{:en}PRESS RELEASE (2/1/2018)
Friday, January 5 a Loano the appointment with “Winter Tales.”, musical initiative, promoted by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports and organized by the’Society of the Curious Association with the collaboration of the’Bala Association on the shore of u ma.
“Occitan dances descend to the sea” to give an afternoon where tradition is renewed in the most authentic spirit of folk music.
The party in Italy Square will kick off at 5 p.m. with Luca Declementi (accordion, fifre, bagpipe and vocals) and David Bagnis (drums) of Lou Pitakass. The two young musicians, students of Sergio Berardo's school, will warm up the square by engaging the audience with the most classic and gritty rhythms of the Occitan tradition.
Then Occitan music will meet electronics to bring to life the Gran Bal Dub, a project born from an idea of Sergio Berardo, historic agit prop of Occitan music with the legendary Lou Dalfin and countless other ensembles, and Madaski, co-founder of Africa Unite and one of the greatest exponents of electronic music in its dub version.
This new project, featuring two young up-and-coming Oc music players, Chiara Cesano (violin) and Roberto Avena(accordion), combines, in light of a common propensity for dance and movement, the notes of the hurdy gurdy and other d'Oc instruments to the suggestions and the electronic rhythms Of dubstep-dance hall and techno.
Dance is the focal point of inspiration, and the various forms are dissected and reassembled through the dub technique but with absolute respect for the structures and stylistic features of traditional dances.
The historic street musicians of hurdy gurdy, of whose work Berardo is the natural continuation in the present, starting from the Occitan Valleys traveled the roads of Europe until the middle of the last century and brought their bordone sounds to the squares of the farthest countries. From their musical story emerges an identifying idea of Oc culture as a means of communication and exchange. Music from sound smugglers. And in their wake today's hurdy gurdy finds it natural to interject itself with the sounds of a reality, the electronic one, only seemingly distant from the folk atmospheres of the Western Alps.
A form of exchange and interaction which represents one of the historical characteristics of all folk music: the current enriching the ancient and finding new reasons to exist in memory.
La popular music has the strength to bring together expressive forms that are geographically distant but in essence similar in spirit and reason for being.{:}
