sounds, songs, moods from Veneto
Stories, notes, reflections, crumbs of daily life that take on universal breath: sea, clouds, nights, fogs, flowers as immediate and familiar symbols of the feelings and their seasons, in a serene, delicate and reassuring light. After a maturing and fruitful experience with "Calicanto", Rachele Colombo and Corrado Corradi make their own brand-new musical proposal: sounds, songs, Venetian atmospheres (and more than that). Captivating, soft and modern melodies, to bring out the "sound" of words, of the dialect of today's Venetian poetry that becomes a vivid echo of its cultural roots, that blends into the present with taste and skill, reality and memory, cultured and popular tones, the East and the West. That's also why "Archedora" is a new and profound contribution to the panorama of Italian folk songs.

CORRADO CORRADI
A skilled player of "bandonina" (an instrument which is a sort of cross between a bandòneon and a concertina) as well as an arranger and composer, he started his artistic career as a singer song-writer.
A growing interest in the folk culture of his region led him to take up the concertina, which he studied by himself, and in 1981 he became a permanent member of the Venetian folk music group "Calicanto".
The fruitful collaboration with the group is testified by numerous recordings and a concert activity of almost twenty years' standing, during which time they took part in the main folk festivals in Europe, Canada and the United States.
Corrado Corradi has been actively involved in the composition of texts and music for a few theatre companies as well as in projects of recordings for children. He has also worked as an art director and organiser of traditional music festivals in his region, besides having been a member of the editorial staff of the music magazine "Folk Bulletin" since 1988.

RACHELE COLOMBO