The Pizzica from Salento
The Pizzica from Salento The pizzica from Salento is the traditional expression of the territory’s dance. It’s a dance, almost a ritual, practiced by the poorest people, devoted to the hardes works who gathered during the celebration days, and dancing and singing passed the day to forget the exhausting strains of everyday life. The pizzica from salenti, originally, is born as therapeutic music played by men inside the houses (or in the squares) to free the “pizzicate” by tarantula’s bite, that used…
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Canzoni della Cupa, the new Vinicio Capossela’s album
Canzoni della Cupa, the new Vinicio Capossela’s album Esce venerdì 6 maggio, «Canzoni della Cupa» il nuovo disco di uno dei cantautori più originali per la sua visionarietà poetica: Vinicio Capossela. «Canzoni della Cupa» è un doppio album su cui Capossela ha lavorato per 13 anni e che arriva a 5 anni di distanza dal suo ultimo disco di inediti. «Le canzoni che affondano nei solchi di questo doppio disco sono canzoni forti e contorte come le radici » dichiara Capossela…
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Vittorio Pozzoni explains the Pan flute to the youngs
Vittorio Pozzoni explains the Pan flute to the youngs The Pan flute’s tradition, a lombard popular musical instrument, can be not only transmitted but also taught to the new generations. At Calco, Lecco’s province, among the field office of the folkloric group “La Brianzola”, the teacher and builder of this characteristic woodwind instrument Vittorio Pozzoni teaches his art to a group of youngs. In collaboration with Calco’s municipality and the association “Culture popolari e Tradizioni della Lombardia”, the builder from Bergamo together with…
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It starts Auditorium Family, a series of events for the youngers
It starts Auditorium Family, a series of events for the youngers Auditorium Family is a series of events born to satisfy the desires of amusement and in-depth analysis of every ages. For such an ambitious purpose Musica per Roma hired a team of artists, musicians, entertainers, called to get involved children and families to play, learn and live together the magic of the show. The events planned from April 24 to May 22 have a series of exeptional guests, from the composer and…
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La Musica Folk, Goffredo Plastino’s anthology
La Musica Folk, Goffredo Plastino’s anthology La musica folk by Goffredo Plastino Milano, il Saggiatore 2016, 1282 pages, € 49. With La musica folk Goffredo Plastino maybe published the book of the life, the most impressive container, the most useful, opened toward every other study. The ’60s and ’70s folk music revival was one of the most intense and prolific cultural process of italian history. Promoted and represented by Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano, dall’Almanacco Popolare, by Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare, by Canzoniere…
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Mummie Incoscienti, the new Davide Matrisciano’s album
Mummie Incoscienti, the new Davide Matrisciano’s album The singer songwriter from Campania Davide Matrisciano is ready to come back, after two years from “Il profumo dei fiori secchi”, that spotted so much approval by the critics that it falls into the 30 finalists of the Tenco Award, with the new album called “Mummie incoscienti” for the roman label Terre Sommerse/LaChimera Dischi. A differenza del precedente, che toccava tematiche legate principalmente all’introspezione, il nuovo album sarà caratterizzato, invece, da riflessioni di natura più…
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Stefano Saletti’s Soundcity in the Transglobal World Music Chart’s top ten
Stefano Saletti’s Soundcity in the Transglobal World Music Chart’s top ten Few days away from the publication, “Soundcity” the new Stefano Saletti and Banda Ikona’s album goes in the Transglobal World Music Chart’s top ten, the global rank of the world music. The TWMC is a rank compiled each month by 50 journalists of the greater world music’s newspapaers and represents one of the most important recognitions of the global review of folk, popular, ethnic and world musics. A great result for the album published by Finisterre that…
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Magna Mater: the laboratory on the popular dance of Stabile Danze del Sud
Magna Mater: the laboratory on the popular dance of Stabile Danze del Sud MAGNA MATER is a laboratory on the contemporary vision of the popular dance organzed by Laboratorio Stabile Danze del Sud by Angela Esposito amonf LED Spazio Danza at Naples. The laboratory has been organized into several meetings, started on Febrruary up to May 7. The laboratory gets involved those who, not having studied dance, want to do a research on the body through some basic principles of the contemporary dance and…
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