CNI

Compagnia Nuove Indye is one of the most innovative and diverse recod labels in Italy, with a catalog that spans traditional folk to agressive new fusions, from club sounds to street sounds, barely taking note of the differences.

E Manco O Sole... - Marcello Colasurdo
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A well-known figure on the Neapolitan music scene, Marcello has worked alongside important musicians and in important musical projects. He was singer with the celebrated group E Zezi of Pomigliano D'Arco, he had a part, for example, in Sanacore (Almamegretta), La Bomba Intelligenteî(Bisca), Vite Perdite and Spiritus Mundi(Daniele Sepe) and he is currently working with La Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare.

Duende - Gabriele Coen - Atlante Sonoro
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Everybody got 'duende' these days, it seems. This Italian jazz quartet has it in abundance. Says Coen, 'I try to listen to the music of every country….Africa, India, the arab world, the european classic music….I love traditional music,popular music, and try to discover what other countries musically say...all music genres are linked in their intime essence.' Gabriele Coen: soprano sax, clarinet; Pietro Lussu: piano; Marco Loddo: acoustic bass and Luca Caponi: drums, percussion.

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Tarantulae - Nidi d'Arac
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Contemporary folk music from Italy.

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Poeti Arabi Di Sicilia - Milagro Acustico
$17.99
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Using the writings Sicilian Arab poets from 827-1091 A.D. the ensemble creates a new, pan-mediterranean sound base with voices, horns, flutes, guitar, percussion, and baglama. They bring North Africa and Sicily together, with bits of the rest of the world as an undertone.

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Terra Arsa - Radicanto
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Music that holds the heat of Salento, in southern Italy, and translates that energy into a uniquely personal statement.

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Satyricon Circus - Satyricon Circus
$18.99
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A rich new musical production, the work of composer Gabriele Coen (Klezroym), Mario Rivera (Agricantus) and Vito Ranucci, with participation from Barbara Eramo, Gabriel Zagni, Maria Letizia Gorga, Federica Vincenti and Gianni Santucci.

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Alhambra - Gabriele Coen and Atlante Sonoro
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Gabriele Coen is one of the founders of Klezroym. This is his second solo album with the Atlante Sonoro project.Featuring Pietro Lussu on piano, Marco Loddo on bass and Luca Caponi on drums, Gabriele Coen (soprano and tenor sax and clarinet) is exploring fascinating places the border lands between the sunny landscapes of Mediterranean music and contemporary jazz. This project also includes Lutte Berg on guitar, playing on two different tracks. The different pages of this Atlante Sonoro are Hebrew music from eastern Europe, the Mediterranean, various European jazz traditions and the arabesques of Alhambra.

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Lengua Serpentina - Roberta Alloisio with Orchestra Bailam
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Italian vocalist Alloisio offers a project that joins an Oriental sound, the tempos of the Balkans, the chant-like singing of Genoa and lyrics taken from both classical and popular literature spanning from the XIII century to now. A rich mixture of different sounds is completed with arrangements of Franco Minelli and the Orchestra Bailam, with additional vocal help from another fine singer of baroque and ancient music, Marco Beasley. Highly recommended.

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Siqiliah - terra d'Islam - Milagro Acustico
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Sicily, land of Islam is the ensemble's deeply researched, intelligent and personal recording, the final part of their trilogy of works dedicated to Sicily's Islamic heritage

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Cammenann - SOS
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(cdRoots# cni-sos07)
They blend Mediterranean sound and Neapolitan lyrics, and as they put it, 'contaminations melt down to create a half-caste and strange rock.' They start the journey in a Naple's neighbourhood, taking inspiration by the' 'Neapolitan Sound' of the 80’s (Pino Daniele, Avitabile, Senese, E’ Zezi and Almamegretta) and add Egyptian, Nigerian, Senegalese and Algerian influences to make a melting pot of styles, races, cultures and traditions.

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U squatasce - I Tarantolati di Tricarico
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Five years after their unique Andamenare this Italian ensemble is back with another recovery of traditional music based on their research of the culture. The 'melos' (a kind of popular, spontaneous chant) is mixed with strong rhythms, traditional melody to create what they call 'a musical exorcism that remembers the ancient Dyonisia,' in a staunchly contemporary mix of ideas.

