Galatea
by Unalei
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumThe Jewel case CD comes within an handmade written lyrics on parchment and sealed with ancient wax. Includes also a matchstick in honor of the little match girl. The lyrics you will receive is random, destiny will chose the track which suits you the most.
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Full Digital Discography
Get all 8 Unalei releases available on Bandcamp and save 40%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Galatea (Instrumentals), Galatea, Alba - single, Taedium Vitae, Taedium Vitae (Instrumentals), Cover pack #1, A Sua Immagine, and Charites ( Live EP ).
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La Bussola
00:52
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Anarada
02:54
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Nelle mie vene scorre acqua marina
Acqua marina greco-salentina
Da Polignano per lo stretto di Messina
Dove ritrovo mia nonna bambina
Nelle mie vene scorre acqua ellefonica
Della Tirrenica e della Costa Jonica
Terra di Alghero e linfa d’una driade azzurra
Ceneri da cui Cartagine sussurra
Serrate l’uscio in Bovesia quando cala ‘l sole,
Vien l’Anarada, donna-asina, veglia la notte
Sottrae le voci e squarta a sangue freddo la tua prole
Attenta donna, che ‘l fidanzato già ti fotte
Sulle spalle dello zio nei campi un’altra volta
Nostra Signora del Loreto chiama a raccolta
Avanti andiamo al Sud che c’è un nuovo matrimonio
La sposa danzerà la taranta col demonio
Ciò che ‘l mare dice non dovrai dimenticar
Siano Sirene o un vecchio pescatore lì a passar
Non temere quando alle origini vorrai tornar
Se la polare punta a Nord, il cuore al mar
Verso ‘l Mediterraneo c’è l’Arcadia, non si muor
Facciam l’amore con le Naiadi tutte le or
Che la lussuria mi metta pure al crocifisso
Le mie radici son alghe in fondo all’abisso
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The Little Matchgirl
04:59
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You know that the year’s coldest night is the one that freezes your heart passing by
When people out of mind run out of sight, all in a hurry ‘cause Christ comes to light
Last one present to be done, don’t forget that Santa’s coming close to dawn
But not a single human paying attention to that tiny voice screaming alone:
“Buy the matches,
All these matches!
Oh please Sir., feed me
So until tomorrow I’d stay alive…”.
The longest night is every night that someone sees another’s pain and shows no care
As when the little matchgirl turned into a candy violet doll of nacre,
All the kids I see pretend to, with a single cent, like Holden the world catch
but she won’t ever know how they feel caring warming herself with a single match.
“Buy the matches
All these matches!
Oh please Madame take me,
You look so close to my mom!”.
She’s so afraid of coming back at home
If her task she won’t complete…
Cause daddy’s gonna cuff her.
More and more the snow shall fall
Cold and colder her feet go on
I don’t even know her name
But I feel like I’m part of this human shame
“Someone holds me safe and warm
Horses prance through a silver storm
Figures dancing gracefully
Across my memory.”
I hold you love I’ll never let you fall
I light a match trying to warm your blood
Please ignore the skies’s call
I kiss your teen lips,
How would you have been older?
Your dreams will be forever locked up
Come and get on granny’s shoulders
She came to bring you up.
When I feel cold I think of you in peace,
In the heart of Winter streets.
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Gloria
04:08
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Si una Tierra llama, responde a la llamada
Del alma la llama sigue, adora, evoca
La primera vez que vayas, una vuelta será
Gloria
Si la Gente de una Tierra cruza tu vivir
De tu pasada vida, nunca tendrás que huir
Gloria
Si tu Sangre no es Romana y hulles cada día
No hagas que sea una perpetua Romería
Gloria
Reconocerás las flores, las fuentes y la Feria,
Y por la mañana la Giralda de oro, rosa y naranja
Gloria
Sevillanos y Sicilianos, hermanos Mediterraneos
Marcho hacia la Torre de la Reina
Rogando mi madre Triana
Para verte ya
Gloria.
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Azalea
03:52
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Representation
Of all whole nature
Eons flow and that for me you are
Still you are, you are, you are, you are.
In the storm clamor’s core
Nobody could even hear
The laments in my honor
The roaring thunder of your pleasing for more.
On the pedestal’s top
In the isolated park
While you’re soaring so velvety
Oh I kneel, I kneel, I kneel, I kneel.
In a church of wood and stone
Where ghost-water ivy grow
In Warszawa, 1998
With a countrygirl emerald wedding.
In our modest crystal forest place
To call someone from the riverside
You don’t need to have a name
It’s enough the embers smoking frame.
In the fauna I mix you
‘Til I recognize it too
That unique Azalea in your hair
An Azalea you are, you are.
Azalea, Azalea, Azalea...
Eons flow and that for me you are:
That unique Azalea in your hair
Still you are, you are, you are, you are
That unique Azalea.
