Matri Mia by BANDA IONICA
Felmay’s catalogue has never been short on flashes of artistic folly, wild bets, missions near- impossible. BANDA IONICA’s album is the latest in a long line of attempts to enrich the musical panorama, in particular that of the Italian scene, by pushing towards the outer limits of sonic experience.
It was 1999 when Fabio Barovero and Roy Paci had an idea which was to become the album, Passione. (felmay 2002) The image of a Madonna surrounded by red roses led to the discovery of a music that was both ancient and at the same time extremely modern, which came directly from tradition and referred to the icons and beliefs that animated Holy week processions in the south of Italy - the music of the marching band with its brass, woodwinds and crashing percussion and that with Passione, marched right onto radio and TV. Passione became a cult album, for many a new wonder of the recorded world documenting an extraordinary realm. It was an epic extended metaphor for what it meant to be Sicilian.
Now with Matri Mia comes a record that is set to overturn everything that Banda Ionica have done. On this new album it’s not only the band who break with traditional schemes but also the producers and guests involved on the record who have had to completely rethink their approach. The result is a work that though it keeps tradition very much in mind is heavily weighted towards the present, if not the future.
Together with Josh Sanfelici, Barovero (composer and founder of Mau Mau) and Paci (who played trumpet on many of the key records of the last few years and who regularly guests with Mau Mau, Manu Chao and Giorgio Conte as well as fronting his own outfit Aretuska) have tried on this second album to revive the hundred year history of the marching band by giving it a contemporary facelift. Such is the ethos behind these tracks which maintain the idiom and strength of southern sonorities while hooking them up to refined pop structures both Italian and international.
The songs on Matri Mia , some instrumental, others with words are all dedicated to women, and in particular to the great Mother who gives her all with love, an encounter between the moving melodies of southern Italian music and the intimate realm of the songwriter who opens up his soul’s suitcase for our inspection.
Tracklist
| 1. | Intro Espinita | 1:22 |
| 2. | Espinita | 4:04 |
| 3. | Come l'aria | 4:22 |
| 4. | Ombra Sacra | 4:50 |
| 5. | Raissa | 6:10 |
| 6. | Giocondita' | 2:45 |
| 7. | Mi votu e mi rivotu | 5:02 |
| 8. | Santissima dei Naufragati | 4:49 |
| 9. | S.S. Cristo alla colonna | 5:56 |
| 10. | E voi durmite ancora | 2:28 |
| 11. | Lorenzo in Sicilia | 3:54 |
Credits
Coordinamento generale: Fabio Barovero
Direzione Banda Ionica: Roy Paci
Programmazioni e missaggi: Josh Sanfelici
Registrazioni Banda Ionica: “The Cave Studio”, Catania; “Sonoria Rec.”, Scordia (CT); Foyer del Teatro Garibaldi, Avola (SR);
Registrazioni voci, suoni digitali, missaggi: “Mulino MAUse House” e “Orange Room”, Collegno (TO)
Assistenti di studio in Sicilia: Giuseppe Pernice, Vincenzo Cavalli
Hanno suonato per Matri Mia:
Roy Paci tromba
Rosario Patania trombone, bombardino
Gianfranco Rafalà clarinetto
Salvatore Di Stefano flicorno
Gaetano Santoro sax tenore e contralto
Salvatore Salvia sax baritono
Roberto Rapisarda basso tuba
e dal vivo:
Alessandro Jah Sazza Azzaro grancassa
Angelo Pappalardo basso tuba
Claudio Alfò flicorno baritono
Daniele Limpido sax tenore
Egidio Valentino bombardino
Francesco Cusa tamburo
Gaetano Mazzone basso tuba
Giuseppe Consiglio trombone
Paolo Boccaccio percussioni
Tony Cattano trombone
Salvatore Morello clarinetto in Si b
Sebastiano Bell'Arte corno in Fa
Sebastiano Di Rosa piatti
Sebastiano Nanè flauto in Do
Sebastiano Sessa corno in Fa
Sebatiano Tuccitto clarinetto in SI b
Vincenzo Catinello sax contralto
Hanno suonato inoltre:
Gilson Silveira (percussioni in Come l’aria), Federico Marchesano (contrabbasso in Lorenzo in Sicilia,e Raissa).
Hanno cantato per Matri Mia:
Dani Carbonel, Arthur H, Cristina Zavalloni, Mauro Ermanno Giovanardi, Lara Martelli, Vinicio Capossela.
Grafica: Lucio Diana
Traccia video: Cristina….. e Paolo Rapalino
Organizzazione in Sicilia: Teresa Mariano
Logistica e amministrazione: Komart, Campobasso
Special support: Peppe Russo
Trascrizione partiture: Igor Sciavolino
Fabio Barovero: fabiobarovero@hotmail.com
Roy Paci: etnagigante@hotmail.com
Grazie a:
Cocchi Ballaira, Paola Farinetti, Enzo Velotto, Valentina Giampiccolo, Gianpiero Gallina, Ettore Caretta, la banda di Avola, la famiglia Bell’Arte, Beppe Greppi e Renzo Pognant, Nepal, Fabiana e Andrea Supersonico, Luca Morino, M° Giuseppe Passanisi, Francis Falceto, The Ex, Cinzia Maffei, Giuseppe Nasisi, Tirza…. Monica Giannantonio, Domenico Culzoni, Giovanni Iosuè, Adele Di Palma, Nicole Courtois Higelin, Nicola Zingarelli, Macaco, Staff Lapis, Renato Striglia, Fulvio il driver, Michele Mariano, Paolo Rapalino, Alex Majoli, Lorenza Orlando, le nostre “famiglie”.
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