Paolo Fresu's Sonos E Memoria (1 Viewer)

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Improvised Music Company and Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival in association with Pioneer Investments ​

Supported by The Italian Cultural Institute, UniCredito Italiano & Morgan Stanley ​

Present

From Sardinia

Paolo Fresu's

Sonos 'E Memoria

Sunday 7th October
8pm Vicar Street, Dublin 8
Adm: €28 DTF Box Office: 01 677 8899(2€ booking fee per ticket)
internet bookings www.dublintheatrefestival.com


Paolo Fresu trumpet, flugelhorn
Furio di Castri bass
Elena Ledda vocals
Luigi Lai launeddas
Mauro Palmas mandola
Antonello Salis accordion
Federico Sanesi percussion
Carlo Cabiddu violoncello
&
The voices of Concordu 'e su Rosariu
Mario Corona contra
Giovanni Ardu bassu
Antonio Migheli 'oghe/ Roberto Iriu contraltu

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Italian filmmaker Gianfranco Cabbidu was researching an entirely different project when he discovered lost footage of life in Sardinia in the 1930s, now vividly re-animated in this collaboration with the celebrated Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu.

With its evocation of island life and its rugged cultural identity, Sonos ‘E Memoria carries a powerful resonance, reminiscent of films like Man Of Aran, and the traditional music of offshore islands like Tory.

And music is at the core of Sonos ‘E Memoria, performed by a stellar gathering that embraces the island’s robust tradition with singer Elena Ledda and Concordu ‘e su Rosario, four men steeped in the unique polyphony of the island, while Luigi Lai is its most expressive voice on launeddas, a distant relation of the uilleann pipes, and equally haunting.

They’re joined by an island diaspora that includes exquisite Italian jazz musicians in bassist Furio Di Castri and the unpredictable accordionist Antonello Salis, led throughout by Fresu’s lyrical trumpet, evoking Miles Davis as much as Sardinia.