SALETTI Stefano & Banda Ikona
Mediterraneo Ostinato

FT 85

8018550060957
Finisterre
Italia

 

Stefano Saletti & Banda Ikona's Mediterranean is stubborn, fighting, resistant. It does not give up, as they sing in the song that gives the album its title. Twelve songs that narrate the stories and the passions of a sea that unites and does not divide, that creates a dialogue between peoples with different traditions but that have always known how to live and coexist.

Stefano Saletti & Banda Ikona's Mediterranean is stubborn, fighting, resistant. It does not give up, as they sing in the song that gives the album its title.
Persistent as the repetition in music that becomes stun, trance and a ritual to which surrender.
Stubborn as the identity of a generous South that defends itself from the dominant single thought and from a cultural, social, economic and political homologation that has produced new marginalizations and an ever increasing gap between wealth and poverty.
The disc becomes a sort of manifesto of a possible new "Mediterranean Power" in the name of a past made of art, culture, open ports, meetings, encounters that, like a great network, have been intertwined creating new paths, stories and a common Mediterranean soul.
It is sung in Sabir, the ancient language of the Mediterranean that Saletti has brought back to life from the oblivion of history to revive it in his original compositions that also draw on the great heritage of Mediterranean literature from Calvino to Pasolini, from Matvejevic to Machado and Kavafis to the Kurdish poet Abdulla Goran.
Twelve songs that narrate the stories and the passions of a sea that unites and does not divide, that creates a dialogue between peoples with different traditions but that have always known how to live and coexist.