Emmanuel's new covers

Emmanuel's orginal songs

Emmanuel's Diary USA version - First Season

Emmanuel and his dog Tegame (= Saucepan) are at the river with Antonia, who is trying to teach him Greek lessons. The two end up talking about their vision of life.
In this episode Antonia discovers the existence of Emmanuel's diary.
The interpreters are Paul Emmanuel and Nicole (AI).
The final soundtrack is a cover of Nirvana's "Lithium" by Maxence Cyrin.

1.3. Something grey (Antonia tries to teach Emmanuel a lesson)

A back-and-forth dialogue between Emmanuel and Antonia on the banks of the Orco stream near Turin. It is one of the last moments of carefree serenity for the boy, not yet disturbed by the brutality of life. Antonia is deeply fascinated by his naive spontaneity and lets herself be more and more involved in that magical and somewhat unreal atmosphere.
The performers are Paul Emmanuel and Nicole (AI).
The soundtrack consists of live versions or covers of Nirvana's "Rape me" and "Lithium".

1.4. Active, passive and transitive middle (An interrupted lesson)

This long episode, to be listened calmly, is one of the most important of the novel: Emmanuel, shaken by Kurt Cobain's death, tries to react by throwing himself into the study and has Antonia explain to him what platonic love is. A very deep understanding has already been born between the two, as is evident from the end of the scene.

The interpreters are Anthony and Nicole (AI).

The soundtrack includes two live songs by Nirvana, "Come as you are" and "Something in the way", pieces from "Self Obsessed And Sexxee" by Sonic Youth, "La sedia di lillà" by Alberto Fortis and "Farfallina" by Luca Carboni.

1.5. One Day You'll Understand (The First Great Pain and Platonic Love)

We are in 1994, a crucial year for Italian politics: on May 10 of that year Silvio Berlusconi launches his first government, in a context of imminent economic crisis of which small Italian entrepreneurs, such as the Kellermans, are deeply concerned. Here we witness a dialogue between Michele, Emmanuel's elder brother, and some of his friends, typical exponents of the middle-upper bourgeoisie of Turin: the judgments they express on behalf of the "Knight" oscillate between doubts and hopes.The narrative voice is the image of Emmanuel reflected in the mirror. All the performers are AI.

1.6. About Mr. B. (Michele talks about politics... and Emmanuel hides in the wardrobe)

Let's face it: we had already understood that there is something tender between Emmanuel and Antonia. In this scene the boy uncovers his cards with her.
The performers are Nicole and Paul Emmanuel, both AI.
Covers and excerpts of the following tracks can be heard in the episode:"Lithium" and "Heart-Shaped Box" by Nirvana.
In the end you can hear an original Emmanuel's song, "It Takes Two To Tango".

1.7. It takes two to tango (Emmanuel reveals his cards, but stops the game) - With an original song

How will the famous scandal song "Étienne" by Guesch Patti sound if performed by two male voices?
Let's try with Emmanuel & Phil.

Emmanuel & Phil: "Étienne" (The scandal song by Guesch Patti)

Emmanuel, Willie and Carlos perform the folk ballad "The Wellerman" in Nathan Evans' version.

Emmanuel & Friends: "The Wellerman" (Nathan Evans' version)

Emmanuel's covers: "Wild World" (Cat Stevens)

Emmanuel & Phil sing a beautiful song from 1957: "Diana" by Paul Anka.

Emmanuel & Phil: "Diana" (Paul Anka)

You can find my new covers here:
https://soundcloud.com/antonia-del-monaco/sets/my-new-covers

This track is entirely different from the original: neither the backing track nor the voices are the original ones.
Despite this, SoundCloud has always removed the track.
We hope it doesn't get removed again.

Emmanuel & Phil: "Somebody That I Used to Know" (Gotye)

Through the eyes of Arianna, the new narrator, who enters the story in this chapter, we witness the wedding of Antonia and Michele.

