Calicanto: Venexia

Calicanto
Venexia
17.99

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(audio©1998 CNI Music, Italy, used by permission)

cd cover Musicians:
RACHELE COLOMBO : voice, percussion, electronics
GABRIELE COLTRI : horn, flute, clarinet
CORRADO CORRADI : concertina, tamburello, voice
GIANCARLO TOMBESI : contra bass, fretless bass
ROBERTO TOMBESI : mandola, accordion, guitar, salterio, ludro, tamburello, voice
NICOLA MARSILIO : clarinet, soprano sax, flute

See also:
Calicanto: Labirintomare
Colombo and Corradi (former Calicanto musicians) Archedora
Ciuma Salvi Tombesi Trio

Venexia is a celebration and a remembrance, a commemoration of the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797. Like the city it honors, their music is cosmopolitan, a blend of Mediterranean cultures with a bit of an eastern attitude. Calicanto have spent a number of years exploring, expanding and sometime exploding the music of their native Italy, through the use of both folk instruments and modern technology (the latter used very lightly on Venexia). Their music is distinctive. They rely heavily on the raspy tones of the bagpipes and the windy pull of the bellows, adding percussion from Mediterranean Europe, North Africa and the middle east. Strings include mandola and double bass, and the melodies are carried on whistles, flutes and a lot of clarinet. The lead vocals on many tracks is provided by percussionist Rachel Colombo, whose unadorned style fits the mood perfectly. Calicanto may be looking back 200 years, but they are living in the present, and their music expresses that dual existence that all good folk artists should live. -CF

Tracks:
1 - Canson roversa 4'32"
2 - Bealaguna 3'54"
3 - Sulla via dei Battipali 3'19"
4 - Correnti del sud 3'32"
5 - Lepanto 4'01"
6 - Te speto / la croxe 3'16"
7 - Oci sensa mar 3'45"
8 - Corcal 3'16"
9 - Adriatica 3'13"
10 - Rivasse Carlo Scarpa 2'53"
11 - Venessia dai 4'36"

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