1) An Italian musician

2) A Swedish avantgarde band

3) A Por… Read Full Bio ↴1) An Italian musician

2) A Swedish avantgarde band

3) A Portland, Oregon (USA) band

4) A German band

5) A Russian hardcore band

6) A Russian-Lithuanian DJ

7) A british producer

1. Born in Margherita di Savoia, Italy on September 19, 1959, Raffaele Riefoli entered the music business in 1983, when his debut album "Self Control" was released as Raf. The album proved successful on the Italian charts, with two singles -- "Change Your Mind" and "Hard" -- performing very well. Almost five years later, Raf delivered his second album, "Svegliarsi un Anno Fa", and 1989's "Cosa Restera" followed quickly afterwards. Next to these, he released several albums, including:

* 1991 Sogni...E' Tutto Quello Che C'e
* 1993 Cannibali
* 1995 Manifesto
* 1996 Collezione Temporanea
* 1998 La Prova
* 2001 Iperbole
* 2004 Ouch
* 2005 Tutto Raf
* 2007 Passeggeri Distratti

He's one of the most famous pop Italian musician in his nation for his love songs.

2. RAF - Swedish avantgarde band

Released Ode to a Tractor in 1992.

Jonas Hellborg - bass
Bill Laswell - bass
Jamal Evans - keys
Jens Johansson - keys
Anders Johansson - drums
Peter Brötzmann - sax

Music as moving pictorial art
This is a series of musical paintings. They are political paintings reflecting a few visions of the world, on America (Stay Where You Are), on the horn of Africa (Land of the Dead and Dying), on history and time in development (Buchla in Australia, Konkret).

These portraits will tell a tale of age, geography and ideology. How an idea or a set of ideas that is entirely relevant at a certain place and point in time can be so totally discredited by its own realization that when some generations have passed people refuse to identify with the name of that idea. A part of the idea might show up somewhere else and be accepted but our fickle regard for fashion and insensitivity to changes in cultural expression undoes a lot of the work performed by great human beings. This is largely a western culture problem where we constantly strive for "better", "new", "bigger" and "change by superficially repainting old expressions. What we are is the result of our life experience. That is all we can ever hope to express. Our art is our constant effort to try to formulate a language for that experience. I present you ten music paintings created by themselves through me and some gifted friends.

3. http://artistecard.com/RAF

4. RAF (Rap aus Freiburg) is a german rapcrew from Freiburg.
(http://www.myspace.com/rafrapausfreiburg)

6. Raf (aka. DJ RAF) is Rafael Mamedov, a DJ and producer who mostly plays Deep House, Techno, Downtempo. He is also 1/2 of Gulfkeepers project which they run together with Andrei Kadomtsev aka BarBQ. Raf lives in Vilnius and is a resident of Minimal Mondays now.

7. Raf (Raf Rundell)
https://www.discogs.com/artist/694668-Raf-Rundell?type=Appearances&filter_anv=0

LAVA
Raf Lyrics

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Sono lava, terra esplosa
Vomitando cenere
Sono un fiume, senza sponde
Guardami, sono quello che vuoi

Prendo forma, sto bruciando
Per sembrare come te
Prendo pioggia sulla faccia

Lacrime che diventano cristalli nella roccia

Sono lava che sia accende
Sono lava incandescente
Diventerò qualsiasi cosa che vorrai che vorrai

Sono lava, fuoco e luce
Nella notte dove sei
Sono un urlo che non tace
Prendimi sono quello che vuoi

Sono lava mare rosso
Che ti scava cerca un posto
Dentro di te per ogni volta che vorrai che vorrai

Io sono lava che si accende
Sono lava incandescente
Diventerò qualsiasi cosa che vorrai, che vorrai
Adesso o mai se tu vuoi, se vorrai

Sono lava terra esplosa
Amami, amami ora o mai

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Raf's song Lava seem to describe a person who is like a volcano, erupting with fiery emotions and intense passion. The recurring theme is of being a force of nature, untamed and wild, unpredictable yet irresistible. The lyrics talk of lava that pours out of the volcano, vomiting ash and smoke, and a river without banks, untethered and unstoppable. The singer describes himself as taking form, burning to become more like the person he desires, taking the rain on his face and turning it into crystal tears in the rock.

The chorus talks about the singer being like lava, fire, and light, shining in the night where his beloved is. He cries out to be taken, to be the one that she wants, to dig a place inside her every time she desires. The song is full of metaphors and imagery, using the lava as a vehicle to convey the singer's passionate longing.

The song seems to be about the intensity of desire, the eruption of emotions that can overwhelm a person when they fall in love. It talks about being consumed by this fire, that burns brightly, but can also be destructive. The lava, in this sense, represents the singer's passionate heart, pulsating with heat and energy, and the metamorphosis he undergoes to become the object of his affection's desire.

Line by Line Meaning

Sono lava, terra esplosa
I am like volcanic lava, created by the explosion of the earth's crust

Vomitando cenere
Erupting with volcanic ash

Sono un fiume, senza sponde
I am a river flowing without banks

Guardami, sono quello che vuoi
Look at me, I am whatever you want me to be

Prendo forma, sto bruciando
I am taking shape and burning to resemble you

Per sembrare come te
To be like you

Prendo pioggia sulla faccia
I am being rained on

Lacrime che diventano cristalli nella roccia
Tears that turn into crystals in the rock

Sono lava che si accende
I am lava that ignites

Sono lava incandescente
I am glowing lava

Diventerò qualsiasi cosa che vorrai che vorrai
I will become whatever you want me to be