Mistico Mediterraneo

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Release Date: 7th Feb 2011
Catalogue No: 2745621
Label: ECM
Length: 56 minutes

Jean Claude Acquaviva: Rex tremendae

Work length5:00

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Daniele di Bonaventura (bandoneon), Paolo Fresu (trumpet)
A Filetta Corsican Voices
Recorded: 2010-01-15
Recording Venue: Artesuono Recording Studios, Udine

Jean Claude Acquaviva: Liberata

Work length5:23

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Daniele di Bonaventura (bandoneon), Paolo Fresu (trumpet)
A Filetta Corsican Voices
Recorded: 2010-01-15
Recording Venue: Artesuono Recording Studios, Udine

Petru Santucci, Jean-Michel Giannelli: Da tè à mè

Work length5:08

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Daniele di Bonaventura (bandoneon), Paolo Fresu (trumpet)
A Filetta Corsican Voices
Recorded: 2010-01-15
Recording Venue: Artesuono Recording Studios, Udine

Coulais: Le Lac

Work length6:39

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Daniele di Bonaventura (bandoneon), Paolo Fresu (trumpet)
A Filetta Corsican Voices
Recorded: 2010-01-15
Recording Venue: Artesuono Recording Studios, Udine

Jean-Michel Giannelli: Dies Irae

Work length5:15

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Daniele di Bonaventura (bandoneon), Paolo Fresu (trumpet)
A Filetta Corsican Voices
Recorded: 2010-01-15
Recording Venue: Artesuono Recording Studios, Udine

Coulais: Gloria

Work length4:24

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Daniele di Bonaventura (bandoneon), Paolo Fresu (trumpet)
A Filetta Corsican Voices
Recorded: 2010-01-15
Recording Venue: Artesuono Recording Studios, Udine

Bonaventura: Corale

Work length3:45

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Daniele di Bonaventura (bandoneon), Paolo Fresu (trumpet)
Recorded: 2010-01-15
Recording Venue: Artesuono Recording Studios, Udine

Coulais: La folie du Cardinal

Work length1:46

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Daniele di Bonaventura (bandoneon), Paolo Fresu (trumpet)
A Filetta Corsican Voices
Recorded: 2010-01-15
Recording Venue: Artesuono Recording Studios, Udine

Jean Claude Acquaviva: U Sipolcru

Work length4:38

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Daniele di Bonaventura (bandoneon), Paolo Fresu (trumpet)
A Filetta Corsican Voices
Recorded: 2010-01-15
Recording Venue: Artesuono Recording Studios, Udine

Petru Santucci, Jean-Michel Giannelli: Scherzi veranili

Work length2:54

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Daniele di Bonaventura (bandoneon), Paolo Fresu (trumpet)
A Filetta Corsican Voices
Recorded: 2010-01-15
Recording Venue: Artesuono Recording Studios, Udine

Jean Claude Acquaviva: Figliolu d'ella

Work length4:21

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Daniele di Bonaventura (bandoneon), Paolo Fresu (trumpet)
A Filetta Corsican Voices
Recorded: 2010-01-15
Recording Venue: Artesuono Recording Studios, Udine

Bonaventura: Gradualis

Work length2:29

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Daniele di Bonaventura (bandoneon), Paolo Fresu (trumpet)
A Filetta Corsican Voices
Recorded: 2010-01-15
Recording Venue: Artesuono Recording Studios, Udine

Bonaventura: Sanctus

Work length4:42

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Daniele di Bonaventura (bandoneon), Paolo Fresu (trumpet)
Recorded: 2010-01-15
Recording Venue: Artesuono Recording Studios, Udine

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A fascinating collaboration between lyrical Italian jazz improvisers trumpeter Paolo Fresu and bandoneon player Daniele di Bonaventura and the transfixing voices of A Filetta from Corsica. The prize-winning vocal ensemble, renowned as the standard-bearers of Corsican polyphony, make their ECM debut.

The appealing combination of sound-colours and idioms adds up to 'Sketches of Corsica'. As the improvisers approach this regional music of universal appeal, Fresu's pensive, romantic trumpet inevitably brings Milesian associations to mind, and the ingenious bandoneon of di Bonaventura implies 'chamber music' and 'folk music' in every breath of the bellows.

A Filetta ("Filetta" translates as "fern" or "bracken"), led by Jean-Claude Acquaviva, is celebrated for its re-casting of Corsican vocal polyphony over the last three decades. Many commentators credit the group for "saving" a unique singing tradition, both secular and sacred, whose roots stretch back into antiquity. Paolo Fresu, from the neighbouring island of Sardinia, could relate at once to the Corsican music with its "refined and archaic voices", its mix of contemporary compositions and its attempt to hold fast to "melodies vanishing in the darkness of time".

Acquaviva is the group's principal composer and two of his pieces here, "Rex tremendae" and "Figliolu d'Ella" are parts of a requiem composed in 2004, while "Liberata" was created for the soundtrack of a film about the Corsican resistance movement in World War II. Other pieces are by Parisian film composer Bruno Coulais, and di Bonaventura contributes three.

Despite different instrumentation and goals, the juxtaposition of 'jazz'-informed creativity and vocal music in Mistico Mediterraneo has some affinities to the Garbarek/Hilliards Officium project and will likely appeal to a similar audience.

Multiple award-winner Paulo Fresu is one of the most highly regarded jazz musicians in Europe, and his ECM collaboration with Ralph Towner on Chiaroscuro (released in 2009), was immensely successful both with critics and the public.

Mistico Mediterraneo

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