Contemporary Speech closes with singer-songwriter Andrea Cassese and the trio La Cantiga De La Serena.
Third and final weekend dedicated to music in Sala Assoli, with Contemporary Speech, the series of chamber concerts directed by Eugenio Ottieri and organized by the Sonora project.
On Saturday 7 October at 21.00:8 pm, the Neapolitan singer-songwriter Andrea Cassese presents his third album Paesaggi semplici; while on Sunday 21.00 October at XNUMX:XNUMX pm, it will be the turn of the passionate dialogue between East and West proposed by the trio formed by Fabrizio Piepoli, Giorgia Santoro and Adolfo La Volpe, “La Cantiga de la Serena”.
The latest work by Neapolitan singer-songwriter Andrea Cassese is a concept album composed of 10 songs focused on the theme of the landscape and the country in the “Pavesian” sense of the term, as a place on a human scale where the rhythm of life is not altered by the great blackouts of the world.
"After all – explains Cassese – It was painting itself, predominantly twentieth-century, together with literature (Pavese, who inspired me for the album's title, but also Pier Paolo Pasolini, Carlo Levi, Rocco Scotellaro, Ignazio Silone) that over time fueled my already personal inclination towards simplicity.
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Hence the album's sounds and the choice of instruments used for the arrangements, which are typical of folk music and Italian popular songs. Cassese (vocals, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, percussion) will be on the stage of Sala Assoli together with Giacomo Pedicini (bass), Francesco de Cristofaro (accordion) and Antonio Esposito (percussion).
The review closes with the project La novia by the trio La Cantiga De La Serena, composed of Fabrizio Piepoli (vocals, guitar, daff, bendir, tambourine, qraqeb), Giorgia Santoro (flute, bansuri, duduk, sajat, cymbals, palmas, vocals), Adolfo La Volpe (oud, classical guitar, tar, vocals). Produced by the Zero Nove Nove record label, La Novia is the fourth album by the trio from Puglia. Since 2008, the ensemble has dedicated itself to the recovery and reworking of ancient and traditional music from the Mediterranean basin. After “La Serena” (2016, Workin' Label), “La Fortuna” (2019, Dodicilune) and “La Mar” (2021, Dodicilune), the new project still represents the fruit of continuous research to propose, in a new and personal way, a repertoire that brings the West and the East into musical and cultural dialogue.
The ever-present Sephardic tradition – an expression of the culture and traditions of Spanish Jews – dialogues with songs, romances and tarantellas belonging to different cultures and eras, proposing an unprecedented balance between innovation and tradition. The chosen title (La Novia, La Sposa) recalls an image with a strong archetypal value, especially in the traditional cultures of the Mediterranean, a symbol with many mystical, esoteric and philosophical implications, but which at the same time preserves in modernity the strong evocative impact of the promise of love. Uniting different songs, languages, stories and traditions in symbolic marriages, giving life to new creatures, different from the matrices that generated them, is the conceptual fulcrum on which the ensemble's musical research is grafted. In the eleven songs – sung in Ladin, Arabic, Italian and in various dialects of Southern Italy.
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