La Figlia che Piange (The Girl who Cries)

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La Figlia che Piange (The Girl who Cries) is a conceptual album inspired by the T.S. Elliot poem. In the story, a man leaves his lover and spends a lot of time reflecting and longing for her. Meanwhile, the woman resents him for his absence.

In this album, we seek to display a conversation, a dichotomy between both lovers, their love, beauty and fond remembrance. We seek to show how relationships between two people are simply complicated and how even when we choose to end things, it does not mean our feelings simply end, love remains eternal.

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La Figlia che Piange
BY T. S. ELIOT

O quam te memorem virgo ...
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair—
Lean on a garden urn—
Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair—
Clasp your flowers to you with a pained surprise—
Fling them to the ground and turn
With a fugitive resentment in your eyes:
But weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

So I would have had him leave,
So I would have had her stand and grieve,
So he would have left
As the soul leaves the body torn and bruised,
As the mind deserts the body it has used.
I should find
Some way incomparably light and deft,
Some way we both should understand,
Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

She turned away, but with the autumn weather
Compelled my imagination many days,
Many days and many hours:
Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers.
And I wonder how they should have been together!
I should have lost a gesture and a pose.
Sometimes these cogitations still amaze
The troubled midnight and the noon’s repose.

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from La Figlia che Piange (The Girl who Cries), released November 9, 2018
Special thanks to Toshihisa Tsuruoka for mixing and mastering this album.

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Dante Luna and Cassandra Venaglia Los Angeles, California

Composer-performers Dante Luna (percussion) and Cassandra Venaglia (voice) join together in a special duo-collaborative project.

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