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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mister Gambetta, good morning, How are you welcome to the
Vinie Penn project.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Is a joy to be to be here with you.
Really nice to meet you.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So your your name is Beppe Gambetta.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Bee is short for Giuseppe is the correspondent of Joe
in English language. It's short for Joseph in Italian, of course.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
But Giuseppe Gambetta, I mean that would flow. Why did
you go with Bett? You just were? You were called
Pepe your whole life.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yes, at the school they started to call me better,
and I am better.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's a little shorter.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, And you're going to be playing at Best Video
which is wonderful. Uh. Just a gem of a spot
here in Hamden, Connecticut, in Greater New Haven as far
as the arts arts are concerned. On July twenty fifth,
have you have you played Best Video before? Have you
played in Connecticut before? Where are you from? Bepe?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yes, from Geneva, Italy. I leave part of the year
in New Jersey now since ten fifteen years and I
have played the Best Video many years ago. And I'm
so happy to be back because this is a place
where the community of you know, of art and music enthusiasts.
(01:21):
They get together and it's beautiful to perform in a
place where there is a strong sense of community. I
performed in Connecticut several times in my life. Actually, you know,
I'm seventy years old. I'm a guitarist and folk singer,
and I am inspired by the you know, the roots
(01:43):
music of both sides of the ocean. And I came
in Connecticut the first time in eighty nine. I recorded
one album Knocking at the Door of my great guitar Heroes.
And one of these guitar heroes was in Guildford. I
remember was Phil Rose and a famous guitarist from the
(02:05):
Seldom scene. So I have a beautiful story with Connecticut
and I'm happy to be back with my music of
my new project that is called Tara Madre.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, tell me about the new record I see here,
Ta Madre, tell me about it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah. Tera Madre is a is an album basically of
many original composition and songs that is based on this
you know need and write of the artist to dream
about a better world in times when the reality is dark.
(02:41):
You know, our job, the work of the artist is
really and to dream, to dream a better world and
in in Tara Madre. I have many different dreams related
to the love for for the for the music of
the far others, and many different kinds of hope. There
(03:04):
is a little tribute to Doc Watson, who is a
father of the guitar that inspired me many many years ago.
So I'm really excited to play all of this new
music in Hamded on Friday the twenty fifth.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, a great Friday night show. I listened to a
couple of songs the other night, and if I'm not
mistaken you sing some are in your native tongue in Italian,
but there are others in English. When do you write,
how do you approach writing a song? And when do
(03:40):
you make the decision? This one I'm going to I
suppose it's probably how the words flow. Now, that's how
you make the decision.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
There is a little sparkle that comes many times. And
I'm not like Mozart that wrote everything from beginning to
the end, like if God were talking to him. Generally,
the artist is suffering and also is working hard, but
there is always a little spark, a little idea that
(04:10):
puts together a melody and some words, and around that
you build the whole song and it could come in
English or in Italian. And when when it comes in English,
I have some dear friends that are helping me not
to make any mistake. And but it's fun to write
(04:34):
in different languages and to express yourself in different languages.
In the album, there is even one old language that
is sort of a minority language in the from Italian
Alps and all the traditional song from a little village
where they still talk, the medieval French provinceal in the Alps,
(04:58):
and the artists they try to preserve the old the
old dialects, and so I think also one song in
medieval French province, so that that was a challenge to learn.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, I would imagine it's quite an evening of music.
Let me ask you too as I look at photos
on your website here and for those who can do it,
it's bepe Gambeta dot com. I'd be able to do
it if I heard that on the radio. I know
just how to spell it, but it's bepe Gambetta dot com.
(05:34):
I mean you're a five piece? Is that what we're getting?
