"The name Purple Streets refers to an image of my childhood, when the golden light of the lamps, illuminating the streets of Split, warmed my soul of a purple heat. That was before the war, both public and private, that deleted my peace, enlivening the dark corners of ghosts and memories."
Giuseppe Cozzolino / Purple Streets
July 1995
The song is dedicated to the massacre of Srebrenica, where in July 1995 around 8,000 civilian Muslims, both men and boys, were killed by Serbs, to make ethnically pure that territory.
Two are the leading themes of the song: the conscience of the massacre by who has known about it through the media and his mind is burdened with the indifference to events in a distant country; the levers that drive a human being to carry out hundreds of executions of innocent people. In particular the latter topic is dealt with as far as the text reads "The first one is for hate, the second for ignorance, the third for the run-away love".
There are three reasons that lead a human being to make the holocaust and they are reminded by the first three shots to the neck by the executioners: hate, ignorance, lack of love. In particular the latter refers to the fact that those who arrive to try such a hate had been deprived in their youth of the opportunity to grow up loved by their own family.
The song was dedicated to Huseinovic Omer Sadik (1982-1995), one of the many victims those days.
Dreamers
"We are dreamers following white clouds’ tracks. Too fast in the sky, but gorgeous to see as they fly away"
This song is dedicated to my grandfather Djulaga Sirbic who was sixteen when he left home to go fighting against the Nazi and to build a better society. He like many others believed in a communist ideal betrayed by who was called to put it into practice and then turned into a dominant caste and despotic. He never knew the fair society that he had dreamed, but the journey to realize it was beautiful and helped him to give meaning to his life.
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