
Editor's Note
Welcome to BlogFOOLK # 424. Time has come for “Medioevo Digitale”, L’Orage’s new album. Three years since the previous “La Macchina del Tempo”, the new release is the result of intense live activity and represents a further evolution of the group’s style, in which an original songwriting appeal is combined with different sounds, from folk to grunge and world music. We have spoken to Alberto Visconti, lead voice and guitar of the band from Val d’Aosta. After our cover story, here we are at our recommended record of the week, “Je Suis Africain”, a posthumous album released a year after the Algerian rocker Rachid Taha’s premature passing away. Then it’s “Paraiso Road Gang” by Ruben Blades, salsero from Panama, winner of numerous Grammy and Latin Awards, actor and political activist. Last stop the US for North Carolina duo Mandolin Orange’s “Tides of a teardrop”. The live music column offers a chronicle from Uzbekistan for the XII edition of the festival “Sharq Taronalari”, held in the wondrous Registan Square in Samarkand the last week in August, and the report of the concert the Iranian master Dariush Tala’i gave at London’s Southbank Center (September 8th). The volume “Rosa di Maggio. Le registrazioni di Luigi Colacicchi e Giorgio Nataletti in Ciociaria (1949-50)”, edited by Giuseppina Colicci and Serena Facci leads us to rediscover noteworthy traditional materials from Lazio. For the songwriting page, you’ll find Sergio Pennavaria’s “Ho più di un amo nello stomaco”. It follows the review of “Anthology of Contemporary Music from Middle East”, a new chapter in the Sound Mapping project aimed at exploring contemporary sounds from the Middle East. Finally, it’s up to Corzani Airlines’s pic closing this issue with Omar Sosa.
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COVER STORY
WORLD MUSIC
LETTURE
I LUOGHI DELLA MUSICA
STORIE DI CANTAUTORI
CONTEMPORANEA
CORZANI AIRLINES
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