Thursday, April 2, 2009

A Place In Greece 2010

Francesco Benozzo -" terraqueous "(CD - Tutl SHD088, Danimarca 2009)

initially titled "Appennino Atlantic," the new album harpist poet Francesco Benozzo Emilia is a sophisticated catalog of traditional music revisited and new composition, which is essential in timbre (harp and voice only), evocative atmospheres, with an unusual choice that text, drawing from disparate sources (troubadour songs of 1100, contemporary poetry, popular song ...), also incorporates two northern Italian emigration songs like "La America" \u200b\u200band "The Ruvina, disclosing the concept Labour: A Reflection on the size of land and water that is above all a metaphor for the intimate space. Physical location of research, destruction, listening, in which forests, islands, wind, rocks, fire, sea ... are the cardinal points of a journey that is first internal, that is the soul.
Fanano as the Balkans, Salento such as Galicia, Bangor, which is the Val d'Enza - planisphere of the myth that you rebuild experiencing this ...

"long valley, valleys forged
below the ridge
erratic static I hear the hum of the blood under the skin
cold"

(from "Onirico geological")


"I follow the call
subtle than many years ago
fatto di terre vicine
di boschi, di brine
di fumo nei bar"

(da "Notte a Trignano")


Con una grazia e un gusto davvero rari nel panorama del tradizionale, Benozzo realizza l’incontro tra culture e storie con un equilibrio che ha del miracoloso, approfondendo quanto di convincente aveva già proposto, qualche anno fa, con il bellissimo “In 'tla piöla”.
È arte del sottrarre, questa, lieve come l’aria dell’Appennino in autunno. Senza risultare stucchevole come certa famigerata new age è forma alternativa dell’espressione, anima che si fa materia sonora impalpabile.

Ad accompagnare Benozzo in sei brani la bella voce ‘popolare’ di Maddalena Scagnelli dei piacentini Enerbia (www.enerbia.com) e, nella conclusiva bonus track, la cantante irlandese Willie Mahon.

(2 aprile 2009)


I BRANI DEL CD :
1. “Continente libero” (4.42)
2. “La ruvina” (3.04)
3. “L’Appennino” (5.14)
4. “Gondomar” (1.47)
5. “Marturèla” (3.04)
6. “Isola e luna” (3.46)
7. “Mediòch” (3.25)
8. “Notte a Frignano” (3.20)
9. “La Merica” (4.42)
10. “Moelvci” (1.03)
11. “Onirico geologico” (4.08)
12. “L’avvelenato di Riolunato” (4.13)
13. “Romanelle” (2.20)
14. “Canto del continente” (3.15)
15. “Pradarena” (1.35)
“Táimse in arrears” (bonus track) (1.56)


Produced and arranged by Francesco Benozzo
Recorded at Studio Slide Vignola (Modena) in November and December 2008. Engineer Alberto Callegari.
Bonus tracks recorded in December 2002 all'Eoin Aoife & Systems of Aberystwyth (Wales


MUSICIANS Album:
Francesco Benozzo: Celtic harp, harp bardic singing
Maddalena Scagnelli: song
Willie Mahon: singing "Táimse in arrears"


DISCOGRAPHY OF FRANCIS BENOZZO :
"Carte di mare" (con Matteo Meschiari) - Music On MO-005, 2000
"In 'tla piöla" - Sain Records SCD2278, 2001
"Llyfr Taliesin" - Frame Events FE2004/1, 2004
"Arpa celtica" - Fondazione Campostrini FC-AS002, 2005 ( dal vivo )


I NFO E CONTATTI :
http://www.tutl.com
http://www.francescobenozzo.com  

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