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ID: ARNR0305
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Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Pop
World, Italy, compilation
Whatever our personal definition of contemporary World Music might be, there is a grey area where it blends into popular music. What for one listener is ethnic music - a label often dictated by the language in which the song is sung - for another listener it is familiar native music, evoking home.
Casa Italia is just that, an Italian home, wherever you might hear it, wherever you call home, whenever your thoughts turn to contemporary Italy.
Casa Italia presents an up-to-date musical map of Italy, with leading artists performing music that celebrates the rich and unique palate of distinct cultures of the country's regions.
The expressive voice of Consiglia Licciardi contrasted with plaintive saxophone transports you to the Campania region and the Mediterranean while "Ape Regina" of Andrea Donati puts you at the center of a Milanese jazz club.
The journey includes an exploration of the migrant, rhythmic trails of Naples as interpreted by native artists such as the Avion Travel, Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare, Almamegretta and Daniele Sepe.
Fratelli Mancuso guide the listener through the lost paths of Sicily, while the avant-garde Agricantus fuse southern traditions with eastern-influenced trance sounds.
Sardinian guitarist Marino De Rosas presents a touching acoustic portrait of his native island, and Faraualla, the female vocal ensemble of Pulia, creates a polyphonic atmosphere that sounds at once both traditional and futuristic.
Italian bard Vinicio Capossela relates a rock-tinged tarantella.
The collection of contemporary Italian artists blends traditional Mediterranean song-elements with electronica. Its innovative combination of ethnic influences and modern rhythmic styles make the album a must for enthusiasts of Italian culture who are looking for new expressions in music and art.
Casa Italia is a soundtrack to excursions to Italy, whether your excursion is a glass of Chianti in your own home, pasta with friends or simply an imagined view from any room's window.
Audio Remixer: Eraldo Bernocchi. Arranger: Andrea Donati. |
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ID: ARNR2597
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: New Music
format: CD + Book 64 pages
Following the critically acclaimed "Le Ciel de Ma Memoire", "Ape Regina" is the long-awaited album from Milanese composer and musician Andrea Donati.
"Ape Regina" embodies the long hours of creative collaboration shared by Donati and the great contemporay poet, Alda Merini; a true event on the Italian contemporary music scene.
Vocals by Roberta Gambarini and Donati's masterful double bass playing along with the heartfelt participation and precision of leading Italian jazz musicians all contribute to this masterpiece of the new school of Italian songwriting. |
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ID: ARNR2296
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: World MusicSubkolektion: Meditation Music
Relaxation, Meditation
Music for relaxation and other joys by the well-known ambient music artist and flautist, Adea.
The gentle sound of the flute flows effortlessly on a soft carpet of natural sounds, echoed by the harmony of the piano and the textures of the electronics.
This record is a relaxing soundscape; it is ideal for Shiatsu and Reiki sessions, and as a discreet background for all other relaxing or healing arts. |
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ID: ARNR1996
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: World MusicSubkolektion: Ethno
Kontômè (spirits) is an inspiring collection of some of Gabin Dabirés most alluring poetry, which, in accordance with his West African tradition, is integrated within a musical setting.
The engaging songs and charismatic vocals in this recording feature several new gems to delight the heart.
A beautiful song album of a great living African musician. Simple, profound and direct.
The Kontômè are idols that every household keeps in the same room as the altar. These icons represent the ancestral spirits, the guiding light of the family and society as a whole. These idols belong to the religious traditions of the Dagara tribe, an ethnic group native to Burkina Faso.
The Kontômè light our path throughout the course of our lives. We pray to them, we ask their advice and we thank them for what we are and what we have, now and in the future. In return, they help us as our destiny unfolds.
Therefore, through this small musical work, I thank my Kontômè and everyone else who, with infinite patience and determination, cooperated in the realization of this project.
- Gabin Dabiré
THE ARTIST Born in Burkina Faso in West Africa, Gabin Dabiré started his musical activity during his college years when he began playing the drums. In 1975 he arrived in Europe and spent some years experimenting with various types of music, dedicating his studies mainly to string and percussion instruments of Asian and tribal music.
