Gianfranco Capitta –“Manifesto” - May 2008
Fausto Amodei, Giovanna Marini Unavantaluna and Têtes de Bois, show us how a piece of memory resists the modern void.
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Beppe Costa from BLOGSPOT - May 2008
If you look for a great ensemble that blends tradition and modernity with a deep knowledge of popular music and classical music,
"Unavantaluna" is that group.
The reach your guts, they drag you into an irresistible vortex and you forget even where you are standing.
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WORLD MUSIC Europe charts - Jan 2008
New year, time for reviewing, DJs Johannes Theurer / Tobias Maier from radiomultikulti have drawn up
the WMCE charts by selecting
the 900 records most played by their network radio-producers.
It is a popularity charts, top favourite are selected on the basis of total time on their playlist.
First Italian song is "Suonoglobal" by Roy Paci e Aretuska, at number 27.
Enzo Avitabile follow together with the Bottari at the 64th position.
At 102 "Arkeology" by Trilok Gurtu together with Arke String Quartet.
At 134 it’s us. .
Fourth and last Italian Gianmaria Testa on position 146.
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Enrico Finocchiaro, Unavantaluna in Villa Sesso (RE) - December 2007
Imagine the night, the calm sea of Sicily in front of you and a man in front of the moon: feel the music flowing into this man, into
his mind and his veins and mix it with the warm silence of Sicilian nights.
...I was struck by the unbelievable warmth that they have been able to infuse into the audience in Reggio.
People with a background and culture very distant from the Sicilian ones, but who have welcomed the performance of the Islander ensemble
with a standing ovation and long applauses.
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Michael Hingston, Folk Roots n. 290/291 – August/September 2007
...The innovative arrangements incorporate some interesting ideas.
...The overall result is an ejoyable album with enough modern ideas and non-indigenous influences to keep the music vital, without losing touch
with its Sicilian roots.
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Jean-Luc Matte, Trad Magazine n. 113 – May/June 2007
...deux guitaristes dont l’un tate preferentiellemnet du luth cretois, un zampognaro et un percussioniste chanteur qui joue egalement de la guimbarde de maniere efficace et sans effets inutiles.
...Le joeur de zampogna joue egalement de la flute a bec, avec un interessant style tres articule a coup de langue, tres italien et qui nous change de ce que l’on peut entendre habituellement par chez nous ou du cote des tin whistles.
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Guido Festinese, Alias n°11 17 - March 2007
The beginning with Pi suprammari, few harsh arpeggios, and then a change of octave and the voice,
wisely made nasal, that becomes strained and assertive, just gives you the shivers.
...the ending is a shred of Africa inside the flesh of an Sicily from an old age. Or maybe even today.
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Roberto Sacchi, Folk Bulletin n°229 – febbraio 2007
...When we listen to them for the first time at “Pifferi Muse e Zampogne 2005” we were struck not only by their professionalism
but also by the way, proud and bold, they were taking around their tradition and presenting compositions “in stile”
original and respectful at the same time.
...A piece classic a bit stale as “Ciuri Ciuri” transformed into a piece that moves between the Macedonian and the Peloponnesiac styles, absolutely delicious.
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Franz Coriasco, Famiglia Cristiana n°8 – February 2007
...Unavantaluna with their debut album give us 14 wonderful performances, liven up by zampogne and liuti cretesi, frame drums,
friscalettu and marranzanu, between traditional re- arrangement and authografic compositions, where antic and new are mixed together.
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Daniele Bergesio, World Music Magazine n°82 – gennaio 2007
...The first point of reference that comes to our ears is the music by Muratori d’epoca Colliri, particularly because of the Melodic ability
of the Ensemble compositions and because of the way they bring traditionals into the dance field, without any sort of dangerous softness.
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Roberto Sacchi, “Sicily nobody dares to face” - Folk Bulletin n°222 – May 2006
Following “Pifferi Muse e Zampogne 2005”, that marked an important stage of our musical career, we were interviewed by Roberto Sacchi
for Folk Bulletin. We talked about our name, about traditional music and original composers in Sicily, about our relationship with Mediterranean music
and lot more.
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Josep Vicent Frechina, Unavantaluna a Manresa – Cròniques musicals del país invisible
...es perceben terriblement còmodes amb la seua instrumentació acústica ben amanida d’instruments ètnics entre els quals destaca el friscalettu, una flauta de canya poc freqüentada, i la majestuosa zampogna a paro, cornamusa privativa de Sicília i Calàbria.
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