A NEW ENTRY IN MY ROSTER:

ARIE DI SICILIA
a sound journey in folk music from harvest-field - 1800 to the present day

Oriana Civile - vocals
Maurizio Curcio - piano, 10-string Chapman Stick, acoustic guitar, drum, laptop

Duration: c. 75 minutes
The impetus behind this performance, which presents Sicilian traditional themes, comes from the need to introduce these beautiful melodies in their original form.
The arrangements are created in a very minimal style, with the aim of being faithful to the spirit of the genre and give the songs their proper artistic and cultural emphasis.
On stage the instruments used, in addition to the piano, are a 10-string Chapman Stick, an acoustic guitar, a drum kit and a laptop.
The musicians present a sound journey across folk melodies collected in the field by many ethnomusicological researchers, from past centuries till the present day. Many are songs revived by contemporary authors who in the realization of their work have embraced the heritage of folk traditions and want to witness a still evolving culture.
The smooth voice and the gentle sound of Oriana Civile's dialect forms the basis of the project. At the same time, her interest and her ethnomusicology studies lead the audience to a broader understanding of the contextualization of traditional songs, through the narration of slices of popular life extracted from various publications on the subject.
Maurizio Curcio's twenty year experience in the area of electronic music and his flexibility as arranger-instrumentalist allow the audience to be transported through a unique experience during the concert. The sound design accompanying the melodies is tightly organised, with live electronics allowing the artists to create unique and often very richly orchestrated sound textures in real time.

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