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An original work for polyphonic choir and chamber orchestra explores the music of Good Friday and the death of Christ as it is celebrated in Sicily.
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In the artist's words:
"The week before Easter (Holy Week), many streets of Sicilian countries
echo with ancient lamentations that tell of the passion and death of
Jesus. Lyrics are in dialect and simple, words that take back divine story of
human suffering, dwelling on the Mother's pain. Pesah (the Hebrew word that is
origin of the Italian "Pasqua") is a representative collection of these songs, performed with orchestra and polyphonic choir.
Listen:
Già è cunnannatu
Sta notti a lu mè Gesù
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About the artist: in his own words:
Carlo Muratori is a singer-composer who lives and works in Syracuse, Sicily. While still in the early phase of his musical career as a rock and pop guitarist, his passion for popular Sicilian culture, customs and traditions, songs and music of the people of his native Sicily was discovered. For this, he has dedicated himself to the study and research of Sicilian music of oral tradition.
In 1977 his researches led to the formation of I Cilliri, a musical group that promoted some popular songs regarding the passion for work and struggle. With "I Cilliri", he performed a number of concerts in Sicily and recorded two albums: Sutta 'n velu (1979) and Dda bbanna a muntagna (1980). In 1987 he released the album Afrodite, wherein he was the soloist. "Afrodite" is an experimental album, a clear music of ethnical background yet not 'ancient'. Together with traditional acoustic instruments, sounds from other cultures and electronic sounds are intermingled as well as popular songs and new songs. It is, therefore a medley of jazz, folk and pop music.
In 1994 he signed a contract with the CGD-WARNER for which he launched Canti e Incanti (Nov.'94) and Stella Maris (March '96). With the first CD, he won the December 1994 Premio Nazionale Piero Ciampi. The reviews proved to be enthusiastic and unanimously positive. In June 1995, he participated for Max Generation at the SONORIA festival in Milan. Two musical pieces from the album were included in the musical background of LA PIOVRA 7. With "Stella Maris", he won the prize, during the referendum announced by Vivere Giovani (of the daily La Sicilia\ as the best album written by a Sicilian author of 1996.
In June 1997, in Vercelli, he was invited to represent Sicily in FOLKEMESSE, an experimental orchestra of ethnical music formed by the most representative Italian musicians of the genre. (Ambrogio Sparagna, Riccardo Tesi, Daniele Sepe, Elena Ledda, Lucilla Galeazzi and others).
He recorded in December 1997 Stidda di I'Orienti - echoes of Christmas songs of Sicilian folks.
In December 1998, he participated (representing Italy) at the IBM World Music Festival of Belo Horizonte in Brazil, obtaining the first place in the popular index and in the Brazilian music reviews.
In March 1999, after the production of AICS, he launched Pesah, an elaboration for polyphonically choir and room orchestra of Good Friday lamentations in Sicily.
From July 25 to August 4, he organized and directed LITHOS-transiti a sud est, a national collection of popular music, acoustic and contemporary, with a thematic itinerary that crosses through the province of Syracuse.
In the meantime, he is working on a survey of ethno-musical phenomena of "Iblei siracusani" and is conducting a research on songs dealing on work and on sacred music of the town folks of the province.
Recently, he collaborated for the drafting of "Thapsos", the last album of Riccardo Tesi for the Manifesto, and for which he wrote three musical pieces (Fammi ballare and the text of Largo Waltzer and Thapsos).
In January 2001 his recent record was launched: PLICA POLONICA - non tagliate quella treccia.
From February 1 to 10, at the invitation of Cral - Usl 3/ gave concert-lessons for students (Liceo and Media) in Pistoia on popular Sicilian music gaming noteworthy success.
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