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Portagioie
01:46
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Livida ( Amore o Morte )
04:15
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“S’io fossi un fior,
Qual fior ‘or sarei?”
Tu mi chiedesti
Quando dormisti con me
Ed io ti risposi:
“Non uno ma tanti
Nascenti scarlatti”
Opachi fioriti nella via
Della tua malattia
Non ci credesti ma
Io sono te e tu sei me.
Per tutta la mia vita
ed oltre questa vita
Io sono te e tu sei me.
Gli occhi chiudesti,
( Se morissi mai )
Di là ti portai.
( Io ne morirei )
Ti addormentasti
( Ti amo ma non vorrei )
Sulla mia man…
Ieri non oggi
Crudeli e folli
I nostri corpi
Acerbi e nudi
Non ci credetti ma
Tu non sei né me, né te.
Né noi. Né voi. Né lui.
Né lei.
Sei Livida.
Per tutta la mia vita
Ed oltre questa vita
Per tutta la mia vita
Ed oltre questa vita livida
Per tutta la mia vita livida
Ed oltre questa livida vita
Per tutta la mia vita
Io sono te e tu sei me.
Non una fra tante,
Ma l’unica amante.
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Aurea Mediocritas
00:43
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Слава тебе, безысходная боль!
Умер вчера сероглазый король.
Вечер осенний был душен и ал,
Муж мой, вернувшись, спокойно сказал:
«Знаешь, с охоты его принесли,
Тело у старого дуба нашли.
Жаль королеву. Такой молодой!..
За ночь одну она стала седой».
Трубку свою на камине нашел
И на работу ночную ушел.
Дочку мою я сейчас разбужу,
В серые глазки ее погляжу.
А за окном шелестят тополя:
«Нет на земле твоего короля…»
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Lola
05:29
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Vieni Lola, vieni.
Forse io presto nacqui
( Chissà io troppo tardi )
Perciò non posso averti
( Perciò non so di amarti )
Di me non ti dimenticar
Gli affetti della tua età
Vengono e vanno,
Vengono e già se ne vanno.
Non potrò soffrire questi dieci inverni
Anche se a volte Iddio prego, fa che non cresca mai
Solo fra molte lune
Capiremo il senso
Di quest’immenso arcano
Prima di Venere nato
Che sotto forma di
Quest’arcadica novella,
Sincero, indifeso,
Per sempre ti lascio
Non c’è volta in cui tu non mi sorrida
Quando sottecchi ti ammiro, salvifica
Il tuo sguardo dilania, Sara.
Vengono e vanno, Sara.
Ho paura di morire
Troppa paura, amore
Se siam rose fioriremo
In due rose rifioriremo
In terra piantiamo qualcosa ed è come
Giungere ad un compimento
Svelami il mistero
E in due rose rifioriremo
Vengono e vanno
Vengono e vanno
Nessuno sa della natura segreta
Imbrattata di terra dai il via alla vita
Non c’è volta in cui io non mi tradisca
Sai che ti mangio con gli occhi, magnifica
Immensa e severa Lola
Vieni, vieni Lola.
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Anarada ( slow version )
04:21
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Nelle mie vene scorre acqua marina
Acqua marina greco-salentina
Da Polignano per lo stretto di Messina
Dove ritrovo mia nonna bambina
Nelle mie vene scorre acqua ellefonica
Della Tirrenica e della Costa Jonica
Terra di Alghero e linfa d’una driade azzurra
Ceneri da cui Cartagine sussurra
Serrate l’uscio in Bovesia quando cala ‘l sole,
Vien l’Anarada, donna-asina, veglia la notte
Sottrae le voci e squarta a sangue freddo la tua prole
Attenta donna, che ‘l fidanzato già ti fotte
Sulle spalle dello zio nei campi un’altra volta
Nostra Signora del Loreto chiama a raccolta
Avanti andiamo al Sud che c’è un nuovo matrimonio
La sposa danzerà la taranta col demonio
Ciò che ‘l mare dice non dovrai dimenticar
Siano Sirene o un vecchio pescatore lì a passar
Non temere quando alle origini vorrai tornar
Se la polare punta a Nord, il cuore al mar
Verso ‘l Mediterraneo c’è l’Arcadia, non si muor
Facciam l’amore alle Nereidi tutte le or
Che la lussuria mi metta pure al crocifisso
Le mie radici son alghe in fondo all’abisso
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Portagioie ( Demo )
01:55
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about
The digital download includes the whole instrumental version of Galatea, not included in the physical CD. It comes with and extra acoustix version of "Lola".
This record could be described as a searching for an existence and a lifestyle that is an end in itself through the rediscovery and deep knowledge of one's blood roots: bucolic and rural.
A search for inner serenity.
At the same time, it incites to turn life into art by finding something special and magical in every moment of every day and giving it a deep, precisely aesthetic meaning.
