samsingen

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Samsingen is the encounter of four different personalities and it’s enkindled by a pure mutual curiosity in each other, that’s why geographical distances by some means push to a convergence of interests and targets. The desire to work on a common “trait d’union” links their apparently far individual cultures and brings them to tread on a shared territory where still each one’s ethnicity maintains its specific characteristics. The quartet reworks ancient chants coming from the swedish tradition, that’s why its peculiar expressive intensity lays in popular roots, leaving from popular culture the musicians dwell to go beyond dialectics and focalizing their synergy on emotions. The singing of Anna Kajsa leads the group through areas where musicians are stimulated to react creatively and to improvise following a modern and extemporary humour that evolves from the suggestion of a ancient music.

Anna-Kajsa Holmberg
Anna-Kajsa Holmberg was born in Stockholm in 1976, her first approach with the music came thru folk singing and playing guitar. She started taking lessons and studying lyrical singing in V..rmland (Sweden) since she wanted to develop her vocal technique. There she met a vivid folk tradition that permitted her to get in contact with a great number of musicians and dancers. While being still interested in folk tradition she left Sweden to enrich her academical studies. Anna-Kajsa moved to Denmark and attended “Carl Nielsen academy of music” following courses in music-performance, improvisation, stage-performance, physical-expression and paying attention to contemporary music. She graduated in July 2005 and she’s actually working both as a folk and as opera singer.

Andrea Serrapiglio
Born in 1984 he’s playing cello ever since he was six years old. When he was still a child he started looking for all kind of instruments, conventional or not. Being fascinated by construction today he’s finally able to put together a part of his own equipment that he plays with contact microphones, laptop. He plays it all together with electric cello in the band Airchamber 3. For what concerns arts he’s interested in sincerity and interiority without losing sight on pure “fun”, and he refuses to improvise with an approach based on a mere demonstration of virtuosism. His musical experiences evolves around eclectism and have brought him to cross different musical and artistical styles. He plays in the Instrumental Theatre Ensemble of his hometown’s conservatory but he also played bass in a reggae combo, he takes part to Orchestra Laboratorio directed by Claudio Lugo but he’s also played for more conventional orchestras and theatres. Hes been involved with the recording of a cd by Luigi Bonafede and Pietro Tonolo coming out on New York’s Obliq Sound recordsand he’s also recorded with drummer Francesco Cusa and saxophone player Gianni Mimmo. Cello remains his main instrument, and after winning a period of studies on “cello performance” at the University of Georgia, he’s going to graduate at the Conservatory of Milano under the guidance of M° Scano.
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Nicola Guazzaloca
Nicola Guazzaloca starts as a self-teached musician in 1988, later he took some seminars on piano playing at Ravenna Jazz (with Danilo Rea), at Marsala Doc Jazz (with Bonafede), at S. Anna Arresi Jazz (with M.R. Abrahms) and U. Petrin. He took part to workshops organized by musicians like W. Parker, A. Braxton, R. Mitchell, E. Marraffa, G. E.Brown, L. Barnes, M. Ribot, B. Phillips, M. R.Abrahms. Nicola gradually focussed his studies looking for his own personality both as a composer and as a player, but at the same time he never left his improvisational skill behind. After having composed many scores and sonorizations, he founded Comanda Barabba . The band works at the same time on detailed arrangements and on radical improvisation but still maintaining a strong contradistinctive jazz accent. He’s part to the project “Fete Foreign” directed/organized by double-bass player Barre Phillips. This international group of musicians make an effort to bring theatrical elements into the improvisational scene. With the sax/clarinet player Tim Trevor-Briscoe he develops a deep duo dialogue, based on thimbrical research and instant composition. Thanks to Luca Serrapiglio he’s met his brother Andrea and singer Anna Kajsa Holmberg with whom he has teamed up to form Samsingen. As said this band accurately reworks some traditional swedish chants to create a new contemporary tissue. He’s cooperating with many different musicians, getting deeper in the use of other instruments like vibraphone and accordeon facing different genres and contexts.
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Luca Serrapiglio
He was born in 1982, and graduated in saxophone at Alessandria’s Conservatory under the guidance of Claudio Lugo and with Luigi Bonafede on jazz music. Later he begun studying bass clarinet that he’s now playing with all the saxophones. While studying improvised creation he started to explore the timbrical and expressional possibilities of those instruments with the help of electronics. Having always being interested in the crossing-over of “genres” and “contexts” he’s been constantly flirting with theatre, that’s why he’s worked both as musicians and as an actor. He took part to the organization of a group-laboratory based on instrumental theatre promoted by the Conservatory of Alessandria with which he played both in Italy and in Denmark. Together with Luca Bernard he’s working on the duo Bod..ar, based on improvised dialogues. With his brother Andrea and Andrea Ferraris he formed Airchamber 3. The work of the last band is completely devoted to improvisation and to the fusion of different influences careless of genres and categorization. Using both acoustic and electronic instruments, the trio passes indifferently from rock to jazz, from ambient music to electro-acoustic performances. He composed and played the music of Hamelin, a theatrical work by Fabrizio Bonci directed by Laura Bombonato with whom he’s written the role of his own personage that breaking in the scene with his music represents the subconscious-side of the story. Luca is actually working as an assistant of Scenic Art at Conservatorio “Vivaldi” and teaches saxophone at the School of Music for Adult People of Alessandria. He loves eating, drinking and reading, he studies philosophy and Tarots.

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