Songs of the 'sacred south' of Italy
On Sacro Sud, Italian revolutionary Enzo Avitabile explores the non-liturgical religious traditions of the Italian south, in collaboration with with Polifonica Alphonsiana, Luigi Lai, Maurizio Martinotti and I Cantori del Miserere di Sessa. Musically, this is an eye-opener. The most important elements of the record are Luigi Lai and his launeddas, (a Sardinian reed instrument, a sort of souped-up Pan's pipes), Martinotti and his ghironda (hurdy-gurdy) and the choral voices. The choruses offer the liturgical undercurrent of these songs, the launeddas and ghironda the counterpoint, with Avitabile and his saxophone covering the middle ground and uniting them all.
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