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With Reza Mirjalali, master of tar from Iran.
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A teaser with the musicians performing live and some images from the movie
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- artist:Duo Bottasso & Simone Sims Longo
- featured artist:Reza Mirjalali, Pietro Numico, Chemnitz Operhaus Kinderchoor
- release year:2019
- style(s):Electronic, Contemporary
- country:Italy
- formats:Audio File / Digital, CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:Duo Bottasso
- label:Duo Bottasso
- publisher:Duo Bottasso
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In 2017 Cosenude Media Projects asked Duo Bottasso to compose thesoundtrack of the documentary "Biserta: Storia a Spirale”. The sweetness of Bizerte, the contradictions and violence of contemporary Tunisia, the stories of awriter, a revolutionary, a boxeur and a videomaker became the inspiration forthe album Biserta e altre storie, winner of the "Premio Loano per la musica tradizionale italiana 2019"
They now bring this music live with the most advanced live electronics of composer and performer Simone Sims Longo, who joined Duo Bottasso and Cosenude in the composing process. The common wish to escapetheir comfort-zone and sharing the techniques they achieved in previous works leads to anorganic mix of vocal samples, improvisation, exploration of timbres of acoustic instruments, extended techniques, non-western influences and field recordings.
The audience is brought to a vivid sonoric space where the electronic music blendwith the melodies of the Duo and the musical instruments imitate the electronicsounds and timbres.
The contrast between those who incite hatred against their own people and thewise words of the writer Mohamed, who brutally lost his own brother during therevolution, permeates this show and opens up a reflection upon brotherhood thatwe believe, not only in Tunisia, seems to be a distant memory today.