SUONO GRASSO – The project promoting music from Emilia-Romagna debuts in London
SUONO GRASSO is a new series of international events promoting music and musicians from Emilia-Romagna.
It is a new project springing from the shared mission of the Emilia-Romagna Music Commission (a new unit of the regional Culture Department) and ATER Fondazione to develop and nurture the region's international connections, through all musical forms and genres.
The first stage will be in London, at the renowned Café OTO on October 4 and 5, with two nights of experimental music – a genre which has always been very fertile in Emilia-Romagna.
The programme on October 4 features:
Silvia Tarozzi, with a full band including Valeria Sturba, Cecilia Stacchiotti, Stefano Pilia, and Edoardo Marraffa, will perform her acclaimed album Mi specchio e rifletto (Unseen Worlds) in its entirety. Tarozzi is an artist who, like Alda Merini and others “paints private worlds, illustrating labyrinthine feelings with new colours” – as stated by Pitchfork, one of the most important global music magazines.
Francesco Serra/Trees of Mint will present his electric guitar and snare drum solo project – in which he has progressively deconstructed songwriting through sound experimentation and investigated the possible contaminations between sound, space and image.
Roberto Paci Dalò will perform "Lament" for clarinet, bass clarinet and electronics – a sound ritual where analogue and digital sounds merge.
On October 5:
Stefano Pilia leads a trio with Alessandra Novaga and Adrian Utley of Portishead, performing Pilia's latest work Spiralis Aurea – in which he reinterprets medieval liturgical music and 20th century minimalism through unusual concepts and techniques.
Award-winning London-based tape artist and producer Marta Salogni performs as part of a new improv trio with Silvia Tarozzi and Valeria Sturba.
Roberto Paci Dalò returns for a duo with long-time collaborator, the British musician Scanner, to present their project The Maya Effect – a live improvised duet that combines live electronics and bass clarinet. Restless, sensual and elegiac, the music produced by Paci Dalò and Scanner is always captured live, so this will be a rare opportunity to hear these two long-term friends collaborate in their UK debut.
ATER Fondazione and Emilia Romagna Music Commission present SUONO GRASSO in London in collaboration with AngelicA - Festival Internazionale di Musica.
The project includes a growing network of dozens of musicians, producers, and festivals, and aims at visiting as many cities, sceneries, and types of music as possible, organizing small and large events outside Italy to support the “fat” (grasso) Emilia-Romagna music scene.
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