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Gruppo di canto populare La Macina
Vene il sabado e vene il venere (Dunya / Felmay)
$17.99

A classic piece of Italian roots music from 1981 is reissued on CD in 2006. This was the first recording by this quartet of strong voices, accompanied by guitar, dulcimer, accordion, tamburello and other small percussion.

Tracks: 1a. La pasquarella     b. Saltarello 6.27 2. Monaca a forza 2.16 3. L'anatra 2.14 4a. Io vado in filandra b. La malmaritata 3.37 5. Č ffinidi i bozzi buoni 3.51 6. La cena della sposa 4.00 7. Donna lombarda 3.41 8. Mariuccia a mme mme gela... 1.20 9. Il marito giustiziere 4.07 10a. C'era una volta Caterina nerina baffina de' la pimpirimpina     b. Valzer risaltato 1.42 11. Convegno notturno 3.29

Musicians Claudio Ospici voice, guitar Giuseppe Ospici voice, dulcimer, guitar, percussion Piergiorgio Parasecoli voice, accordion, dulcimer, percussion Gastone Pietrucci voice, tymbals, percussion

Press from the record label: Originally released in 1981 Vene il sabado e vene il venere... is one of the most important recordings of Italian Folk Music of the 80s. The album was awarded the 1982 Italian Music Critics Prize.

Based in Le Marche, a region in Central Italy on the Adriatic Sea that faces the former Jugoslavia, the band presents a repertoire of songs from their homeland, songs that have been the subject of the group’s continuing researches.

Vene il sabado..., is LA MACINA’s first recording, a record on which the re-discovery of traditional roots not only provides an important new way of understanding our past but also helps to illuminate our contemporary world since the music is often married to political ideas. The recording clearly demonstrates the fascination that ethnomusicological research held for a whole generation of musicians, A fascination that would launch a fashion, the Folk Revival genre that after being briefly forgotten in the 90s has now become part of the charming, chaotic and somewhat disorganized (but for this reason lively and creative) musical melting pot that goes by the name of World Music.

The CD contains 11 tracks, some of which are structured like a kind of suite, running two or more songs together. The repertoire includes medieval ballads (La cena della sposa, Donna lombarda), modern songs (Mariuccia a mme mme gela..., Valzer risaltato), songs both licentious and erotic (Saltarello) and political (Io vado in filandra), as well as nursery rhymes (L'anatra, C'era una volta Caterina...) and ritual melodies (La pasquella). The vocal and instrumental techniques are highly traditional and are strictly related to the typical features of the local tradition, and it is from these roots that the band has been able to draw the great energy and strength that marks this recording.

All in all Vene il sabado e vene il venere…is undoubtedly one of the best folk music albums of the 80s, a work that deserves re-discovery.