LIGURIANI
Liguriani - Suoni dai Mondi Liguri

Fy 8182

885016818227
Felmay Records
Italia

 

LIGURIANI present a show in which, words and sounds, evoke images and sentiments of culture and history of Liguria. Setting out right from the lantern of Genoa, place of departure and longed return, representing "home" for Ligurian people, for an imaginary journey that takes us through Liguria old snapshots revealing customs, traditions and themes of this people, squeezed between steep mountains and the sea waves, a rude character land yet always open to get in contact with other people, visited or come to visit right from across the sea. The LIGURIANI repertoire is therefore varied and diverse, just as the souls that influence it, starting from our land it comes to places where Ligurian emigrants have settled. The rigorously Ligurian melodies are proposed along with other types of tradition-bound areas compositions, such as melancholic mazurkas and the lively monferrine of Piedmont, or the languid waltz of places culturally related to Liguria like France.

The musicians involved in the project LIGURIANI are important artists in the traditional Italian music panorama, with several years of television, radio and studio recording experience, who performed live tours in Italy, France, Germany, England, Scotland, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, United States and Canada.
The components are Fabio Rinaudo, bagpipes; Fabio Biale, violin, vocals; Filippo Gambetta, accordion, mandolin; Michel Balatti, flute; Claudio De Angeli, guitar, names familiar to Italian traditional music lovers.
Among the many events held by the group, remarkable was their participation to the Third Edition of the International Folk Festival of Tolo d'Asturies in 2009, one of the most important events of traditional music in Asturias. LIGURIANI were the first Italian band to be invited to the Festival.
LIGURIANI have also been collaborating for some time with actor Mauro Pirovano (Premio Gilberto Govi 2008) staging hit shows such as "Vari(e)azioni Paganiniane" about the life of Niccolo Paganini, "Fischia il Vento" a show on World War II and "La Guerra di Giromino" a theater piece on World War I written and directed by Gian Carlo Ragni.