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Komart & Giulietti Produzioni

present

a show by TERESA DE SIO

written by TERESA DE SIO e GIOVANNI LINDO FERRETTI

with

UCCIO ALOISI

I CANTORI DI CARPINO

TERESA DE SIO

GIOVANNI LINDO FERRETTI

MATTEO SALVATORE

and with

ERMA CASTRIOTA

GIUSEPPE DE TRIZIO

PUCCIA

PINO ZIMBA

CRAJ

(domani)


Nothing can be compared to tomorrow.

Tomorrow it what we expect, what will be. It is a positive and propositive attitude regarding what still must arrive and that we are waiting for with open arms.

This in life, as in music.

Looking at the world around us, from the outside, looks less and less like us, but that is no reason to lower one's guard, indeed, but even more we need to take and claim, to choose and show. Stars shining in their own light, songs from the musical tradition of the south, above all those from the region of Puglia, can be hidden, but their endless strength cannot be denied.

This is why CRAJ looks towards tomorrow, not forgetting the past.

TERESA DE SIO has worked on this project for two years. Involving the charismatic voice of GIOVANNI LINDO FERRETTI. Visiting Uccio Aloisi and I Cantori Di Carpino at their homes in the Gargano and Salento, convincing them to get together, to play liberating music of the roots. And the progresses could be seen day after day.

The PRODUCTION

The best way to organize this show is to think about it as if it takes place at a country fair. With the lights and it smells it of our childhood.

The audience will not be arranged in traditional way and the musicians will not be on the traditional stage. The ideal locations for this show would be circus tents, big clubs and town squares, where it is possible for the spectators to be in the centre of the musical event. Four small stages are placed on the external sides of the location, each stage being lit upon the moment when the action starts on it.

The setting will recreate the idea of a courtyard in which the musical events and rehearsed events will be carried out. The lighting will consist of many strings of hundreds of small colored lights that create a cascade from the centre towards the outer side of the space. When action starts on a particular stage the "string" lights towards that stage are lit.   

The quadraphonic digital hi-fi system, with speakers on the four sides of the space, so that from whichever side the music is sent out, the audience will be able to enjoy the sound completely. Each concert will be registered on Pro Tools.

PARTICIPANTS

Uccio Aloisi is one of the most emblematic figures of music and popular culture of the Salento. He proposes an immense repertoire of songs and music fishing directly from the heart of an oral traditional culture: folk songs, lullabies, songs to the stisa, pizziche, songs of job. Uccio was born 76 years ago in Cutrofiano, a small town of the lower Salento. Antonio, his true name, has a history of a son of the earth, in the real sense of the term, his unique and very particular voice has always been a faithful companion.

I Cantori Di Carpino are the maximum representatives of the musicality of the Gargano area. Masters in the art of singing "alla carpinese", "alla montanara" and "alla rodiana", play a very catching and passionate tarantella. Maccarone and Piccininno are the great interpreters of a vocality that does not have equals "style" wise. Their execution catches the attention of the listeners for its extemporaneous character, showing that these songs get natural birth from the country life, nourishing itself from its rituality.

Matteo Salvatore has lived his youth in misery and illiteracy, redeeming himself then with the sweetness of his guitar and the poetical force of his lyrics. A redemption accompanied by thousands madness, since he escapes from every rule and law, witty and unforeseeable like every young boy, brilliant and without rules, a real artist. Born in 1925 in Apricena, a town on the border between Gargano and Tavoliere, he does not refer explicitly to any tradition: inventing a new style, anticipating the generation of the great Italian singer songwriters, that recognize, in this historical singer from Puglia their master.

Teresa De Sio is known, loved and appreciated as one of the purest voices of the Italian song of author but also one of the undisputed protagonists of the Neapolitan musical scene. Her origins are strongly tied to popular music, even though the experiences that she accomplishes in her long career, vary from one another (from Brian Eno to Fabrizio De André). True paladin of what she loves to call "ecological music", music that does not pollute, in last the two years Teresa has realized a project that was born from her meeting with the solitary navigator and friend Giovanni Soldini, entitled "From Naples to Bahia", that saw a final concert in Salerno’ harbor bringing together international artists such as Lenine, Mariana De Moraes, Ondina Santos.

Giovanni Lindo Ferretti. Born in mountains of Cerreto Alpi (RE), Giovanni Lindo Ferretti has moved as child to Reggio Emilia, where she still lives. Founder, voice and charismatic leader of the CCCP - Faithful to the line - the rock band that shook the musical quietness of the Italian eighties -, giving life to the CSI, in 1992. Together with Zamboni they create the label " I dischi del Mulo ", that will then become " Consorzio Produttori Indipendenti" supporting alternative music. Splitting up with Zamboni, Ferretti recently has recorded his first solo album. He even acted as artistic director for the musical event "Bologna 2000".

ECOLOGICAL MUSIC

THAT IS the MUSIC THAT DOES NOT POLLUTE

by TERESA DE SIO

We inhabit a very furnished world. Full load of objects, to use and consume frenetically, often uselessly. The video recorder, the cellular phone, the refrigerator, but also the jacket, the frozen foods, and newspaper appear to be like instruments we can't do without for the good resolution of our lives, an enthusiastic confirmations of our presence in this world. We must possess and consume whatever is produced under the sun!

What a hard work! And what a waste of time, since nothing can ever be consumed till the end. The broken television set, the old fashioned jacket, yesterday's newspaper, are still there after that we have finished using them, physically and melancholically moved from the condition of splendid fetish of our times, to that of polluting waste.

Sitting Bull, the great head of the Sioux, said and foretold that the white man would die and be buried under his own rubbish. However we’re happily setting off into the third millennium dragging with us the weight of millions of broken, un sold things, bottles, jewellery used in too much of a hurry.

Not only the objects endure this fate, but ideas also, the thought, arts and music are amongst them. Every activity of human talent should always be "useful" for something (even answering the eternal question of Beauty and Pleasure) and to consume entirely one's essence in the arc of the "servile" cycle for which it is produced. Without residuals, without the scum of society.

This is Popular Music. It exists because it is used, it always has a function and a means. It is music that dances in the festivities, in the rituals, that "cures" the spirits tightened by the "negative of the existence" and frees it. Therefore it is the only music that is truly consumable till the end and that, therefore, does not leave slags nor does it pollute. Hence ecological music.

Music mostly played "acoustic". Compatible with the necessities that the violent and degraded "social sound" in which we live, demands.

MUSIC Of "PURITY"

In the last decades some musicians, such as myself, have worked to build  a contaminated sound, mixer of traditional languages and new tendencies. Many beautiful things have been done in this direction. In the course of these unbridled and regenerating stylistic unions, from a certain point onward, however, the "original sign" began to disappear. I believe that our cultural future must instead be constructed on parallel tracks, on one hand, the continuous innovation and on the other the conservation of the matrices.

There still are "pure" musicians who have crossed the decades with their southern proudness, not accepting flatteries of the official culture, and without mixing themselves with that was not similar to them. I CANTORI DI  CARPINO, MATTEO SALVATORE, UCCIO ALOISI are part of  true history. But also the most convincing possible movement towards "tomorrow". This being the south, in its most powerful form and light.

The "rodianelle", the "viestesane", the lullabies, the “pizziche” tell a singular but universally comprehensive history. A mythological-musical horizon where to rebuild and re-found a strong feeling of PURITY and AUTHENTICITY. An important biodiversity to assert.

On these considerations the idea of "CRAJ" was born, that in Pugliese or in Neapolitan means, exactly, tomorrow.