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Genoa embraces Manu Chao, twenty years later

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Exactly twenty years ago (the difference is one day, to be precise) it inflamed tens of thousands of young people, and not only that, who flocked to Genoa convinced that “another world” was possible. A helicopter hovered over his and their heads, almost a sinister omen, which, for the duration of the concert, mixed the noise of its blades with the sound of the patchanka. At that time we were in Piazzale Kennedy, an expanse of concrete confusedly removed from the sea when Genoa felt like a metropolis. Tonight, July 19, 2021, Manu Chao sings in the Giardini dedicated to Emanuele Luzzati, a solidarity square stolen from the decay and, perhaps worse, the gentrication of the historic center. Mayor Bucci, a couple of years ago, tried to put it on the market, as he likes it. He surrendered in front of a mass flash mob that also involved Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, not really a tupamaro.

The setting is like a café chantant, with dozens of tables, well spaced, whiter and more beer than spritz, because the non-global people, to their principles, do not derogate. A few hundred lucky ones find a place, the others clinging to a hill that houses the soccer field where, at any time, children play and a frenzied and enthusiastic representative of migrants. In these parts, between municipal ordinances and the need for a good neighborhood, one cannot pull too late. And then at 9 pm on the dot here he arrives, or for someone to appear, Josè Manuel Arturo Tomàs Chao Ortega, 60 years old for a month. The irrepressible madness of the Mano Negra is far away, the multicolored fireworks of the first solo albun too, if only for the limits of the pandemic.

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Per El Chapulin solo tour the training is bare: Manu takes up the classical guitar, another guitar is in the hands of Luciano Falco, Mauro Mancebo is on percussion. He actually plays bongos. There are three of them but they look like an orchestra, perhaps also because every single note, every syllable of Manu Chao bounces around the Luzzati Gardens with tones halfway between secular prayer and the stadium choir. The Tombola Life, homage to Diego Armando Maradona, inevitably turns on this track. The café chantant inevitably soon melts into a happening. Difficult to sip a drink (sorry, beer or white), while in front of you it goes crazy La Farewell, O Mr. Bobby. The Pinocchio theme gives the coup de grace to the most rigorous. The ultimate one-two comes with Clandestine and Desaparecido. Who was there, twenty years ago, imagines that time has stopped on that night in Piazzale Kennedy, who has been told about it has the feeling of having caught up with history. Manu is having fun, now as then: he winks at Genoa but if he were in Sri Lanka he would have the same, enthralling transport.

For now, his fans can enjoy it in Italy: next Wednesday again in Genoa, this time at the Porto Antico, on the 25th in Piazza Matteotti, in Sarzana, on the 27th in Collegno, in the province of Turin, on the 31st in Tarvisio (Udine). , on 2 August in Padua and 5 at the Hermitage of Sant’Alberico, in Cesena

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