a r t i s t : Claudia Bombardella Ensemble
t i t l e : Paesaggi Lontani-Live
d a t e : 2004
l a b e l : RadiciMusic
g e n r e : Folk
r l s. d a t e : Aug/2006
t r a c k s : 16
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 103,6 MB
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Claudia Bombardella
An eclectic musician, singer and composer Claudia Bombardella
plays various instruments (baritone sax, clarinets, tuba,
accordion, steel drum) and for years has been composing and
arranging the music for her performances as well as for
orchestras and choirs. Born in Luxemburg she studied violin
and saxophone, working in Italy with inspired and versatile
musician Luca Di Volo, with whom she played for about ten
years, performing all over Europe and making 4 CDs. She then
taught the saxophone for seven years at the Fiesole Music
School.
She follows this with theatrical, jazz and vocal teaching,
takes part in composing and arranging performances, including
the Wien Volksoper and the Orchestra della Toscana. During
recent years she has also been approaching other instruments
and the use of voice with unusual tempos and techniques,
gaining in refinement and strength. Over the last two years
she has ceased working with the duo, but she continues
research the music and traditions of nomadic peoples
worldwide: a source for the creation of her own music that
re-proposes all the sensitivity of the music by which it is
inspired.
In 2003 she played in the International Accordion Festival of
Wien with Anton Giulio Galeandro. In 2004 she founds the
Bombardella Ensemble and makes the CD "Paessaggi Lontani" with
her own compositions and arrangements. She sets up the
Bombardella Trio, with the project "Ruminando."
The Ensemble:
This is a refined ensemble in which the sound of classical
instruments (like violin and cello) is mixed with the more
traditional ones (accordion and saxophone), creating
atmospheres in which the voice moves freely through ancient
songs or original melodies in an expressive way. Classical and
creative musicians play together so that the different
experiences create a unique ensemble with an eclectic,
European air.
In these original compositions, arrangements and classical
counterpoints melt with melodies in the style of traditional
European music, unsing some ancient texts in the original
languages, creating a music that is free of time or space.
"Paesaggi Lontani" (Faraway landscapes)
". . .Over the centuries we have told stories, played tunes,
made sounds, and these scraps of communication have remained
floating in the air for whosoever is patient enough to listen
to them. . .but that which is borne by the air belongs to no
one and so it comes about that words mingle with sounds no
matter which their culture of origin chances to be. The
contents transmute and come into contact with our inmost core,
somewhere beyond the mind's reach, were it not for some kind
of "awareness."
This long work of composition travels through the most
widespread spheres of music and culture in the same spirit as
nomadic peoples in the course of their wanderings to pick up
the cultural essences of the populations they approach,
absorbing them into their own traditions. The compositions
move across a variety of folk music styles in a broader
pattern, that also includes a sort of "classical" discipline,
characteristic of "cultured" music, within which the fragments
of the more typical melodies arise, fall apart, and join
again. It is not by chance that popular instruments have been
chosen to combine with those used for classical music.
The vision is one of landscapes, remote in time and space:
from the atmospheres sometimes misty and unfathomable,
sometimes turning to urgent and passionate, stories and tales
in music take shape. The voices of one culture interlace with
another. . .we realize that they are not so far apart. . .that
they are deeply tied to those who have taken it upon
themselves to preserve them for the sake of their value today.
The voices have an "instrumental" use and the original
language texts are intended to help confer a special color,
the color in which the secret of a culture that only the heart
can comprehend lies embedded. So it is that the instruments
dance from style to style, as does the voice, with a lingo
that is rather "sensed" than "understood". . .
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01-histoire d'un souvenir [05:27]
02-las esuegras [04:00]
03-danza dell'orso buono (instrumentale) [05:53]
04-ninna nanna [06:36]
05-ruminando (il canto della fenice) [04:32]
06-la novia [04:07]
07-danza di magos [03:23]
08-leggenda della rose [08:23]
09-paesaggi lontani - a samia (instrumentale) [03:48]
10-paesaggi lontani - il canto della lupa [02:40]
11-paesaggi lontani - punta di becco di merlo [04:48]
12-paesaggi lontani - danza di una piuma [04:50]
13-paesaggi lontani - danza antica [05:22]
14-intro (instrumentale) [02:29]
15-balcania [05:57]
16-a la una [04:13]
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76:28 min