专辑简介

MUSICàNTICA focuses mainly on the music from Southern Italy’s oral tradition at the same time outreaching for a more contemporary musical idea that can be indicated as Mediterranean World-Music. MUSICàNTICA finds a remarkable freshness in the crossover between traditional and contemporary music and believes in its continuation. Continuity is possible because each musical process in time is part of a relentless process of development, productive confrontation with every day life and a continuous discourse between current innovation and past sedimentation. MUSICàNTICA’s repertoire includes, therefore, both traditional as well as original compositions.

Several of the instruments used by MUSICàNTICA are native Italian. These include the tamburieddhru, a frame drum used for the pizzica tarantata dance; the putipù, a friction drum; the chitarra battente, a 10 strings guitar from the Renaissance; percussion such as castanets, animal jingle collars, sheep copper bells; the benas, a single and double Sardinian reed clarinet or the marranzanu, or jaw’s harp. The rest of the instrumentation includes classical guitars, the mandolin, the mandola, the Greek bouzouki, the oud, the harmonica, the fina, a lamellaphone inspired by the African mbira exclusively created by Enzo Fina, and several other, mostly homemade, sound effects.