Emmanuel, forced to participate in the wedding, shows clear signs of impatience and at a certain point distances himself from everyone. But Arianna doesn't miss his maneuver...

This chapter, of particular length and importance, is proposed divided into two parts, of which this is the first.

The interpreters are George, Sarah and Michael (AI).

The soundtrack includes covers or instrumental versions of "Via con me" by Paolo Conte, Mendelssohn's Wedding March, the waltz "On the beautiful blue Danube" by Strauss and "Wedding Dance Gramophone Waltz".

3.14.1. Labyrinths - Part I (Emmanuel at Antonia's wedding meets Arianna)

After a rather stormy conversation on the bench in the vegetable labyrinth, during Antonia's wedding party, Emmanuel and Arianna decide to run away together.

The interpreters are George and Sarah (AI).

The soundtrack includes instrumental or cover versions of the following songs: "Wedding Dance Gramophone Waltz", "Slow Waltz - River Flows In You" (Dj Ice), "Via con me" (Paolo Conte).

3.14.2. Labyrinths - Part II (Emmanuel at Antonia's wedding escapes with Arianna)

Emmanuel & Mayra: "Between Two Points" (David Gilmour)

Attentive listeners will recognize the notes of "Where is my mind" by the Pixies in the melody that runs throughout the song.

Jamie: "Rest My Chemistry" (Interpol)

Jamie: "Specialist" (Interpol)

This is an original song by Emmanuel.
Here are the lyrics:

No, I wasn't afraid. I was an albatross
I raced with the seagulls, I spread my wings
they were white wings mine, mighty, powerful
I fell in free fall
I launched myself in a nosedive and then
I deftly climbed and reared up towards the sun
I descended to touch the tops of the trees
I felt the tickling of the leaves on my belly
the caress of the air on my body
I dived into the stars, I breathed the light
I breathed the night
I felt the wind outside
the wind inside.

Emmanuel: "The Wind Inside" (Original song)

Lyrics:

Where did the moon go?
Here she is. There are two tonight. Identical.
A still, dense air. Vanilla shadows in the dull sky, the clouds move slowly.
They enter the barn, they are purple. Green.
Again the owl, the crying of the scops owl.
The river is silent, not a breath of wind caresses the snake's skin.
Slips into the robe the mouse, again, again, I hear you little bastard where are you.
How many more times, I'm cold, I'm alone. I grit my teeth, hold my breath, it's not easy, all of this really isn't easy. A deep breath, come on beautiful it's done. And it's right that it happens right here. Love with life, love with death, why does it always end?
That day, I remember, there was a flat light, and she stood up with an indolent smile. It's cold tonight. She looked at the expanse of the sea, stagnant liquid metal. She lingers on the hanger of her swimsuit, her back tanned. The hook snaps, the fabric elastically retracts. Look and don't touch, we are children's souls.
A sip of bleach to return to virginity. Another sip, my love? It's a little strong but it's good.
Are you here? Oh yes, you are here. Who are you?
It begins, finally.
I was saying.
What was I saying?
Warrior virgin, androgynous body, narrow boy's hips. She faces the waves in knee-deep water. The cold caress rises to the groin, she tilts her head back. She cuts through the water, is far away, her arms rise rhythmically.
I am alone. No, I can hear you. Touch me. Touch me now, with your icy fingers. Again and again like this please never end.
Whose hands are these? I laugh convulsively. A sob escapes me that no one listens to.
God, there's something really comical about this.
Can you just tell me what, please?

