The band Corde Oblique publishes its sixth album
The band Corde Oblique publishes its sixth album The band Corde Oblique announces the publication of its sixth album “I MAESTRI DEL COLORE”. This is the title of the full-lenght, that will come out on May 22 2016 for the russian label INFINITE FOG – the worldwide physical distribution will be by AUDIOGLOBE and the digital one by BELIEVE. The album will be published in three formats: 1- Standard: JEWELLCASE 2- Limitated edition: DIGIBOOK, double CD, with 5 unpublished songs 3- Superlimited edition: Handmade wooden…
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At Montemarano the documentary on Antonio Infantino’s life
At Montemarano the documentary on Antonio Infantino’s life The popular music’s shaman Antonio Infantino comes back to Irpinia and chooses Montemarano as a movie set for a documentary about his life. The tarantella and carnival’s city hosted on Saturday 2 April, the shots of Luigi Cinque director’s last work, who chose to relate the popular traditions’ world and the relationship with the society’s change starting from the Tricarico known musician’s life and from the village that has been able to…
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Enzo Avitabile Music Life on Rai5
Su Rai 5 il 1 Marzo alle ore 23.25 sarà trasmesso il film documento ENZO AVITABILE Music Life che ripercorre la vita e la carriera del maestro,girato dal grande regista Jonathan Demme premio Oscar per Il silenzio degli innocenti. Il film presentato a Venezia nel 2013, è nato dalla stima reciproca tra i due artisti ed è un viaggio attraverso Napoli al ritmo della musica di Avitabile, artista che ha fatto della ricerca e sperimentazione un suo segno distintivo, riuscendo a…
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The castagnette, neapolitan and calabrian traditional instrument
The castagnette are a percussion musical instrument used most of all in the mediterranean popular music, particularly in Campania and Calabria, often confused with the spanish castanets. Each castagnetta is made of two parts, in a shaped wood, tied by a piece of rope that allows the sound to come out opening and closing it with hands. Once closed, they assume the shape of a chestnut from which derives the name. They are used in pairs, even one for hand,…
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The Irpinia Carnival tradition: the Zeza
The Irpinia Carnival Tradition: the Zeza An important place among the carnival activities is up to the Zeza, an ancient popular performance developed and internalized by the people from Irpinia with the title of Zeza Song, that is represented along the streets by solofrani and montoresi mexed groups. It’s a real popular theatre piece sung and accompanied by instruments like castanets, triccheballacche, tambourines, but also trombone, guitar and trumpet and often bass drum, that was probably born in the second…
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Magna Mater: Laboratory on popular dance’s contemporary vision
MAGNA MATER LABORATORY ON POPULAR DANCE’S CONTEMPORARY VISION 13 Febbraio | 12 marzo | 9 aprile | 7 maggio Dalle 16h alle 19h LED SPAZIO DANZA Via Francesco del Giudice n.9, Napoli Info e prenotazione: Cell: 3497428098 | 3285428140/ Email: angie.esposito86@gmail.com Il vero canto popolare è innanzitutto la rappresentazione di un mondo interiore. Si basa su un’articolazione di “Segni”, leggibili in una visione rituale e magico-religiosa dei canti stessi. Questi infatti sono comprensibili nella loro molteplice verità secondo un codice culturale che rapporta i…
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On tv the Popular Singing New Company
Saturday 30 January the Popular Singing New Company will be the guest, for Raiuno prime time Massimo Ranieri’s show “Sogno e son desto 3”, among the most followed on Raiuno. The NCCP will share the stage with Ranieri in the famous war-horse Cicerenella, that Ranieri loves very much and that he has performed many times at the theatre in his Pulcinella with Maurizio Scaparro’s direction. Per la NCCP, che in questi giorni sta raccogliendo appassionati consensi nei maggiori teatri italiani…
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In the cinemas “Vinicio Capossela at Coppoloni’s village”
After the book’s success, it arrives in the cinemas, only for two days (19 and 20 January) “Vinicio Capossela at Coppoloni’s village”. The work related, sang and lived by Capossela, with Stefano Obino’s direction, born to discover cultures, tales and songs that have inspired the last artist’s novel and the next unpublished songs’ album “The cupa songs” expected for March. The movie takes place in High Irpinia, among oil drilles and abandoned houses, wind blades and old railways, strange characters and…
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