Ammuìna

AMMUÌNA (*) were born in 2020 with the first objective of a recording project, Canti cantori e cantatrici (Songs, singers and singers), produced by Medinsud APS in 2021.
He has participated in various theatrical and musical reviews including Le vie del Melograno at Masseria Lu Mbroia in Corigliano d’Otranto (LE); Le cose della vita – concerti nei cimiteri for the Municipality of Sasso Marconi; Parco spettacolare and Cabaret di fiume in the summer season of the Teatro delle Temperie in the province of Bologna; Reteteatri Festival, a project of the Emilia-Romagna Region, in Bologna and Imola; Destate l’arte again in Bologna; Ambriajazz; Tutto il mondo è un incanto in Bologna estate 2023..

(*) Ammuina was the name of a maneuver of the Bourbon royal navy to make believe that there was a lively activity: everyone moved on the ship but without doing anything concrete


Guido Sodo – Neapolitan, graduated in classic guitar and in Electronic Music – Applied Music cum laude, is interested from many years in Early and Folk music of Southern Italy. Founder of Cantodiscanto, he also composes for Theatre and Cinema. As far as restored silent films, he has played his original scores in Italy, USA, France, Israel, Spain, Argentina, Tunisia. As far as the Theatre, he worked with Teatro Stabile Mercadante of Naples, as coordinator of music and musician in Zingari by Viviani directed by Davide Iodice, with Nino D’Angelo, as composer and musician in ‘A Sciaveca by Mimmo Borrelli directed by Davide Iodice, in Il fiore inesistente by Vittorio Franceschi, in L’inatteso by Fabrice Melquiot with Anna Amadori. Was Maestro concertatore for Orchestra dello Scorpione at Festival dello Scorpione in Taranto, and recently was composer and musician in Euridice e Orfeo by Valeria Parrella, directed by D. Iodice with Michele Riondino e Federica Fracassi. In this year recorded with Decca in the Cd Italia with the Opera Tenor Juan Diego Florez as player and arranger. He performed as soloist singer in the Orpheo III (Berio-Monteverdi) at the Philarmonie de Paris.

Mirco Mungari – From Calabria, he started with the study of classic guitar. Then he approached ethnomusicology, studying several folk instruments from his Region and the different techniques of frame drums of South Italy. At the same time he studied the practice of Arabic and Turkish Ottoman classic music deepening maqam and modal systems, the technique on oud and percussion instruments attending stages and classes with Aleksandar Karlic, Adel Shams ed Din, Fabio and Diego Resta, and Medieval and Renaissance percussions with Pedro Estevan.

Gaia D’Elia From Apulia, active in popular music groups in the years in which she lived in the South, is following a training path with respect to singing and carries out various popular music projects including Banda Zazà, Nel Nome di Rosa. She collaborated with the ethno-world group Cantodiscanto.With the project Chi sona e canta no nmore maji she performed in several Festivals among which Notte della Taranta, Carpino in Folk, Gezzinvilla. It combines folk dance with singing. She has studied Samba de pè and Capoeira in training courses in the main schools of Salvador de Bahia since 2000, participating in the Carnival parades in Belo Horizonte.
In Bologna she founded the Gaiasamba school active since 2004. For Mediterranean dances, she mixes the techniques of samba with those of our dance, which she learned following some workshops of Mariella Salierno of the Popular Culture Center of Melpignano.