Kwaito music

Kwaito

Really one of my favorite song ever!






Maybe it's only an idea...I discovered this type of music when I was in Kenya, some guys from Njiru introduced me this sound. It's very nice to see how the music is important for the african people, especially the music wich you can dance, move the body is very very important. Many of they don't have nothing and the life is very hard, but no one forget the important of the music and of the dance, because it's a strong part of their culture.
In Kenya don't exist a real Kwaito culture, first because it come from South Africa and they speak in another language (SA Zulu, Kenya Swhaili), but they made me listen a similar type of music, and when I went back to home I started a research about that and I found the Kwaito music. I had already heard the name of Zola, but I never listened his music with a great attention.
The beat is very special, a crazy combination of traditional african music with house and hip hop with a great dose of tamarragine that create a wonderfull sound.
A strange thing (but maybe not so strange) is that , the people that started to play Kwaito really didn't knew nothing about hip hop and rap culture of the '80 from NY or LA, but the goal was quite the same.
Maybe it's only my idea, as I told, but for me exist a chain, from Kwaito's way of dance to the Krump dance.
I saw the Rize documentary when it went out in 2005 and also inside this they speak about this ancient aspect that the Krump dance have, the way of move the body without control, where you can see only the power that with the help of the music come from inside. The rage, the power, the desire to rebel.
Ok, the Krumpers are very hard and incredibly fast and sometimes they look more like fighters, I know that it's difficult to compare with the Kwaito's dancers. Also the music, of course, is completely different, I know I know.
Anyway, the Krump remind me the Kwaito and back again, I see something ancestral thing that links these two type of subculture, that come from two complete different places and cultures, but having in their roots a strange common line for me....
If you want you can make a comparison by yourself.




Krumping

Basta 'a salute e 'n paio de scarpe nove

Mi sono comprata un paio di scarpe nuove.
Fine agosto, fine delle vacanze e non c'è nessuno in giro, ancora tutti al mare, ma io no.

Pitigliano

Carnaio a Saturnia

Uno scorcio dei primi 5 metri della Feniglia, i successivi.....

il paradiso in terra, meglio del comunismo! Poveri stolti proletari, voi che con i vostri ombrelloni ed ombrellini imbrattate le dune dorate perdendovi il silenzio ed il verde delle acque tra le più belle d'Italia...stupenda e spensierata ignoranza...

Stacanovista impegnata convinta posticiperò anche la mia partenza alla volta di Bari, per non perdere neanche un attimo. Per cosa ancor poi non si sa, vedremo il 30 agosto (giorno fatidico, regione toscana aiutaci tu).
Perchè poi la prendi con filosofia, talmente tutto ti sembra bello dopo un anno passato in modalità inverno barra autunno, che anche rimanere bloccati un'ora e mezzo sulla Firenze Siena per un incendio diventa parte della vacanza e non perdi nemmeno tempo a lamentarti, anche se sono 42 gradi, non importa perchè il caso ha voluto che la macchina si fermasse in fila all'ombra di un bell'albero, son soddisfazioni.

Quindi, come si può ampiamente dedurre, siamo di sosta in madre patria, giusto il tempo di riprendere un pò di colorito ed una decina di chili a testa---per questo la Puglia mi fa un pò paura---
Diciamoci la verità, le vacanze d'agosto a Berlino quest'anno non le avrei augurate  neanche al mio peggior nemico, e se fossimo rimasti, alla meglio ci restava solo il lavoro.
Ed allora sì, mare, musica, vino e sole, capanne, far festa in spiaggia e grigliate di carne e pesce...e bisogna proprio dirlo, se non sei stato un pò in Maremma nella tua vita non hai visto proprio un tubo (oggi mi sento totalitaria).

Bbella, se vedemio presto, da paura, 'na robba, a li mortacci tua, e statte zitto, 'a bello de zia....

All the photos made by G zAgAsH AND sPiantini

Inconvenienti dell'età

Summer in Berlin, finally!!

Many said that this will not go on...anyway, we enjoy these days and the atmosphere of the city. Yesterday we went to eat something at Knofi after a long time, Bergmann str...not bad, but the best part were the Kuchen (lecker rabarberkuche!)

Voglio vivere così, col sole in fronte! Maledetta Berlino, avvolte mi sembra tutto troppo bello per essere vero, tutto puntuale, tutto (quasi) pulito per strada e nei parchi, cibi da ogni dove, localini giusti, gente vestita a modo con contorno di tamarranza turca che è ha un suo perchè, e questo è niente, solo la superficie, quella che anche se vieni due giorni riesci a vedere...you know, Berlin ist arm, aber sexy (Klaus Wowereit).

Maybe soon I have to make a post on Diana Ross and the Supremes, and maybe also on Alberto Radius....

Remeber! Next Saturday in front of Maria am Ostbahnhof: Voodoo Market, selected designer will expose their works from 1pm to 6pm, and of course I will be there with my Halsketten, komm komm komm!

A lot of newssssss!!!!

Foto made by Silvia Piantini and Giacomo Zaganelli.

Fake

Jil Sander

        

My fake version

Cosa serve:

TADAAAN!!

Forse soon on Etsy? 

Nein Danke

Andate a votare voi che potete, grazie.

Azure

Ich bin allein jetz in Berlin, Giacomo wird am diese Nacht kommen. Wir waren in Italien fur meine schwesters Hochzeit, und jetz noch ein mal Berlin.
Es ist fast ein Jahr dass wir zusammen hier wohnen, die Zeit fliegt, mein Deutsch ist noch scheusslich und ich bin noch arbeitlos...aber gut, leben mit mein Liebe in diese Stadt ist die beste dinge dass ich in meine Leben gemacht habe.
Wir sind frei hier, wir haben kein Geld, aber wir wollen bleiben. Zukunft? Keine Ahnung, aber wer kann sagt was ist seinen Zukunft in diese moment?
Viele Leute dass ich weiss, sind in die gleiche situazion, und ist hart zu wohnen ohne keine Sicherheiten, aber kann ich sagen dass hier leben ein bischen einfacht ist, vielleicht...wir wirden sehen.
Ich habe viele traume uber mein Arbeit und uber mein Schmuck, ich hoffe nur dass alles am besten gehen wird, jetz bin ich glucklich.

Ein foto fur (fast) alles Monate

September - Unser Kiez mit unsere Freundin....

Oktober - Liebte Hause, warten auf die erste Babylonia Abendessen

November - Mauer Park mit Sonne

Dezember - Martin, mein Retter

Januar - Alex -18°

Februar - Am Schlesisches Tor

Marz - Museum fur Naturkunde...unglaublich!

April - Berta Fischer Austellung am Giti Nourbakhsch, Kurfursterstr 12

Mai - Viel Spass mit mein Schwester und die ganze Freundinnen

und jetz? Chi vivrà vedrà....

Asante sana

A volte ritornano...
A lot of time without posting, because you know, we do things, we see people, we are always full bla bla bla.
The realty is that we are lazy people and we can't be real good bloggers. But of course, is always a pleasure to share with you our inspirations and our daily life, and between a Pizza at Caramia and a Paris-Roubaix at Lorenzo's place, we continue to work, learn and discover some new fantastic things.
My mood now is very Maasai, and I think that was better if I had chose to learn kiswahili.
I will have time also to do that.

Noir Jewelry

Maasai necklaces

Proenza Schouler

Tom Binns

And now I will show you my latest creations. You can see and understand how I'm obsessed with the african style...I need colours now, but I continue to wear only black, it because Berlin...

by Silvia Piantini ß

by Silvia Piantini ß

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