A song about child brides

BONSAI BRIDES

We are fatigued veils
In a cardboard mangery scene
In the well washed thoughts
With soap and fear
In our impure skin
The bruises and the grooves of the moon 

We are never flourished buds
Jasmines without light
Wives and servants without history
We were flowing rivers, now we are ponds
Like kites in ruins and weeping
Fallen in hands without love

You will meet us in our distant gazes
Hidden in little white veils, bonsai brides
In opaque eyes, a bit too big
For having seen only ten years
In our bulky gazes you will recognize us
Given to the beasts, like left-overs, bonsai brides

We, queens of the Reign of Shaba
Who have lost their crown
Salomon has betrayed us
And in the misfortune banquet 
He pounces, hungry, on the shame
Like vultures on a carrion

The infected air of his smell
Those instants are hours
We are fear, he is sweat
Our body does not have strength
It does not breathe a single word, nor rebels itself anymore

Spose Bonsai

A song about the actress Maria Montez

SHOOTING STAR
María Montez (June 6th, 1912– September 7th, 1951)

Happiness, I looked for it in people’s mouth
Not in smiles, but in lips disclosed to the firmament 
Because nobody is indifferent to stars,
Stars never show themselves switched off 
Because nobody is indifferent to stars,
I thought that too, before I became a shooting star.

If you will offer your soul, 
You will have success and fame
In the mirror your world will love you
Only a pledge and I can already hear it, your name in eternity
When the night will come on your face

Happiness, I looked for it the people’s hands,
not in caresses but rounds of rain on my name
And I will shine the most, among all the heavenly bodies,
I will gleam the most, only with my garments
Because stars never remain indifferent,
But now I’m resting among many other shooting stars

Stella Cadente

Isadora (2018, remastered)

Vento di tempesta, di Alessandra Giubilato, e’ il primo singolo dell’EP “La poesia di una donna (anche sotto un vestito)”, progetto che delinea il mondo femminile in tutte le sue sfumature. 
Il titolo dell’EP, infatti, nasce dal verso di una canzone dedicata alla personalità anticonformista e controversa di Kiki de Montparnasse, musa e amante dall’animo tormentato degli artisti d’avanguardia e vera regina della Parigi degli “Anni folli”. Oltre a lei, vengono  cantate  altre straordinarie figure di donna come la ballerina Isadora Duncan, la poetessa Alda Merini e l'attrice Maria Montez. Non mancano poi temi che raccontano situazioni drammatiche vissute da molte donne, come la tragica realtà delle spose bambine o la dipendenza affettiva verso un uomo violento e possessivo. Proprio di quest’ultimo argomento tratta il brano “Vento di tempesta”, nel quale una donna, che senza nemmeno accorgersene si era ritrova spogliata di ogni vitalità e autostima, riesce finalmente a trovare il coraggio di interrompere una relazione abusante.

TESTO: Alessandra Giubilato
MUSICA: Alessandra Giubilato e Sabino Dell’Aspro
PRODUZIONE E ARRANGIAMENTI: Sabino Dell’Aspro

Vento Di Tempesta

Acoustic version of my song about the dancer Isadora Duncan

Isadora (versione Acustica)

Alessandra Giubilato - Kiki

Singer/songwriter. Releasing my first album . Check "Credevo fossi il sole" on Youtube

Alessandra Giubilato

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