I am bond to the Musicanti
del Piccolo Borgo by a long and sincere friendship.
Together with Stefano Tartaglia I have spent precious moments at the University
in Rome, when students in Ethnomusicology, we tried to transfer into practice
the study of the traditional instruments after the artistic and human
solicitations deriving from Diego Carpitella's lessons.
In the austere class-rooms of the University, whenever we met, it was
an occasion for discovering a world unknown but closely imagined thanks
to Diego Carpitella's stories.
During those hours going on too fast, every word of our teacher was full
of great humanity and political participation.
His lesson became so the right occasion for exhorting us to go along the
difficult and uncertain ways of the research to be made on the spot because
it was only along those "ancient ways", as Carpitella said,
that we might find musical cultures, social behaviours and manners much
stronger and solid than those offered by the world around us. So from
1970 forth many young searchers began to go along the most unknown country
villages of Italy with the purpose of restoring the intricate threads
of our tradition memories.
The Musicanti del Piccolo Borgo have been very keen on discovering traditional
singers and players not only in Lazio, Molise and Lucania but also in
other regions.
Meeting such important figures of the country musical civilization has
signed all the work of this group which has carried out a specific role
in diffusing and promoting the traditional music in Italy.
Their great skill, both technical and expressive, originates from the
frequent contacts they have held with the numerous "master singers",
giving evidence of that in this new work.
This is the latest stage of an extraordinary adventure undertaken by a
group to which I lovingly wish to go on singing other "fiorite"
country songs for many more years, always with the same joy and ability.
Ambrogio Sparagna
Tracks
contained in CD1
"Fiore de tutti i fiori"
1. Fiore de tutti i fiori
2. La povera Cecilia
3. Saltarella amatriciana
4. Sò stato a lavorà a Montesicuro
5. Tarantelle lucane
6. La zita
7. Maitinata e quadriglia
8. Pastorale di Capracotta
Tracks
contained in CD2
"Album dei ricordi"
2. Chi te l'ha ditto ca
3. Figliola che stai 'ngoppa
4. Nonna nonna
5. Fiore de tutti i fiori
6. Venite angiolini
7. Curre curre Filomena
8. Canto e saltarella di Raffone
9. Saltarella per organetto
10. Saltarello per violino
11. Serenata
12. Angelo d'oro
13. E il mio amore se chiama
14. Sona sonatore sona bene
15. La zita
Memories have a fundamental
role in the Musicanti's present time, made of tries, journeys, concerts:the
faces met, the voices and the moments passed during our research activity
in the villages of Molise and Lazio.
It's from those memories that the Musicanti originate the sense of
their re-proposal and it's always an emotion. The presentation in
this CD of some recordings effected on the spot by the Musicanti rises
from the wish of conveying a bit of that same emotion to the listeners.
Everyone of these pieces forms an original ethnomusicological document
but it's not reproduced here with ethnographic intentions, it wants
to be only a page of that sonorous memories album closely kept by
the Musicanti for so long a time but now left to be glanced through.
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