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Attinde - Calic
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A modern Sardinian band with strong folk roots and local instrumentation, but plenty of adventure. Instruments include bagpipes, ghirondha (hurdy gurdy), accordion, voices, bouzouki, guitar and percussion

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Isettande - Tancaruja
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This is music refreshing, rhythmically interesting and musically well played. This ensemble from Sardinia has found their path by abandoning the electronics in favor of more wood and sinew. It has one truly treacly moment, but otherwise, I think the music speaks strongly for itself.

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Mundis Imaginalis - Isola
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Lots of poetic license in this recording of Sicilian music by Iolanda Vacalebre (vocals), Nicola Rustica (guitar and vocals) and Giovanni Crispino (violin, violoncello and guitar).

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Stari Most - Stefano Saletti and Piccola Banda Ikona
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The latest work by Stefano Saletti (founder and leader of Novalia) and the Piccola Banda Ikona, a newly formed group that brings together members of Nuklearte), Agricantus, Novalia, Nando Citarella Band, Acustimantico, Klezroym and others to explore the culture and language of the mediterranean basin in a most contemporary way.

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Ronde Noe - Nidi d'Arac
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Garage Tango - Gigi
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An evocation of bellows instruments (accordion, bandoneon, etc) are blended with pop-dance arrangements in an unusual and surprisingly satisfying montage. In this CD, the first 'virtual accordion' (Roland V-accordion) was used; its physical sound modelling technology enables the musicians to express their creativity to sweep unexplored musical genres. Luigi Bruti, who’s responsible for Roland’s musical laboratory, is also the author of this musical instrument.

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Apologia Di Un Canovaccio - Neaskene
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The debut (2006) by a young band from Ravenna, Italy. Fronted by singer Sara Cicognani. Neaskenč work within and without the tradition, mixing jazz, ethnic music, other national idioms and original writing. Tammorre (traditional drums), fretless electric bass, acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin and other local and global instruments are merged to create a distinctively "pop" sound with a real edge and solid roots.

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La Corsa - Radicanto
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Now truly a rock band with a Salentine heart, Radicanto's 2005 excursion explores the sound and fury of sourthern Italy with an ear to the global pop music scene.

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Cuore di Terre - Lucilla Galeazzi
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Singer Galeazzi hails from Umbria in Italy, and comes to this recording with a deep traditional sense of the music. Probably best known in the US for her performances with Philippe Eidel's 'Mammas' project, she is also a veteren of classical, folk and new music. This 1997 recording was reissued in the wake of her new-found popularity, but it stands on its own. Accompanied by Massimo Nardi's guitar, percussion from Nicola Raffone, and Carlo Mariani on launeddas, a reed instrument with a drone much like a bagpipe. Guests supply a minimum of flute, clarinet or bass.

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Il canto di Israele / The song of Israel - Riccardo Joshua Moretti
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Performed by the Midrash Music Ensemble. Italian composer Moretti explores Jewish and klezmer music from a deep and unusual perspective, looking to classical roots for inspiration, but also at home in the worlds of Rota and Morricone. An unexpected revelation.

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Descalso - Archedora
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Rachele Colombo (voice, guitar, percussion and keyboards), and Corrado Corradi (bandoneon, English concertina, percussion and voice) return for their second duo recording, joined by a small ensemble of flute, reeds, bass strings and voices, a string quartet and other guests for a new exploration of the music and life of Venice and the Veneto region of Italy. This is dense, classy music, with lush arrangements (think classic Brazilian), very contemporary and yet very old sounding.

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I Storie ň Cafč di lu Furestiero - Milagro Acustico
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Adventurous, sumptuous Mediterranean music from Sicily

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Il giardino delle delizie - Vito Ranucci and Napoli Est
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Neopolitan arranger, composer and saxophone player Ranucci is joined by the large ensemble Napoli Est for his 2007 work.

