Matilde Politi voice, accordeon, guitar, percussions
Lelio Giannetto double bass, voice
Lelio Giannetto met Matilde Politi at one of her concerts: during that meeting, Lelio and Matilde perceived at once the chance to join two different ways and two different worlds of conceiving the relationship with not-written music: on one side there’s the oral tradition, and, on the other, there is the experience of a more recent ‘tradition’ related to radical improvisation that has developed in Europe in the last 60 years as an attempt to express a new conception of sound, which is alive and not obliged to academic forms. The fact is to relate the culture of oral tradition in popular songs with a modern and actual exploration of the world of contemporary sounds: it become a real music (Una Musica Reale).
It’s about surpassing what has gone under the definition of imaginary folklore.
What carries out the deep and concrete values of these themes is not only lyrics or music itself, but also (and maybe, mostly) the real sense of the experience of life. This ‘musical meeting’ happens keeping in mind the difference existing between different languages of sounds and different cultures.
There’s no cloning of new languages: it’s just a matter of taking old and recent ways of making music and let them be, express, compare, or simply exist.
The technical bravura proceeds along with the need of the sound itself and with the interpretation that leads the sense of music back to horizons of expression which are more true, and maybe, more real.
Curva Minore Production
2004
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