- country:Italy
- style(s):Electronic, Ethnic
- label:not signed
- artist posted by:CYC Promotions
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World beat – Traditonal music of Emilia Romagna.
Fiamma Fumana is folk and electronics, tradition and modernity. It is the sound of our community, a mutant with strong rural roots and a postmodern daily life. Imagine a choir of mondine (female workers of the rice fields in Northern Italy) backed by a jungle beat, or the ancient dances of Emilia played by a 150 bpm techno deejay. Add a strong dose of beautiful songs and one of the best Italian female singers of the latest generation, and you’ll be fairly close to reality!
Live 1.0 is
Fiamma, vocals. Twentysomething with attitude, halfway between the mondina and the sampler, the ancient fairy tale and Dragonball Z. Powerful, versatile, expressive voice. Xtraordinary!
Lady Jessica Lombardi, tin whistle, flute, bagpipes, bodhràn, vocals. Folk music’s riot girl: cascade of red hair, great competence, loads of attitude.
Medhin Paolos, vocals, dance, attitude. 19, Eritrean Italian, singer and dancer. Exhuberant party girl!
Alberto Cottica, accordion, guitar, piano. Combat-folker, restless and citizen of the world, founder of Italy’s leading folk-rock band Modena City Ramblers, he is the cyberfolk soul of the band.
DGt, Live electronics. DJ and remixer, he is the silicon alchemist of Live 1.0. He plays a Yamaha digital mixer with software effects, the drum machine and sequencers.
'Fiamma Fumana is part of the scene that – at the international level – is successfully and creatively rediscovering old – yet oddly modern - sounds and feelings: Sinead O’Connor and Afro Celt Sound System, Talvin Singh and Goran Bregovic, Nusrat Fateh Alì Khan 'interpreted' by Michael Brook.' – Il Mucchio, Italy
'She certainly does not lack charisma. Fiamma is going for Emilia Romagna Sinead O’Connor’s role.' – Tribe, Italy
'A band to watch very closely for the future.' – GlobalVillageIdiot, USA
'Fiamma Fumana won the Young Artist Italian Award for the exhuberant energy of their project and 1.0, their debut album, manages to find the right way to contaminate Italian folk music and electronics.' - Musica!, Italy
'With an eye to the Italian dub culture, this sound is unexpeted, a successful heresy… from now on those with a passion for young Fiamma’s trasformations will be legion.'– Latina, Japan
'Brilliant, direct, the voice of Fiamma (which also can establisha strangely intimate relationship with the audience), who has the face of a young girl who grew up between the Po river and the 'manga capital' Tokyo, holds beatifully for the whole gig.' – Stradanove, Italy
'The songs of the mondine are back in Fiamma Fumana’s debut album: Northern Italian lullabies and techno beat.' Sette - Corriere Della Sera, Italy