Circo diatonico ::: Acrobazie

Courtesy of an anonymous reader, who left this link as a comment
Circo Diatonico is linked to the fanciful atmosphere and the sound of a circus. A mix of cheerful melancholy: folk music, jazz and traditional music of the countries the circus crosses by
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Clara Graziano: accordion
Toni Germani: saxophones
Giovanni Lo Cascio: percussion
Gerardo Bartoccini: double bass
Rosario Liberti: tuba, trombone
with
Ambrogio Sparagna: accordion
Rita Marcotulli: piano
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01 Marta ...la scimmia 
02 Circo invisibile 
03 Gioco dei bottoni 
04 Le lune di odessa 
05 Funambolo 
06 Su tre file 
07 Senza tempo 
08 Nasi rossi 
09 Marcia di carovana 
10 D'istinto 
11 Tacabanda 
12 Animali circensi 
13 Solo poco fa
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1998 • Finisterre FTCD 04
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Acrobazie

Circo diatonico ::: La banda

Musiche dello spettacolo viaggiante - Music for trovelling shows

A funambolico, a musical adventure with many references to Italian popular music, the Balkan, Neapolitan song, jazz and the great tradition of the country band, to evoke the special magic of a circus, the poetry of traveling in a caravan, the bravado of the trapeze, the chaos of the juggler, melancholy of the clown, the elegance of the high wire balancer. A sarabanda of voice and percussions surround the organetto of Clara Graziano, leader and composer of the group, making musical atmospheres of illusion, equilibrium and excitement of a day with the circus caravan. Listen to the music of the new circus: organetto, fanfare and jugglers!
Woodwinds, percussions and jugglers led by Clara Graziano’s button accordion come on stage to tell the enthralling tale of the world of the circus, accompanied by music and by acrobatics. It is the tale of villages where a single family was at once acrobat, tamer, cashier, actor , barman . . . and musician.
The original compositions and the communicative verve of the group is lively, joyful, yet tempered by a subtle vein of melancholy, typical of Naples and southern Italy – where certain circuses still set up their tents.
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Clara Graziano: accordeon, voice (1, 3, 9, 14, 20), chorus (7)
Gabriele Coen: soprano saxophone (1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20), clarinet (3, 5, 7), chorus (7)
Andrea Pandolfo: trumpet (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, I0, 11, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20), voice ( 15), chorus (7)
Rosario Liberti: tubo (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20)
Giovanni Lo Cascio: drums (1, 3, 7, 11, 16, 20)
with
Banda di Villa S. Stefano,
conductor Rosario Liberti ( 13, 14)
Mauro Andreoni: piano ( 18)
Giuliana De Donno: harp (9)
Massimo Curato: cajon shecker (9)
Hanan AI-Haj,Ying Gu: reciter (9)
Olga Balan: chorus (9)
Giordano Treglia: voice (12)
Laura Polimmo: chorus (20)
Mattia Esposito, Carlo Turato, Raffaele Ros: chorus (12)
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01 Acrobazie (C. Graziano) 6.24
02 Maramao perché sei morto? (M.C. Consiglio, M. Panzerl) 0.39
03 Grande fuoco (C. Graziano) 4.19
04 La gazza ladra (G. Rossini) 0.55
05 L'attesa (C. Graziano) 3,51
06 Malafemmena (A. De Curtis) 1.23
07 La ballata dell'ammore (C. Graziano) 3.59
08 Milord (G. Moustaki, M. Monnot) 1.22
09 Malaluna (C. Graziano) 4,31
10 LaTitina (L. Daniderff) 0.43
11 Sospesi (C. Graziano) 5.55
12 La banda (C. Buarque) 0.50
13 Marcia di carovana (C. Graziano) 5.00
14 Sciò Sciò (C. Graziano) 1.42
15 Vengo anch'io? No, tu no! (F. Fiorentini, D. Fo, E. jannacci) 0.41
16 Alter-azioni (C. Graziano) 3.38
17 La guerra di Piero (F. De Andrè) 1.08
18 Dolce aspro (C. Graziano) 3.32
19 Oci Ciornie (Trad.) 0.35
20 Gemma e oro (Trad.) 3.50
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2007 • Finisterre FTCD 38
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La banda part 1
La banda part 2
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BandAdriatica ::: Contagio

