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Luca Di Volo and Claudia Bombardella
Strumenti Di Pace: Live (Radici Music)
17.99

A powerful recording of new music composed and performed by Di Volo (saxophones, clarinet and voice) and Bombardella (viola, accordion, voice and tuba), with a small chamber ensemble of percussion, strings, reeds, bombard, cornemuse and more.

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Grung
Corteo
L'acrobato

"A vitality and emotional presence of extraordinary intensity" (La Repubblica) "We were deeply impressed, inetr alia, by the amazing versatility of their musical talents" (British Conservative) "They are veritable virtuosos... always poised between execution and remembrance (Daniela Sari - Nuova Sardegna) "Tout, dans cette fčerie d'imagination et de lyrisme, respire une chose qui manque si souvent aux spectacles conventionels, le plaisir, visceral de faire de la musique ... et le plaisir n'a pas été moindre pour le poublic, croyez-moi ..." (André Link - Luxembourger Worth)

Notes on the artists and recording:
LUCA DI VOLO
Continuing to work on a project elaborated for the Wiener Volks Opera, Luca di Volo has created a new performing figure, the 'Musichoreist,' who develops a corporeal language in which the usual categories of art, i.e. instrumental music, dance and voices are melting into synergies of expressive actions. Since 2002 the Duo of Musichorists Di Volo & Tancredi is carrying out research and performances in Museum, Theatres and Art Galleries working with contemporary artists like Marco Bagnoli and Virgilio Sieni. The due develops an ergonomic approach towards the various musical instruments which allows for their unconventional use and organ logic alterations; they use modified traditional instruments like the 'Alexophone', the 'Bastarda d’amore' or quite unknown instruments like the 'piccolo' Violin (ottavino) which suggest a continuous dialogue between the present and the past. In their Performances theatre, movement, instruments and voices are melting into one significant gesture: a hypertext founded on structured actions which characterize in a more or less veiled way, their provenance from strange and foreign cultural territories.

CLAUDIA BOMBARDELLA.
Continuing her research into various traditions Claudia Bombardella has elaborated and realized the soloist performance 'Legends, instruments and voices of the people' (a journey in the world of traditions) using something like 15 different instruments headed by her voice with it’s innumerable possibilities and expressions. She teaches creativity at various courses of counseling. She has been working with the Multicolor Orchestra directed by the composer Giancarlo Schiaffini, their CD 'Parade' contains several pieces written by Claudia.

She has also been working with the Theatre company 'Occupazioni Farsesche' at the realization of the performance 'Vote for Lucifer' which has been presented at the XXII International Theatre Festival at the Baltic House in St. Petersburg. In 2003 she composes the music for the Claudia Bombardella Ensemble (a quintet with Violin, cello, bass, voices, accordion, guitar and various brass instruments)

The CD 'Paesaggi lontani' is published in 2004 with the same ensemble and she composes also the music for 'Ruminando' a project for a new trio (brass instruments, accordion and bass).

Together with the actress Alessandra Bedino she writes the music for the performance 'Stories of the Caribbean Sea' (with texts of G. G. Marquez). In 2005 she takes her didactic and experimental activities up again organizing courses on the use of the voice (Voice, audience and creativity). -------------------