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Io (4 CD box set) - Ennio Morricone
$74.99
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4 CD set in presentation box: Music for Piano; Film Music; Chamber Music; Symphony Music

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Le vespe - Stefano Saletti and Renato Giordano
$14.99
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The idea behind Le vespe was not to recover 'the lost music of the Greeks,' but to search for a 'Spirito Sonoro' that was compatible with the ancient ideals. Le Vespe is a search for commonality and digression in the music of the Balkan peninsula, from modern and ancient Greece, Bulgaria, the Roma and beyond, fused with the art music of Europe, both old and contemporary. It is both and neither ancient and modern, and the tension and beauty this divergence creates is palpable.

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Pai Nai - Methel and Lord
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Impossible to adequately describe, this unusual collaboration of peorty and music crosses a lot of boundaries, with it's mix of jazzy rock, folky blues and artsy bad attitude. 'Methel is the composer and the voice of the band, and together with Lord arranges acoustic and electric music with special electronic effects that break the natural rythm of the compositions and create a very unusual, evocative sounds.'

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Sands - Alephra
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Italian composer and musicans presents new music for ud, duduk, percussion and some electronics.

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Chitarra Battente - Marcello Vitale
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The beating guitar' of Vitale is already well known to fans of Eugenio Bennato, as Vitale is an integral member of the Bennato Taranta Power family. Here is his solo recording, focused on the guitar and lightly accompanied by percussion, guitars, oud, mandocello and tamburello. Vocalists include Vitale, Daniela Bonaventa and Paulo Agrippa.

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La Luz Prodigiosa - Ennio Morricone
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Music for the film by Miguel Hermoso and featuring the title song sung by Dulce Pontes

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Tara Gnawa - Phaleg and Nour Eddine
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The TaraGnawa project brings together two sides of the Mediterranean; Phaleg's Calabrian roots in Italy and the Mahgrebi roots of Morocco's gnawa tradition as exemplified in the music of Nour Eddine. It is performed with both daring and sensitivity to the traditions of both cultures, creating something new rather than simply fusing disparate elements.

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Il viaggiatore degli astri - Amarcord
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The premiere recording from the Bolognese 'small Amarcord orchestra.' Fisarmonica, bugles, guitars, melodies that carry the rhythm of Balkan music with an hint of Dixieland, and with unmistakable, viral world sound that shrieks of Fellini.

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Archedora - Archedora (Colombo and Corradi)
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Rachele Colombo and Corrado Corradi and their musical support team have created a beautifully dreamy recording of Italian roots and global branches. Colombo's voice, guitar, synthesizers and percussion and Corradi's accordions create a lush atmosphere, supported by electric bass, piano, strings, percussion and voices. Colombo and Corradi are also members of the Venetian band Calicanto.

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Soffi - Mario Crispi
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Sicilian musician Mario Crispi (one fo the foundign members of Agricantus) has researched the wind instruments of the world: the ney (Persian, Turkish and Arabian), the selijefloyte from Lapland, the North African zummara, the Sardinian launeddas, the Egyptian arghoul, the Balkan clarinet, the Andean antara and sikus, the Turkish duduk, the Sicilian marranzanu, the Australian didjeridoo.

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Lunario - Lucilla Galeazzi
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The 2001 album from this powerful Umbrian (Italy) singer brings with it both her recent folk-rooted energy and a bigger instrumental sound, featuring guitars, accordion, percussion, reeds, violin and viola . Fans of her tracks on the 1990's Mammas recording will love this full sound and of course, one of the great passionate voices of Europe

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Sceni - Klezroym
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This outstanding klezmer ensemble is based in Italy, and they forage into the world of Jewish music, tinged with contemporary jazz, deeply rooted in Eastern European and Mediterranean musical traditions. The group plays musicthat crosses borders and mixes different cultures effortlessly, and on this recording they are graced with two guest musicians that complete the circle: the Arab artists Karam Abdelmagid (oud) and Abdullah Mohamed (darbouka).

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Pamunt Rom Group - Pamunt Rom Group
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The Pamunt Rom Group includes Ionut Gugulan (accordion and vocals), Florin Barby (guitar and vocals) , Adrian Nan (stand-up bass), Castel Ciortan (accordion), and Laurentiy Dinca (clarinet), with Ciccio Merolla (percussion) and Riccardo Veno (soprano saxophone). The trademark sound is the furious interplay between the two accordions, or the accordions and the reeds.