"CONTAGIO is a hypothetical voyage through the ports of the Adriatic Sea. A long trip made of chance encounters and spasmodic research. To travel by sea is not the same as to travel on dry land. Sea journeys are at the mercy of the shifting will of waves and currents. From the shores of Italy’s Salento to Albania, from Venice to Dubrovnik and as far afield as Crete, dreaming of a safe haven.
The Adriatic is a sea of incongruities, of barely covert diversity. All of its ports are different, profoundly different. Its myriad languages are like winds seriously jeopardising those who sail. Its peoples, separated by centuries, rarely meet by choice, more often than not because of necessity. Its musical traditions, the illegitimate offspring of a common root, have always taken different routes.
Donning their worn-out apparel during their Calabrian tours or their best suits for wedding feasts, their teeth of gold worn as accessories to their instruments and the ornaments stuck in their hats, they walk slowly behind the saints, they hurry from town to town, from fete to fete, up steep hilly streets after Madonnas, across the open sea after small processions of boats or aboard large ships taking them overnight to the opposite shore. The quest for the common linguistic denominator between the bands and fanfares of East and West is no easy task. It is a challenge which has become a long- term project. This is our point of departure."
“Contagio is the name of the first cd by Bandadriatica. It has nicked lips and hair carried by the wind. The same wind first blew up our sails now blows in our instruments carrying on languages and music escaping each other now and forever. 
Contagion spreads voices and instruments. Infected by a rhythm coming from abroad, the music of Puglia bands is more charming and patchy, enriched with unexpected sounds (Brindisi DC, Tourbanda). Fluent and frantic composition (Penza e ripenza, Tarantella adriatica) and slowly marches (Erdi dethi tallas tallas, To ghiasemi, Le mille e un valzer) entwine in an impervious path. Lyrics tell of an eternal cyrcle: santa paranza is a lay prayer telling about the sea loneliness; i giorni del contagio is a modern rumba, an elegy of a cultural invasion.
Guest star ‘King’ Naat Veliov slave trumpet, author of Pizzica estam, together with Claudio Prima, a Salento Macedonian music mix. Here italian organetto meet the Kochani Orkestar trumpet. The Kohcani Orkestar is one of the most famous Balkans music brass band. Bandadriatica and Kochani Orkestar have played together in August 2006, on the occasion of Notte della taranta Festival 2006 and again in Rome in Septemebr 2007 during the famous Notte Bianca festival.
Claudio Prima, eclectic organetto player, is the leader of Bandadriatica; the band is made up by musicians from different cultures and origins under the sign of the Adriatic sea. The cd is the outcome of a long path, searching and experimenting relationships between the music from the South of Italy, Albania (thanks to Redi Hasa, the Albanian cellist of the band), Greece and the north-east Adriatic side. Traditions blend with slowly marches of processions, rumbas and cocek of the cruise party. Original lyrics and music search for a new kind of language able to match traditions and peculiarities of Adriatic cultures, in which music is always carried by a ‘banda’ or a ‘fanfara’. 
During 2007 Bandadriatica teamed up with Eva Quartet, vocal bulgarian quartet of “Les Mystere des voix bulgares”. The first introduction of their cd “Contagio” has been done live in Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome.
Moreover the group is hosted in a lot of important ethnic music festivals (Mundus, Vincoli Sonori, Gipsy and klezmer music festival, La notte della Taranta Festival, La Notte Bianca a Roma, Festate - Svizzera, Libra Festival). Tribù Italiche – Puglia by World Music Magazine has chosen one song by Bandadriatica as one of the most representative musical bands of Puglia. In November “Contagio” is in the Folk Roots top ten, one of the most important European world music charts.
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Claudio Prima: diatonic accordeon, voice
Redi Hasa: cello, bouzouki (9), electric bass (4)
Emanuele Coluccia: tenor and soprano saxophones
Andrea Perrone: trumpet
Vincenzo Grasso: clarinet, tenor saxophone 
Gaetano Carrozzo: trombone
Domenico Zizzi: tuba
Ovidio Venturoso: drums, cajon, percussions
with 
King Naat Veliov: trumpet (6, 9, 11 ) 
Maria Mazzotta: voice (2. 6, 11) 
Alessandra Caiulo, Carla Maniglio: chorus (2) 
Manuela Salinaro: tar (12)
Giancarlo Paglialunga: tambourine (6)
Valerio Daniele: acoustic guitar (4)
Roberto Chiga: riqq (4), darbouka (11 )
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01  Brindisi DC
02  Santa Paranza
03  I giorni del contagio
04  Tourbanda
05  Pizzica
06  Penza e ripenza
07  To ghiasemi
08  Le mille e un valzer
09  Tarantella adriatica
10  Erdhi Dethi Tallas Tallas
11  Lake Populake
12  Larg (lontano)
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2007 • Finisterre FTCD 41
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Contagio
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Tod trauer Trapani