Willie & Emmanuel: "Nocturne Of The Defeated Hero" (Original Song)

Lyrics:
She pushes me away from herself screaming don't touch me. 
She runs away sobbing and screaming I hate you. 
I see her moving away as if in a dream in a fugue of pointed arches. 
My legs do not obey the impulse to chase her, they bend.
I fall to sit on a stone block. 
I do not know how long I remain like this, unable to understand where I have gone wrong. 
Then the silence that surrounds me gives me a tremendous twinge in my brain: I redeem myself as if from a spell, get up and run outside at breakneck speed with a horrible foreboding.
She is not there. 
I cannot call her, my voice refuses to come out.
A car pulls away: I suddenly understand that she has asked for a ride.
I run to the car and set off in desperate pursuit. But I can't remember anything anymore, I can barely see where I'm going. 
I stop the car in front of a crumbling wall. My nerves give out, I cry desperately. Then I get back up, struggle to find some clarity: I finally manage to reach the main road, shift into fifth gear and run wildly. 
I plunge into the darkness of a tunnel at a hundred and eighty mph.
When I finally get to the hotel I rush to my room, climbing the steps three at a time. I find the closet open: all her things have disappeared along with her suitcase. She has forgotten only her toothbrush, which rests sadly against mine in the glass on the bathroom shelf.
I collapse on the bed and feel nothing more.

Emmanuel & Willie: "Tunnel Tango" (Original Song)

Lyrics:
Nobody, Doctor, can help but recoil in horror at the memory of happiness that was barely touched and then irremediably lost.
Who loses something like that is done living: at most he survives, and only because others expect him to. But as long as his earthly existence lasts, walking along that road, looking at that landscape, listening to that song, he will feel a tremendous blow to the heart and will measure in an instant the unbridgeable distance that separates him from life. It is not useful to know in hindsight that it was all self-deception: this knowledge adds poison to poison, but it does not change the perception of the loss. 
The problem was not the illusion: the problem is that the illusion is over. 
If only I could recreate that deception, I would choose to live in fiction and self-deception for the rest of my life. In this pathological lie there is a truth deeper than any truth of the so-called healthy, Doctor.

Emmanuel & Willie: "Poison" (Original Song)

Lyrics:

- Would you like to rewind the tape and experience that moment as you had always dreamed it?
Why don't you answer?
- You enjoy embarrassing me, don't you? I'm not having any fun.
- But you would like it.
- Yes, I would like it, but yours is an unnecessary cruelty: one cannot go back in time.
- Maybe it's not so impossible.
I say nothing more. After about ten minutes the silence begins to get heavy.
- Your shirt is torn.
- Yes, it has become uncomfortable, I can no longer close the collar. But it's Grandpa's, I wear it anyway.
- It's not the shirt that has become uncomfortable, it's your shoulders that have broadened. You have very nice shoulders.
- You know how to grasp the spirituality in things.
I lie there looking at the sky.
- It's late. I think we should...
- Yes, I also think we should.
- You don't even know what I meant.
- I know it. I've known it all my life. It's you the one who doesn't remember.
I stretch out a hand.
A tiny green spider weaves a thread between two stalks of grass, in the silence broken by the warbling of a nightingale. I have always wondered why this bird's song generates a state of tension and unease in me, an excruciating foreboding, like the bells ringing on Sundays.
My heart stops in my chest, she in turn extends a hand to block me.
- Enough, I forbid you to speak.
But I have no intention of speaking.


- One cannot go back in time.
- Maybe it's not so impossible.
- It's late. I think we should...
- Yes, I also think we should.

Emmanuel, Willie & Mayra: "I Think We Should" (Original Song)

Willie goes Amanda Lear: "Enigma"

Willie goes Sixties: "When I Was Young" (Eric Burdon & The Animals) - REMASTERED

Lyrics
You lied to me love 
there was nothing to learn
the dream has no rules
the journey has no destination 
and you who knew it 
you betrayed me a thousand times worse than your accomplices
you who revealed my secrets to the world.
No I do not absolve you 
it is a mortal sin cowardice 
you have excluded me too from the miracle.
Look at me now 
I am all a bruise inside and out 
What an unworthy finale for our farce, love 
I leave you here nailed to your body 
I do not want you 
I do not want her 
I despise you executioners, tormentors of the terminally ill 
I do not want you 
I only want me.
Where is my beauty? 
Tell me what happened to beauty.
You were not the answer 
my coward and heartless love 
it is the same with or without you.
Let me go now 
now that I feel the call stronger 
now that I see like a light at the end.

