Made in Sicily The traditional Sicilian music in a pop-jazz key
Made in Sicily Orchestra was
born in Palermo in 2007 with the
mission of enhancing the artistry of
Sicilian music and musicians. Their unique creation
is
a fusion of symphony orchestra and a jazz
section,
including the musicians Francesco Buzzurro,
Francesco Cafiso, Vito Giordano, Osvaldo Lo Iacono,
Giuseppe Milici, Ruggiero Mascellino, Francesco
Nicolosi. The lead voice is Mara Eli with
Domenico Riina as director. The
Orchestra’s
mission is to promote Sicilian music and
musicians. Today the
Orchestra is comprised of 104 staff
musicians, all of them Sicilian. It has performed in the most
important theatres and has been lauded by the press as an ambassador
of Sicily to the world. Their first musical production, "Made
in Sicily - the Songs" is
a compilation album of 14 traditional Sicilian songs
rearranged
to a pop-jazz key.
To exit from the stereotypes in which
the traditional Sicilian music has been bordered on, to rediscover
its seductive vitality and to certify its extraordinary sonorous
versatility: this is what is "Made
in Sicily - the
songs",
a compilation album of 14 traditional Sicilian songs rearranged
to a new musical language, a refined
and enchanting pop-jazz
entrusted to the mastery of over one hundred Sicilian artists,
who wished to leave their mark on a disc that aims
to cross the regional and national borders, to repropose to
an international audience, songs, nursery rhymes and harmonies
of our singing and musical tradition. A cd where rhythms and
sounds chase each other - track by track - exciting the listener,
and where each track, although rooted in the soul of tradition,
evolve itself toward a more universal language with clear smooth
atmospheres that make you dream.
A challenging and complex job, spread
over one year: that is how it took us to put together an orchestra
comprised of 104 musicians, with one distinctive sign: being
children of the same mother Sicily; an orchestra that hasn't
limited itself only to perform songs selected from the wide
landscape of tradition but it had to lay its hands on arrangements
and scores again to give the listener a product of exceptional
artistic value.
The involvement and participation of the most talented artists,
is a confirmation of value for those who believe in a music in
continuous renewal, where research and experimentation mix each
other to become an authentic expression of emotions that get
over the barriers of time and space to become universal contemporaneity,
a sign and witness of time we live. A cd that looks to the future,
then, and who wants to capture the attention of young people,
to make them love a journey to discover Sicilian roots, starting
from the musical ones.
This is one of the goals of the Made in Sicily project, launched
by the courageous producer of Nicosia, Alfredo Lo Faro, who wanted
to bet on the more virtuous talents, on successful artists and
young promises. Lo Faro has created a monumental orchestra borrowing
some of the best elements of two the major regional
musical realities,
the Sicilian Symphonic Orchestra and the Brass
Group Orchestra of Palermo.
The new Made in Sicily
Orchestra is really without a record,
the best of Sicilian musical culture is part of it, artists with
their instruments and their voices tells in an international
form the thousand aspects of a people and its folklore, traditions,
life and emotions.
To voice cd two young singers: Eli
Mara (12 songs) and Anita
Vitale (2 songs), the Direction of the Orchestra is given to
masters Vito Giordano and Domenico
Riina. Among the guest star
involved in the making of Made in Sicily - the songs, we want
to remember some names: Francesco
Cafiso, Francesco Buzzurro,
Giuseppe
Milici, Orazio Maugeri, Ruggiero
Mascellino. English version by VanVakys VRC consulting
