are you?

WOMAD

WOMAD

Jul 29, 2023 | WORLD, MUSIC

Womad stands for World of Music, Arts and Dance, an international music and arts foundation known primarily for its festivals, held annually in multiple locations around the world.

“You never know where interesting news may come from” is the concept I have learned throughout my years.

To confirm it I will tell you that the first time I found information about Womad I was reading with my son from his English school book.

We owe the idea of this music art and dance festival to Peter Gabriel. 

 

In 1982 the author of the immortal 7/4 song with that harmonic theme that brought everyone’s thoughts on that perfect green to the sky, together with a group of people started the first festival right in Somerset, in Shepton Mallet.

Later the project evolved into a mission: to create opportunities for cultural exchange and learning to bring the arts of different cultures to the widest possible audience by developing arts education and creative learning projects.

After all, Peter Gabriel’s spirit of contamination appeared to us loud and clear in the blending of tribal percussion and electro-synth sounds in Shock the monkey.

The resounding aspect of the Womad festival that is being held these days is that Carmen Consoli announced her participation with this picture.

 

The Singeress.

I would say she is perfect to represent the strength of roots and the richness of collaborations.

 

Carmen is the first Italian artist to perform at the world music festival.

July 27 / 30 – Charlton Park are the coordinates of Womad 2023.

While waiting, we can watch highlights from last year’s edition: the 40th.

 

 

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