Daniele Sepe
Senza Filtro (a collection of 'de-composed' traditional music from South Italy)
$17.99

A collection of Sepe's music compiled by the artist includes many never-released songs as well as some of his most famous.

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Track list (* Unissued tracks) 1. Tammurriata Nera 3.42 2. Robin & Marion 2.06 * 3. Tarantella Guappa 5.42 4. Ce me pe ti zog? 3.44 * 5. Elektrika Pisulina 6.15 6. Sammuchella 2.00 * 7. Amuri 5.49 * 8. Ave de li puverielli/Padrone mio 4.10 * 9. N'auciello a cantari 6.38 * 10. Girolimoni Nr. 101 1.34 11. Sante Caserio 5.16 12. Aria di Cimarosa 3.46 13. Brutta Cafona 3.32

The record label says Aimed specifically at the foreign market and bolstered by six brand new tracks, Senza Filtro is the perfect introduction to the musical world of DANIELE SEPE saxophonist, composer and for many years a well known agitator and militant on the Naples music scene, with more than a dozen albums to his credit. Deeply attached to the cultural roots of his land, DANIELE SEPE has been able over the years to renew and reinvent the whole notion of Neapolitan music, so often reduced to the maudlin strains of the mandolin and nothing else. At the same time SEPE has taken a good look around, seeking out the connections and borrowings that have shaped the musical landscape not only in Naples but throughout the south of Italy in a thousand years of trade with the rest of the Mediterranean and beyond. SEPE's tunes erupt in a dizzying kaleidoscope of sonorities hailing from Greece, Albania and the Middle East as well as taking in shards of the Norman, Byzantine and Provencal traditions. Here the most significant forms of the traditions of the South of Italy are brought to us in highly suggestive versions: SEPE breathes new life into a range of styles from tammurriatas to pizzicas and tarantellas, while he's not afraid to take on the more classic side of Neapolitan culture, the Opera Buffa invented in the late 18th century by composers the likes of Pergolesi, Paisiello and Cimarosa one of whose arias from L'italiana in Londra SEPE reworks in grand style. There's also room for love songs and serenades and of course, protest songs, represented here by a superb example the genre, "Sante Caserio". The variations on this material that DANIELE SEPE proposes are extremely vibrant and nuanced, thanks to his innate ability to artfully mix different styles and grooves: jazz, funk, and rock easily make themselves at home in the world of folk music, a world that has always been open to influences from outside that it has assimilated and made its own. Listening to the thirteen tracks of Senza Filtro one is equally struck by SEPE's abilities as an arranger and organiser, a musician capable of putting together a sizeable bunch of excellent players from various backgrounds and galvanising them into a tight, closely woven unit. More than evident is the unity of purpose that SEPE has achieved with the various outfits he has found himself helming over the years, fostering a refined, wholly different approach to Southern Italian music than the one we are used to, jettisoning tired old rehashes of ossified forms in favour of continuous innovation and regeneration.

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