Etta Scollo -Il Fiore Splendente -Jazzhaus Records CD Grooves.land/Playthek

Details / Tracklist:

01. "Preludio"

02. "Un Solo Bacio"

03. "Corro Con Te"

04. "Calice"

05. "A Ibn-Hamdis"

06. "Aiuta Il Liquore E Ti Da Gioia"

07. "Una Luna"

08. "E cosi snello"

09. "Fin Quando Durer?"

10. "Sicilia Mia"

11. "Janchi"

12. "Non Credete"

13. "Apparve (Trilogia Della Visione)"

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Description:

Etta Scollo is the most famous singer of traditional music from sicily and she has carried out research on sicilian popular music for long. This album is a special project in which she transforms into songs some arab poems dated xith century. Etta Scollo sings and plays her guitar and is also accompanied by the string quartet l'ottava nota, and the wroclaw score and Berlin pops orchestras. The album also features guest performances by renowned arab musicians as well as of franco battiato, giovanni sollima, nabil salameh (radiodervish), markus stockhausen etc.. Including a booklet in 4 languages with the translations of the lyrics.

Songs inspired by the thousand-year-old Arabian poetry of Sicily All the verses in Arabic are originals by Sicilian Arab poets who lived and wrote between the 9th and 12th centuries. All texts in Italian are taken from "Antologia Poeti arabi di Sicilia" edited by Francesca Maria Corrao, courtesy of © 2002 , Mesogea by GEM srl. The text of track 5 is a poem by Sebastiano Burgaretta taken from the book "L'ala del tempo" used courtesy of the author and the publisher CUECM from Catania Recording: - Polskie Radio Wroclawa in Warsaw (PO) - Ballsaal Studio and Teldex Studios in Berlin by Ansgar Wempe, Tobias Lehman and Peter Schmidt Recording of Franco Battiato's piano and vocals (tracks 3 and 5) at Pinaxa Studio in Milan by Pino Pischetola. Recording of Markus Stockhausen's trumpet (track 9) at Studio Rosenhof by Pablo Giw Editing: Etta Scollo, Peter Schmidt, Andreas Sperling, Simon Beizai at Ballhaus Studio and Julian Schwenkner, Martin Litauer and Philipp Knop at Teldex studio. Digipak with separate 60-page booklet housed in a cardboard slipcase.

Producer:

Etta Scollo

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Manufacturer No.:

0361636

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