Modena city ramblers - Cent'anni di solitudine

What this video is

Released as a maxi-single in 1998, 'Cent'anni di solitudine' is the title track of both a standalone CD single and the thematic keystone of Terra E Libertà (1997), Modena City Ramblers' third album and their most literature-saturated work. The song and album draw heavily from Gabriel García Márquez's 1967 novel, with character names and imagery woven through multiple tracks. The album reflects MCR's engagement with…

Why it matters

Modena City Ramblers are central to the Italian combat folk / Celtic patchanka movement of the 1990s, which fused Irish folk instrumentation (tin whistle, fiddle, bouzouki) with Italian partisan song traditions, punk energy, and explicit left-wing politics. 'Cent'anni di solitudine' represents the…