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Lettere Migranti - Radicanto
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The Italian band explores the issues and stories of emigration in a series of contemporary songs based on the tradition. Taking the traditions of Puglia and merging them with a trans-Mediterranean modernity has made radicanto one of the most stunning bands in southern Italy. Their recording Terra Arsa was one of our records of the year in 2001, and this recording follows closely behind it for its strong mix of contemporary pop and jazz with an undying local sensibility.

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Amnesia (a film by Gabriele Salvatores) - various Artists (soundtrack)
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Includes original music for the film by Daniele Sepe, and songs by Macaco, Leonard Cohen, Corporate Avenger and Ojos De Brujo

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in terra e in chelu - TancaRuja
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Back in Print! An Italian band that deftly balances ancient tradition and modern tecnology and ideas, this is truly a marvelous recording, and I URGE you to click on the link and LISTEN. There's no other way to get you there.

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La notte del dio che balla - Various Artists
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The night of the dancing god is a reasonable translation, and an apt title for this diverse collection of Italian folk, roots, jazz and pop music. Originally put together as a travelling program to celebrate myth and rituals of the Italian past. the bands and artists involved are some of the best in the country: Agricantus, Daniele Sepe, Addosso Agli Scalini, RestArt and Nidi d'Arc supply contemporary edge to the project. Ambrogio Sparagna offers some phenomenal organetto (accordion). Director of the project was singer Teresa de Sio, a fine traditional singer. It's an impressive mix, wildly unrelated in style and yet intimately connected in spirit. Just listen to the amazing Tarantella Calbresse, a tour de force of roots and jazz by Daniele Sepe, and you will see the endless possibilities. – RootsWorld

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Piccolo Canto Nomade - Mazapagul
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This Italy band from Emila-Romagna grabs folk music, reggae, salsa, jazz, spaghetti western sound track themes and what might be called art school music (i.e., Talking Heads) and toss it around like a musical rag doll. A big brass sound hallmarks this band, and the Blakna influences are pervasive and unique.

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Umpa Umpa - Trio Tresca
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A new look at making truly Tuscan music for dancing, celebrating the instruments and rhythms of the region. Folkworld writes: 'An appealing album of traditional dances and songs from Tuscany. The trio features guitar and other string instruments, accordion and flute/clarinet, playing themselves through a wonderful collection of quiet and toughtful songs full of atmosphere and lively dance tunes. What makes the album so highly appealing is the honesty and simplicity of the music - three instruments played with passion; there are still the edges, the natural live feeling, the liveliness in the music. The dance tunes are full of life and are likely to get any listener tapping his feet if not jumping up and dance. Traditional music as it should be - pure and simple and full of passion. There are not many folk albums that have as much a "live" feeling about it as this one. Recommended.'

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Abballam - Tarantolati di Tricarico
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The 2008 recording byone of the founders of the 'new taranta' moevemnet in in southern Italy, led by painter, poet, architect, theater director, anthropologist, guitarist, singer, and songwriter Antonio Infantino. Listen 1 / Listen 2

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Tretarante - Arakne Mediterranea
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An association based in Martignano in the Southern Italian region of Salento dedicated to the preservation and diffusion of the traditions and folk cultures of Salento.

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Al Qantarah - Ammaraciccappa
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This Salentine ensemble have a lot of phrases for their music: "electro-world+salento+maghrebi, ecstatic rhythms of south Italy, desert voices and metropolitan sounds." They make thoroughly modern Italian music, completely rooted in the ancient past, and totally beyond classification or pigeon-holes. Highly recommended.

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Yankele nel Ghetto - Klezroym
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Klezroym's last production is an original elaboration of the songs of the Lodz Ghetto, collected in Gila Flam's book 'Singing for survival, Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-45,' presented as a song suite.

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Voce 'e mare - Nando Citarella and La Paranza
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Citarella and his ensemble Paranza offer a unique vision of the southern Italian tradition, steeped in Arab-Andalusian sounds, full of the sound of the human voice and the tammorra, vital and energetic. This is a collection of classic songs and liver performances done as only Citarella and company can do it.

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