The element which connects all people and ethnic groups, the truly unique “social network" of this world has always been the sea, the water.
With the song “Anarada”, which is an ode to my blood family and Mediterranean’s geography and folk culture, the journey through the sea starts. From there it touches different shores, areas that have inspired me or with which I had connections in my life. The album ends by returning to the Mediterranean again with “Anarada” arranged with another dress. This represents the circularity, the unity that water creates on our Earth. Any place can be a departure and an arrival.
Within the roots discovery a refusal for the suffocating post-modern, technological and technologist actual society proceeds in parallel ( which is, altough, still so decadent and fascinating ).
The album’s title refers to Galatea Pygmalion’s statue, not really the nymph. Pygmalion rejected every earthly woman whom he thought was not worthy of his desire. His Galatea is a statue of Aphrodite built specifically for him. The myth tells that Aphrodite herself, moved by Pygmalion’s devotion to pure love, got down to the earth and gave life to the statue. It’s the representation of an ideal which comes true, but only due divine intervention.
The lover wants to create what he loves, do you agree?
This can be related to the Romantic concept of the “creating to create” that puts God and the artist at the same level: capable of creating and remodeling his product infinite times, with the only purpose of creating.
I was born and raised in Rome, but I have nothing roman in my blood. My father is Tunisian and my mother is Italian while her mother is Apulian and her father is Sardinian.
I had been in Spain in order to spend one year studying and I felt like a fanatic affection, besotted with the Andalusian people and their Flamenco culture.
I needed that detachment from my land to open my eyes and see what it possesses and how much it means to the Italy of Magna Graecia where I come from. By continuing to elaborate through time the impression I had, I understood that the phenomenon that fascinated me the most was the pride given to people by a simple fact of being so, which remains unchanged throughout centuries.
The first step to create the songs was to target a story or a character and then write an appropriate lyric. The second one was to find minimal and cinematic musical themes of few notes that represented them well enough. It was more difficult to understand which instrument could represent each melody among all those available.
Galatea is not a celebration of past or tradition but of an eternal temporal continuum instead.
Galatea is dedicated to my grandfather Sebastiano Sanna.
This record could be described as a searching for an existence and a lifestyle that is an end in itself through the rediscovery and deep knowledge of one's blood roots: bucolic and rural.
A search for inner serenity.
At the same time, it incites to turn life into art by finding something special and magical in every moment of every day and giving it a deep, precisely aesthetic meaning.
The element which connects all people and ethnic groups, the truly unique “social network" of this world has always been the sea, the water.
With the song “Anarada”, which is an ode to my blood family and Mediterranean’s geography and folk culture, the journey through the sea starts. From there it touches different shores, areas that have inspired me or with which I had connections in my life. The album ends by returning to the Mediterranean again with “Anarada” arranged with another dress. This represents the circularity, the unity that water creates on our Earth. Any place can be a departure and an arrival.
Within the roots discovery a refusal for the suffocating post-modern, technological and technologist actual society proceeds in parallel ( which is, altough, still so decadent and fascinating ).
The album’s title refers to Galatea Pygmalion’s statue, not really the nymph. Pygmalion rejected every earthly woman whom he thought was not worthy of his desire. His Galatea is a statue of Aphrodite built specifically for him. The myth tells that Aphrodite herself, moved by Pygmalion’s devotion to pure love, got down to the earth and gave life to the statue. It’s the representation of an ideal which comes true, but only due divine intervention.
The lover wants to create what he loves, do you agree?
This can be related to the Romantic concept of the “creating to create” that puts God and the artist at the same level: capable of creating and remodeling his product infinite times, with the only purpose of creating.
I was born and raised in Rome, but I have nothing roman in my blood. My father is Tunisian and my mother is Italian while her mother is Apulian and her father is Sardinian.
I had been in Spain in order to spend one year studying and I felt like a fanatic affection, besotted with the Andalusian people and their Flamenco culture.
I needed that detachment from my land to open my eyes and see what it possesses and how much it means to the Italy of Magna Graecia where I come from. By continuing to elaborate through time the impression I had, I understood that the phenomenon that fascinated me the most was the pride given to people by a simple fact of being so, which remains unchanged throughout centuries.
The first step to create the songs was to target a story or a character and then write an appropriate lyric. The second one was to find minimal and cinematic musical themes of few notes that represented them well enough. It was more difficult to understand which instrument could represent each melody among all those available.
Galatea is not a celebration of past or tradition but of an eternal temporal continuum instead.
Galatea is dedicated to my grandfather Sebastiano Sanna.
credits
released December 8, 2020
Galatea, written between Spring 2016 and Spring 2018.
Production started 4th of June, 2018 and ended 23rd of January, 2020.
Recorded, mixed and mastered at PlayRec Studio in Rome by Fabio Fraschini and Dario Vero.
