Songs
An irish jig, arranged with electronics and loopers; is fear a means of knowledge and introspective inquiry?
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Videos
Animated by Viviane, the orchestral track of our album
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- artist:Duo Bottasso
- featured artist:Elena Ledda, Mauro Palmas, Gilson Silveira, Pietro Numico, Luca Curcio, Christian Thoma, Manuel Zigante, Filippo Ansaldi
- region:Occitania
- release year:2014
- style(s):Contemporary, World Fusion
- country:Italy
- formats:Audio File / Digital, CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:Duo Bottasso
- label:VISAGE MUSIC
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Links
<<There is no condescension to the listener, no three-minute opener with an easy hook, just fine musicianship>> David Cox (Rootsworld)
<<de spanningsboog en de venijnige interactie tussen de broers je als luisteraar op het puntje van je stoel houden>> Ton Maas (MixedWorldMusic)
<<Rarement j'avais entendu un son si beau, si pur, avec autant de sensibilitè, de dynamisme et d'énergie avec un accordéon et un violon>> Gerard Viel (Trad Magazine)
Duo Bottasso are two young though already popular artists who represent the most innovative generation of the Italian folk and traditional scene. Piedmont born Simone (diatonic accordion) and Nicolò Bottasso (violin and trumpet) deeply master the grammar of traditional styles and look at tradition as something that doesn't have to be placed untouched in a museum. They play and compose contemporary folk music, whose geographical boundaries become blurred. Extremely virtuous on their instruments, the two brothers deeply interiorized the heritage of the traditional Occitan dance music and are contributing to its permanent evolution composing new music with sound and timbre explorations; an astonishing genre-less experimentation in electroacoustic folk music.
The Duo is looking for a compromise between the delicacy on their instruments and the explosive energy that never fails to these two young musicians: all this combined with the complicity of two brothers bound by the desire to keep evolving the tradition of their homeland with all the musical tools of their time. The title of their first album "Crescendo" symbolizes both the huge dynamic variations of their compositions and the personal reflections upon their growth, bringing the Occitan dances across world, contemporary and jazz music. Crescendo features, among others, the Italian singer Elena Ledda.