A best video? Or you solo? Because I think I
see a sitar here. There's a lot of interesting instruments
in your your bandmate's hands. One might have an accordion.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yes, actually the pictures some pictures are from a big
night that is called the Acoustic Nights that I organized
for the Italian National Theater in general one say year
and is a special event where many thousands of people come,
even people from the United States, and where we gather
(06:12):
together around a music team. So I am normally in
normal life, I am a guitarist and folk singer who
travels as a one man band. But in special occasions
I am I really love to you know, to to
meet with other artists and to and to perform projects
(06:35):
with many different artists. So my life is that as
this both sides, you know, but also the solo performing
is really really interesting because you have one one orchestra
in your hands and you alone need to express everything
(06:57):
with your voice, with your stories, with with the guitar,
with some virtuosity. I use a lot of different open
tuning to to give different sounds to my instrument. So
at in hand at the best video, I'm going to
perform as a solo player. But it is one beautiful
(07:20):
form that you know, the the folk singer who plays
folk songs and tells stories is still something that is
important that people seem to enjoy a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, I can't wait to check it out. Do you
do you have Do you have any awareness Pepe of
the Italian band, the rock band Monesquin, who are having
a lot of success in the States right now, and
they have been for years. It's been interesting to see
because they're a hard rock outfit and a couple of
their songs hill sing in Italian too, and people still
(07:53):
love them.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yes, I know about Manesquing because they they have an
interesting story. They started as a street band. They just
played probably six years ago. They were performing just in
the street of Rome as a street band and someone
(08:19):
discovered them and from the street they become number one
in Italy, number one in Europe. And finally that they
have a lot of appreciation in a in the United States.
And probably the important thing in the band is the
the voice of the leader. That is something special and
(08:42):
h and is able to you know, to tell something
even if you he sings in Italian. People enjoys the
sound because it's beautiful. Also to hear the sound of
a different language.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You should you should learn one of the you do
one of their songs acoustic Pepe that if you did
one of their songs acoustic, I will.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Check them out. Now.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yes, actually, do you do any covers? I mean you
have a lot of heroes, like you said, I would
imagine you pull some gems out of the forties and
the fifties.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I actually, yeah, I have a few covers, and in
the past I had more. Now it's a period where
I try to play a little more my own music.
But my own music is related also to the music
of my heroes. I in my life. You know, I
(09:37):
was able to meet with Doc Watson, the great fathers
of the music, and with Pete Sieger. We spent one
day in his home in Beacon, New York. And so
I'm my latest composition actually is is related to my
heroes Pittziger in Foodgatri and actually it's called Woody Pete.
(10:01):
I sort of imagine that they are up there in
a cloud and they are watching the earth nowadays, and
they are freaking out and say, oh, look, how many
wars are happening after all the work that we did, and.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Think like this, yeah, and that song is on Terra Madre.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Actually on Terra Madre is the Italian version. I would
in Pet is just out since a couple of few
weeks as a single and then I've gone up. Yes,
you can find it on YouTube. And actually I got
some help from the daughter of the Gatri Nora Gatri,
(10:45):
and from the daughter of Pittz Figer tinya figure. They
gave me some nice picture of a Woody and Pete
performing together in the fifties, and and so I could
produced also a video with the original images of Woody
and people. Wow, so it was and yes and now
(11:10):
actually yesterday was the birthday of Woody got exactly yesterday,
and in the village there are many different events to
I am going to participate to celebrate the Woody birthday,
and of course in at best video, I'm gonna debut
(11:35):
my Woody and pet song and I hope people will enjoy.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, I can wait to check it out again. It's
Pepe and Beta and concert Fernando Pinto Presents and he's
just he's just a gift to the greater New Haven area,
if not all of Connecticut. I don't know how long
you've known Fernando for, but he's just has such a
passion for music and the arts and a great eye
in here and it's a Friday night show July twenty fifth,
(12:06):
next week, next Friday night, Best Video Film and Cultural
Center right down the street from us here in the
Hamden Bepe. It was great chatting with you, and I'll
look forward to seeing you that night.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yes, fantastic. I'm looking forward to meet you in person
and to yes and to meet some new friends on
new and old friends. Let me just add the Fernando
Pinto presence dot com if people like to have more information. Absolutely,
and yes, that's great. Thank you so much. It was
(12:36):
really really a pleasure to chat with you and tell
about my art.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
It was my honor and I look forward to Friday night.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Take care now I have a great day, Okay, you too,
Chavini
Mister Gambetta, good morning, How are you welcome to the
Vinie Penn project.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Is a joy to be to be here with you.
