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Written in fRoots issue 316, 2009
 

BANDADRIATICA
Maremoto / DVD Rotta Per Otranto
Finisterre FT 50 (2009)

The audio impression from the CD is a big Italian band of brass, reeds, cello etc drawing on Adriatic musics from Italy to Albania but mainly fast Balkan-style brass with jazz excursions. Hot and accomplished, but vocals much less so, shouty or struggling to keep up and in pitch.
      Enlightening, though, is the included DVD of the band’s boat trip to Tirana, Durrës and Dubrovnik working with local musicians including lijerica player Ivo Letunic of Croatia’s Kries. No subtitles, but the band members come across as likeable and keen to relate to other musical cultures. www.finisterre.it


© 2009 Andrew Cronshaw
 

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