DALL'OMO Daniele & STRAGAPEDE Antonio
Bologna tra le Corde
SHECDTD004
8015948302729
Sheherazade
Italia
Bologna tra le Corde
SHECDTD004
World Music
8015948302729
Sheherazade
Italia
... listening to the two guitars chasing each other, lingering in virtuoso feats and immediately afterwards in the sweetness of a nostalgic waitng, and then in an enthusiastic counterpoint: being able to leave on a new, all new, journey, taking
memory, your history, the languages expressing your way to feel the world with you.
And music is among these, even the music you’ve just heard, with its peculiar identty, its being made up of ‘newness’ and memory. […] On their repertoire, Dall’Omo e Stragapede included a series of pieces from Bologna tradition, between waltz and polka, and embellished them with their own high-technique arrangements, thereby creating an happy combination of folk and cultivated music, which has a lot to say in an age marked by a homologation of expression. Art is always a poetic upkeep of languages, against the
dullness of modern communication, magnified by an increasingly bulimic and inauthentic media communication.
Franco Iannelli
There is a taste of the musical ‘breathing’ closely connected to our history, our land and the dance steps of our people.
With this concert, mostly including pieces chosen within the repertoire of accordionist and organ grinders from Bologna (IT), we want to not only contribute to the revival of a repertoire of extraordinary beauty, risking extinction, but also and above all take back a typically Italian way to ‘hear’ and play, to deal with rhythm, sounds and dynamics. In the Italian tradition, guitars have a
rhythmical and harmonic role, an accompaniment role, seldom a melodic role, but, thanks to a careful arrangement work, we manage to give them a leading role, turning a repertoire thought mostly for dancing into a work for two guitars, technically demanding and, at the same time, fresh and refined.