Really nice to meet you.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So your your name is Beppe Gambetta.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Bee is short for Giuseppe is the correspondent of Joe
in English language. It's short for Joseph in Italian, of course.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
But Giuseppe Gambetta, I mean that would flow. Why did
you go with Bett? You just were? You were called
Pepe your whole life.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yes, at the school they started to call me better,
and I am better.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's a little shorter.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, And you're going to be playing at Best Video
which is wonderful. Uh. Just a gem of a spot
here in Hamden, Connecticut, in Greater New Haven as far
as the arts arts are concerned. On July twenty fifth,
have you have you played Best Video before? Have you
played in Connecticut before? Where are you from? Bepe?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yes, from Geneva, Italy. I leave part of the year
in New Jersey now since ten fifteen years and I
have played the Best Video many years ago. And I'm
so happy to be back because this is a place
where the community of you know, of art and music enthusiasts.
(01:21):
They get together and it's beautiful to perform in a
place where there is a strong sense of community. I
performed in Connecticut several times in my life. Actually, you know,
I'm seventy years old. I'm a guitarist and folk singer,
and I am inspired by the you know, the roots
(01:43):
music of both sides of the ocean. And I came
in Connecticut the first time in eighty nine. I recorded
one album Knocking at the Door of my great guitar Heroes.
And one of these guitar heroes was in Guildford. I
remember was Phil Rose and a famous guitarist from the
(02:05):
Seldom scene. So I have a beautiful story with Connecticut
and I'm happy to be back with my music of
my new project that is called Tara Madre.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, tell me about the new record I see here,
Ta Madre, tell me about it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah. Tera Madre is a is an album basically of
many original composition and songs that is based on this
you know need and write of the artist to dream
about a better world in times when the reality is dark.
(02:41):
You know, our job, the work of the artist is
really and to dream, to dream a better world and
in in Tara Madre. I have many different dreams related
to the love for for the for the music of
the far others, and many different kinds of hope. There
(03:04):
is a little tribute to Doc Watson, who is a
father of the guitar that inspired me many many years ago.
So I'm really excited to play all of this new
music in Hamded on Friday the twenty fifth.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, a great Friday night show. I listened to a
couple of songs the other night, and if I'm not
mistaken you sing some are in your native tongue in Italian,
but there are others in English. When do you write,
how do you approach writing a song? And when do
(03:40):
you make the decision? This one I'm going to I
suppose it's probably how the words flow. Now, that's how
you make the decision.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
There is a little sparkle that comes many times. And
I'm not like Mozart that wrote everything from beginning to
the end, like if God were talking to him. Generally,
the artist is suffering and also is working hard, but
there is always a little spark, a little idea that
(04:10):
puts together a melody and some words, and around that
you build the whole song and it could come in
English or in Italian. And when when it comes in English,
I have some dear friends that are helping me not
to make any mistake. And but it's fun to write
(04:34):
in different languages and to express yourself in different languages.
In the album, there is even one old language that
is sort of a minority language in the from Italian
Alps and all the traditional song from a little village
where they still talk, the medieval French provinceal in the Alps,
(04:58):
and the artists they try to preserve the old the
old dialects, and so I think also one song in
medieval French province, so that that was a challenge to learn.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, I would imagine it's quite an evening of music.
Let me ask you too as I look at photos
on your website here and for those who can do it,
it's bepe Gambeta dot com. I'd be able to do
it if I heard that on the radio. I know
just how to spell it, but it's bepe Gambetta dot com.
(05:34):
I mean you're a five piece? Is that what we're getting?
