ALBERTO CESA & CANTOVIVO The history of Cantovivo can be traced back to the mid-seventies when Alberto Cesa, who is nowadays recognized for being one of the most successful Italian experts on folksong, formed the band. Throughout its artistic life, Cantovivo has certainly presented various line up changes; it often joined another musicians coming from other musical genres, and sometimes with folksingers from foreign countries including England, Switzerland, Sweden and Latin America, to name just but a few of them. Its artistic baggage includes more than 2.000 concerts which were mainly performed on Italian stages (squares, theatres, cultural associations, schools…) However, Cantovivo has been also well-known for enthralling audiences all over Europe, where it has been the protagonist of several ‘tounées’ and has taken part in the most important and famous music Festivals. • MONTREUX’S ‘GRAND PRIX INTERNATIONAL DU DISQUE’ Cantovivo puts forward a modern folk music which is arranged with a balanced proportion of acoustic instruments (hurdy-gurdy, diatonic accordion, accordion, fiddle, flute, harp, guitar, dulcimer, Spanish ‘bandurria’-Spanish instrument of the lute type-, percussions,…), and midi ones (guitar, wind instruments, and so on), and the rhythmic support of both the electric bass and the drums ...within the most great considerations in traditional styles and absolutely personal innovation and fantasy at the same time. Cesa’s terrific repertoire is especially derived from the study and scrupulous research into ancient music carried out by himself in Piedmont and North Italy, and it celebrates not only old medieval ballads and the year's popular songs (such us Carnival, May festivities, Summer fiestas, and the wine harvest with its ‘chanÇons à boire’ , among others), but also Nursery- rhymes, the nonsense Cantilenas such as ‘Bargabal’, the Peasant songs along with those of emigration and working-class movement (‘Merica Merica’ – ‘I sagrin e le speranse’,…), as well as dancing-songs (like ‘Digo Janeto’) and folkdances (jig, courante, sbrandi, waltz, polche, bourrées, and so on) until arriving to the NEW COMPOSITIONS, written and compiled by Alberto Cesa in his compact disk booklet FOGLI VOLANTI (‘Beniamino’, ‘Robadamatti’, ‘Ballantonio’, ‘Punkintanz’, ‘Oriente’…) so as to tell, through Chronicle and History, the Cantovivo’s large adventure. |
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Info: cantovivo@cantovivo.com - ita.cesa@immagina.net +39 3358006846 / +39 3472777515 Sabato 14 Dicembre 2024 |