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[Music] Manu Pilas – Bella Ciao (Money Heist ‘Lacasa De Papel’ Soundtrack)

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July 4, 2022

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“Bella Ciao” (“Goodbye beautiful“) is an Italian folk song that was adopted as an anthem of the anti-fascist resistance. It was used by the Italian partisans between 1943 and 1945 during the Italian Resistance, or the resistance of Italian partisans against the Nazi German forces occupying Italy, and during the Italian Civil War, or the Italian partisan struggle against the fascist Italian Social Republic and its Nazi German allies. “Bella ciao” is used worldwide as an anti-fascist hymn of freedom and resistance. The song has much older origins though in the hardships of the mondina women, the paddy field workers in the late 19th century who sang it as a protest against harsh working conditions in the paddy fields in North Italy.

“Bella Ciao” was originally sung as “Alla mattina appena alzata” by seasonal workers of paddy fields of rice, especially in Italy’s Po Valley from the late 19th century to the first half of the 20th century with different lyrics. The work of monda (weeding) was widespread in northern Italy in that era. The work consisted of removing the weeds growing in rice fields that hindered the healthy growth of young rice plants. It took place during the flooding of the fields, from the end of April to the beginning of June every year, during which the delicate shoots needed to be protected, during the first stages of their development, from temperature differences between the day and the night. It consisted of two phases: transplanting the plants and pruning the weeds. The work of monda was an extremely tiring task, carried out mostly by women known as mondinas (rice-weeders) that came of the poorest social classes. The workers would spend their workdays with their bare feet in water up to their knees and their back bent for many hours. The atrocious working conditions, long hours and very low pay led to constant dissatisfaction and led, at times, to rebellious movements and riots in the early years of the twentieth century. The struggles against the supervising padroni was even harder with the abundance of clandestine workers ready to compromise even further the already low wages just to get work. Besides “Bella ciao”, similar songs by the mondina women included “Sciur padrun da li beli braghi bianchi” and “Se otto ore vi sembran poche”.

“Bella ciao” is sung multiple times throughout the Spanish television series Money Heist. The character Tokyo recounts in one of her narrations, “The life of El Profesor revolved around a single idea: Resistance. His grandfather, who had fought against the fascists in Italy, taught him the song and he taught us.” The song is also played in other emblematic moments in the series as a metaphor for freedom.

As a result of the popularity of the series and its characters El Profesor and Berlin singing the tune, there was a flood of releases in 2018:

El Profesor and Berlin original version from the series
“Bella ciao (Hugel Remix)” using the rendition of El Profesor
Separate versions by The Bear, by Sound of Legend and by Manu Pilas.
Rapper Rémy sampled the song in a rap freestyle version
New Brazilian bass version of the song by Alok, Bhaskar, Jetlag Music, André Sarate and Adolfo Celdran
In April 2018, Dutch hardstyle DJ duo Gunz For Hire remixed “Bella Ciao”.
On 18 May 2018, a completely revamped French version with new French-language lyrics keeping a few lines in Italian was released by Maître Gims, Vitaa, Dadju, Slimane and Naestro. The version topped SNEP, the official French Singles Chart.
In June 2018, the German pop singer Mike Singer released his own version that charted on the German Singles Chart.
In June 2018, DJs Steve Aoki and Marnik released an EDM cover of “Bella Ciao”.
In June 2018, Dominican singer El Chuape remixed the original into a dembow song titled “La Malondra.”
In August 2018, Dutch DJs Maddix and Hardwell released their own twist on the popular song.

Other similar versions of the antecedents of “Bella ciao” appeared over the years, indicating that “Alla mattina appena alzata” must have been composed in the later half of the 19th century. The earliest written version is dated 1906 and comes from near Vercelli, Piedmont.

“Bella Ciao” was revived by the anti-fascist resistance movement active in Italy between 1943 and 1945 with different lyrics of resistance. The author of the lyrics is unknown. – Wikipedia.

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