Opa cupa» (read: «opa tzupa»), its a shout of exhortation to the dance used by gypsies of South-Eastern Europe. It represents the musical project risen from Salento (south Italy) directed towards the research for the repertory of Balcan music. Musicians coming from different cultures (Bosnia-Erzegovina, Albany South Italy) gather around the leader, the trumpeter Cesare DellAnna. They play a «marginal» music which is strongly influenced by different styles, blending caleidoscopics sonorities with brilliant moments of pure musical interpretative technique. The project broadens for poliedrics experiences with ethnic and jazz music. The result is a fusion and an elaboration of fast «estams» and «horos», with their uneven, irregulars rithms, or the fascinated melodies of ancients Bosniac songs mingled with the Albanian culture and sonorities of bands typical in the traditional music coming from southern Italy. Moments of improvisation have been introduced into the popular structures where a jazz attitude takes advantage in the articolation of the sentence, sudden clusters, dissonant situations performed by the brass. The musical elaborations become the theme of a party, accompained by ancient epic songs and slow ballads accelerated according to the gypsy style. Opa Cupas new forthcoming record "Hotel Albania" fully represents those style, element and sound changes that the Salento- Afro Balkanian band has made since the coming out of the first cd "Live in Contrada Tangano". Its an 11/8 Records production. The CD "Hotel Albania" has many guests: the trumpet player Riccardo Pittau (Sardinia), Ivo Iliev, sax (Bulgaria), Marian Serban and Relu Merisan cymbalom (Romania), Dj Trinketto, turntublism (Salento, Italy), Guergue Gueguev, percussion (Bulgaria), Eugene Luca trombone (Romania), Irene Lungo voice, Mauro Durante, percussion (Salento, Italy), Fabrice Martinez, violin and Alexandra Bejaurd, fisa (France), the Albanian pianist Ekland Hasa, the outstanding presence of great clarinettist Yasko Arghirov and his accordionist Slavko Lambov (Bulgaria) in a live track fortuitously improvised at Albania Hotel during summer 2002. The new tracks keep a strong liaison with Balkan tradition, even if they are even more being enriched by a medley of Salentinian and African music traditional sounds, obtained by playing Salentinian bell tambourines, and Algerain karkabu and beendire.
Da Agosto sono passati 3 mesi e siamo ormai in uno stato di astinenza avanzata!!! Dove possiamo venire per una dose abbondante di adrenalina e energia ??!!!
QUESTA SERA contest rock al Sinatra hole di Ugento l’evento in collaborazione con l’Ass. musicale U.D.E. & LAS PALMERAS, presenta tre giovani band, ad aprire la serata saranno i “Black Full” con repertorio rock inedito, seguiranno Love Revolution (cover Lenny Kravitz), Italian Republic (cover Francesco De Gregori).Info: 338/2732095
Uscirà in autunno "Il ritmo nel Tacco" (www.ilritmoneltacco.jimdo.com), di Mauro Cardinale, Gabriele Blandini e Gabriele Donadei. Un progetto vincitore di "Principi Attivi", in collaborazione con SUD SOUND SYSTEM, APRES LA CLASSE, CESARE DELL'ANNA, RAFFAELE CASARANO - Le origini della musica salentina e la sua evoluzione. - I nuovi protagonisti. - L'uso del dialetto salentino come nuova "lingua musicale". - Le battaglie politiche: cultura migrante, ambiente e solidarietà. - Un nuovo modo di fare musica: autoproduzioni ed eventi. - Il futuro della musica salentina. Grafica e fotografia a cura di Imagery -flavio&frank photographers- (www.imagery31.com). Il panorama musicale salentino raccontato dai suoi protagonisti: tra interviste e foto inedite, un libro da non perdere!
Grazie per l' add! Farò in modo di esserci ancora, il 5 Settembre qui a Roma, per continuare ad inebriarmi della commistione delle vostre note vicine e lontane al tempo stesso... Serena
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