(Aug. 8) Emigration, the work in the mine, the defense of the language. And then Italy and its difficulties, the brain drain. This is the world sang by Giacomo Lariccia – musician and songwriter born in 1975 – who left his city, Rome, 14 years ago. After traveling as a hitchhikers in Europe with the guitar on his shoulder, Giacomo Lariccia moved to Brussels, where he found the success. An today he remembers what happened the morning of 1956, August 8th in the Bois du Cazier Marcinelle mine: a terrible accident killed 262 people, 136 of which were Italian emigrants. “The tragedy of Marcinelle reminds us that, until a few years ago, we emigrants were searching for a job to get dignity,” says the artist that dedicated a song – “Sessanta sacchi di carbone” – to that disaster, a song he publishes right today
