TOMBESI Alessandro
Barene

CAL / 016

8012980602725
Calicanto
Italia

 

Barene, the longed-for debut album of the young harpist, polyinstrumentalist and composer Alessandro TOMBESI is finally available. The title of the album comes from the barene, the wandering and evanescent small sandy islands of the Venetian lagoon, emerging from the water at low tide.
Tunes of the Veneto tradition and compositions draw an emotional route in which we find echoes of lullabies, archaic ballads, Mediterranean rhythms, mountain dances which take us back to an imaginary and charming Veneto landscape hovering between the peaks of the Dolomites and the horizons of the lagoon. The repertoire draws heavily on the traditional tunes collected by Calicanto during a thirty-year research placed beside suggestive composition of the young harpist.
Harp is the leading instrument of the album, which, however, leaves great space to the interventions of the instruments of the group Calicanto (voice, melodeon, lute, banjo, psaltery, double bass, clarinet, ocarina, bagpipe, harmonium) and of the young collaborators Francesco Rocco (classical, 12string and electric guitar, mandola), Alessandro Arcolin (drums, percussions), Elisabetta Borille (voice), and Franco Silvestrin (flute).
The really personal style of the album succeeds in combining the ancient tradition of the theme of the Folia in the piece Ad amore with the rhythmic and timbre experimentations of Routes & Rhodes which bring back the charming sound of the vintage piano Fender Rhodes; the moving lullaby from Chioggia Nana la nana with the minimalism of Dam dun dai.
It is an album extremely rich of cues, which, thanks to its sound quality and its artistic choices will surprise both a public of experts and the lovers of good music.

Alessandro TOMBESI was born in Padua in 1994 in a family of musicians and grew up sharing with his father, his mother and his uncle the affairs of the historical musical group Calicanto, taking part, since he was very young, to some musical and theatrical performances.
At the age of nine he started studying the clarinet, attending the courses organized by the band of Teolo (PD). At twelve he became fond of the popular harp and started attending stages kept by famous harpists such as the Breton Myrdhin, the Paraguayan Lincoln Almada and the Italian Vincenzo Zitello and Enrico Euron, soon developing a particular technique and musicality.
Since 2009 he has been collaborating with Calicanto, taking also part to the concert S-Confini Mediterranei with the orchestra Filarmonia Veneta and to the performance Labirintomare commissioned by the city of Bourgoin-Jallieu and by the Italian-French association INIS (Lione).
In 2010, together with the guitarist Francesco Rocco and the percussionist Alessandro Arcolin, he founded the trio Zephyros which made its debut on the Island of Capraia.
At the moment he attends the course of composition at the Conservatoire “C. Pollini” and the Liceo Classico “C. Marchesi” in Padua.