"PIETRARSA" - PIETRARSA & MIMMO MAGLIONICO

  • artist:PIETRARSA & MIMMO MAGLIONICO
  • featured artist:Mimmo Maglionico:Flutes,Ciaramelle,Sax,vocals
  • release year:2005
  • style(s):Ethnic, Folk
  • country:Italy
  • formats:CD (Compact Disc)
  • record posted by:ALFAMUSIC - Label & Publishing
  • label:ALFAMUSIC

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PIETRARSA: Stone of Vesuvius volcano, and name of a parish nearby Napoli, where mechanical workshops were set down, following the building of the first Italian railway (Napoli-Portici, 1839).
The site is close to that inland area so rich of ancient ethnic music; this name evokes the rhythms of both the peasants’ Tammorra ( a typical southem-italian hand with rattles) and of modern industrial civilization.

PietrArsa is a group of musicians who have a long-standing and active relationship to the folk music of southern Italy and the Mediterranean, and who are also in tune with the most stimulating sounds and idioms in contemporary international World Music.
The PietrArsa CD and live performance project embraces both new and traditional songs (tammurriate, tarantelle, pizziche, solo singing). Traditional material is performed in a style faithful to the folk idiom, even though the group is engaged in a conscious attempt to ‘rethink’ this kind of music; the new songs aim to be aware of the traditional style, but evoke in both music and lyrics the process of mutation and contamination which is taking place within the melting pot of the southern Italian traditional milieu in the era of globalisation.
PietrArsa’s musical new repertoire is written by Mimmo Maglionico, a classically-educated flautist who later approached traditional folk music through collaborations with Eugenio Bennato, Peppe Barra, , and other prestigious names in the Neapolitan scene. He has also worked with Moni Ovadia, Gilberto Gill, Angel Parra, Luis Sepulveda composed music for television and recorded for recording companies like Cgd, Fonit Cetra and EMI.
Song lyrics are by Giovanni Vacca, who has already written lyrics for the group Spaccanapoli, and who has a long-standing engagement in the field of traditional folk culture, about which he has published books and critical essays.
The PietrArsa line up features a range of instruments including bass, drums and percussion, ethnic and traditional instruments, guitars, etc. The group includes Cristina Vetrone, Lorella Monti and Carmela Di Costanzo: singers, multi-instrumentalists, and dancers, they have long been involved in music projects such as the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare, theatre and dance (Ater balletto, Gubelkian Ballet of Lisbon), and they help to guarantee that PietrArsa delivers a powerful live performance. The group has already recorded several songs which, re-elaborated and enriched, will be released as part of a forthcoming cd.
The name PietrArsa alludes to the site not far from Naples where an industrial plant was installed after the construction of the first Italian railway from Naples to Portici in 1839: a place close to that
Neapolitan hinterland which is still so rich in ancient traditional music, and a name which evokes both the rhythms of peasant drums and those of modern industrial civilization.
( Giovanni Vacca )

Mimmo Maglionico:Flutes,Ciaramelle,Sax,vocals
Cristina Vetrone:Vocals,Accordeon,Keyboards,Tammorra
Lorella Monti:Vocals, Tammorre,Castagnets
Carmela Di Costanzo: Vocals, Castagnette
Nicola De Luca:Drums, Percussions
Roberto Petrella:Acoustic guitar, battente guitar,
Pasquale De Angelis: El. bass
Alfonso Laverghetta:Keyboards/Sound engineer