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Lou Dalfin
L'Oste del Diau (Felmay)
$17.99
Roots and rhythm from Occitania. Led by hurdy-gurdy maestro Sergio Berardo, the band Lou Dalfin havbe been championing Occitan music, giving it a contemporary facelift and lifting it out of the provincial ghetto to reach a wider, more culturally varied public. The ensemble and its guests present a somtimes large sound, with voices, flutes, jew's harp, bagpipe, guitar, drums, percussion, accordeon, melodeon, bass, trumpet, mandolin, whistles, a choir, harp and tuba.
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la reina
seguida de rigodons
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LOU DALFIN is
Sergio Berardo - hurdy-gurdy, flutes, jew's harp, bagpipe, guitar, vocal
Christian Coccia - guitar
Gian Luca Dho - bass
Alessandro Montagna - trumpet
Riccardo Serra - drums, percussion
Dino Tron - accordeon, melodeon, bagpipe
with the collaboration of Mario Poletti: mandolin, Massimo Giuntini: bagpipes, Vincenzo Zitello harp, Gerardo Cardinale: whistle, Fabrizio Simondi: choir, Stefano Degioanni: vocals, Gibi Piumato bariton sax, Roberto Fassio tenor sax, Diego Dutto: trumpet, Giulio Rosa tuba, Albert Tichy: arrangiaments, Mariano Allocco voice
From the record label:
L’Oste del Diau is the latest CD by Lou Dalfin, a band who, since they first appeared on the scene in 1982, have without doubt been Italy's leading proselytes of the culture of Piedmont's Occitan valleys.
Led since their inception by hurdy-gurdy maestro Sergio Berardo, Lou Dalfin have always been more than mere musicians, getting involved in activities ranging from courses in music, dance and lute building to organising concerts and exhibitions. Thanks to their efforts Occitan music has been given a contemporary facelift and lifted out of the provincial ghetto to reach a wider, more culturally varied public.
From the 1990s on Berardo and his outfit have in fact completely updated their way of making music, adding guitar, drums and bass to their roster of traditional instruments (hurdy-gurdy, accordion, violin and flutes) broadening the appeal of their sound without in any way losing sight of its essence. On their latest CD Lou Dalfin are at the top of their game, displaying right from the get-go all their communicative and expressive power, with a sound bestriding ancient and modern honed and shaped on the not always smooth ride of the dancehall circuit. Lou Dalfin have always aspired to keep their traditional musical heritage alive, while at the same time spreading the word beyond their immediate circle of friends and relations.
L’oste del diau presents a wonderful selection of bourrée, corente, mazurche and rigodons exposed to sudden gusts of rock energy that manage to spirit them into the now without turning them into no-brain commercial fodder. In fact it's thanks to the group's irreverent punk attitude that the record steers well clear of the museum' s dusty corridors and heads for a place altogether more charming and original. At the same time the more ass-kicking moments of L’oste del diau alternate with more intimate passages of great delicacy, and here Berardo and company have no difficulty in wringing the most subtle nuances and inflections out of their material. Remarkable too are the lyrics, fruit of personal experience and a poetic summary of countless encounters and stories Lou Dalfin gather from every gig and party they play at. Sounds and memories from far and near interweave incessantly in a music that's as thrillingly alive as it is accomplished.
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