Fabrizio De André is the name of an album released by Italian

Italy

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 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Fabrizio De André

Fabrizio De André

Fabrizio De André was an Italian singer-songwriter.Known for his sympathies towards anarchism, libertarianism, and pacifism, he also was a convicted atheist , and his songs often featured marginalized and rebellious people, prostitutes and knaves, and attacked the Catholic Church...

, released in 1981. The songs were written by Fabrizio De André and Massimo Bubola

Massimo Bubola

Massimo Bubola is an Italian singer-songwriter, record producer and arranger.During his career, he cooperated with lot of Italian musicians in writing lyrics and musics, and his most significant cooperation was with Fabrizio De André...

. It is better known as L'Indiano (The Indian) due to the picture of a Native American

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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 on the cover. The picture is a Frederic Remington

Frederic Remington

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's painting named The Outlier.

Overview

The album is a comparison of two peoples, Sardinians

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 and Native Americans

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.

"Fiume Sand Creek" ("Sand Creek river

Big Sandy Creek (Colorado)

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") refers to the Sand Creek massacre

Sand Creek Massacre

As conflict between Indians and white settlers and soldiers in Colorado continued, many of the Cheyenne and Arapaho, including bands under Cheyenne chiefs Black Kettle and White Antelope, were resigned to negotiate peace. The chiefs had sought to maintain peace in spite of pressures from whites...

 in 1864. "Hotel Supramonte" refers to the kidnapping of De André and Dori Ghezzi

Dori Ghezzi

Dori Ghezzi is an Italian singer who was active as a recording artist between 1966 and 1989. In the 1970s, Ghezzi worked mainly in a duo with American singer Wess, and the couple represented Italy in the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest....

 in 1979 in the Supramonte

Supramonte

The Supramonte is an area of mountains and highlands located in central-eastern Sardinia, Italy. It lies northeast of the Gennargentu massif, spanning eastwards until it reaches the Tyrrenian See in the Gulf of Orosei. It has an extension of about 35,000 hectares, encompassing most of the...

 area of Sardinia

Sardinia

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Track listing

Side A

1. "Quello che non ho" – 5:51
2. "Canto del servo pastore" – 3:13
3. "Fiume Sand Creek" – 5:37
4. "Ave Maria" – 5:30

Side B

1. "Hotel Supramonte" – 4:32
2. "Franziska" – 5:30
3. "Se ti tagliassero a pezzetti" – 5:00
4. "Verdi pascoli" – 5:18

Personnel

• Fabrizio De André
  Fabrizio De André
  Fabrizio De André was an Italian singer-songwriter.Known for his sympathies towards anarchism, libertarianism, and pacifism, he also was a convicted atheist , and his songs often featured marginalized and rebellious people, prostitutes and knaves, and attacked the Catholic Church...
  
   - Acoustic guitar in Franziska and Hotel Supramonte, vocals
• Gabriele Melotti - Drum kit
• Pier Michelatti - Bass guitar
• Tony Soranno - Acoustic and electric guitars
• Mark Harris - Keyboards
• Aldo Banfi - Synthesizer
• Pietro Pellegrini - Oberheim
• Maurizio Preti - Percussions
• Andy J. Forest - Harmonica in Quello che non ho
• Bruno Crovetto - Acoustic bass guitar in Franziska and Hotel Supramonte
• Paolo Donnarumma - Acoustic bass guitar in Canto del servo pastore
• Massimo Luca - Acoustic guitar in Franziska
• Claudio Bazzari - Electric guitar in Se ti tagliassero a pezzetti and Canto del servo pastore
• Sergio Almangano - Violin in Hotel Supramonte
• Cristiano De André - Violin and hoopoe
  Hoopoe
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  's verse in Fiume Sand Creek
• Dori Ghezzi
  Dori Ghezzi
  Dori Ghezzi is an Italian singer who was active as a recording artist between 1966 and 1989. In the 1970s, Ghezzi worked mainly in a duo with American singer Wess, and the couple represented Italy in the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest....
  
  , Mara Pacini, Massimo Bubola
  Massimo Bubola
  Massimo Bubola is an Italian singer-songwriter, record producer and arranger.During his career, he cooperated with lot of Italian musicians in writing lyrics and musics, and his most significant cooperation was with Fabrizio De André...
  
  , Mark Harris, Oscar Prudente and Fabrizio De André - Choirs

External links

"L'indiano" on viadelcampo.com