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Thread ID: 10484 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-10-14
2003-10-14 20:03 | User Profile
During a recent journey out East which I will write about shortly I had the opportunity see to lots of great "identitarian" bands including one that played several Massimo Morsello covers which went over very well with the crowd. On the way back home I spent some time chatting with a young fellow on his way to activism who mentioned the songs and ask who wrote them. I was surprised to learn that a young nationalist with an interest in music was not familiar with him so I felt it a good idea to write a bit about that great man here.
I had met Mr. Morsello a few times over the years and had some limited correspondence over the years and two things impressed me about him: his overarching dedication to Occidental renewal and the nobility of his public yet modest activism in the face of terrible hardships over a great many years. His death was a terrible blow to all that knew him and those countless thousands inspired by him. Hopefully, we can all take inspiration from his examples and do more to live the ideals we espouse.
IN THE LIVING MEMORY OF MASSIMO MORSELLO I have been asked to write a few lines about Massimo Morsello, the Comrade and Friend who died of cancer in London on 10 March.
Three years ago when he first discovered the lethal disease that was undermining his body, (but certainly not his Spirit!), the doctors advised him that his time was about to expire: three months!
Three years after, well beyond all our most optimistic hopes, while he was still standing against the cancer we have had the impression that his courage and his strength could eventually prevail.
Sadly it has not been so: following a sudden crisis he passed away while surrounded by his young wife and his closest friends saying three times the words "I am ready!".
Destiny has always found Massimo ready whether in the good or in the bad luck. Massimo has not been and never will be "just one amongst many". He has managed to combine thought and action: the several dozens of comrades that in the past 10 years have decided to move to London to share with Massimo the unique experience of an existence in freedom and dignity based on work, honesty and comradeship represent more then a hope for us all. Cofounder along with Roberto Fiore of the Italian political movement Forza Nuova, Massimo Morsello has never ceased to be a political soldier.
Capable to export to the "real world" our beliefs through his great music, his activities as entrepreneur and his loyalty as a nationalist activist, he has showed us that with tenacity, pride and common sense we can achieve great things: this is Massimo's fundamental legacy.
Now and forever: MASSIMO PRESENTE!!
Franz (Intolleranza / Londinium Spqr)
Rudyard Kipling (1865 -1936) If you can keep your head when all about you Are loosing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, donââ¬â¢t deal in lies, Or being hated donââ¬â¢t give way to hating, And yet donââ¬â¢t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master; If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same:If you can bear to hear the truth youââ¬â¢ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken And stoop and build ââ¬Ëem up with warn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ââ¬ÅHold on!ââ¬Â
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings -- nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much: If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty secondsââ¬â¢ worth of distance run, Yours is the earth and everything thatââ¬â¢s in it, And -- which is more -- youââ¬â¢ll be a Man, my son!
MASSIMO MORSELLO PRESENTE!!!
Interview with Massimo Morsello, a Musician in Exile
FC readers will have heard of your CD 'Punto di non Ritorno' - but this is just the latest release. Can you tell us a little of your musical background?
MM: I have written and played songs since I was 18, 20 years ago, in those days there were concerts with a few thousand comrades attending, nevertheless recordings were very basic and unprofessional. I must admit "Punto di non Ritorno" is the only professional recording I have ever done, and the fact that has sold 7,000 copies is confirmation of the importance of concentrating on the technical quality also.
MM: I am not aware. I don't think is very well known, possibly because my songs are typically Italian folk songs very much existential and based on the meaning of the lyric.
MM: I wanted to organise something different, I wanted to go (symbolically) to Italy for two hours. The idea was that, despite my being in exile, I could play with my band live via satellite on maxiscreen in two important cities in Italy and thousand of comrades could have attended a concert performed by someone actually wanted by the police. The rest is known; over two thousand police were in Rome, creating a scenario of urban warfare, and they also banned the video from being broadcast, allowing only the sound. Some in the Italian press strongly criticised the police and the way the matter was handled.
MM: Janus were a rock band who meant a lot to our world music, I have not personally been influenced as I am not a rock musician.
MM: As I was saying, I was pleased with the level of technical quality and with the sales which were unprecedented in Italy within our 'area'.
MM: In about two weeks I will begin recording my next album. It will take several months, but I am planning a high standard of technical quality.
MM: Yes I do, although all the members of my band are British, and several people told me they could detect English sounds in my songs.
MM: Yes I do see that, I believe that what finds appreciation, also gives enthusiasm to others to do the same.
MM: Despite all the lies reported in the Italian and English press about myself the simple truth is that I was convicted of 9 years imprisonment for being part of a subversive association. This is not the only fact of this period. In the 70's it was the natural development for a nationalist who could not accept as a compromise what the democratic political system offered. Most of the representatives of the system we opposed are being jailed for corruption, but no credit has been given to the nationalists who fought against them.
MM: Yes it has, and this is the biggest acquisition from my being in exile.
MM: As you've said the political power that prior to now was substantially in the hands of the anti-nationalist and international banks, hidden behind the socialists, is now also the official and political power. The hegemony of those lobbies is striking and total. This obvious disadvantage for the Italian people could cause their down fall by opening the eyes of the Italian people.
MM: The only way out for the Italian people is through Fascism, returning the economic sovereignty to the nation, the recreation of the workers' guilds, and the restoration of the faith in our origins as well as in our future.
Recently we ran a piece on the Social Republic of Italy (RSI: 1943 - 1945). Does this period of Italian history inspire you? MM: The RSI is the clearest example of Fascist and national self-determination. Those 20 year-old heroes who did not compromise on anything; their pride and love for their nation was of a far stronger importance then anything else including their own lives. 8 di Settembre is the second song in my album "Punto di non Ritorno" dedicated to the invaluable inheritance that the RSI left us.
Any last words for our readers?
MM: I thank them for listening to my songs and I hope they will follow my work, as I have plans to go on doing it.