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PRESS RELEASE (07/25/2013)
Friday, July 26, a Loano, to the 9:30 pm, in the’Prince's Garden summer arena, “Vinicio Capossela e the Mail Band will close with a swirl of dance music the festival of the City of Loano National Award for Italian Traditional Music.
Coming this year to the ninth edition, the Prize is organized by the’Society of the Curious Association in collaboration with the’Department of Tourism and Culture of the City of Loano, with contributions from the A. Foundation De Mari and the sponsorship of the Liguria Region, of Province of Savona, of the’ANCI and the MEI.
“Wedding Music” is the title of the evening event, which came about as a result of the release of the album “First Dance,” featuring Capossela As a producer.
The evening's repertoire will include classic 1950s wedding dances recorded by the band on the album ’Primo ballo,“ a selection of Capossela songs rearranged with danceable rhythms, some tributes to railroad emigration singers such as Salvatore Adamo Rocco Granata and Adriano Celentano, songs from the local rural tradition and by Matteo Salvatore, mariachi western exoticisms, for a concert that combines a sense of the frontier and dance music, the mandolin trills of the Briuolo brothers and the surf guitar of Asso Stefana, the barnyard and the waving dancing. Capossela, dressed to the nines, is at times master of ceremonies, dance instigator, singer standing at the microphone stand, and above all fellow guarantor and ” foreman’ of the Band of the Post.
The Mail Band is an ensemble of elderly musicians from Vinicio's family's hometown of Calitri, Alta Irpinia, who since the 1950s have played an energetic and vital musical repertoire of mazurkas, polkas, waltzes, double steps, tango, tarantella, quadrille and fox trot at weddings in the village. To introduce the Mail Band to the public Vinicio Capossela wrote:
“Marriage was the body and bread of the community. The founding brick of the community, it was consumed with food and music. This music that accompanied the ritual was humble, dance music, suitable for lightening the macaroni barrels and “sponzare” the white shirts, which ended up wet and soggy, like the Christians who wore them. A repertoire of mazurkas, polkas, waltzes, double step, tango, tarantella, quadrille and fox trot, which was basically common in Italy in the 1950s and 1960s and codified as a kind of genre classic at a time when ’wedding’ was the main occasion for music, meeting and dancing. In Calitri, in upper Irpinia, a few years ago, a group of elderly players from that golden age, not without its misery, made a habit of gathering in front of the post office on a sunny afternoon. They would mount guard at the post office, to check for the arrival of the pension. When the check arrived, relieved they would pull their instruments out of their cases and have a play. Their repertoire makes feet and dust rise and shirts soak on pants. It reminds us of simple and enduring things. They perform it impassively and solemnly, from the height of the thousand marriages in which they have shelled out the hits. That is why they have earned the name Band of the Post.“.
Accompanying on stage Vinicio Capossela, in an alternation of traditional music and famous songs by the singer-songwriter, the members of the Banda della Posta, assisted on stage by Vito “Tuttomusica”: Giuseppe Caputo “Matalena” on violin, Franco Maffucci “Parrucca” guitar and vocals, Giuseppe Galgano “Tottacreta” on accordion, Giovanni Briuolo guitar and mandolin, Vincenzo Briuolo mandolin and accordion, Giovanni Buldo “Bubù” on bass, Antonio Daniele on drums, Crescenzo Martiniello “Papp'lon” on organ, Gaetano Tavarone “Nino” on guitars, along with two of his close collaborators , guitarist Alessandro “Asso” Stefana and Taketo Gohara on sound.
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