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Houcine Ataa (Tunisia, vox)
Peppe D'Argenzio (Italy, baritone sax, bass clarinet)
Evandro Dos Reis (Brazil, vox, classical guitar, cavaquinho)
Omar Lopez Valle (Cuba, trumpet, flugelhorn)
Ernesto Lopez Maturell (Cuba, drums, congas, hands, foot and background vocals)
John Maida (USA, violin)
Eszter Nagypal (Hungary, cello)
Gaia Orsoni (Italy, viola)
Carlos Paz (Ecuador, vox, flutes)
Pino Pecorelli (Italy, double bass, electric bass)
Raul Cuervo Scebba (Argentina, marimba, glockenspiel, congas, percussion)
El Hadji Pap Yeri Samb (Senegal, vox, djembe, dumdum, sabar, shaker)
Kaw Dialy Mady Sissoko (Senegal, vox, kora, foot)
Giuseppe Smaldino (Italy, french horn)
Ziad Trabelsi (Tunisia, oud, vox)
Mario Tronco (Italy, artistic director, fender rhodes)
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15 musicians from 11 countries and 3 continents, speaking in 8 different languages thrown together to create an absolutely novel music. World Music in the true sense of the word, music from Planet Earth, the globe in its entirety. The Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio represents a unique experience, perhaps the first of its kind. Each musician brought to the orchestra their instruments and personal backgrounds of traditional music creating a fusion of cultures, old and new sounds, unknown instruments, memories, distant yet universal melodies, and voices from around the world.
And when the orchestra begins to play, rhetoric goes out the window, swept away by the sheer carnal and visceral force of their music, which eclipses vague discussions of “good” and “right”. It is evocative music that manages to be free and structured at the same time, bound to millennial traditions and yet open to the future. Music that gets hands clapping and entrances a broad range of listeners, from the more refined to the more distracted. Music you can sing to, dance to, and listen to in peace and quiet. Music that belongs to everyone, for everyone.
The Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio is a “product” without a target. A marvelous anomaly in the contaminated sea of pop music that can’t be pigeonholed into a specific category. There’s an entire world there for the understanding and enjoyment: free your minds and listen.
Since its debut in November 2002, the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio has performed in over 250 concerts in Italy and abroad including New York, Buenos Aires, Paris, Melbourne, Vienna, the Berlin Jazz Festival, Köln, Nuremberg, and Switzerland. It has produced 2 CDs, their debut album L’Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio in 2004 and Sona in 2006, as well as the CD Made in Piazza Vittorio which can be found in the special edition DVD set.
“The Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio” is also the name of our feature-length film: a film-diary that narrates the genesis of the Orchestra.
The new album by the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio will be released April 7 by Apollo 11/ RadioFandango.
Sona is a group effort that started at the Piccolo Apollo (our rehearsal space), matured during our concerts, and came together at the Piccolo Apollo which was transformed into a recording studio for the event. It is the conclusion of two year's of work on the part of each musician: coming up with a way to play with others without betraying their individual style.
Not an easy task if you consider the various instruments we were dealing with, and nearly impossible if you consider the diverse artistic and geographic background of the musicians. The OPV is made up of folk, classical, pop, jazz and street artists and the fact that each one of them feels represented by this album truly gives the sense of the entire project. Today, more than ever, the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio belongs to all of them.
Sona is also the felicitous result of two years on tour and more than 130 concerts and the enthusiastic and demonstrative reaction of affectionate audiences. When you play and people respond with warmth and interest, you know that youre on the right track. This album reflects our heartfelt artistic pleasure and it is dedicated to our audiences at every concert.
Mario Tronco Director of the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio
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