Folklore in Black (feat. Dimitri Grechi Espinoza & Emanuele Parrini)

Folklore (feat. Dimitri Grechi Espinoza, Emanuele Parrini & Mirco Mariottini)

personnel: Amiri Baraka (voice, poetry), Dimitri Grechi Espinoza (alto sax, bells), Emanuele Parrini (violin, bells), Beppe Scardino (baritone sax, bells), Gabrio Baldacci (guitar, effects, bells), Pee Wee Durante (hammond horgan, rhodes, effects, bells), Simone Padovani (percussions, bells), Andrea Melani (drums, bells)

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Dinamitri Jazz Folklore is a kaleidoscopic jazz band formed in 2000 and active since then. They have been exploring many musical languages such as blues, jazz, and traditional musics from eastern europe, middle east, mediterranean sea. They have been working on african musics for 10 years, sharing sounds with musicians from Congo, Mali, Niger, Burkina Fasu, Senegal; learning the terapeutic musical tradition in Kongò cultures, tuareg music and musical cultures and much more. They have worked with afroamerican poets and performers Sadiq Bey (record "Congo Evidence") and the legendary Amiri Baraka ("Akedengue Suite"). In the past 3 years the have been performing this new show called "La Società Delle Maschere" ("The Masks' Society"), where they play wearing weird symbolic masks made by the tuscan artist Federico Biancalani. They still play a lot of concerts, where anything can happen from straight ahead jazz-blues tunes to esoteric african sounds, from free improvisation to afro-beat; that is, their concert could be a hardcore electroacoustic impro session or a shaking ass funk-soul-afro-dance show.    

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