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Tir Na
Moe
THE LAND OF THE YOUNG (Melodies and songs between tradition
and innovation)
(MAP Ethnoworld CCD884) 2002
67'
45"
It’s amazing! The Ethnoworld label
, criticised for having pubblicated
in only two years too many productions and accusated to saturate
italian discographical market, (...) proposes another celtic CD!
(...) I was still incredulous when I start listening
this CD, the cover shows the willingness to search another way for
celtic music, if we read the titles of the back-cover we have the
first shock: there are all (I mean all) original
compositions! (Of
Pier Franco Zerbini and Stefania Bongioanni).
After this first emotion I realize that the booklet is
very well made (...) and the inside notes are very precise and
enriched with photos and images. To the listening, this opera is
surprising! We can find songs and melodies that are not gigs or
reels-like, but they look forward a more universal vision of
the tradition, tarantellas and oriental tastesso. To define "celtic"
this kind of music is extremely wrong and restrictive.
We can say that they have amalgamated a very personal
sound, different to anything else I have listened before, so
much vital in a projection of a new traditional music generation.
(...) Fourtheen songs of excellent music, each song would merit a
single chapter.
Let me name them and their many instruments: Stefania
Bongioanni (voice,
digital piano, dulcimer, harmonium, tin wistle, celtic harp), Alberto
Monti (electric and acoustic bass, bodhràn), Pier Franco
Zerbini (hurdy-gurdy, scottish and italian bagpipe, accordion,
flutes, percussions, celtic harp, voice). (...)
I
challange anyone to buy this record and say it is not a
competitive production, at european level!
TIR NA MOE: the land of the Young it must be in your collection, to the italian
group, revelation of 2002 we assign our Star “Traditional
Arranged”.
Loris Böhm
WebSite: http: www.tirnamoe.it
- www.iltabass.it
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