Francesco Currà's lyrics & chords

Francesco Currà – born in Calabria, in the deep south of Italy – used to work at a milling machine at the Ansaldo, a huge heavy metal industry in Genoa. He was a poet, too. He was 29 when he was granted by independent label Ultima Spiaggia the opportunity to team up with Roberto Colombo, Flaviano Cuffari and other great musicians to realize "Rapsodia meccanica" (“mechanical rhapsody”): not simply a concept album about life in a factory, but a kind of a fantastic voyage through the alienated mind of a chain worker. The music was based...read more