Isole senza Mar

Calicanto Cierre  2005

Music and tales from the Euganean Hills

Isole senza mar is Calicanto's eleventh CD (presented in occasion of the 25th year of activity of the band: 1981-2006) is fully devoted to the music and the popular culture of the Euganean Hills.

Isole senza mar has been prized by french 'Academie Charles Cros' as one of the four most interesting works worldwide in the scene of World Music, in 2006, with the special mention 'Coup de coeur'.

The work, a CD with a 80 pages booklet, comes from 2 years of researches on documents, and interviews to the elders bearing tradition, but also offers original tunes and collaborations with important guests such as J.M. Carlotti and D. Paris, the various musical and cultural entities of the Euganean Hills and reaching a sort of cultural partnership with french ” Le Parc Des Volcans D’Auvergne”.

And so, here are the recalls to trobadours of Corte Estense, to Beatrice d’Este, to Petrarca, Shelley, to gregorian chant, the rituals such as “batermarso”, musical bands echoes, corals, dances, lullabies, poetic images, everything helping to define the subtle beauty of these hills, and invites us to take a new moving trip on our roads.

Calicanto
Gabriele Coltri – bagpipe, armonium
Claudia Ferronato – voice
Francesco Ganassin – clarinets, ocarinas, voice
Giancarlo Tombesi – double bass, voice
Roberto Tombesi – voice, accordions, mandolas, cetera, chitarra battente, scacciapensieri, tambourine
Paolo Vidaich – percussion, toys, voice

Guests
Monaci della Schola Cantorum dell’Abbazia di Praglia – voice
Jan Marì Carlotti – voice
Dominique Paris – cabrette, feet
Paolo Bernardini – keyboards
Elisabetta Borille – voice
Tiziana de Poli – voice
Bruno Donà – leaf
Renzo Ferronato – voice
Valter Rizzo – hurdy-gurdy, bombarda
Susi Visentin – voice
Complesso strumentale Città di Galzignano Terme diretto da Franco Buson
Milladoiro (bonus track)

Design: Carlo Buffa ( www.bellelettere.it )
 

1.    Approdo
2.    La pastora e il lupo
3.    La font de Laura
4.    Batimarso – Vilote dei colli
5.    Spagnolin de monte – Polesine – Scano Boa
6.    Primi baci – Polka ad Alfred Mouret
7.    I dodese mesi de l’ano
8.    Bonaman – Ciarastela
9.    La Rosolina
10.   Poem
11.   Beatriz
12.   Asuivr…
13.   Ave Maris Stella
14.   Notturno euganeo
15.   Voaria a Compostela (bonus track)