MUSIC BETWEEN TRADITION AND (POST)MODERNITY. New Mediterranean Proposals: Campania, Puglia & Sicily
“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture”. Whether this was uttered by Frank Zappa, Elvis Costello or someone else, this is a quote that inspire reflection.
i-Italy, in collaboration with ANFE-SICILIA and Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò (NYU), invites you to a meeting with artists Roy Paci & Aretusca, Mauro Pagani, Marco Cappelli and the “Sun”. They will discuss about their musical roots, focusing on how these are connected to contemporary questions and new generation issues.
On October 13 at 6:00 PM at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, there won't be just a conversation among experts in the field: the musicians will be asked to share with words and notes their personal experiences as artists focused on reinterpreting Italian musical tradition in a contemporary key.
Agreeing that "talking about music is like dancing about architecture", moderators George De Stefano and Letizia Airos will invite them to evoque, between a performance and the other, more than just happenings, but also emotions and reflections that have accompanyied them throughout their musical career
The artists:
SUN
The Sicilian trio SUN consists of Dario Sulis (vocals, percussions), Alessandro Palacino (saxophone and flutes) and Diego Spitaleri (piano and keyboards). SUN's first album, "ETHINICITY", was first released in 1997 by the R.T.I. Music label. Teatro del Sole has recently re-released it. The trio's ethnic-Mediterranean music also draws on ambient, new age and jazz elements.
In September 2000, SUN received the MEMORY Award from the Foggia Jazz Festival. SUN performed for the United Nations summit held in Palermo in December 2000. In 2001, the trio recorded a live performance, Scarlatti Rendering, at Palermo's Teatro Massimo, where they presented their music in honor of the legendary Sicilian baroque composer Alessandro Scarlatti. Not only does SUN experiment with their own interpretation of past compositions, but they have also collaborated with musicians to recreate classical music. At Taormina, Sicily's TEATRO GRECO they performed their own interpretations of various Bach violin sonatas.
In 2004, the trio performed their music and lectured on their unique musical style and composition throughout venues in the United States. Film and television producers even use SUN's music - most recently their music created the soundtrack for a DVD on Italian immigration to Argentina, and a short "Chi Sei?" by Giuseppe Gigliorosso.
Sicilian composer, trumpeter, and bandleader Rosario “Roy” Paci is one of the most creative and exciting musicians on the contemporary scene, an innovator whose popularity stretches from Italy and Europe to Latin America and beyond. His band Aretuska is composed of musicians from Sicily, Italy, Latin America and Africa. Paci has released four albums with Aretuska, the first being "Baciamo le mani" (2001). On his own label Etnagigante he released "Tuttapposto" (2003), "Parola D'Onore" (2005) and "Suonoglobal (2007). In 2008, he released “Bestiario Siciliano,” a compilation of his work with Aretuska that also featured three new songs and a DVD of the band in concert.
Paci and Aretuska’s music is a fusion of Sicilian elements and the international rhythms of jazz, rock steady, reggae, ska, soul, and funk.
Throughout his career, Roy Paci has traveled throughout the world, constantly enriching his musical palette with new and traditional rhythms, from samba to Indian banghra.
In 2007, Paci had a massive international hit with “Toda Joya, Toda Belleza,” an irresistibly catchy samba that captivated listeners – and dancers – from Palermo to Rio de Janeiro.
Paci’s connection to Latin America is strong and deep. From 1990-1994, he performed with groups and solo artists such as Musica Popolar Do Brasil, Selma Reis in Brazil and Argentina, and the T.Rio Blanco in Montevideo.
He also appears in the 2006 film, “The True Legend of Tony Vilar,” about an Italo-Argentine singer. Paci is seen in a dream sequence set in New York City.
Paci often writes lyrics in Spanish, as well as in Italian, and in a hybrid lingo he calls “italoño” that incorporates Spanish, Italian, Sicilian and English.
The artists with whom he has collaborated during his more than 25-year career include Manu Chao, Vinicio Capossela, Amadou and Mariam, Piero Pelù, Raiz, Samuele Bersani, Nicola Arigliano, Cesare Basile, 99 Posse, Giuliano Palma & the Bluebeaters, Mau Mau, Subsonica, Eric Mingus, Carlo Actis Dato, Sean Bergin, Flying Luttembachers, New York Ska Jazz Ensemble, Negrita, Jovanotti, Caparezza, Sud Sound System.
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MARCO CAPPELLI
Marco Cappelli is a founder of the acclaimed Italian contemporary music group Ensemble Dissonanzen. He also is a professor of guitar at the Conservatory Vincenzo Bellini in Palermo and Music Associate at Columbia University in New York. Over the years his music has undergone a radical transformation, from classical to contemporary and experimental sounds.
The diversity of Marco's performances is due to his having worked with an array of brilliant collaborators -- Anthony Coleman, Michel Godard, Butch Morris, Franco Piersanti, Jim Pugliese, Enrico Rava, Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Giovanni Sollima, Markus Stockhausen, Cristina Zavalloni and more. As a soloist and an ensemble member, he also regularly participates in major classical and contemporary music series (Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Associazione A. Scarlatti di Napoli, Ravenna Festival, Festival Traiettorie di Parma, Cinque passi nel '900 al Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Guggenheim Museum in New York, Italian Academy at Columbia University New York, Salzburg Festival, Ruhr Triennale...) as well in jazz and avantgarde music festivals (Saalfelden Jazz Festival - Austria, Pomigliano Jazz - Italy, Grim in Marseille - France, Barnsdall Theatre in Los Angeles, Tonic in New York, OutPut Festival in Amsterdam.)
Marco has recorded three solo guitar CDs: "Fantasia per Ensemble", "Yun Mu" EGP (Extreme Guitar Project: Music from Downtown New York) for the prestigious American label Mode Records. In 2006-2007 Ictus Records published his "Los Angeles Tapes", and in 2008 the Italian jazz label Itinera released the first CD of Marco's band IDR - Italian Doc Remix.
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MAURO PAGANI
Mauro Pagani is an internationally known multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer who has studied and researched various Mediterranean musical idioms, a multi-year path that has culminated in his becoming the Artistic Director of Le Notti di Taranta (Taranta Nights), Italy's most important Southern traditional music festival and one of Europe’s major festivals.
One of the founders of the historic progressive rock band Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM), he also is one of the pioneers of the world music genre in Italy. Among the most significant highlights of his career was his multi-year collaboration with the Italian singer and songwriter Fabrizio de Andrè, with whom he wrote and produced Crueza de Ma (1984) -- considered by David Byrne one of the 10 best albums of the past few decades, from any country and in any genre. In 2004, Pagani partly rearranged and enriched Crueza de Ma with new ethnic-based sounds. De André and Pagani also had a major success with the 1991 album, Nuvole (Clouds).
In 1998 Mauro founded Officine Meccaniche, whose recording studios have become a meeting point for such notable Italian artists such as Daniele Silvestri, Samuele Bersani, Almamegretta, Le Vibrazioni, La Sintesi, bluvertigo, Afterhours, Negramaro, Stefano Bollani, Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Massimo Ranieri.
The multi award-winning soundtrack composer of "Sogno di una notte d'estate" and "Nirvana" by director Gabriel Salvadores, Mauro has recently written and produced, in collaboration with more than 50 Italian artists, "Domani 21/04/09", a song dedicated to the victims of the earthquake in the Abruzzo region.
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THE EVENT AT CASA ITALIANA
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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