A best video? Or you solo? Because I think I
see a sitar here. There's a lot of interesting instruments
in your your bandmate's hands. One might have an accordion.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yes, actually the pictures some pictures are from a big
night that is called the Acoustic Nights that I organized
for the Italian National Theater in general one say year
and is a special event where many thousands of people come,
even people from the United States, and where we gather
(06:12):
together around a music team. So I am normally in
normal life, I am a guitarist and folk singer who
travels as a one man band. But in special occasions
I am I really love to you know, to to
meet with other artists and to and to perform projects
(06:35):
with many different artists. So my life is that as
this both sides, you know, but also the solo performing
is really really interesting because you have one one orchestra
in your hands and you alone need to express everything
(06:57):
with your voice, with your stories, with with the guitar,
with some virtuosity. I use a lot of different open
tuning to to give different sounds to my instrument. So
at in hand at the best video, I'm going to
perform as a solo player. But it is one beautiful
(07:20):
form that you know, the the folk singer who plays
folk songs and tells stories is still something that is
important that people seem to enjoy a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, I can't wait to check it out. Do you
do you have Do you have any awareness Pepe of
the Italian band, the rock band Monesquin, who are having
a lot of success in the States right now, and
they have been for years. It's been interesting to see
because they're a hard rock outfit and a couple of
their songs hill sing in Italian too, and people still
(07:53):
love them.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yes, I know about Manesquing because they they have an
interesting story. They started as a street band. They just
played probably six years ago. They were performing just in
the street of Rome as a street band and someone
(08:19):
discovered them and from the street they become number one
in Italy, number one in Europe. And finally that they
have a lot of appreciation in a in the United States.
And probably the important thing in the band is the
the voice of the leader. That is something special and
(08:42):
h and is able to you know, to tell something
even if you he sings in Italian. People enjoys the
sound because it's beautiful. Also to hear the sound of
a different language.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You should you should learn one of the you do
one of their songs acoustic Pepe that if you did
one of their songs acoustic, I will.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Check them out. Now.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yes, actually, do you do any covers? I mean you
have a lot of heroes, like you said, I would
imagine you pull some gems out of the forties and
the fifties.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I actually, yeah, I have a few covers, and in
the past I had more. Now it's a period where
I try to play a little more my own music.
But my own music is related also to the music
of my heroes. I in my life. You know, I
(09:37):
was able to meet with Doc Watson, the great fathers
of the music, and with Pete Sieger. We spent one
day in his home in Beacon, New York. And so
I'm my latest composition actually is is related to my
heroes Pittziger in Foodgatri and actually it's called Woody Pete.
(10:01):
I sort of imagine that they are up there in
a cloud and they are watching the earth nowadays, and
they are freaking out and say, oh, look, how many
wars are happening after all the work that we did, and.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Think like this, yeah, and that song is on Terra Madre.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Actually on Terra Madre is the Italian version. I would
in Pet is just out since a couple of few
weeks as a single and then I've gone up. Yes,
you can find it on YouTube. And actually I got
some help from the daughter of the Gatri Nora Gatri,
(10:45):
and from the daughter of Pittz Figer tinya figure. They
gave me some nice picture of a Woody and Pete
performing together in the fifties, and and so I could
produced also a video with the original images of Woody
and people. Wow, so it was and yes and now
(11:10):
actually yesterday was the birthday of Woody got exactly yesterday,
and in the village there are many different events to
I am going to participate to celebrate the Woody birthday,
and of course in at best video, I'm gonna debut
(11:35):
my Woody and pet song and I hope people will enjoy.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, I can wait to check it out again. It's
Pepe and Beta and concert Fernando Pinto Presents and he's
just he's just a gift to the greater New Haven area,
if not all of Connecticut. I don't know how long
you've known Fernando for, but he's just has such a
passion for music and the arts and a great eye
in here and it's a Friday night show July twenty fifth,
(12:06):
next week, next Friday night, Best Video Film and Cultural
Center right down the street from us here in the
Hamden Bepe. It was great chatting with you, and I'll
look forward to seeing you that night.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yes, fantastic. I'm looking forward to meet you in person
and to yes and to meet some new friends on
new and old friends. Let me just add the Fernando
Pinto presence dot com if people like to have more information. Absolutely,
and yes, that's great. Thank you so much. It was
(12:36):
really really a pleasure to chat with you and tell
about my art.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
It was my honor and I look forward to Friday night.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Take care now I have a great day, Okay, you too,
Chavini
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