Credited on the record as Il «Canzoniere delle Lame» di Bologna.
Inno della Tricontinentale
1975 · Zodiaco VPA 8243 · Bologna, Italy
- Artist
- Canzoniere delle Lame
- Credited on the record as
- Il «Canzoniere delle Lame» di Bologna
- Title
- Inno della Tricontinentale
- Release
- Tu compagno
- Year
- 1975
- Label
- Zodiaco # VPA 8243
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Bologna, Italy
- Songwriter
- Corale degli Operai de Holguín; Italian adaptation Gianfranco Ginestri, Janna Carioli
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Italian Folk Music
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Lyrics
English: America, Africa, and Asia / Three continents united to unite / Three peoples who are winning / Their freedom through struggle. / Latin America is waking up— / Chile, Bolivia, Santo Domingo, and Panama— / With the great example of Cuba moving forward; / In unity lives the Tricontinental. // It lives in Africa and it lives in Mozambique, / It lives in the heart of the revolution, / It lives in the soul of the people who struggle— / Long live the Tricontinental! // America, Africa, and Asia / Three continents united to unite / Where hope is born everywhere, / Paving the way toward liberation! / Marxism and anti-imperialism / Are the weapons and the ideas we possess / To overcome oppression and exploitation; / In unity lives the Tricontinental. // It lives in Asia and it lives in Indochina, / It lives in Vietnam, with the people who struggle. / For peace, for socialism, / For peace, for socialism— / Long live the Tricontinental! __________ Italian: America, Africa ed Asia / tre continenti uniti per unire / tre popoli che stanno conquistando / con una lotta la libertà. / L'America latina che si sveglia, / Cile, Bolivia, San Domingo e Panama, / di Cuba il grande esempio che s'avanza, / nell'unità vive la Tricontinental. // Vive in Africa e vive in Mozambico, / vive nel cuore della rivoluzion, / viva nell'anima del popolo che lotta, / vive la Tricontinental! // America, Africa ed Asia / tre continenti uniti per unire / ovunque nasce la speranza / che farà strada alla…
Notes
Track B6 (side B "Canti antimperialisti") of the Zodiaco LP "Il Canzoniere delle Lame di Bologna. Dal recital Tu compagno" (VPA 8243, with lyric booklet, distributed by Sciascia), the same programme first issued by FGCI Bologna as "16 canzoni antifasciste e antimperialiste, dallo spettacolo Tu compagno" (CDL-011, 1974). Vietnam is one of the three continents' struggles named in the hymn.
About the artist
Canzoniere delle Lame was an Italian political-folk collective founded 1 May 1967 in the Lame neighborhood of Bologna (now part of Quartiere Navile) by Janna Carioli and Gianfranco Ginestri, drawing students, teachers and workers 'politically committed' to the Italian left, operating out of a neighborhood community center. Early members included organizer Alba Arnofoli and singer/guitarist Bruno Cuppi. The group was active 1967-1987 (peak activity 1970-1980), recorded roughly 33 albums, and performed over 1,000 concerts in Italy, across Europe, in Cuba and aboard Soviet cruise ships, sharing…
Themes
Anti-Imperialism · Solidarity · Cuba · Communism · Africa · Chile (Cold War)
From the release Tu compagno