"VOGGHIU CANTARI E DARIMI BONTEMPU - I WISH TO SING AND HAVE GOOD TIME"
Once upon a time, every place had his own music, and the music corresponded to the place, music itself was “a place”, and a Pilgrim, while he was travelling along the Mediterranean coasts, could distinguish each countries thank’s to the songs that were sung.
And the song’s characters maybe were similar, they blend one with the other, they run one after the other, becouse of travels and contacts, dominations and trades.
Today, wherever you go, you hear the same music: music is not “a place” anymore.
Recovering the traditional songs of the Mediterranean countries, starting from Sicily’s songs, is for me something like a hunting for the peculiar relation between music and place and culture, which at the Pilgrim’s time was spontaneous.
May be in this hunting i could find again, or remember, some fragments of those sounds that remained in the Pilgrim’s memory when he was finally back home.
Nowadays the Pilgrim figure is substituted by the Migrant one, which is rarely getting back home, and, while looking for a better life standard, he is asked to melt his own culture with the others he gets in touch with.This is an expectation more difficult to match, so I am pushed to explore once again our common Mediterranean roots.
In our concert we alternate traditional songs with new compositions of ours that represent culture in movement of multi-ethnic Sicily of these days.
MATILDE POLITI – voice, guitar, jew's harp, tamburello
SIMONA DI GREGORIO – voice, accordeon diatonique, jew's harp, tamburello