Willie: "Let me go now" (Original Song)

Phil: "You Really Got Me" (Kinks)

Lyrics:
[Припев]
Вино и сигареты - это всё, что нам осталось
Душить друг друга в ванной и снимать свою усталость
Мой сон - твои объятья, а мой космос - гематома
Впечатай меня в стену, чтобы я осталась
Вино и сигареты - это всё, что нам осталось
Душить друг друга в ванной и снимать свою усталость
Мой сон - твои объятия, а мой космос - гематома
Впечатай меня в стену, чтобы я осталась дома
Я осталась дома

[Куплет 1]
Мой страх - поцелуй, а в груди двенадцать пуль
Пустит корни сквозь меня вишня
Мой магнитофон я поставлю на балкон
Пусть другие люди нас: слышат, видят, ненавидят

[Припев]
Вино и сигареты - это всё, что нам осталось
Душить друг друга в ванной и снимать свою усталость
Мой сон - твои объятия, а мой космос - гематома
Впечатай меня в стену, чтобы я осталась дома
Я осталась дома (дома)

[Куплет 2]
Снег вдруг в комнате, босиком на потолке
Ненаглядная моя прелесть - бей мне по лицу
Я уж точно заслужу кровь вкуснее красных вин -
Веришь, знаешь, любишь

[Припев]
Вино и сигареты - это всё, что нам осталось
Душить друг друга в ванной и снимать свою усталость
Мой сон - твои объятия, а мой космос - гематома
Впечатай меня в стену, чтобы я осталась дома
Я осталась дома
Вино и сигареты - это всё, что нам осталось
Душить друг друга в ванной и снимать свою усталость
Мой сон - твои объятия, а мой космос - гематома
Впечатай меня в стену, чтобы я осталась дома (дома)
Я осталась дома
Я осталась дома
Я, я осталась

[Chorus]
Wine and cigarettes are all that's left for us
To choke each other in the bathroom and relieve our fatigue
My sleep is your embrace, and my space is a hematoma
Press me into the wall so that I stay
Wine and cigarettes are all that's left for us
To choke each other in the bathroom and relieve our fatigue
My sleep is your embrace, and my space is a hematoma
Press me into the wall so that I stay home
I stayed home

[Verse 1]
My fear is a kiss, and there are twelve bullets in my chest
A cherry tree will take root through me
I'll put my tape recorder on the balcony
Let other people hear us, see us, hate us

[Chorus]
Wine and cigarettes are all that's left for us
To choke each other in the bathroom and relieve our fatigue
My dream is your embrace, and my space is a hematoma
Press me into the wall so that I stay home
I stayed home (home)

[Verse 2]
Suddenly snow in the room, barefoot on the ceiling
My beloved darling - hit me in the face
I will definitely deserve blood tastier than red wines -
You believe, you know, you love

[Chorus]
Wine and cigarettes - that's all we have left
To strangle each other in the bathroom and relieve our fatigue
My dream is your embrace, and my space is a hematoma
Press me into the wall so that I stay home
I stayed home
Wine and cigarettes - that's all we have left
To strangle each other in the bathroom and relieve our fatigue
My dream is your embrace, and my space is a hematoma
Press me into the wall so that I stay home (home)
I stayed at home
I stayed at home
I, I stayed

Willie: "Vino e sigarette (Wine and Cigarettes)" (Alena Shvets)

Willie & Philip: "Too sweet" (Hozier) - Bardcore version

[Verse]
Why can't you see me
In this void so hollow
Why can't you feel me
Guess I'll wait for tomorrow

[Verse 2]
I'm like a shadow
Dancing in bright light
You’re looking past me
But I’m hiding in plain sight

