Il Manifesto (Italy) recordings at cdRoots

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Salvamm'o Munno - Enzo Avitabile i Bottari
$16.99
(cdRoots# cni-avit)
fRoots calls it 'A buzzing hive of roots creativity.' Steeped in Italian tradition and featuring the voices of the Brotherhood of the SS Crucifix as well as the ancient instruments of Italy, with a bevvy of guests including Khaled, Amina, Hugh Masekela, Baba Sissoko, Bakhit Mizmar Brass Band and Manu Dibango.

The New Village - Enzo Favata Tentetto (featuring Tenores di Bitti)
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-favata07)
Sardinian musician and composer Favata has been roiling the roots-jazz of Italy for decades now, recording Cds and playing more than 2,000 concertsaround the world. He fuses tradition with a contemporary sense, forging a new music form folk, jazz and avant garde elements that are strictly original. He has studied classical and jazz saxophone, plays the soprano, sopranino and tenor sax, and the bass clarinet, as well as other ethnic wind instruments from Sardinia and elsewhere. Adding Latin, African and middle eastern influences, he has come up with a creative and original new sound that pays homage to the jazz greats while being beholden to no one. This recording features the incredible Tenores di Bitti, who offer not only their voices, but the inspiration of their melodies that are infused into the very core of Favata's new compositions.

Conosci Victor Jara? (1996) - Daniele Sepe
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-sepe-jara)
Read more about this great Neopolitan composer and saxophonist here

Kronomakia - Daniele Sepe, Ensemble Micrologus, Und Rote Jazz Fraktion
$18.99
(cdRoots# cni-sepe-k)
Neopolitan arranger, composer and saxophone player Sepe, joined by two ensembles, takes on the early music of Italy in his usual shocking style, seamlessly joining jazz, classical and early art music into a beautiful whole.

Lavorare Stanca - Daniel Sepe
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-sepe-lavorare)
This contemporay collection of music by Italian composer/musican Daniele Sepe is as diverse as it gets. Traditional polyphonic singing, jazz, theater music, folk music and reggae all merge harmoniously in this rich, colorful and often disturbing portrait of a culture.

L'uscita dei gladiatori - Daniele Sepe
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-sepelus)
1997 recording by one of Italy's most aggressively innovative roots musicians.

Nia maro - Daniele Sepe
$18.99
(cdRoots# cni-sepe-maro)
I know I say it almost every time he does a recording, but there really is no one like Sepe in the musical world, a composer and musician with a unique vision of his world, both musical and social, and an artist both global and local simultaneously. This recording is one of his more adventuous, and yet it is remarkably also one of his more 'rooted' although those roots spread all across the Mediteranean basin.

Spiritus Mundi - Daniele Sepe
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-sepe-spiritus)
Read more about this great Neopolitan composer and saxophonist here

Totosketches - Daniele Sepe
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-sepe-toto)
Read more about this great Neopolitan composer and saxophonist here

Truffe and other sketches - Daniele Sepe
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-sepe-truffe)
Read more about this great Neopolitan composer and saxophonist here

Viaggi fuori dai paraggi (1996) - Daniele Sepe
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-sepe-viaggi)
Read more about this great Neopolitan composer and saxophonist here

Lune - Riccardo Tesi and Banditaliana
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-tesi-lune)
2005 release by the master acordionist from Italy and his fine ensemble of Maurizio Geri (guitar and voice), Claudio Carboni (sax) and Ettore Bonafè (percussion). Nothing less than brilliant, as expected!

Monkey - Dounia
$16.99
(cdRoots# matson-monkey)
Four musicians from various artistic and cultural backgrounds explore Italian and middle eastern roots with a combination of melodies, harmonies and rythmns from all over the world. Their unique sound is unlike much else out there

Suite per bandoneon e orchestra - Daniele Bonaventura
$19.99
(cdRoots# rd-bona08)
The bandoneon master performs two new major compositions, a suite for bandoneon and orchestra, and Piccolo Requiem for Solo Bandoneon.

Fuori dal Paradiso - Piero Brega
$17.99
(cdRoots# rd-ilm186)
One of the most beautiful voices of Italian popular music, winner of the Ciampi Award in 2005 with his debut record "Come Li Viandanti", is back with his second work, "Fuori dal paradiso", a record of original songs written by Brega and Martire, arranged by Mark Hamlyn and produced in collaboration with the Gianni Bosio Club. The record, twelve tracks, expresses the origins and the relevance of Brega's music, who, since his beginnings in the '70's with the Canzoniere del Lazio, has always loved the contamination of the tradition with the driving force of the rhythmic instruments. Also in "Fuori dal paradiso" music and words flow in a series of tales and colours, moving from waltzes to ethnic suggestions. Brega is in love with Rome and with its dialect, and gives us a well-balanced record in which personal stories mix easily with fantastic tales.