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La Stüa

Record Details

Artist
Marco Santilli's CheRoba & il Fiato delle Alpi
Release
2017
Genre
World | European Jazz
Marco Santilli CheRoba & il Fiato delle Alpi

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Record Tracklist

  1. Sächsilüüte -:-- / 06:13
  2. Leventango -:-- / 01:40
  3. Tangu da Wassen -:-- / 04:22
  4. Strada alticcia -:-- / 06:14
  5. La Giornico liberata -:-- / 06:15
  6. Morbus helveticus -:-- / 05:20
  7. Giorni di Giornico -:-- / 05:14
  8. Sette -:-- / 04:50
  9. Variationen über den Namen Hesse -:-- / 05:47
  10. Musik des Einsamen -:-- / 02:09
  11. When Hermann meets Hari -:-- / 05:54
  12. Serenada in minur -:-- / 09:38

Marco Santilli develops his compositions by carefully blending influences from different European styles, including classical, contemporary and folk music as well as world music. His unique style emerges from this combination of different genres in such a way that their various sources are no longer recognizable. If we had to label “La Stüa”, we would find it categorized under “jazz”. Jazz in the sense of an open style of music and, typically Santilli, in Italian. In Italian? Yes, because although these are instrumental pieces, they reflect certain kinds of mood, themes and melodies that hark back to the musicality of his mother tongue.

Compositions commissioned by the International Alpentöne (Alpine Sounds) Festival are inspired by daydreams in the “Stüa” * recreated at the Leventina Museum in Giornico in Italian Switzerland. Here, as a boy, he gave his grandfather, the Museum’s curator, a hand whenever it was necessary to explain to tourists the use of the antique objects on display. And even then he found himself improvising. The art of story-telling has remained with him. Today, however, he tackles stories instrumentally. His village of origin and Switzerland in general continue to be a source of inspiration for many of his compositions, which Santilli refines and develops with jazz improvisations. Memories reawaken images with vivid colours, translated into diverse timbres for chamber or orchestral settings, with echoes of big bands or his own expression of rock.

To enlarge his jazz quartet “CheRoba” (the idiomatic equivalent of ‘wow’), Santilli turned to “Il fiato delle Alpi” (the breath of the Alps), a quintet of low register wind instruments: alto flute and cor anglais (instead of the oboe), and contrabass clarinet which, together with the French horn and bassoon, help make the sounds warmer and more intense.

Marco Santilli has surrounded himself with trusted associates to represent this journey along the Swiss north-south axis during which, probably for the first time, a jazz quartet meets a classical wind quintet in a musical context “(CH)ontaminato” (a pun on Switzerland (CH) and contaminated).

* Stüa – the local dialect term for the living room in traditional houses of the Leventina Valley. Usually the only room that was heated (by a stove) in which most of the household’s activities would take place.

Recommended: Marco Santilli’s CheRoba & il Fiato delle Alpi – “La Stüa”
by Bird is the worm, 18.02.2017.

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  1. L'occhio della betulla Marco Santilli CheRoba 1:56
  2. Saphyrion Marco Santilli CheRoba 2:21
  3. Variationen über den Namen Hesse Marco Santilli CheRoba 1:54
  4. Sette CheRoba & il Fiato delle Alpi 2:03
  5. Tangu da Wassen CheRoba & il Fiato delle Alpi 1:29
  6. Sächsilüüte CheRoba & il Fiato delle Alpi 1:41
  7. Indaco Marco Santilli & Ivan Tibolla 3:28
  8. Bambina di nebbia Marco Santilli & Ivan Tibolla 2:09
  9. Godiva soleva Marco Santilli & Paolo Alderighi 1:26
  10. Black Marco Santilli & Giordano Muti 1:14
  11. Maggiolone Marco Santilli & Giordano Muto 1:11
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