[Chorus]
Invisible love
Right here in the open
Just a ghost to you
Love left unspoken

[Verse 3]
I'm screaming silent
Words never heard
You’re living your life
I’m just a whisper
Blurred

[Chorus]
Invisible love
Right here in the open
Just a ghost to you
Love left unspoken

[Bridge]
I'll keep on waiting
In this endless night
Hope you’ll turn around
And finally see the light

Emmanuel & Willie: "Invisible Love" (PsalmWellProduction)

Emmanuel-Willie: "Toxic Love" (DD_X)

Lyrics:
A smell of hay and thunderstorms wafted through the air. Unexpectedly, we were submerged by the violent downpour: an intense smell of wet dust rose from the ground and a dense curtain of rain surrounded our ruin, transforming it into a warm, muffled protective hood. We were alone.
He shivered, I wrapped my parka around his shoulders; he clung to it with his fingers and clenched his jaw in an unnatural contraction. Then he turned to look at me in an absurd, almost pleading way, and let himself fall onto my chest with the abandon of a child.
Of what happened next, I keep a memory made up of fragments, a sense not of shame but of astonishment: the glassy silence, the sound of the rain, the sand in my clenched jaw, a musky smell of withered butterflies, dreamlike gestures without depth, without echo, my hands too rough for the silk of his hair.

Willie & Emmanuel: "Glassy Silence" - Original Song

Willie & Emmanuel: "Pirouette Dreaming" (PsalmWellProduction)

Phil & Willie: "Love in a Fiat Uno (You're really stupid)" (Original song)

Emmanuel & Phil: "The Black Swan" (PsalmWellProduction) - REMADE

[Verse]
You want a prince I've got no crown
I'm just a rebel in this town
You chase a mirage can't you see
I'm better than the man you want me to be

[Verse 2]
You dream of riches fast cars bright lights
I’m the heartbeat in your darkest nights
You seek perfection but it’s a lie
I’m the truth staring in your eyes

[Chorus]
Why settle for less when you can have real
Break the illusion feel what you feel
I’m not your fantasy I am the key
I’m better than the man you want me to be

[Bridge]
They say love’s a gamble roll the dice
I’m not a game I’m a paradise
You want a fairy tale but reality’s free
I’m better than the man you want me to be

[Verse 3]
Stars may shine but they fade away
I'm the sunrise a brand new day
You hold onto visions that blind you and me
I’m better than the man you want me to be

[Chorus]
Why settle for less when you can have real
Break the illusion feel what you feel
I’m not your fantasy I am the key
I’m better than the man you want me to be

Emmanuel & Phil: "Better Than Your Dreams" (PsalmWellProduction)

Emmanuel is now 20 years old and works as a part-time model for a photographer in Milan and as an assistant to a real estate agent. Both characters are nothing short of surreal.

With them the boy lives a particular day, a chaos of absurd and incoherent experiences.

Finally, when he goes to sleep, Emmanuel dreams some snippets of sentences from that crazy day, to the music of "Lent" by Autoheart, sung by Willie.

The interpreters are AI.

So, what are they saying?...

Fotografo:
Me lo fai di nuovo quel musetto brutto brutto? In questo lavoro il musetto un po’ da porco è il minimo sindacale.

Are you going to give me that ugly ugly face again? In this job, a slightly pig-like face is the bare minimum.


Bruno:
Ma chissenefrega se Pippo ha mangiato la gamba della sedia, guarda piuttosto di farlo vomitare, che magari il legno gli rimane sullo stomaco.

But who cares if Pippo ate the leg of the chair, rather try to make him vomit, or maybe the wood will remain on his stomach.


Emmanuel: 
C’è anche qualche zanzara.
Fotografo:
Perché sei troppo dolce, non riescono a resistere alla tentazione di succhiarti… Le capisco, sai? 

Emmanuel:
There are also some mosquitoes.
Photographer:
Because you are too sweet, they can't resist the temptation to suck you... I understand them, you know?

