- country:Italy
- region:Apulia
- style(s):World, Taranta
- label:not signed
- type:Band, Composer/Songwriter
- gender:male, female, child
- instrumentation:instrumental, vocal, singer songwriter
- artist posted by:Sossio Banda
Line up
- Francesco Sossio (Saxes, Clarinet, traditional winds and voice)
- Giovanni Montesano (Bass)
- Loredana Savino (Lead Vocals)
- Pasquale Barberio (accordion)
- Tommaso Colafiglio (guitars)
- Valter Vivarelli (drums and percussions)
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SOSSIO BANDA:
Their music starts from the Alta Murgia in Apulia (the heel of Italy) and is marked with a great variety of rhythms and influences through the
use of traditional and contemporary instruments. The repertoire includes unpublished tracks as well as traditional Apulian songs revisited and
reinterpreted with a contemporary feel, giving the band an original and innovative sound rich in colour.
The Sossio Banda is an ensemble of original and Mediterranean music, ancient and dynamic at the same time, joins the explorative spirit of the Mediterranean music culture, a rich heritage of a continuous exchange between the shores of the sea and it celebrates curiosity and discovery like modern Ulysses, who experiencedthe huge world on his way back home. The music of the Murgia, the sound of earth and air, which nurtured Sossio Banda, became the passport for a different journey: all around the Mediterranean, pointing beyond the Pillars of Hercules.
The use of dialect is the symbol of belonging to their homeland. Having clear in mind what its origins are, the band allows us to appreciate our differences even more, and only then, there can be a real exchange and cultural blend. The Sossio Banda show is burning and fun, an unique experience which merges passionate ballads with adrenaline building rhythms.The audiences taking part in the show are guided in rituals of traditional dance, and let themselves go in the best spirit of this regional music.
Sossio Banda style is characterized by a continuous and inexhaustible sound research; thus also the more demanding audience will take pleasure inthe theatre concert intimacy, sampling the beauty and originality of the arrangements, the synthesis between Apulia music tradition and world sounds, the dialogue of instruments coming from different genres: the modern and sharp sound of the saxophone is blended with the ancient flavour of the Tammorre (Italian frame drums), the Ciaramelle (folk flutes), the Mediterranean colours of the Duff (Turkish frame drum) and the Darabucca (Middle Eastern hand drum).
THE NEW ALBUM: A celebratory album, recorded for the ten years of Sossio Banda’s life, "Ceppeccàt" is a concept album whose main theme is the vices and the seven deadly sins. The emblematic title, which in the Bari dialect means “What a sin”, has a double meaning: “what a sin” for man, “there is sin” of man.
A very variegated, sparkling, bilingual album, in which Balkan and Balkan sounds, are opposed to melancholic settings, dictated by the bare and raw sound of a double bass and tammurriate and tarante with unrestrained and pressing rhythm, they dialogue with delicate French taste melodies.
"Ceppeccàt" analyzes modern man through his sins, highlighting all the contradictions that characterize him and the sometimes disastrous
consequences that arise when the economic, political and social choices of the human race are dictated and driven by vices.
Unanimously appreciated by reviewers and audiences, it was critically acclaimed and received numerous awards such as "Andrea Parodi Award" for the Italian World Music, "Memorie e musiche comuni "ANCI AWARD Italian Municipalites Association and many others.
Sossio Banda represented Apulia and Italy in many important national and international festivals and events.