Canto Antico, un groupe culte italien  présente "South Beat", un album de musique de fusion entre la musique underground napolitaine et folklorique du sud de l'Italie.

Francesca Di Ieso au tammora (tambour de trame napolitain) est omniprésente dans toutes les chansons. Armando Illario (voix, accordéon) et Francesco Nastasi (piffero: instrument à anche traditionnel, cornemuse, guimbarde) influencés par des groupes tels que The Pogues, Jethro Tull surprennent par les envolées de soli hallucinants. En ajoutant le son contemporain de la guitare basse et la batterie, l'effet final est un son compact et dansant.
Le volcan  Vésuve près de Naples et la tarentule dévoilent une énergie instable et écrasante, qui se déplace avec Canto Antico de la campagne vers la ville, rassemblant un souffle musical frais. Leur musique est un hommage aux racines et le sens de l'appartenance ,aujourd'hui, au sud de l'Italie. En ajoutant le son moderne de la guitare basse et un ensemble multi- percussion, l'effet final est un son compact et dansant  enthousiasmant un large public à travers l'Europe au cours des dernières années (théâtres, festivals et clubs en Italie, Tanztage à Potsdam (DE) Festival Boombal à Gand (BE), Festival Interceltique à Lorient (FR), Tunisie, Cuba.
Un commentaire de Biagio De Prisco, fermier, chanteur et joueur de musique traditionnelle résume l'esprit de l'album: "Canto Antico creuse les traditions dans l'avenir"
Les musiciens de formation académiques issus de cette communauté rurale napolitaine ont une générosité, une manière d’être, un plaisir de partager des émotions, une  fantaisie extravagante qui s'expriment dans leur musique.
On retrouve sur "South Beat, l'esprit de fête de cette communauté rurale autour du volcan Vésuve, situé près de Naples. Canto Antico crée une synergie entre la musique traditionnelle et contemporaine. Plusieurs chansons de l'album contiennent des perles d'originalité et de virtuosité, un dialogue fascinant entre le tammorra

A blend of Italian ancestral rites and urban sounds, suggestions from the Neapolitan black music and grooves from the underground. Canto Antico plays South-beat, if you want to give this musical vision a name.

 

One of Canto Antico's strengths is the versatility of three players who are the core of the band (Francesca Di Ieso, Armando Illario and Francesco Nastasi). During the live performance we find, on stage with these three members, the same musicians who contributed to the recording sessions of the album "South Beat” released in December and available worldwide on digital webshops.
The members of Canto Antico are descendants of the farmers around the Mt. Vesuvius. Before they went to town to study as musicians (even their profession now) and they lived part of their lives working on the field as used in this community. By this way, their fathers and elders transmitted their music and culture they want to preserve. This heritage of the inner soul of peasant communities mixed with classical and academic training creates an unique synergy in the traditional music and an explosion of instrumental virtuosity, a fascinating dialogue between tammorra, strings and brass instruments that you can listen in many parts of the album "South Beat"
Goethe (1749-1832) wrote: “Naples is a Paradise…and it is a strange experience for me to find myself with people who think of nothing else but enjoying themselves.”
Nothing has changed in two centuries. Indeed it is a pleasure for the musicians to keep living in this way, to share emotions in an extravagant fantasy, to communicate in music and dance, not to mention the food and drinks (don't forget to taste the wines from their territories). This life style comes to light during the celebrated festivals and events.
Francesca Di Ieso: tammora (napolitan frame drum), vocals, jew's harp
Born in Salerno. She developed a passion for and trained in the oral tradition of music and dance of Southern Italy.
She studied traditional techniques with Raffaele Inserra, Arnaldo Vacca Davide Conte and Antonio Pani to experience several ways of playing italian frame drums like tammorra, tamburello and tamburo, strictly connected with collective rituals of the southern Italian tarantella. Francesca Di Ieso is one of the pioneers in reinventing the frame drums traditions by mixing contemporary and traditional musical and rhythmic elements. She is a guest teaching at dances and framedrum workshops for advanced participants all over Europe.
Armando Illario: accordeon, vocals
Born in Napoli , Master of Arts (Piano and Harpsichord)  at the Conservatorio of Milano and MA in Musicology at the University Of Cremona.
Founder of the “ethno-jazz-rock” band "Juba Lane (winner Italian National Jazz Contest "Fiesole Jazz 1999). With the "Le Bal Masqué" and the "Marsa propject", he played contemporary arrangements of Italian and European traditional tunes and arranged and composed for other bands. On stage:  Europe, Middle East, Croatia, Cuba and Tunisia.
He performed in the Italian tour of the musical “Gianburrasca” 2003, in the musical “Mamma Mia” 2011 and “Sister Act” 2012  at the Teatro Nazionale of Milano.

Francesco Nastasi: piffero (traditional reed flute) traverse flute, musa (bagpipe), jew's harp
Musician and composer-arranger. MA in Flute at the Conservatorio of Milano and Sound engineering at the Politecnico of Milano. He goes deeply into acoustic and folk music, mixed up with jazz and electronic sounds working with italian bands like “Volta Gabbana”, “Banda Brisca” and "Andrea Capezzuoli” He composes and arranges music for different groups, for theatre and videos. On stage: Europe, Turkey.
He studied in particular musical instrument belongs to different traditions like Ciaramella, Piffero and Cornamusa (bagpipe) recover and recording very important