Ravenna Festival 2010
S’l’è nöt u s’farà dè, grande festa di musica popolare
Tra Sponde
un ponte musicale tra i Balcani e l’Italia
La Kocani Orkestar
incontra
la Banda Municipale Balcanica, Puglia
guest
Roberto Ottaviano sax
To cast away gloom and make sure that night finally gives way to daylight, darkness needs to be exorcised by a very special and explosive connection: Macedonian Kocani Orkestar meets Apulian Banda Municipale Balcanica. One of the leading East European brass bands fraternizes with the young but already well-known local band in a brand new project where each ensemble rearranges and interprets the other band’s music, in a vortex of different cues and genres. From Balkan weddings and funerals tunes to the folk music and village band traditions of Southern Italy, from jazz improvisation to the rhythms of Macedonian dervishes. And another star will help them officiate the rite: great saxophonist Roberto Ottaviano.
