Vacanti sugnu China

VACANTI SUGNU CHINA

Vacanti Sugnu China means "empty I'm full," a very rare condition in which the balance between positive and negative emotions is in a magical balance where everything is harmonized, it is empty and full at the same time, it is the union of opposites in a little moment of bliss.

The concert presents many different moments, both musically and emotionally: there are moments to dance, and moments to breath and feel the soul of the sounds.

 The subjects flow between the songs, the eternal conundrum of love, the human desire for freedom, freedom to dream your own perspective, freedom to build your own path, freedom to migrate in search of better living conditions, freedom to stay where your own roots are to continue feeding our land, the land that nourishes.

The concert is made of traditional songs and new compositions in Sicilian by Matilde Politi.

The tradition is approached in an immediate way, searching for the original sounds, not starting from the aesthetic form but from the research of the spirit of song, and of the concrete and magic function that it was intended to accomplish.

The original songs, however, are arranged with aesthetic freedom to follow the demands that the content arises, to explicate the best in music. Thus, each piece comes with its own characteristics: some are rich in colors, not properly Sicilians, but Africans and gypsies, Arabs or Neapolitans, always in dialogue with the Sicilian language which is the mold.

MATILDE POLITI – voice, guitar, accordeon, concertina, balafon, jew's harp, tamburello, percussions

SIMONA DI GREGORIO – voice, accordeon diatonique, jew's harp, tamburello, percussions

GABRIELE POLITI – violin, viola, mandolino, oud, chorus

DOUDOU DIOUF – flute tokhoro, voice, banjo, acoustic guitar, electric bass, djembe, percussions

LELIO GIANNETTO – double bass, chorus ​OR ​MARK HAANSTRA - electric bass