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Viestesana

from Onde by Maria Mazzotta

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    “Onde” is a story about continuous change, in which the sea resonates everywhere, from the gentle movement that can lull before it transforms into a tidal wave that destroys, making a clean sweep. It holds within itself numerous metaphors and multiple states of mind that, like sea waves, can take on thousands of forms.
    While all water moves, changing shape and force, each song lets sounds pass through it within a sea of frequencies in which Cristiano della Monica's percussion and Ernesto Nobili's guitars guarantee Maria Mazzotta's song the possibility to navigate onward. The voice shoves off and sets sail, allowing itself to be hurled far away, sinking before returning to the surface and, finally, finding rest. For the three musicians who, from Lecce and Naples, have always had the sea in their minds and eyes, this album tells the story of the movement of the sea, from the torment that navigating it entails to the relief that, in the end, each landing offers.

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VIESTESANA
With the “Viestesana” style the trios’ research moves to the Gargano area, in Northern Apulia.
“The Viestesana is part of the tarantella tradition that stirs up memories of my youth, happiness, and of the ‘ronda’ (formed by dancers, musicians, and the public: The ‘ronda’ is, therefore, the chorus, which supports the dancers in the dance and delimits the “space” where the encounters take place). “The Gargano tradition has always fascinated me for its archaic and seemingly disharmonious melodies. In particular, the melody of the Viestesana in the version performed by one of the most exciting voices of the Gargano area Rocco di Mauro (recorded by Roberto Leydi and Diego Carpitella in 1966 and published by Salvatore Villani for Note), has always captivated me and I wanted to pay homage to it” says Maria Mazzotta.
“It contains a chromatic melodic passage that might not be harmonious when you first hear it, but which is frequent in the Blues scale, of a certain way of singing Blues in its origin” - adds Ernesto Nobili.
“Here too, as in “Sula nu puei stare”, the traditional triplet rhythm is easily and naturally attributable to typical rhythms found in Maghreb music or in Moroccan Gnawa which in turn have ancient roots in Blues music” clarifies Cristiano Della Monica.

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from Onde, track released February 14, 2024

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Maria Mazzotta Lecce, Italy

Maria Mazzotta's unique versatility is what makes her one of the most important voices of the music scene in the Apulia region of Italy and, more generally, of world music towards which she has an extremely respectful approach, backed by meticulous research into vocal characteristics of the area which highly differentiate the various cultures found within it. ... more

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