In Galatea we used no AutoTune and the minimum indispensable amount of editing.
"Anarada slow version" has no click and no editing.
Entirely produced by Karim Federico Sanna.
Special thanks goes to:
David Folchitto for Sabian and Instanbul cymbals and Markline handmade snare used in this record;
Diego Zaccagnini for his rehearsal room during drums writing and the precious counseling about drums patterns;
Gianni Lai for the classical guitar;
Floriana Ausili for the photography, friendship and constant support during these years
( Ig @metalpics73; Fb: @Metal.Pics );
DarkVeil Production;
Moderno ( Fb @federico.moderno )
Mom and my family.
Unalei is:
Karim Federico Sanna: Composition, Lyrics, Arrangeament, Vocals, Drums, Guitars, Piano, Ocarina, Flute, Tambourine, Djambee, Bongo, Rain Stick and others.
Line-up:
Fabio Fraschini: Bass, Fretless bass, Recording, Mixing & Mastering, co-arrangeament;
Dario Vero: Orchestration, Slide guitar, Glockenspiel, Recording and co-arrangeament;
Federica Catalano: Female vocals;
Massimiliano Pagliuso: Guitar solo and co-arrangeament on "Gloria";
Natalia Lapshina: Reciting vox on "Aurea Mediocritas";
Alessandro Sforza: Guest vocals on "Livida".
Popular choir is:
Marinella Sanna, Tiziana Sanna, Teresa Maltone, Federico A. Petitto, Diego Zaccagnini, Fabio Fraschini.
Federico uses:
- Martin acoustic guitars; Suhr, Fender and Ibanez electrics guitars;
- DW drums; Sabian, Zildjan and UFIP cymbals; VicFirth sticks and Tama pedals;
- Darkglass, MESA, MXR and TC electronics stomps.
Fabio uses:
- Rotosound strings;
- Lakland bass.
Thanks to:
All who played on Galatea, Claudia Cionci, Francesco Longo, Floriana Ausili, Simona Rongione, Alice Antinucci, Gianni Lai e Sabrina Zanetti, Ivano Lo Iacono, Emiliano Bez, Serena Mastracco, Giorgio Guglietti, Ester Vulpiani e Fabio Figlioli,
Vincent Cavanagh, Steve Vai, Kсения Cырова.
Galatea, written between Spring 2016 and Spring 2018.
Production started 4th of June, 2018 and ended 23rd of January, 2020.
Recorded, mixed and mastered at PlayRec Studio in Rome by Fabio Fraschini and Dario Vero.
In Galatea we used no AutoTune and the minimum indispensable amount of editing.
"Anarada slow version" has no click and no editing.
Entirely produced by Karim Federico Sanna.
Special thanks goes to:
David Folchitto for Sabian and Instanbul cymbals and Markline handmade snare used in this record;
Diego Zaccagnini for his rehearsal room during drums writing and the precious counseling about drums patterns;
Gianni Lai for the classical guitar;
Floriana Ausili for the photography, friendship and constant support during these years
( Ig @metalpics73; Fb: @Metal.Pics );
DarkVeil Production;
Moderno ( Fb @federico.moderno )
Mom and my family.
Unalei is:
Karim Federico Sanna: Composition, Lyrics, Arrangeament, Vocals, Drums, Guitars, Piano, Ocarina, Flute, Tambourine, Djambee, Bongo, Rain Stick and others.
Line-up:
Fabio Fraschini: Bass, Fretless bass, Recording, Mixing & Mastering, co-arrangeament;
Dario Vero: Orchestration, Slide guitar, Glockenspiel, Recording and co-arrangeament;
Federica Catalano: Female vocals;
Massimiliano Pagliuso: Guitar solo and co-arrangeament on "Gloria";
Natalia Lapshina: Reciting vox on "Aurea Mediocritas";
Alessandro Sforza: Guest vocals on "Livida".
Popular choir is:
Marinella Sanna, Tiziana Sanna, Teresa Maltone, Federico A. Petitto, Diego Zaccagnini, Fabio Fraschini.
Federico uses:
- Martin acoustic guitars; Suhr, Fender and Ibanez electrics guitars;
- DW drums; Sabian, Zildjan and UFIP cymbals; VicFirth sticks and Tama pedals;
- Darkglass, MESA, MXR and TC electronics stomps.
Fabio uses:
- Rotosound strings;
- Lakland bass.
Thanks to:
All who played on Galatea, Claudia Cionci, Francesco Longo, Floriana Ausili, Simona Rongione, Alice Antinucci, Gianni Lai e Sabrina Zanetti, Ivano Lo Iacono, Emiliano Bez, Serena Mastracco, Giorgio Guglietti, Ester Vulpiani e Fabio Figlioli,
Vincent Cavanagh, Steve Vai, Kсения Cырова.
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