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Francesco Banchini: Ciganko CD
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Item Number: ALU-1042
Country or Region: ITALY
Catalog No: ALU-1042
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The time is the
1950s. The place: the exotic, balmy Mediterranean Sea. Ciganko is
an imaginary story of a musician from the south of Italy who starts a
voyage around the Mediterranean full of hope and dreams, seeking for his
true love. Each song regales us with stories of his different
encounters and adventures. He meets people both famous and unknown; the
poet Kamov in Yugoslavia; Garcia Lorca in Spain; and various lovers and
betrayers. They teach him the different ways of living, the different
aspects of life. His journey touches various storied locales around the
windswept sunny sea: Greece, Yugoslavia, France, Spain and North Africa.
Finally he returns home, only to be murdered by a woman who drowns him
because he had learnt that to betray was a part of life...
Francesco
Banchini began playing the clarinet at the age of six, and graduated at
20 with the highest honors from the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majello
in Naples. Though the clarinet is his first instrument, he performs on a
wide variety of wind and percussion instruments, and is an accomplished
and expressive vocalist. He is active in live performance all over
Europe. Banchini and his band infuse his passionate songs with elements
and flavors from numerous musical traditions: classical, medieval, and
especially the traditional music of Southern Italy, the Middle East, and
the gypsy cultures of Eastern Europe. He has released 14 CDs on French
and Italian labels; Ciganko, a new album of all original
compositions, marks his American debut on compact disc!
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