Bruno:
Sì, cosa c’è? Ma cosa me ne frega che Rinaldo è caduto dalla sedia? Un’altra volta sta più attento! 

Yes, what is it? But what do I care that Rinaldo fell off the chair? Be more careful next time!


Fotografo:
Eh, ma così mi rendi geloso! Un uomo… speciale? Più speciale di me?

Eh, but that makes me jealous! A man… special? More special than me?


Bruno:
E allora? Chiama il falegname, no? E non rompermi più le scatole con queste fesserie.

So what? Call the carpenter, right? And don't bother me with this nonsense anymore.


Fotografo:
Tu sei pazzo, musetto mio, pazzo come un caribù in calore sperduto nel paradiso artico. 

You're crazy, my little face, crazy as a caribou in heat lost in the Arctic paradise.


Bruno:
E adesso andiamo al bar a farci il solito bianchetto!

And now let's go to the bar and have our usual white wine!

Fotografo:
Mettiti qualcosa su quell’adorabile pelliccetta freddolosa da marmottino della tundra e andiamocene al caffè.

Put something on that adorable chilly tundra marmot fur coat and let's go to the cafe.

"My crazy day" - feat. Autoheart

Willie: "You do something to me" (Paul Weller) - Live

Willie & Emmanuel: "We Can Build A Fire" (Autoheart)

Willie & Emmanuel: "Your Little Face" (PsalmWellProduction)

Lyrics:

Quei giorni perduti a rincorrere il vento
a chiederci un bacio e volerne altri cento
un giorno qualunque li ricorderai
amore che fuggi da me tornerai
un giorno qualunque li ricorderai
amore che fuggi da me tornerai
E tu che con gli occhi di un altro colore
mi dici le stesse parole d'amore
fra un mese fra un anno scordate le avrai
amore che vieni da me fuggirai
fra un mese fra un anno scordate le avrai
amore che vieni da me fuggirai
Venuto dal sole o da spiagge gelate
perduto in novembre o col vento d'estate
io t'ho amato sempre, non t'ho amato mai
amore che vieni, amore che vai
io t'ho amato sempre, non t'ho amato mai
amore che vieni, amore che vai.

Martin & Carlos: "Amore che vieni, amore che vai" (Fabrizio De André)

Here is the original cover:
https://soundcloud.com/dominicbennettcovers/when-you-die-mgmt

Lyrics:

I'm not that nice
I'm mean and I'm evil
Don't call me nice
I'm gonna eat your heart out
I've got some work to do
Baby, I'm ready
I'm ready, ready, ready to blow my lid off
Yeah
Go fuck yourself
You heard me right
Don't call me nice again
Don't you have somewhere to be at seven thirty?
Baby, I'm ready
I'm ready, ready, ready to blow my brains out
You die
And words don't do anything
It's permanently night
And I won't feel anything
We'll all be laughing with you when you die
Words don't do anything
It's permanently night
And I won't feel anything
We'll all be laughing with you when you die
Go fuck yourself
I'm mean, not nice
You said it twice
You said it twice
Don't you have somewhere to be at seven thirty?
I've got some work to do
I'm gonna eat your heart out
I heard you the first time.

Phil: "When You Die" (MGMT) Live - feat. Dominic Bennett (REMADE)

Willie: "Love Her Madly" (The Doors) - REMADE

Jamie: "Shoot An Arrow" (Autoheart)

After Willie, Jamie also tries his hand at this Doors classic, benefiting from the fact that he has a vocal timbre very similar to that of Jim Morrison.

Jamie: "Love Her Madly" (The Doors)

Phil with Willie: "When You Die" (MGMT)

Emmanuel & Willie: "Scars" (The Crane Wives)

Anthony (with Emmanuel): "My Body Is A Cage" (Arcade Fire)

A great Doors classic revisited with the beautiful piano accompaniment of 142Hermione.

Emmanuel - The Broken Diary

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