ETHNO SICILY (Europe)
Ethno Sicily è un progetto musicale residenziale, interculturale e internazionale, che aggrega esclusivamente giovani musicisti selezionati con lo scopo comune di condividere la passione e la ricerca nella musica tradizionale dei rispettivi background culturali di provenienza. I programmi e i progetti Ethno Sicily pertanto offrono opportunità musicali ai giovani di oltrepassare i confini e interagire con […]
SANTA DIVER (Hungary)
I Santa Diver sono stati fondati dalla violinista jazz Luca Kézdy e dal multi-strumentista / compositore David Szesztay (al basso) nel 2006. nel 2015 entra a completare il trio il batterista David Szegő. La personalità dei tre musicisti crea una dimensione musicale unica e originale, in un dinamico crocevia tra jazz, world e free music. […]
KALASCIMA (Italy)
Sei virtuosi del profondo Salento, cresciuti insieme suonando e cantando le melodie e i ritmi ipnotici del magico rituale della Taranta, reinventano la tradizione con un mix di elettronica, beat lisergici, melodie originali e atmosfere folk delle proprie origini: dialetto salentino, inglese e griko creano un ponte immaginario tra la musica pugliese e la scena internazionale. Catapultati […]
Kolonien (Sweden)
Kolonien is a four piece family band from Sweden, reinventing their roots with rich vocal harmonies, and fierce melodies and rhythms. Fiddle-star Anna Möller and her cousins; the brothers Arvid and Erik Rask on guitar and bas, together with their neighbour and percussionist Mischa Grind all grew upwith the traditional folk music deeply embedded in the family. […]
Giuseppe Di Bella (Sicily)
Giuseppe Di Bella was born in Enna, in the center of Sicily. Singer-songwriter, performer, poet, guitarist, he has his roots in a Mediterranean style that from Portuguese meets Portuguese fado, the songwriting and popular song of South America. From the influence of Dulce Pontes and Pedro Aznar, the composition of Victor Jara, Amalia Rodrigues, Cuchi […]
Sicily Folk Orchestra (Sicily)
Sicily Folk Orchestra (SFO) comprises of ten permanent musicians plus guest vocalists. The focus is on Sicily, its rhythms and its songs. Fresh musical arrangements seek to include the sounds of traditional instruments such as the bagpipes, Jew’s harp, tambourine, mandolin, accordion, and the Sicilian friscalettu; combined with and enhanced by more modern sounds like […]
Miramundo (Brazil/Spain/Italy)
The Carioca-Japanese-Portuguese-Italian songwriter, Luiz Murá, left Brazil seeking for the roots and connections of Brazilian music around the world. It was in Barcelona, a Mediterranean city in the middle of the planet, that he found the perfect environment to put at test all his heritage: Moroccan gimbris, Italian singers, Flamenco dancers, Brazilian sambistas, Senegalese djembes, […]
Himmerland (Denmark/Ghana/Sweden)
This is a band of very experienced musicians composing and performing original music from Denmark and beyond. They met while recording the album, “Himmerlandsmelodier”, a project created by the founder of this band, composer and saxophone player Eskil Romme.After a tour to the Faroe Island in 2010, they decided to expand the concept, and they […]
Harundo (Sicily/Bulgaria)
Sicilian Progressive Folk The musical project of the Catania band Harundo was born from an idea by bassist Giampiero Cannata, with the aim of revisiting the different traditional music of the Mediterranean and North-Eastern Europe, including them in a wider interaction project with the most varied musical genres , thus giving life to a vast […]
Ermanno Panta & Banda Zeitun (Spain/Italy)
Zeitun, transforms Mediterranean soundscapes into jazz.The meeting of Ermanno Panta (vocals, flute, tenor sax), Sergi Gómez (flamenco guitar), Daniel Abad (double bass) and Luati González (drums), all four of them jazz musicians coming from Sicily, Catalonia and Andalusia, has spontaneously generated a unique sound: inspiring, warm and deeply original. Banda Zeitun’s wide range of influences […]
