Silvia Tarozzi - Lucciole - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Lucciole is Silvia Tarozzi's luminous follow-up to the intimate reflections of Mi specchio e rifletto and the deeply rooted folk dialogues of Canti di guerra, di lavoro e d'amore with Deborah Walker. Here, Tarozzi draws together voices, memories, and musical lineages to create an album where avant-garde composition, personal narrative, and collective resonance exchange freely.The album opens with a radiant brass ensemble-chosen for it's popular, celebratory, spiritual sound-and closes with the Piccolo Coro Angelico, the children's choir she has worked with for over fifteen years and calls Inchmy best school of composition and a constant gym of hope.Inch Between these bookends, Tarozzi's songs trace life's transitions with a rare tenderness childhood into adolescence, health into fragility, presence into absence.Two central songs-her own InchLuccioleInch and a glowing live-in-studio cover of Milton Nascimento's InchRiver PhoenixInch-honor a beloved friend whose life and presence evoke new horizons. InchCorallo e perle,Inch inspired by a dream her grandfather had after her grandmother's passing, becomes a gentle, dreamlike meditation on the persistence of love.The strings, voices, and melodic contours that define Mi specchio e rifletto reappear here with new warmth and depth. Produced by Tarozzi in close collaboration with Marta Salogni, who engineered and mixed the album, Lucciole carries a clarity, intimacy, and sonic generosity that reflect their shared journey through the recording process.At it's heart, Lucciole is an album about small lights carried through moments of transition-an invitation to listen closely to the places where life changes, and to the people, living and remembered, who illuminate the way. Album Tracks 1. Distratta 2. 888 3. Frutti Acerbi 4. L'airone 5. Brass on the Rocks 6. Sun 7. La Quercia 8. Code 9. Lucciole 10. Cora

Silvia Tarozzi and Deborah Walker have emerged as one of the most interesting duos in contemporary improvised music. First introduced to Unseen Worlds through their performance on the Philip Corner recording InchExtreemizms early & lateInch, Tarozzi and Walker elevated recent recordings, Eliane Radigue InchOccam Ocean 3Inch, Pascal Criton InchInfraInch, and Tarozzi's own InchMi specchio e riflettoInch to greatness. Their finely tuned sound makes even the most adventurous tones compelling. With InchCanti di guerra, di lavoro e d'amoreInch they add folk music to their contemporary classical and improvised music roots, reinterpreting songs from their youth in rural Emilia that originated from the emancipation of working class women and the partisan Resistance in World War II, especially ones sung by choirs of female rice field workers, called Mondine or Mondariso. Their songs tell a story of hard, poorly paid work, love, the hypocrisy of society, protests, war, the challenge of working far from home, the violence of oppression and the need for political awareness. Following years of incorporating, reinventing, and transforming these songs within their practice, Tarozzi and Walker unlock emotional territory where their relationship with Emilia resonates in concert with other sounds and places. Album Tracks 1. Country Cloud 2. La Lega 3. Pietà L'È Morta 4. Parziale 5. Il Bersagliere Ha Cento Penne 6. Il Bersagliere Ha Cento Penne 7. Meccanica Primitiva 8. Dondina 9. La Campéna Ed San Simòn - Ignoranti Senza Scuole 10. Fa la Nana 11. Tita 12. Sentite Buona Gente

Inspired by the poetry of Alda Merini and her studies with composer Garret List, Italian violinist-composer Silvia Tarozzi turned to the song form after being involved for many years in contemporary music and free improvisation. Over the course of nearly a decade, Tarozzi practiced setting the poetry of Alda Merini to music and then replacing it with her own to reflect her own life experiences. As a result, Mi specchio e rifletto is a wondrous combination of baroque folk, avant-garde, and progressive music art-song that feels both poetic and earnestly autobiographical. Echoes of past masterpieces reverberate throughout the gentle chamber explorations of Penguin Cafe Orchestra, the science fiction of Franco Battiato's 'Fetus', the abstract free jazz flourishes of Maria Monti's 'Il Bestiario', the sweetness of Caterina Casseli's 'Primavera'. As a solo performer, Tarozzi is a long time collaborator with composers Eliane Radigue, Pascale Criton, Cassandra Miller and Martin Arnold. In duo with Deborah Walker, and as a member of Ensemble Dedalus, she has worked with Christian Wolff, Ju¨rg Frey, Michael Pisaro, Catherine Lamb, Se´bastien Roux, and many others. She previously released Philip Corner 'Extreemizms early & late' on Unseen Worlds in 2018. Album Tracks 1. Al Cancello 2. La Forza Del Canto 3. La Sostanza Dell'affetto 4. Mi Specchio E Rifletto 5. Domina 6. Hai Nella Bocca Un Silenzio 7. Astuta 8. Spazio 9. ... E Non Volevi Le Ali 10. Che Cos'e' Una Primavera 11. Siedimi Accanto 12. L'assenza 13. Al Balcone 14. Sembra Neve 15. Parlavi Di Un Bambino 16. XXX Anna