courtesy of vespucci at SFRP - CJW
Funeral marches played by local brass bands, recorded during the traditional Holy Friday Procession (Processione dei Misteri) on the streets of Trapani, Sicily. According to a review, this is a source that inspired Ennio Morricone as well as Nino Rota. Track 8 indeed contains the funeral music from Fellini's "Amarcord", while another one features Chopin's famous march. 
Compiled by Ben Jeger and Clemens Klopfenstein, "Death Sorrow Trapani" (as which the title translates) neither contains liner notes nor further informations about the recordings. 
Please don't expect any high speed Balkan brass music. Compared to that one, the music here is slow and rather stately. It could be even called "ambient", as the recordings of those rather clumsy and amateurish but deeply heart-felt playing brass formations include streets and audience noise - which definitively adds to the charm. 
A short note on the CD calls it also "the sound report of a night: a movie without images". Actually a Swiss movie theatre once really performed that CD without any visual acompaniement... Cinema for your ears, mingling the sacral and the secular in a peculiar, sometimes even funny way. 
The "Processione dei Misteri" 
For over four hundreds years every Holy Friday the tradition of the Procession of the collection of Sacred Saints of Via Crucis, known as “I Misteri” is repeated. The Procession involves a two kilometre journey in which thousands of local citizens and tourists coming from all over the world participate. The “Misteri” are a collection of twenty sculptures made of canvas, wood and glue that represent the phases of the Passion and the Death of Jesus. The statues, which stand on a wooden base, are decorated with silver jewellery and floral decorations and they are carried on the shoulders of men who transport them on the journey in the characteristic “annacata” way, a movement which the carriers stamp out to the music of the bands. The statues were designed between the XVII century and the XVIII century by local artists and they are characterised by the deep expressiveness of their faces and for the precision of their engravings. They are conserved throughout the year in the Chiesa del Purgatorio from which they emerge at 2:00 p.m. every Holy Friday, and once the Procession is over on Holy Saturday the following morning, they are returned to the church. On the day of the Procession, Trapani is transformed into a mixture of sacredness and folklore, and the town has maintained these unchanged characteristics for centuries. 
comune.trapani.it 
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12 untitled tracks
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2005 • Edition Grumbach, Bern 
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Tod trauer Trapani part 1
Tod trauer Trapani part 2

Banda di Avola ::: 'A banna!

"The King," the amazing opening track of À Banna!, offers a Polaroid picture of the 1920s, the time period covered by this recording. It swings, it caresses, it winks to the assembled masses and is as Italian as Federico Fellini: the ladies in their overcoats and the men in their bowler hats and in their Sunday best; the barefoot kids playing around in the unpaved square while the local dignitaries watch from the Town Hall, eagerly waiting for His (bored) Royal Highness to arrive to yet another small Sicilian town. Your chest expands to the heave and swell of the music; if only you could find that mislaid baton. 
Here is an archaeological record of those times. Banda di Avola, who have strong ties to the consistently wonderful Banda Ionica, consists of schoolchildren who rediscovered the music of their grandparents. I can relate to the shock that usually accompanies the time when you first realize that your grandparents did occasionally enjoy themselves back in the day and I think a lot of the fun that this record oozes is related to this particular feeling. "Nun ti lassu," "Armida," "Galop," "Sfilata" are all beautiful and swinging tracks, but the recording really takes off on "Squinzano," when the refrain is as delicate as Chopin, yet is performed by a full marching band. It's one of those moments when you stop whatever you are doing and savor the feeling. 
Banda di Avola have created a record that is funny, fun, festive and fiery. It is extraordinary that these are twelve-to-fifteen-year old kids who can perform with such virtuosity but it is also amazing that this music is so imbued with emotion three generations later. Fabio Barovero, who directed this project, should be congratulated on a great achievement. 
À Banna! creates a space of pomp and ceremony that will transform the undignified and mundane rituals of daily life into an event worthy of royalty. - Nondas Kitsos 
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01. The King 
02. Scottish 
03. Tarantella No. 8 
04. Nun ti lassu 
05. Sicilia bedda 
06. Armida 
07. Ponte S. Pietro 
08. Squinzano 
09. La ritirata 
10. Ridolino in marcia 
11. Galop 
12. Sfilata 
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2003 • Felmay Fy 8065  
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'A banna!
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'A banna!

La banda improvvisa ::: Pratomagno social club

First record by Banda Giuseppe Verdi from Loro Ciuffenna and guests, directed by Orio Odori
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01 Bruco, il 6.22
02 Zingaro 2 3.55
03 Circe 6.55
04 Koçani 4.02
05 Nessiah 8.47
06 Tarantella gitana 6.43
07 Comunione 4.07
08 Corsa de' ciuchi, la 3.52
09 Pipi 1.53
10 Pipistrelli 4.47
11 Ulixes 4.38 (bonus live track)
12 Serenata alla carpinese 6.42 (bonus live track)
13 Solocorsaro 4.54 (bonus live track)
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2003 • Materiali sonori MASO CD 90133
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Pratomagno social club

