Editor's Note
“Di Zampogne, Partenze e Poesia” opens this week’s program. It’s the first release from the well-known wind instruments player Giulio Bianco of Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino’s fame. We met the musician from Salento at “La Zampogna” Festival, held in Maranola last November, to learn about his first album by his name. The Italian journey continues with the spicy Mediterranean flavours pervading “Il Cedro e la Rosa” by Fabrizio Piepoli. The international page gives space to “Nostálgico”, a partnership between the quartet El Muro Tango and Juan Villarreal. Then you’ll find the chronicle of the concert of the ngoni lute master Bassekou Kouyaté, with his group Ngoni Ba, who presented his sparkling brand new album “Miri” at the Teatro Candiani in Mestre on 10 February. The book of the week takes us between Genoa and the Apennines for “Alle origini del trallalero Genovese”, a historical account with two splendid CDs included, written by Mauro Balma and Giuliano d’Angioini, published by Nota for the Geos Book series. For the section Memory, Paolo Mercurio remembers Giuseppe Mercurio, a writer, a linguist, a publicist and a researcher of Sardinian folk traditions on the centenary of his birth. Next to come is “Prezioso”, Gianmaria Testa ‘s posthumous album, being one of the most intense records of this first months of the year. The jazz column presents two albums released by Gianluigi Trovesi: “Twelve Colours and Synesthetic Cells” (a duet with Umberto Petrin) and “Mediterraneamente”. Still, we offer the review of “On The Other Ocean” by Behrman. Blogfoolk # 395’s back cover displays Valerio Corzani’s snap portraying the young Mozambican collective Timbila Muzimba. Finally, we remember Sali Sidibe, one of the voices of Wassoulou music who passed away aged 59. She has been one of the Southern Malian style’s memorable singers.
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COVER STORY
VIAGGIO IN ITALIA
WORLD MUSIC
I LUOGHI DELLA MUSICA
LETTURE
- Mauro Balma e Giuliano d’Angiolini, Alle origini del trallalero genovese,Nota Geos Books, 2018, pp.96, Euro 25,00 Libro con 2 Cd
STORIE DI CANTAUTORI
- Gianmaria Testa – Prezioso (INCIPIT Records/Egea, 2019) #CONSIGLIATOBLOGFOOLK
CONTEMPORANEA
CORZANI AIRLINES
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