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Tabulè
Merci Marie
Music from Salento both new and old, performed by Claudio Prima (accordion, vocals), Giuseppe De Trizio (mandolin and guitar) and Fabrizio Piepoli (vocals, guitars, bass, bouzouki), Vito de Lorenzi (tamburello), and Stefania Ladisa (violin).
Listen:
Marie Merci
Rumba degli storti
Balconi mozzicati
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The ensemble writes about itself:
The sea,our salted memory,slippery and vanishing like foam, is the sound of our life.
Our music,just like the cous cous salad which gives it the name, it is a mixture of colours and spices reminding of a tradition made of frugality and wits.
It is that’s why the traditional music of Apulia, so naturally full of armonic contrasts,it is performed in this special way, to let open space to the musicians’ feelings.
Contrasts and assonances are looking for each other ,trying to get in touch, to come to solutions that here sounds like tensions.
Following these mind games it comes out a sort of extraordinary compositions, a melting pot of tradition and at the same time completely different sounds that, as if by magic, become so close to each other to let the distance desappearing.
And here it comes a kind of unusual arrangements of the classic of Salento (Ferma zitella, To to to, Pizzicarella, Taramtella) wandering from Ry Cooder to Jazz, or the experimental direction they take ( opening with the only instrumental title track, Rumba degli storti, the eastern echoes of Balconi smozzicati, the mediterranean Tango of Luci a Sighisoara and Ventana, and the sofisticated pop of Un vestito nuovo)to use the tradition as a pretext to explore new ways of sounds.
All this, it leans on the diatonic harmony of Claudio Prima’s accordion ,the melodious evolutions of Fabrizio Piepoli’s voice and the virtuosism of Giuseppe De Trizio’s mandolin.
Tabulé is the meeting among sounds,pictures and tastes.
They go throughout body and soul, like a moving ,acustic poetry whose very communication way is the song.
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