RE NILIU
In a Cosmic Ear

AFMCD 173

8032050015026
Alfa Music
Italia

 

From 1979 Re Niliu is a renowed group of world music, from Calabria, deep South of Italy. After twenty years of silence, here they are again with their incomparable sound that mix Calabrian tradition & instruments with rock, urban sounds and Mediterranean influences. In a Cosmic Ear is a visionary and fearless album between melismatic voices, bagpipes, lira, percussions and powerful contemporary music. Welcome back!

We tell the story of a cosmic Calabria, metaphor of all forward-moving Souths, to whatever corner of the world they may belong. The Calabria of our children. Then of our children’s children. Roots
that explore dreams. That find too, if they know how to look. We listen carefully to the sounds that have fallen into the mountain-stones and strive to forge new ones. From the last spark. All times
are all time, but we are aware that only the present exists. In a cosmic ear of white beaches, of orange and lemon trees. Not too far from that apparently restless shimmer, the sea. Black and silver in the night.

Re Niliu came to light in 1979 as a group seeking to bestow continuity on the peasant music of Calabria. This initially “philological” phase materialised as the album “Non suli e no’ luna” (1984)
where acoustic music and the use of traditional instruments were the keynote. The record “Caravi”(1988) ushered in a long period of experimentation where the outcomes of the group’s ethno-musical
research began blending with urban sounds and those of the “elective affinities” established with the musical traditions of other Mediterranean areas. “Pucambù” (1994) is the result of this long course of experience. Here, the band found its electric-acoustic balance and the album brought it international fame. A series of artistic vicissitudes followed leading to suspension of activity in 2001. In 2013 the band returned to record “In a Cosmic Ear”. This artistic project resumes the
discourse interrupted after “Pucambù”, twenty years previously.