
Editor's Note
Blogfoolk # 387 opens with an interview with Luigi Cinque, a composer, instrumentalist and director with a plural vision, a jarring and original personality of Italian music, able to escape any classification, not only for having lived one of the most intense seasons of experimentation in Italy, but also for his ability to cross the world of art far and wide, ranging from studies in jazz and world music to theatre, from new dance to film direction. In 1977, Cinque published "Kunsertu", an essential book, which was the trigger to many ethnomusicological vocations. Now, the volume has been re-edited in a new version, entitled "Kunzertu" 77 18 ", in fact a double book from the polyphonic structure: a sort of time alignment of the seminal, previous work, the outcome of over forty years of research and experimentation of the author, with whom we have spoken on the occasion of the new publication. We continue our Italian journey with "Occitan", the new album by Lou Seriol, one of the most long-lived and vibrant bands in the Italian Occitan scene. We enter the world music sounds with our album weekly choice, which is "Siltane" by the extraordinary Haitian, French-based artist, Moonlight Benjamin, one of the most convincing live acts at the recent Womex. From Germany "Neue Gezeiten" comes by Jodelfish, a refined folk quartet from Munich. The wide page covering live music opens with the chronicle of the 2018 edition of the historical festival "Pifferi, Muse e Zampogne", taking place in Arezzo and directed by Silvio Trotta. It follows the review of "Premio Ciampi", held in Livorno from 26 November to December 8th. Finally, the report of the Sicilian band Pupi di Surfaro’s gig at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome on December 13th. For our Jazz sounds page, we propose "Molòn Labè (Come and get them!)" By Erodoto Project, the collateral project of Mediterranean jazz created by Bob Salmieri, while for the Contemporary music column, not to be missed is Paolo Mercurio’s contribution entitled “Claude Debussy, sono per la libertà e per rendere solo ciò che sento”. Valerio Corzani ‘s snap presents Hailu Mergia, one of the legends of Ethio-jazz.
Ciro De Rosa
Direttore Responsabile di www.blogfoolk.com
COVER STORY
VIAGGIO IN ITALIA
WORLD MUSIC
I LUOGHI DELLA MUSICA
SUONI JAZZ
CONTEMPORANEA
CORZANI AIRLINES
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