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| Marwan Samer: oud, voice, krakab Bob Salmieri: baglamas, soprano sax, ney, klarinet Andrea Pullone: classic guitar, oud, baglama Maurizio Perrone: doublebass Maurizio Catania: percussions A Forgotten story With Sicilia Araba (Arabic Sicily), Milagro Acustico Medina Sound get back to talk about the most remote and obscure history of Arab Sicily, period that has marked almost the entire record production and research group in twenty years, but we do it this time with the same language of the Arab poets, thanks to collaboration with the Iraqi-tunisian musician and singer Marwan Samer, using as always the instruments of the Mediterranean tradition as oud, baglama, friscaleddu, ney, daf and many others and with arrangements that tend to emphasize the modernity of the verses of poets as Ibn Hamdis and other Arab poets who lived in Sicily during the Islamic Domination (827-1091).In particular, we use the poems that talk about Sicily, homeland for many of them, written during exile or from the journey stories made by poets, merchants and Arab dignitaries after the fall of Islamic rule lasted in Sicily three centuries and in neighboring Spain nearly seven centuries. The theme that unites these texts then is nostalgia or consternation at the loss of "Paradise."A real journey that combines music, poetry and literature, creating an intense, evocative and at the same time a fascinating show. "The music of Milagro Acustico, best expresses the cultural synthesis between Sicily and the countries bordering the Mediterranean area, especially Turkey, which always influences, with its melodies and its history, the music that travels through the Mare Nostrum. Sicily is the center of this intersection and provides the inspiration for Milagro Acustico for over 15 years..." ..."and Samer sings the hell out of everything. He’s got a flexible voice that can swoop and soar to heights of emotion, avoiding affectation and unnecessary embellishment, just getting straight to the heart of each song. This is heard to great effect on the closing Noto which checks in at just under six minutes but, like most of the tracks here, could have happily gone on for twice as long and how often can you say that about an album? The instrumental accompaniment is sensitive, trancey and somehow both contemporary- sounding and appropriate to the ancient roots. The rhythm section’s tight, but it’s Salmeri’s masterful embellishments on various stringed and wind instruments (both Western and Arabic) that really steal the show on this project and let it fly way beyond the dry academic exercise it could have been to become something living, breathing and bursting with musical ideas..." Jamie Renton - fRoots (GB) |
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| We are happy to present you SICILIA ARABA (Arabic Poets of Sicily 827 - 1091) the latest project by Milagro Acustico, third chapter of the trilogy dedicated to Arabic-Sicilian poetry. Sicilia Araba It 's a unique project of its kind, no one ever before has devoted so many years of study and research to the story of the arabic poets who lived in Sicily during the islamic domination like Milagro Acustico. In this last work, they return to the language of the arabic poets of Sicily, creating a fascinating sound, passionate and at the same time mystical, thanks to the verve of his poli-instrumentalists and in particular the tunisian-Iraqi singer Marwan Samer. Milagro Acustico presented this project as a live performance, on November 28, 2013, at the Auditorium Parco della Musica - Petrassi Hall in Rome. |
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