In Milan, he founded the Centre for the Promotion and Cultural Diffusion Of African Arts: Music, Theatre, Dance, Literature and Cinema, and continues to play an important role in the diffusion of African culture. |
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ID: ARNR1297
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: World MusicSubkolektion: Meditation Music
Truly a masterpiece. Meditation music in a class of its own, due to the uncommon richness of the sound textures, and subtlety of the melodic ebb and flow. Ideal for all forms of therapeutic healing work or as a relaxing and regenerative experience while working, driving, or dreaming... |
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ID: ARNR1098
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Flute
Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Conductor: Antonio Rossi
This tribute, inspired by James Redfield's bestseller, The Celestine Prophecy, comprises ten movements featuring Andrea Ceccomori on flute, supported by the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina.
The beautiful melodies are hauntingly romantic, evoking the intimate and mysterious soul of Gaia.
Lyrical flute lines are delicately woven into warm orchestral textures whose variations flow, soar and spiral until they reach heights of passion and majesty.
A feeling of deep emotional tranquillity pervades, like a stream which tumbles and cascades through virgin forests without ever losing, for a moment, its sense of flow or purpose; as if the little stream already knew the ocean that awaits it.
The energy behind the creation of this work guides us gently back to a compassionate space where we may once again breathe freely in the remembrance of our own primordial nature. |
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ID: ARNR0897
CDs: 1
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Subkolektion: Quartet
Open Quartet: Massimo Caroldi, Amelia Saracco, Mauro Scagliotti, Paolo Trocelli
World Music, Classical
Original compositions and arrangements of folk songs written especially for Open Quartet, passionately and ironically interpreted, in post-modern key, by this exciting and original italian quartet comprising flute, guitar, mandolin and double bass. Includes an imaginative interpretation of Loosin Yelav, arranged by Luciano Berio and Forbidden Colours by Ryuichi Sakamoto. |
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ID: ARNR0594
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Pop
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ID: ARNR0903
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: World Musicformat: Digipack with booklet 32 pages
After selling over 150,000 copies abroad, here it is at last in Italy: the controversial "cult" disc of the Mafia's music which traces the origins of the criminal tradition through a repertoire of lyrics from the past that express an old Mafia with a code of honour that no longer exists.
Mimmo Siclari is the scholar and musician who has sought out these old songs of the 'ndrangheta throughout Calabria and has been recording them since the Seventies.
This first volume of the trilogy, SONGS OF THE UNDERWORLD, produced by the Calabrian scholar and photographer, Francesco Sbano, is a collection of eighteen dramatic songs which relate stories of blood, honour and "omertà", showing the old code of the 'ndrangheta and the behaviour of the associates.
This disc is a very important historical document which encourages us to think about the roots of a phenomenon and the current situation in Calabria, as well as being a means of preserving our country's heritage of popular culture.
It also acts as a starting point for reflection upon the phenomenon of the Mafia and of the 'ndranghetta , because it is only by understanding the phenomenon, through to its most secret rites, that we can really free ourselves from it.
"Drink to your friends' health, drink up, because on the 5th December the most trendy and cool cd will be arriving in all the best music stores: "The song of the underworld" or "The music of the Mafia".
It's a real cult disc, produced with an anthropologist's flair by Francesco Sbano and Maximilian Dax: the cd has been a success in Germany and France where it has been on sale since last year and arrives in Italy in perfect time for the next Sanremo Music Festival directed by Tony Renis (...)"
quoted from "Il Foglio" 11/11/2003. |
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ID: ARNR0404
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Subkolektion: Meditation Music
India / World Music / Meditation
Live Recording Liner Note Author: Vincenzo Mingiardi. Recording information: MM Recording Lab. Photographer: Pietro Bandini.
Personnel:
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (vocals, tanpura, harmonium)
Vincenzo Mingiardi (electric guitar, classical guitar, E-bow)
Annisha Sacchini, (tanpura); Sankha Chatterji (harmonium); Giulio Visibelli (flute). |
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