Banda ionica ::: Matri mia

One of the best band music album ever!
Ethno rocker Roy Paci and Fabio Barovero joined force with a Sicilian band.
Their previous record was a more traditional band one, but here they experimented blending band music and vocals. Performances by Cristina Zavalloni and Vinicio Capossela are of a heavenly kind
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Roy Paci: trumpet 
Rosario Pataria: trombone, euphonium 
Gianfranco Rafalà: clarinet 
Salvatore DI Stefano: flugelhorn
Gaetano Santoro: tenor and contralto saxes
Salvatore Salvia: baritone sax
Roberto Rapisarda: bass tuba 
e dal vivo: 
Alessandro Azzaro: percussions 
Angelo Pappalardo: bass tuba 
Claudio Alfò: euphonium
Daniele Limpido: tenor sax
Egidio Valentino: euphonium
Francesco Cusa: percussions 
Gaetano Limpido: tenor sax 
Gaetano Mazzone: basso tuba 
Giuseppe Consiglio: trombone 
Paolo Boccaccio: percussions 
Salvatore Morello: clarinet 
Sebastiano Bell'Arte: horn 
Sebastiano Nanè: flute
Sebastiano Sessa: horn 
Sebastiano Tuccitto: clarinet 
Vincenzo Catinello: trumpet, alto sax 
and 
Gilson Silveira: percussionsi (03.), 
Federico Marchesano: double bass (11.)
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01. Intro - Espinita 1.20 
02. Espinita (voce Macaco El Mono Loco) 4.02 
03. Come l'aria (voce Mauro Ermanno Giovanardi) 4.22 
04. Ombra Sacra 4.47 
05. Raissa (voce Arthur H) 6.10 
06. Giocondità 2.44 
07. Mi votu e mi rivotu (voce Cristina Zavalloni) 5.00 
08. Santissima dei Naufragati (voce Vinicio Capossela) 4.46
09. SS Cristo alla Colonna 5.55 
10. E vui durmiti ancora 2.16
11. Lorenzo in Sicilia 3.52
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2002 • Felmay Dunya Records fy 8050
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Matri mia
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Matri mia

Contrabbanda

Directed by Luciano Russo, this young big band from Neaples cuts these 16 eterogeneous tracks.
Highlight is a spirited version of Adriano Celentano's Azzurro and a deconstructed Pippi Calzelunghe (Pippi Långstrump), theme from the eponymous TV serial
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clarinets: Luciano Russo, Dodo Podano, Stefano Serino, Giancarlo Hujo, Davide D'Alò, Betta Riccardi, Manuela Morleo, Mauro Vella, Azzurra Mancini, Arianna Caputo.
piccolo: Danilo De Luca.
trumpets: Ciro Riccardi, Luca De Luca, Paolo Petraroli, Gennaro Ferraiuolo.
saxes: Riccardo Colicchio, Guido Fusco, Fulvia Guardascione, Gianluca Guarino, Rosaria Bisceglia, Massimo Napolitano, Gino Prisco, Francesco Orabona.
trombones: Zain Saldin, Sandro Molisso.
percussions: Luciano Esposito, Lorenzo Caggiano, Marta Riccardi. 
with
Daniele Sepe: sax
Auli Kokko: voice
Roberto del Gaudio: voice
Gloria Ettari (E' Zezi): voice
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01. Pippi Calzelunghe
02. La Zucconas
03. Is This Love
04. Saranta Palicaria
05. Rugido do Leao
06. 'O Guappo 'nnammurato
07. Ajshino
08. Lacreme 'e cundannate
09. 8 e 1/2
10. Azzurro
11. Rumba d' 'e scugnizze
12. Alturas
13. Limon Limonero
14. Manea
15. Catarina
16. Ob-la-dì Ob-la-dà
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2002 • Polo Sud PS 040 
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Contrabbanda
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Contrabbanda

La banda improvvisa ::: Lesamoré

Band music was very popular in Italy till not a long ago. Band played mainly opera and light opera material and was the true music school for lots of Italians. These last years this form of music has known a big revival, not only in the Southern Italy, but everywhere in the country and stuff now comprises pop and folk music, not only from Italy.
This band come from Loro Ciuffenna, in Tuscany, it's directed by Orio Odori and aided by Daniele Sepe and Auli Kokko
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Filarmonica 'Giuseppe Verdi' di Loro Ciuffenna
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01 Serenata alla carpinese 5.45
02 Lacrime 'e condannate 3.46
03 Valzer 6.01
04 Les amoureux des bancs publics 7.56
05 Ulixes 3.58
06 Padrone mio 4.12
07 Pizzica 4.46
08 Solocorsaro 2.30
09 Koçani 5.58
10 Kalyo 6.27
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2005 • Materiali sonori MASO CD 90138
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Lesamoré
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