PRESS RELEASE (July 18, 2016)
Continued at Loano the twelfth edition of City of Loano National Award for Italian Traditional Music, organized by the’Society of the Curious Association with the artistic direction of John Vignola, 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 and of the’ANCI.
Tuesday, July 19, at 6:30 pm, on the waterfront in the Nassiriya Fallen Gardens, Stefano Arrighetti, Cesare Bermani, Antonio Fanelli, accompanied by the songs of Gualtiero Bertelli, will recount the 50-year history of the’Ernesto De Martino Institute hosted by Enrico de Angelis (artistic director of the Tenco Prize). The Institute is a specialized sound archive that has collected musical material (folk and social songs, dances, rituals, folk performances), testimonies of the most significant moments in the history of the labor movement, organized in a specialized archive for the preservation, cataloging, and study of forms of oral expression, with an adjoining library, video library, and film library.
All’The Ernesto De Martino Institute will be delivered in the evening at 21.30 at Waterfront (Orto Maccagli Cultural Space), the 2016 Cultural Reality Award with the following motivation: “Without ever straying from the philosophy of its founder, Gianni Bosio, and the great scholar to whom it is dedicated, the Institute has spanned fifty years and two cities (Milan and Sesto Fiorentino), collecting, cataloging, and disseminating with dedication and effectiveness social songs, expressions of the labor movement, and oral culture, without raising any barriers between the ways in which they are handed down and act on the territory. It is not simply an archive but the theater of research that is still being enriched today, happily, with new documents and considerations.
After the delivery, he will take the stage at the Award ceremony. Joseph Moffa, a multi-instrumentalist who manages to combine the indisputable musical influences of the Molise tradition with the darkest blues in his repertoire. A songwriter who favors telling stories belonging to a remote but by no means inert province, Moffa starts from the popular world of southern Italy for a musical journey to discover the inner world that expresses itself through voice, guitar, and bagpipes, mixing rhythm and melody with an original and attractive combination of traditional instruments and materials from blues, popular, and world music. His latest musical project Terribly out of fashion In addition to traditional Molise songs, he performs original songs written in Italian and dialect.
Moffa He made his recording debut in June 2010 with the album “Non investo in beni immobili” (I don't invest in real estate), a work containing fourteen tracks that represent a new expression of Italian folk music in which tradition is enriched with “other” sounds, while remaining linked to ethnomusicological research. Two years later, he founded the Zampognorchestra, a unique bagpipe quartet that ranges from rock to classical music. “Bag to the Future” is the group's debut album, for which Giuseppe Moffa wrote most of the compositions and orchestrations. The Zampognorchestra has had numerous experiences, including concerts with Hevia and collaboration in Corsica with Toni Casalonga and A Cumpagnia on polyphony and traditional Corsican music. In May 2015, “Terribilmente Demodè” was released. The album won the “Di Canti e di Storie” award established by Squilibri Editore and ranked among the top five candidates for the Targa Tenco award in the category “Best album in dialect 2015.”.
